Wow, you guys should be proud...two entries in two days! Today was once again normal. However, I did get to sleep in! Ah, that was great. I love waking up to the sunrise. Speaking of the sun, the other week I was driving to One18 and the sunset was amazing. I literally just kept driving past the church. It was like I was so awestruck by its beauty that I couldn't help but to "drive off into the sunset." But then I had to turn around or else I would have been late. The beauty just reminded me of God...like sunsets and sushi*...finding God in everyday circumstances. I love it when he reveals himself to us like that. Sometimes we're so focused on our own lives we forget to look around and see that God is all around us. It's like when we go to CIY or on missions trips. We are anticipating to see God to amazing things...and indeed he does...but we only recognize it because we are expecting it. Sometimes if we just look around, we can see God working in those same amazing ways in our everyday life.

Recently, God has really been revealing himself through my...dare I say "quest"...to travel the right road by following His will. There are so many questions and so few answers. How am I going to pay for college? What should I major in? Should I even go to Malone? I know that's where I want to go, but is that where He wants me to go? What about church...Should I bump back down or follow my 8th graders up? What am I going to do when all the seniors go away to college? Are things going to change with my friends on the worship team? It's scary to even think that amidst our everlasting pursuit to follow God's will, we can infact be outside of His will. In Isaiah 55 it says:

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."

So that ultimately leave us with one question...
Our thoughts are clearly insufficient, so are we seeking His thoughts and ways rather than our own?


*title of Crowder's new book/cd