HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD?????

What a great God we have. He's so powerful. My last couple of days have been just GLORIOUS!! I've enjoyed friends, meetings, and the good Lord. Tuesday was like the most spectacular day. I have no idea why either. It was just great hanging. I've been able to encourage Jeff as of late and he's encouraged me in return. I've been dealing with my own issues of confidence and what I can do to serve God. I can believe lies that I'm not fit for talking to people and they don't want to hang out with me but I just have to cast aside that crap and be BOLD. I definitely feel like that's the word of the semester for me now. And it's been great.

Tuesday I was loaded with meetings. I had a short hang-out time with Mike and then Mike, Casey, and I met for discipleship. That was great and encouraging. Then I had the Illini Life student board meeting. I decided that I need to step down from my spot on the board and let others participate because I am in very deep already and I can't stretch too thin.

I played basketball with some of the guys on Tuesday night and it was fun. Justin was making lots of shots and I am working on getting better doing things away from the ball. I love learning about basketball...it's a lot of fun.

On Wednesday, I was so tired. I think it's catching up to me getting up at 6:15 to lift. I might have to figure something out. But I was refreshed by the Large Group Coaching meeting. It was great talking about prayer in light of Ty Grigg's talk on it at SNG on Saturday. It was so cool to talk about how we communicate with God and then to actually do it. Iteam was great too as we just had a fun night of community planning what we were going to do for the semester and just having a blast getting to know eachother and talking about prayer too. Everybody seemed very excited to be praying for another person.

The HIGHLIGHT of my week came talking to Eric. This kid is truly a kid after God's own heart. Lord knows he's trying. And I don't think he minds me saying that on here. He was such an encouragement to me tonight and really showed me what God can do for me when I step outside of my comfort zone and challenge myself to challenge others. What a great way to start a semester!

SOTD - 81 - You know you gotta put it down here because it's the biggest stat of the last forever. It's just amazing what the kid did. Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points in 1 single game this week and that is phenominal. It is the second highest point total ever in 1 game. It is second only to Wilt Chamberlain's. Some can argue that the 81 is better...let the debate begin!