I'm not a very good blogger...

When the idea came to me, I had great intentions of blogging once a week.  I was a journalism major, and I love to write!  What I've come to realize is I had so much more energy in college.  I come home from a day of work and just want to veg out!  How do mothers do it??  I'm beginning to worry about what being a wife and a mother is going to do to me (not that it is coming anytime soon!)  I guess I'll just have to trust God for that!

As for Cru, things are starting to become more routine.  We've been able to meet with a handful of students in the past few days (that never happens!) to tell them about a six week project we're starting.  We're calling it GIG, Girls and Guys Investigating God.  The goal is to explore truth, investigate God and experience community.  We're asking students to commit to doing it every Wednesday for the first six weeks of next semester.  We're praying that students would come to dive deeper into their relationships with the Lord, but we're also making it seeker friendly so that students who aren't sure where they are in their faith can investigate the truth with us.  We're really excited about it!

I've come to realize that if God doesn't move, nothing is going to happen.  Being able to meet with about 10 students in the past three days is huge!  I know it's nothing we have done because we didn't do anything different.  Learning to stay faithful despite the circumstances is hard, but it's what God calls us to do.  I have been really encouraged by a verse recently-Hebrews 11:39-40.  Here it is, but I would encourage you to read it in context.

³⁹ These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, ⁴⁰ since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

I went to a conference before Thanksgiving with all the Cru staff in the region.  We went over this verse, and it made me realize a few things: 

1.  We are not entitled to anything in this world.

2.  God's plans are so much higher and better than ours.

3.  No matter how hard we work, we may not see results.

4.  We are called to one thing:  to stay faithful through all trials.

It's so interesting what God calls us to.  It's not what the world calls us to by any means.  During this holiday season, stay faithful to the real reason why we celebrate Christmas.  Don't get caught up in the world's definition.  I know I'm going to have a hard time, but God is faithful to those who let Him!