inner power.

I was talking to one of my friends the other day about a bunch of random things, and Harry Potter came up. He was explaining his one bone to pick with Harry Potter...
"The one thing that bugs me about Harry Potter is how they'll walk around without using all the spells they know; they'll just stick to a few common ones--for example, they'll only use Avada Kedavra to kill someone instead of being a little more creative. It's like they're walking around as if they were just regular ordinary people, not knowing the power that's inside of them."

And even as he was talking, the parallelism between what he was saying and how we as Christ-followers choose to live our lives was flooding my thoughts. Man, how often do we--who have been saved by grace and now have the Holy Spirit residing in us--walk around as if we were just normal people, unsaved sinners, not knowing or using the power that is inside of us? It breaks my heart to even look just at my own life and see how often I do that. It's so easy to forget, but always so refreshing to remember. The same power that conquered the grave lives in me. The same love that rescued the earth lives in me.

Wow. :)

hosea.

"Come, let us return to the LORD;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth."

God's promise is so beautiful and so apparent in Hosea 6:1-3; reading it this morning really blew me away. The way God orchestrates everything perfectly is definitely something that He's been constantly reminding me of, especially since Trinidad. I love serving and following a God who enjoys blowing my mind on a daily basis :) praise Him always for His saving grace!

puzzle pieces.

Something Bekah said at leadership retreat a couple weeks ago, about our team working together:
"We're all like puzzle pieces...each of us has extra in some areas and holes in others, but when we all come together, we complement each other with our unique strengths and weaknesses."

iced in.

No school for three days (and counting...)! Craziness. There's so much white and ice everywhere, even covering the parking lots and sidewalks! It's hard to leave footprints on ice...which I guess makes sense, but it had never occurred to me.



On another note...I just registered for Passion 2011 (!), coming to Fort Worth, first weekend of April. Still a little unsure of how I feel about it, I think, partially because I felt like it was a last-minute, almost impulsive decision? (But I know God works even through those, praise Him.) Yesterday was the last day to register for the lowest price, so I just started asking a bunch of people what they knew about the conference. Not surprisingly, I got all positive feedback, since I sorta knew that it was a very big and popular conference with a lot of well-known speakers and artists. Wow, I don't even know where I'm going with this...but I'm going, and it's always nice on the other side of making a decision, haha. I'm not that excited yet, but I know I will be as the date approaches. Guess we'll see what God wants to show me through it!