Josh left a couple weeks ago. I wasn't ready for that and it kind of felt like a blow to the stomach you weren't braced for, ya know? Thankfully, God is working and moving in our relationship and making our separation less painful. He busied himself with a caribbean cruise for a week (JEALOUS) while I prepared for our first "practice" preview service. All of that is NOT to say we haven't had time to miss each other... we definitely are doing plenty of that, but the busyness is making it much harder to dwell on the fact that we are apart right now.
We had a team of HS/MS students from Colorado come out for a week to help us serve our community and wow... God is good! Those kids were awesome and God used them to forever impact peoples' lives here. It was amazing to serve and reach out to so many people who had never had anyone reach out to them by doing things as simple as handing them a bottle of free water. One of the nights, we hosted a Teen Bowling Night at the local bowling alley and had free bowling, pizza, and drinks. I was honestly expecting maybe 15 kids to show up... and that would be exciting. God likes to surpass my expectations and remind me that he is a BIG God :) We had about 40 teenagers show up! It was so awesome and to be perfectly honest, it was eye opening and heart breaking. So many of those students had not one iota of interest in God... they just didn't care. This was learned from just conversing with handfuls of them. This completely intimidates me! But as I sit here and think about how I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm encouraged by the fact that my lack of knowledge and experience gives God SO much more room to work without me getting in the way :) All the glory to Him!!
I'll keep you all posted...
Becoming,
Lyndsay
