Putting the Christ back into Christmas for 2011

You know how sometimes you look around think, "God, how on earth did you get me here, it's so perfect, and so beyond anything I had ever hoped for?!" Yeah...I'm there. :)

I have never recognized God's hand in so many things in my life at once.

Today Intervarsity started a 24-hour prayer service/vigil/whatever-you-wanna-call-it in our Center for Campus Ministry  (chapel) and I've been on duty awhile now, just praying and listening. It's been so marvelous. God is really showing up this week. I'm re-falling in love with Him again. Do you know the feeling?

I started reading the book of Hosea while I've been in here and I can't get over it. Not only did Christ redeem me from a life of idol whoredom, but He crowned me as His queen! He treasures and delights in me. No matter how many times I have gone back to those idols, He has always kept His covenant with me pure and undefiled.

Not only that, but God delights in others the same way. These girls that I hang out with back home and those here. I look at them and I see not a sad or frustrating human being, but a priceless treasure that is cherished and loved and desired by the God of the universe.

This among other things. Like convicting me to apologize and ask for forgiveness. And building relationships. And reminding me that I'm not deserving of His holiness. And being reminded that sometimes it's just super nice to sit at His feet and gaze into His face and listen to His voice or to dance with Him, my Jesus, my Love.