Welcome to 2015! I celebrated the old year and welcomed the new one with church friends. I was only able to take a one hour nap after getting home from my journey and haven't slept yet since. Some friends and I decided to watch the sunrise this morning by heading to Rocky Butte. We got there early and were so cold that we couldn't stand to wait any longer and left without capturing that exact moment of the sun rising. We are currently on our way to our favorite coffee shop to warm up and then it's finally going to be time to catch some z's. Hoping you guys a wonderful and blessed new year with lots of exciting adventures and cherished moments.
Last Sunday's youth sermon was truly convicting. And not just a "yeah, that was important" type of convicting, but really a "wow, I need to change my whole perspective and really hit the root issue here, truly repent and ask God to change my heart in this regard" type of convicting. The whole time I felt as though the sermon had been specially crafted for me- to really get me to analyze my own heart and realize how little I love the people that are truly my brothers and sisters. By nature I love to critique everything- I always thought it would be awesome to have a career where I get to criticize companies or stores and tell them what they are doing wrong. Unfortunately my sinful nature brings this into the way I deal with people. As I was listening to the sermon I realized that judging people was just my default setting. In my own head, to myself, I always concealed this as honest assessment or analyzing- instead of downright, sinful judging. When I would be c