SO yesterday was a really content heavy day and incredibly deep. We started going over how to share your story. I learned that it's really hard to limit it to just yourself and the crucial details of my life before Christ, turning point, and after Christ. I always want to pull in people who've influeced me and go into family history, etc, etc. It was a challenge. I don't know what it is about truly opening up with friends; it truly is cathartic.

We discussed the importance of words and how there are over 60 difference references in the Bible (probably way more than that) that discuss how powerful language is and it's potential to bring people down or raise people up in addition to five different ways that words are misused whether it's being too flippant and sarcastic, too direct, not direct enough, etc.

We met to discuss our weekly devotional which really focused on trying to define Christian "revival" and what that means. Contrary to my belief, it's not something that I have to initiate. God is the one who plants that desire in our hearts and then comes chasing us the instant we choose to turn around and reflect in Him. There was a really convicting checklist we went over asking us to analyze our hearts. It was incredible humbling. I'm not the little miss perfect who's gotten better through legalism and all this and that. I am still guilty of sinning. I'm not a sinner, but I still sin in so many different areas, whether it's motives, wanting to please people more than God, the list goes on. It just makes me all the more grateful for the gift of salvation that I've received because being a relatively good person means that I still fall shirt.

There's a saying that says no one is perfect. It should be changed to say that no one is even close.

PTL for His amazing grace and gift of salvation.

I'm learning so much about myself. I don't really like admitting that I'm not perfect. Left to my own devices I would still be trying to perfect myself through my own efforts.

The night finished on a fun note however. We met and had icecream and I played Risk for the first time ever. It was epic. We stayed up waaay too late and I'm precariously holding my own with Europe and Asia :) We had to end early and there's two other people that I have to conquer. Lol, I'm not competitive...... ;)

Have an amazing weekend. It's rock climbing today after we meet for our talk today!!! I'm so stoked.

XOXO