Once again I find myself blogging from a coffee shop chair. I can't even help it that I find, in these pauses in life while sippin on coffee, my blogger mind takes off.
This weekend I am headed to Chicago for a Young Life college leader weekend!!
I am so excited for a chance for fellowship and community, and especially, the opportunity for a refocusing of my mind and spirit.
This spring semester has flown by and in that whirlwind, especially in the last couple weeks, I have found it harder and harder to fully connect and engage with God's love. Falling into the routine of waking up and getting into the word has somehow changed in the last few weeks becoming another thing to check off the to-do list rather than a integral focus point of my day ahead.
I am looking forward to this weekend in the hope that I can be broken out of the monotony and fall back in love with God's love.
My spirit and my soul, where it is today is captured by the David in Psalm 103:
1 Praise the LORD, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15 The life of mortals is like grass,
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts,
you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the LORD, all his works
everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the LORD, my soul.
