A Climactic Week

Hey! So I wrote earlier that I was anticipating some awesome things to happen this week, and sure enough they did! This has been a really great week all-in-all. On Wednesday I found out that I'm passing my Aural Skills class with an 86%! That's amazing! I've just been trying to pass with a C, because it's a really difficult class for me and I don't have a natural ear, and I have a B!!! That's a hallelujah, praise the Lord thing! And then Thursday I was feeling a touch down from my oddly excited-ness, but God came through again.

I've been looking for passionate people to be on the prayer team and although I've found some great pray-ers and our meetings have been I just haven't found anyone who is really passionate about prayer and interceding for our campus. On Thursday we had a leadership meeting and Aaron said he might know of someone who could be good for the prayer team and I told him to bring the guy in. So that night before JiB started I met Adam and he prayed with us before things got rolling and it was just incredibly awesome! Talk about God's provision! He was calling down barriers and walls that were keeping God from moving and prophesying and the whole bit! It was so refreshing and exciting, and it got me all worked up too. And that night, our meeting was amazing. Worship was wonderful and powerful, and Russell gave a short talk about love, which has been our theme this semester so far, and said exactly what he needed to say. After he was finished the prayer team and leadership team was around and available to minister to and pray with anyone who wanted to, and I got to minister to Courtney and pray with her. It was great! I want every week to be like that, only progressively more powerful all the time! Amen!

Friday was an equally good day. I had fewer classes and a lesser work load which was nice. I had an extra voice lesson and I finally managed to break out a little bit and sang in my lesson with the same intensity that I sing with when I'm home by myself and no one can hear it. It was pretty good, and I think my teacher was happy with it too. And I got my transcriptions for Aural Skills almost completely finished (I have to finish them tomorrow, it could be a disaster, but I'm hoping not). Then, the really great news, my dear friend Anna called me to tell me that Philip had proposed and now she's engaged!!! I am so excited for them, God has truly brought them together and blessed them in awesome ways. I look forward to see what God does in their life together.

Today was pretty darn good too. I spent most of the day with my sister and nephews. There was a "Family Fun Day" at the university, so we went and did the hay ride, face painting, food, and balloon animals. It was great fun. I love my nephews. Aiden is a lot of fun to play with, although I really can't keep up. He's constantly running, which for me means that I have to walk really fast, but he doesn't stop! So I get tired after a while and he comes and grabs my hands and pulls me saying "Come on Auntie K, come on!" and so I have to go some more. After that I ran into a guy that I share three of my classes with, Kurt (although it might be Curt, but for now we'll stick with Kurt).

He's kind of a funny guy, extremely intelligent, he's just breezing through his classes right now. Anyway, I ran into him at Barnes and Noble and invited him to go to Ginosko with me, which is just a social gathering of Christians to hang out and play games and the like. He said he didn't have a car so I offered him a ride and he actually agreed! Cool, huh? So I picked him up again on my way to the shindig and we were talking about school and plans for graduation, which for me lead into Serbia and he was asking me about what kind of missionary work we were doing there. I explained about reaching the college students and talking with them about God. Turns out he's not a Christian, which I kind of figured. It's been my experience thus far that extremely intelligent people usually go with philosophy and science over faith, for a while at least. God always breaks through. So he hung out with all of us playing games and eating food. It was a good deal, I think I would like to talk to him some more and get to know him better. I think God wants to do something with him that he's not expecting. That's often how things work out though, God doing things we don't expect him to. I see him often enough, so it shouldn't be hard to find out what exactly he does believe in, he's the philosophy type and a deep thinker, which will make it interesting. I think I'll try and hook him up with Aaron, because he can be like that too. I did invite him to JiB, but he has class at 9 pm on Thursday, but I told him he should come and hang for a just a little while at least and he said he would consider it.

God might be doing something pretty cool there, we'll just have to see. I think this week has been a great week for discovering the greatness of God and how amazing he is. On my way home tonight I was thinking about Kurt and then about Christ and the more I think about Him the more I smile. I just love Him so much, and He is so beautiful and amazing. I am amazed by the beauty of Christ. I would really love to Kurt to understand that, but it's something you have to experience. If you don't experience Christ you can't know His beauty. If don't experience Him, He's just a guy who died on a cross a really long time ago and there's nothing exciting there. But if you experience Christ... wow, a whole new world of possibilities and adventure opens up. Kurt would really enjoy Christ if he knew Him. He would appreciate the complexities of who Christ is and what He did on the cross and in life. Kurt would understand the musical quality of the Lord... that probably doesn't make sense, but there is a musical quality to His beauty... maybe it's something only musicians really get some concept of, maybe not. I can't explain it. Anyway, Kurt would get that. So, we should pray for Kurt, he's a good guy, worth loving.

That's the excitement for this week, tune in next time for more enthralling exploits in Pueblo. Until next time, be abundantly blessed!