Thirsty thursday

"If God is not in the plain things of the life, the coming and going of every day, the morning cereal, the 3-minutes-late to-class-feeling, and the charm of fall leaves, then he is nowhere."

I like this quote a lot.  It's one of the first things I saw on facebook just now.

I feel like this is what I've been missing recently.  I had such a hold on it when I first came home, even when I was working this summer.  I have a grasp of it when I'm in my dorm room and I think it's partly because of the presence of God that just flows in our room.  The rest of campus is filled with so many other things that so many people just take a hold of and it's distracting.

It's so sad to see the things people hold on to in this world.  So many things that don't satisfy, that will never be enough.  I went to 20 minutes of a rugby party last saturday night because they really wanted me to come and I hadn't really hung out with the team outside of practice that much.  It was not fun.  There was this fake smiley me that came out that was not at all representative of what I was feeling.  It reminded me of Vang Vieng, where everyone is on this other level that will disappear unless you keep feeding it and feeding it but eventually you have to stop feeding it because alcohol does bad things to your system.

It's thirsty thursday and I went to Newmarket with some friends to hang out with an old friend.  Now I'm going to bed before 11pm.  Living the college life aww yea.  But for real, what greater satisfaction is there than that found in knowing that I have an eternal hope because my Jesus took my sin on the cross?  That I am covered in grace?  That I was created by the Creator, I wasn't an accident, and that I have a purpose?

I have a purpose.  And right now, a huge part of that purpose, no matter how hard and annoying and frustrating it is, is to be here and be love and light to New Hampshire.

Always remember God is good!