First week!

We have officially completed our first week of school! The first two weeks are intensives. Basically it is lectures from 8:30-5; so a lot of good solid teaching and information. After these two weeks we will get split into tutorials which is the group of students ( about 15-25) that we will be doing all of our classes with for the year.

The teaching so far has been great! Today I was sitting in class just thinking about how much I have to learn and all of the areas that I need to work on in my life. It is really humbling just hearing the heart and the attitude that I should have and realizing how many times that I have completely missed the mark. At the same time it is an incredible invitation to step into this season ready to be stretched and to grow. An opportunity to lay everything down and give it all that I have. We are not here just to go through the motions, we are here to build a solid foundation in becoming the servant and the minister that God has called us to be.

We are all on a journey and we are in this together. It is about building the church. It is about being apart of a family that is for something far greater than ourselves.

A small thought for all of us wherever we are in life, and whatever season that we may be in:

What are you DECIDING to do to change the world around you?
-It is not necessarily about the huge things that everyone looks at and says "wow". It is about the little things that we have the opportunity to do everyday, the moments we choose to stop and ask ourselves "how can I serve this person or how can I encourage them and build them up?"

I am convinced more and more each day that it truly is the small decisions the little things that we do that make the BIG difference in the long run. It is the little things that we decide to do or not do that can either help us to become the person God has called us to be or can very well destroy us. Let's not overlook them lets start to decide to do the small things that will build up others...and to get rid of the little compromises that very well have the power to take us out.