blessing

I've been blessed with my Element family. With the people who are home to me, who live to love and serve and laugh and live as Jesus intends us to. We're all on a path to figure it out. It blows my mind; that God has placed me within a community of people who I believe would lay down their life for the next person in line. I am forever grateful for this blessing, privilege, family. Tonight we gathered at house church. We've been honored to have a friend of the Schillers in town; his name is Ryan. He led us in worship through song and shared a piece of what God's opening his eyes to. Tonight was incredible, as every Sunday I can honestly say is. It's been amazing to share life together.

I am very close with my younger cousin Arianna. I'm so happy that we've become basically inseparable although we are five years apart. I've been able to pour into her life and she's been able to teach me still through her pain or wonder. Our friendship has been a great journey and I'm sure it will continue to be. We have this tradition that we started to run down my street basically chasing the sunset. As we sat in my kitchen tonight and saw the sky I said "Wanna go eat our mashed potatoes in the rain to look at the sky real fast?" So we did. And it was beyond what words could describe. So we followed tradition and ran down the street and the orange that fell across the sky was spectacular. The sky reminded me that God as Light overcomes the darkness. It overcomes the gloomy clouds that have been over Orlando for the past week.

God blows my mind, the marvelous wonders he creates. He expresses his beauty and majesty in ways that only the best Artist ever could.