Rich Mullins and his beautiful legacy

Hey everyone! So, you may have heard about the new independent film that recently came about that's about Rich Mullins and his life, called Ragamuffin. (Check out the movie's website, linked here!) Anyway, my sister loves Rich Mullins, even though he passed away when she was three years old. Because of the movie that was recently released, I watched a couple videos on YouTube of Rich Mullins performing and speaking. He said something that really just struck me. He said "God takes the junk of our lives and he makes the greatest art in the world out of it." It's so beautiful! I'm so far from perfect, as everyone is, and the thought that the junk in my life is being used to create something wonderful... That's so amazing! That truly is the miracle of Christianity. I think sometimes we forget that nothing we can do has ever been enough. Nothing could even compare to perfect. So in our judgments of others, we have to remember that.

There's one other quote I want to share, but it's kind of long. It seriously gave me goosebumps. I found it on goodreads.com, so I don't know where it came from exactly, but it's seriously SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I teared up... But here it is:

 "I am thinking now of old Moses sitting on a mountain - sitting with God - looking across the Jordan into the Promised Land. I am thinking of the lump in his throat, that weary ache in his heart, that nearly bitter longing sweetened by the company of God...

And then God - the great eternal God - takes Moses' thin-worn, thread-bare little body into His hands - hands into whose hollows you could pour the oceans of the world, hands whose breadth marked off the heavens - and with these enormous and enormously gentle hands, God folds Moses' pale lifeless arms across his chest for burial.

I don't know if God wept at Moses' funeral. I don't know if He cried when He killed the first of His creatures to take its skins to clothe this man's earliest ancestors. I don't know who will bury me -

...Of God, on whose breast old Moses lays his head like John the Beloved would lay his on the Christ's. And God sits there quietly with Moses - for Moses - and lets His little man cry out his last moments of life.

But I look back over the events of my life and see the hands that carried Moses to his grave lifting me out of mine. In remembering I go back to these places where God met me and I meet Him again and I lay my head on His breast, and He shows me the land beyond the Jordan and I suck into my lungs the fragrance of His breath, the power of His presence." 
— Rich Mullins

(Here's  the link to all Rich Mullins' quotes on goodreads!)

Familiar Faces

Well, day 2 of my college experience has been pretty good as of yet. I was feeling pretty homesick last night after I got back to my dorm, and it was tough going to sleep without the comfort of my own home, my own bed, my lamp and my fan, etc. But today, while a lot of it was tough, (I spent the morning in my room until like, 1:30), I talked to a few people from home. I really miss home. It feels a little like a part of me is lost, but talking to my old friends just really calmed me down, and comforted me. It was nice to talk to people who know the same people I do, who know the same restaurants and stores. And it really came right when I needed it. It started when I saw a guy I haven't been friends with since sophomore year. We didn't talk or anything, but when he saw me, his face lit up and he waved. It was just nice to know that seeing me meant just as much to him as seeing him meant to me. Then I saw one of my really good friends from high school, and she came over and talked to me, and it was just nice to see someone who I know really well and love dearly. It was really comforting to me. I didn't know how homesick I was until I talked to her about home. And then I saw a guy I'd never been close with, but I'd always been friends with, and I walked with him back to his dorm. We talked about all kinds of things, but the familiarity was just so comforting. I prayed this morning, or maybe last night, that God would comfort me, and give me peace, and I firmly believe that that's exactly what He did for me tonight. It's so awesome to see how God answers prayers!! He truly is a Wonderful God!!

College Day 1

So, I'm officially a college freshman!!!! Like, for real!!!! It's so weird. It's really difficult. Change is very uncomfortable. I don't like it. It's only my first day, I haven't even slept in my dorm yet, classes don't begin for several days, and I'm already homesick. But I guess that's life. But God is here. I've never felt more drawn to Him. I've already met lots of cool people, which is excellent. I feel like God... well God is God. That's the beauty of God.

Anyway, sorry this post is weird and short and not exactly quite as eloquent as my others, not to say my other are particularly eloquent, but yeah. Sorry. I'm exhausted. I'll try to post again tomorrow though.

Lots of love,
Becca!!

P.S. Could you pray for me? Thanks!!!