Prayer Talk

So this hasn't been my best week yet. I'm just... exhausted always. And I really don't want to have to deal with people. At all. Ever again. But of course real life has a lot of people in it. People you don't like as well as people you do. My inner introvert is coming out in BIG WAYS this week, and I'm feeling it strongly.
Anyway, tonight we had Freshman Bible Study Hangout instead of normal Bible study. And I was supposed to lead. But because we had shorter time than normal, we didn't do normal Bible study. We talked about prayer. And Trey reminded us that God is our Father, and wants to hear about our days and our lives. So I enjoyed spending a little bit of time just talking to God about my day, and how I'm feeling. And I was reflecting on my day, and it actually started beautifully. Today started with Tuesday Early Morning Prayer, and it was just super encouraging and beautiful and refreshing. The guys who were there were just so encouraging, and it's just a beautiful thing to meet up first thing in the morning and pray together. I loved it!

Memories of My Old Life

I remember the darkness

The chains, the things that kept me from breathing. 

The things that kept me from living.

I remember, but still more.

Sometimes I run back to that place,

Sometimes I take up my old chains.

Sometimes I stop breathing.

Sometimes I hide in the darkness. 

but He won't let it take me. 

I try to hide, but never do I succeed. 

Not from Him. 

He always draws me back to light

back to freedom. He is my breath.

He is my life.

Sometimes I forget the Light. 

Sometimes the lies tell me I don't belong with Light. 

But He makes me breathe. 

He gives me life. He wants me with Him. 

So He reminds me what He did for me. 

He has marked me, and I no longer have a place in the darkness.