Awesome.

It's the end of the day, and I haven't written a blog in a while, and in this moment I have just been overwhelmed by God's goodness. Today started off pretty good; a bunch of us headed to Panther Falls just to enjoy fellowship between brothers and sisters. A twisted turn of events, and my day kinda went downhill; nothing too serious or anything, just got a little bummed out by some stuff.

As a side-note/rhetorical question, do we ever catch ourselves basking in awesome "God-moments" only during the good times? It's crazy sometimes if we would just sit back, pray, and meditate on the lesson's that God teaches us, or the blessings in disguise that He can show us when we're going through junk. Had one of those moments today; quite an eye-opener.

Anyway, to continue the story and get to the point, a friend from back home is in town, so he and myself and two other friends went out to dinner tonight, and it was just good fun. Leave there and go to Wal-Mart and simply hang out and get a few things. The next thing I know, I'm in line for a ticket to a movie with a bunch of my friends. Recently, I just haven't been a big fan of spending money, even if it was only $3.50, and I just wasn't really looking forward to having to fork over the cash. Of course, I did; and I'm very glad I did because the movie was awesome. After the movie, and this is where the story starts getting good, a handful of us go and play volleyball. And as weird as it sounds, it was wholesome. You're thinking, "It's just volleyball."

To that I reply, "Yes, it was just volleyball; but it's not about what we did, but who we were with." We were just all together in community and fellowship with each other. Late on a Saturday night, 11 people, all brothers and sisters, just having a good time.

Now, I know, it sounds weird; why am I so excited about this? But after my day had turned bad this afternoon because of some really random and some disheartening things, God just showed up and said, "Child, look at just one of the many blessings I've given you at this moment in your life."

This entire day, I will describe as full of RAW moments. I had a Dwayne Carson moment and created an acrostic from the word 'raw'; Real, Authentic Worship. Corny, I know, but it works.

So, here's my challenge for all of us: Keep your eye/heart open to some RAW moments that come randomly into your life. Whether it's during a little trial or something--maybe God is trying to show you something, give a blessing in disguise; or during times when life is just awesome--maybe God is revealing just one, of many, small ways that He is blessing your life.