Rush Week

So these next few blog posts are going to be about what has been happening in Emmaus and in my life these past few months. So keep that in mind while you read the next few :)

While I was still in the Philippines during my winter break our campus ministry, Emmaus, began our per semester event called Rush Week. It's basically a schedule of different events during the week such as shopping, dinner, and different hang out activities to get to know the new students for the semester. They actually started rush week before I got back, so I missed a few events to meet up with the new kids. But when I came home I immediately got on the rush week wheel and was looking forward to meeting a whole bunch of new people!

It was dinner that night at one of my favorite restaurants. I was so excited to see the staff and all of my friends from the past semester. I remembered looking around the room seeing so many new faces, and behind each face was a story that may have not been read before. Others might have torn beginnings that would rather not revisit, others could have had a good beginning, and middle; some might still have pages of hardships that they are still currently living. But one thing I was sure of, I knew that each of those books would have an incredible chapter that will change the turn of events in their lives.

They might have seem like normal college students wanting to find a place to eat with a bunch of people that night. No matter what their reason was, God knew what their journey was going to be like this coming semester. I feel like I was tempted to look at them at where they are and settle for what I saw in the natural. But I had to shift my way of thinking and know that God is more powerful than anything, any of these students are going through. I know that just like He broke through many things in my life my freshman year (and continuing to do so) He is the same God that can break through for everyone I saw at that restaurant.

So the next time I see someone going through a hard time, I shouldn't look at their current state but rather look at them through the eyes of the Father. Who knows what He can do in such a short period of time? :)