Painfully cold!

Yet incredibly real and amazing!

Last night, we had a little event on campus called Converge. It's become a yearly, poorly planned, lame excuse to get all the Christian organizations at UAH to come together for an hour or two of worship, speaker, and hanging out. An attempt at unity.

But last night was great. We weren't able to get any big rooms on campus, so we had to go outside by the University Center and do the event at the Slab. It was 34 degrees outside. About 150 people showed up, split pretty evenly between CRU, BCM, and RUF. And it actually felt slightly unifying, unlike most past attempts. We were one group. And I think the cold that we were so worried about ended up being the best thing for us. We were ALL cold. It's a small thing really, but it's a shared feeling.

Personally the past few weeks I've been living my life pretty numbly. And I've repeatedly acknowledged it and I've known what I should do to change it, but I haven't done crap. Last night was another nudge forward, and I thank the cold. I stood there with my only warm clothes (a UAH hoodie, jeans, and a light jacket) running the computer in the back, and as painful as it was, actually feeling cold was great. Feeling cold, looking up at the stars above (as many as you can see in Huntsville I suppose), looking out at 150 people that rarely interact, and worshipping... it really was a great night. And to put icing on the cake, nothing went wrong all night!

Yep... thank you God!

Next time (and there WILL be a next time), we're going to plan the event better, put more into it, and actually advertise. We really didn't start planning last night until last week which is crazy. I'm looking forward to next time.

And now, I'm hoping today will be just as good. I started it off by skipping class 1 (good or bad decision, I don't know), watched a funny movie with Dan, ate some leftover pizza, rushed to class 2 and arrived late, got a decent test score back, took an easy quiz, then came back here. And now I'm free. Completely and totally free. I have stuff due, but those things aren't due until next Tuesday at earliest. It's fantastic. The month of October is always a month hell school wise, so I'll appreciate any glimmer of light I can get, even if it gets snuffed an hour from now! Which it better not, by the way. Don't you dare snuff it.