Forgiveness

Today was a fairly easy day since I only had one class and I was out by noon. After that I met up with the girls for lunch then hung out in Liz and Jenna's room for most of the afternoon. We just laid around and talked which was nice since it was pretty relaxing. Later in the afternoon I met up with my friend/Bible study leader, Shannon, and went to Starbucks for a little bit. She is possibly one of the sweetest people I know! After we walked back, I had dinner at home with everyone then I went to Nexus!

Tonight we watched a skit done to the song "everything" by Lifehouse and it was SO good! If you have not seen it before then search it out on youtube! People from our school acted it out tonight and it gave me chills, it was that good! After the skit, we listened to the speaker talk on forgiveness. It just struck a chord in my heart when he brought up the fact that Jesus forgives us for our immeasurable amount of sin, yet we let things root deep down inside of us and we hold onto grudges without even giving forgiveness a second thought. He explained that forgiveness is often a sensitive thing because it is the person who was hurt giving something back to the person who hurt them. That is such a hard thing for me to do. I think it always has been, but not just with little things that have happened, more of big things. I find it hard to forgive, but the speaker tonight has caused me to rethink that. He encouraged us to go talk to those who have hurt us and forgive them, no matter how awkward or uncomfortable we feel. If Jesus can die for our forgiveness then how is it that we hold onto things that seem so minuscule in comparison?

You calm the storms, and you give me rest. You hold me in your hands, You won't let me fall. You steal my heart, and You take my breath away... Would you take me in? Take me deeper now♥