so...

amplified was amazing!! thanks to all of you who were praying for it!! God answered ten times what we asked for!

He did incredible things in our lives and He is continuing to pour His fire upon us!

(i'll try to share more about what God did in me at amplified soon)

but i really wanted to post about something that i feel like God has been speaking to me...

and it's about people! i've been praying that God will give me a deep passion for people. that's why we're here on earth...to lead people to Him. and i just want my heart to deepen for the lost and for the hurting...and for fellow Christians. every time i hear "tears of the saints" by leeland, i get fired up!!!

lately, God has been showing me how much i don't see...how much there is beyond a simple encounter with someone.

you never know what a person's story is...

katherine(katherine)(sorry...my links turn white) showed me this site...rosaloves.com. (rosaloves.com)

it's one of the coolest things! she showed it to me a few weeks ago, but i hadn't looked at it until just now.

but it just really grabbed my attention...this group of people gets together and just keeps their eyes open for hurting people, and they look for ways to show kindness to them. they see a need (big or small) and then (through selling awesome tee shirts) raise money to meet that need. (it's pretty much along the same lines as what invisible children does)

but stuff like that speaks to me on more than one level.
it re-emphasizes how important it is to keep your eyes open to what people are going through- what their hurts are, and to stay in tune with the Holy Ghost and keep a sensitive heart to what He wants to show you about them.
also...
i tend to be an all-or-nothing type of person. like if i'm going on a missions trip i feel like it's gotta be long term or else i wont really make an impact. or if i'm trying to eat healthy i have to eat healthy for the entire day or i've blown it.
so sometimes i get discouraged and i feel like i can never do anything to impact the world...because it has to be huge. (which is completely not the way we are supposed to think...reach the world by serving one!)
that's all it takes. we make the biggest impact not through huge projects and major crusades...but through individual encounters.
so when i started looking at this rosa loves website, i realized that these people there(and at invisible children) aren't worrying about the fact that they bought someone a new walker yet she still needs food for her god-sons...they aren't focused on the fact that they're going to buy made a boat but there are about a million other families like made's who need boats, too. they aren't worried about the fact that they only touched one AIDS orphan or child warrior out of millions. they just see opportunities and seize them. they don't look at what they can't do and get overwhelmed, but they look at what they can do...and they do it! they don't always look at the world as a whole, but as a space for individual encounters with people that need them to show love!

i know that if you can open your eyes to one person...then and only then will God begin to entrust you with more.

i really want God to begin to reveal things to me. i want to be able to discern needs in people's lives and just go for it without worrying about all the other things that need to be done, too. i want to "take EVERY opportunity to do good in these evil times"!(eph.) i want to always show love...because i will never know who i will impact by what i do (or don't do).

people
that's all this earth is still spinning for