Check below for two new posts! God's laid it on my heart to share the events of this past week, and a few other things as well.

This whole week has been quite amazing, and it's hard to pull one thing from the other, so bear with me...

Monday night at our weekly meeting, it was announced that whoever chooses could participate this week in a fast. Reasons and lengths of fasts are up to us individually, and the fast breaks on Saturday. I'd fasted before, for a day, and it had been a very positive experience, so I was definitely excited. Fasting is something that I had initially had some trepidation over - the idea of voluntarily starving oneself... I couldn't see the connection to God. However, fasting that one day back in the spring really opened my eyes to how much I don't depend on God for, thank God for, seek God for... So when the fast was announced this week, I was excited. Because as you may have noticed, I've beed a bit muddled. There's a lot going on, and it's easy to get distracted by ministry, and fun times, and people, and just unimportant little things that devour time and energy. Fasting, in this case, was an opportunity to get back to God. To fully depend on God, and to seek Him clearly and individedly. So my fast started Monday night, and my original intention had been to go without food until Friday - a huge commitment, and not an attempt to be 'super-faster' so much as to really stretch my faith and devotion... but dietary concerns arose on tuesday night, and so I made the decision to eat the evening meal after 5:00 pm. Still painful, but not nearly as harmful.

I'm excited to hear everyone's stories at the end of the fast, of how they heard from God, or how they connected with Him. Tuesday and Wednesday i ended up having conversations with my coworkers about my faith, and I had no one to thank but God. It was so apparent the need to depend on Him, especially on tuesday as my head was throbbing and swimming. Despite being physically empty during my workday, I feel more and more filled up by God, and more and more ready to pray and thank Him. Dinner, or eating, has grown so much more special, more a cause for thanksgiving than before. Not to say that you have to fast to have a relationship with God, but it's definitely biblical and I would recommend it if you're able. I'll write some more thoughts on this later this weekend, after the fast breaks. (Breakfast on Sunday will be a blessed event, that's for sure! ;))

Tuesday night was a coffee house outreach, where DRIME did their first performance - it was powerful, that's for sure. After the dramas, which featured Jesus's ministry, life and death, we talked with the members of the audience about what they'd just seen. Ekua and I talked to two lovely Chinese students, Connie and Mei, who amazingly understood everything perfectly, and asked really excellent questions about Jesus was, and what it took to become a child of God. I got their phone numbers and email addresses, and hopefully we can meet up sometime and talk more about what they think about everything.

I'd mention more, but I've run out of time - there's a DRIME meeting, which I scheduled, right now! Much love, everyone. I think of you and pray for you often!