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I don't even know where to start. I could go back a really long time, 

or just a short amount of time. 

Well, I'll just start and see where it takes me. 

So last weekend I went to Virginia for Miss Lydia's birthday party. I had been wanting to go for about a month and a half beforehand but I was waiting to see if one of my friends was gonna be able to go. Which means that I didn't buy my ticket and just waited to see if I was going to go. My friend tells me that's she's gonna go and that I need to buy a ticket out there. But me being me, I didn't buy one cause they were already like $330 and for some reason I thought they were going to go down in price. Yeah, stupid Bre. But hey, I'm a college student. It's hard to spend large sums of money. And yes, that's large to me. 


For 2 and a half weeks I pray. I pray that God will provide me a ticket. Meanwhile, I'm checking online literally everyday watching the price for this ticket. The one ticket that can take me where I know God wants me to be. I pray hard. And I believe. I have the utmost faith that will provide. Because all this semester, God has shown me his provision in a new way. Honestly, I think that moving out of your parents house is the best thing to help any person understand God's provision.   If you don't know fully how he provides, believe that he is going to do the impossible. 


Anyways, I've been praying for 2 and a half weeks and I've told numerous people about trying to find a ticket and not knowing where it was gonna come from. Then on Wednesday morning, my big brother (from Grove Coffee (come check us out!)) tells me that he can get me a stand by ticket. And it's only gonna cost me $196 and change. Low and behold. God provided me a ticket within 2 days of when I was supposed to be leaving for VA. That's how good my God is. He provides for me in a way that is ridiculously awesome. Plus he knows I needed to get away for the weekend. 


And I had a marvelous time. Not only was it great to see some of my best friends, but God just met me there. We had such a great time of revelation and refreshment. I just can't begin to understand God's love for me, but it's there. And it's constant. It's all the time. His love is full of grace. 


Grace. That's what I forget about. My mind is so focused on being the best, doing the best, living a life full of Christ. Getting A's in school. That's where my identity can lie. I'm pretty sure it's a first born thing. But it's also a Bre thing. Or as some call it, a Breism. Yup, I just went there. But God is so good. And he just showed me how much he wants me to live in his grace. His grace is the reason that we're saved. Grace. Grace. Grace. 


For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith -- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -- not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 

                                                                            Ephesians 2:8-10

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 

Ephesians 3:17-19

Then the second part of that grace is living in love. This verse above was PERFECT for that. I wish I could understand fully the depth of God's love. But I don't think I ever will. But I know that I am loved, that is something I live in every day. The love that God shows us is so vast and unexplainable. When I think about it, it blows my mind. To bits. Go God!

Do you live in God's unconditional love? 

If not, how come?

Ask God to change you're heart. 

To help you live in his unfathomable love. 

Cause it's magnificent.