I Only Have One Week To Make You Mine

Things have been good, and by good I mean better, and by better I mean interesting and bordering on okay. That make sense?
In all honest things have been pretty good. The beginning to this week has been really good, very encouraging, and most important to me, my heart has been in a great place as I go out. Monday was probably the best day I have had on campus just in enthusiasm and love and overwhelming desire, and not surprisingly God used that. That has been really good. Personally things have been a mixed bag. I think I am figuring out that I hate the group. Individually I like everyone, in small groups there is no problem, but for some reason in a large gathering I just don't seem to be happy and get frustrated or bitter or something like that. I still want to leave, to go out and wander on my own. Perhaps I am just getting too attached. Who knows? Maybe I am just a big softie after all.
My new verse I am thinking on a lot is Colossians 3:12-14: "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony."
So for those following along, the major theme on my heart this summer has been love, and really the importance of love above all things, and the reasons for it. This verse amazes me. As God's chosen we are told to have compassion, be kind, humble, meek, patient, and forgiving. Okay, when I look at this list it truly amazes me. These are big things. And yet we are told, ABOVE ALL THESE to put on love. Love is that big. And it isn't that the others don't matter. But love, perfect and true love, that is the only way we can have these things. You will not forgive without love. You will see no reason to be meek or humble if you do not have love. It binds everything together in perfect harmony. It is love. Something about that hits me really deep. I wonder if we can do anything at all out of some foreign emotion. Could I forgive simply out of obedience, because it is a command? Or must there be love? I am convinced that love is is the only thing that matters as far as motivation and action is concerned. But if we have love, then out of that an overflow will occur, and we will want to forgive, to be kind, to be humble, to lay down our rights and our lives for those around us, those we truly love. It is amazing, that love.
Okay, fun story for the day....I wore a traditional woman's headdress tonight for a long time. Yup. Can't wait til that picture makes Facebook.
Also, time is running out here. I am reminded of Ephesians telling us to make the best use of time because the days are evil. Now is crunch time. Prayer for us all, that we would keep running hard right up til the end would be appreciated. It would be far too easy to stop caring and trying and imagining being home. This is not what I want, so yeah, please be praying.
Goodnight all.
Until again.