Good Monday Morning, Girls!
I can imagine that some of you are heading into work this morning, or maybe figuring out what to do with your imalreadyboredwithsummerchild, or maybe....you are planning to get your summer vacation on the books very soon! Whatever you find your mind trying to handle this Monday morning I hope you take a few minutes to remember you are loved and known. Loved and known by the most amazing God...the One who is the creator of all life. Sometimes I ponder that thought and it absolutely leaves me speechless. The Creator of all life knows me. Like...really, really knows me.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day. MSG (Psalm 139:13-16)
Isn't the reality of that staggering?Perhaps that's why Project Crazy Love is something that is never far from my mind these days. As I sit in my office fingers pounding on this keyboard, I'm well aware that 14 girls just a few miles from here are loved and known by the same God who loves and knows me. God loves us equally. He knows their sin, He knows my sin, He knows your sin.
Let's not kid ourselves, there is always full disclosure with God. And still....He loves. He chooses to love us. And He waits. He waits for us to want to know Him.
Patiently, He waits for us.
We have an opportunity with our (can you believe it 10th CG!) October 21st event to adopt these 14 young women for Christmas. We'll be bringing unwrapped gifts that evening to be given to them at a special surprise luncheon in December.
It all starts this Friday night at CG. At the after party you'll find a 6ft pink Christmas Tree with close to 1000 gift tags on it. Pick one, ten or twenty and bring those gifts back to the October event.
Big Shout out to the CG girls at Metro South and Rivers of Living Water Church - they are each taking the responsibility to get all the gifts for two of the girls!Project Crazy Love is starting....are you ready?
