Daily Dailies

So...technically I did post for yesterday(Happiness is...) but I didn't do a "Daily" post. I have a good reason though! Last night was our church's youth group Lock In for the Thirty Hour Famine. The Thirty Hour Famine is a World Vision program to raise awareness of and funds for African poverty and hunger. We challenge our students to fast for 30 Hours and during those 30 hours we have a lock in, play games, have worship music time, watch movies, play games, do service projects, and sleep...a little. So from noon Friday until six Saturday night I only drank water and tea. Last night we played games and watched Prince Caspian and Kung Fu Panda and had GREAT worship time with Rob. Today we woke up around 8:40 and got out around 9:50 for our service projects. We cleaned alleys, helped at Jubilee, volunteered at a chess tournament, and cleaned up some parks. It was good...but cold..so we ended a bit early.

Some things I'd like to remember:
*how selling concessions at the chess tournament is SO hard when you're fasting
*how cool I think it is for a student to organize this as her senior project
*how slick it was this morning...freezing fog
*how fast everyone cleaned up and how full the city dumpsters got
*how Lindsey and I sat up until 2 AM talking before we fell asleep
*how GREAT it was to worship in the sanctuary under the cross
*how satisfying it is to make it all thirty hours without eating and to know that the void you feel is filled by communing...during those hungry times...with a living God whose heart breaks for the pains of this world.