Truthfest
Note: Don’t forget that next week we’re taking YOUR truthfests! Please email us at contact@forthrightfixation.com and we’ll publish your truthfests at the end of next week!
Hännah: Wonderful fellowship opportunities with fellow believers, heaps of reading, happy paper grades, and some distressing news from back home made my week a juxtaposition of weaknesses and sin and the glories of grace illuminated brilliantly by the contrast. The resurrection and the cross hold more meaning as a result—utter hopelessness conquered by the strength of Christ’s love for us and proven and sealed in the resurrection. There can be nothing that can shake His children, for His power and love exceeds the dominance of sin.
Kaitlin: This week I was able to spend 26 hours on a retreat in Indiana with a group of freshman here at Moody. It was a wonderful 26 hours of not doing anything of any significant value besides hanging out and laughing till my sides hurt. The Lord used those few hours to refresh and relax me, and prepare me for the coming weeks of schoolwork.
Kate: This week has been crazy, but God has revealed His grace to me time and time again. Amidst an Art History exam, annotated bibliographies, and just way too much reading piling up, He’s brought friends into my life at just the right moments, helped me remember the truth, and given me grace for various challenges. This morning I was also able to visit with some wonderful girls at a monthly discipleship group meeting, and it was very refreshing!
Stephanie: I’ve grown particularly thankful for simplicity—not in my daily life, mind you—but in the clear, concrete truth of God’s adoring love for me displayed at Calvary. His promise of daily mercies is real and eternal because He has bought it for me with His own blood. The overwhelming complexities of life wash away when “my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.” And that’s a truth even my trembling child-like heart can cling to and be restored.
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Thank you girls for being faithful to see what God’s doing in your life, and taking the time to share the struggles and victories you go through. It’s inspiring to me! God bless you all!
One thing I keep forgetting to do since I started blogging is to actually read other people’s blogs! I’m so glad I was reminded to check FF again today. The Truthfests are such a great idea (and so encouraging) — I really admire how you’ve kept them going for so long as from personal experience journaling… that takes discipline. =)
I’ll try to pay attention this week so I can write something in — this sounds like a fun idea for next week and I pray I will be up to the challenge.
God bless!