The Age of Aquarius (Summer of Healing)

   Holy Moses, what a crazy-awesome (crawesome?) past couple of days! First of all, the bible study. The college group is pretty awesome. We are studying the book of James together and boy was I in over my head playing ultimate frisbee! The group is mostly compiled of track/soccer/cross country atheletes, and me... the... music major. It was nice running around and being reminded that even though I am thinner, I still need to exercise. It was so nice to connect with others my age and establish a community I can rely on.
   After youth group was where the amazing stuff happened though. I got to reconnect with two old friends, one of whom I was estranged with I never thought in a million years we would be able to pick up like nothing ever happened. God's timing is so awesome. I wrote, two days ago, about needing an accountability partner and now I have two! PRAISE THE LORD! We talked for hours about our lives and God's amazing hand in it all. We laughed and farted (yeah, girls fart, get over it!) and prayed together... well not exactly in that order...
   We basically just bore our souls to each other and there was no judgement, just grace and mercy and understanding and love. This is going to be an epic summer. This is the dawning of my summer of healing. (This is the dawning of the age of aquarius, age of aquariuuuuuss! Yeah it's a stretch, but that's my brain for you!)
   Then today, I met with my once estranged friend to chat some more and share about our lives. We talked for four hours. It was glorious. Four hours full of God's love and healing touch. I thought it would be awkward but it wasn't and the only explanation is God must really want us to love on each other and bond, gold bond. (Inside joke, don't worry about it if you don't get it.) We confessed and reminisced and shared how God has been blessing us and strengthening us and just blessing us even more.
   This is where the healing begins... oh-oh... (another song) I feel blessed beyond any comprehension right now. God really loves me and He has shown it. I don't deserve it, but by God's grace, I am a new creation. I am no longer a slave to sin. I am free!!! I'm washed white as snow. I have nothing to brag of in regards to my own power or anything about myself... but I can boast forever more of God's power in me. I now draw peace from Him and everything He has blessed me with.

James 1:17-18
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all the created.

 Healing Begins by Tenth Avenue North