Family of God

This past Thursday I had the honor of being the emcee for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship's large group again. It is quite an experience I must say. For some reason I was actually kind of nervous even though I had done it several times before with no problems. I don't really like to prepare anything if I have to say stuff in front of people, whether it's emceeing for IV or praying with people. When I do that, I feel like I try to prepare too much, and I care more about people hearing me and judging what I say. When I talk to people about public speaking, I kind of tell them that they should just be themselves. If you're just comfortable with that, then the crowd will be comfortable too. Don't get me wrong, though. There are boundaries! But that night I felt like I had prepared too much what I wanted to say, even if it was just one story that I had planned to share with everyone. So I wasn't really myself, which tripped me up.

However! In spite of my self-consciousness, I get a flood of compliments. I don't really feel I deserve all that, though. But it is still very encouraging! ** I was really taken aback by what Bryce and Anthony Yu had said to me. They both had told me that they really see God using me. Sometimes I do lose sight in my purpose as a child of God. Although I do forget that from time to time, I am still so amazed to see that God still uses me for his will and His kingdom and that He still uses me to positively affect others.** Before I had dismissed everyone, I had the opportunity to take some pictures of the audience so that they can come to my blog/facebook and witness the sea of beautiful faces that I see whenever I have the chance to emcee. It's great to really look at God's children gathered together like that. I get the same sort of feeling when we worship together. Just hearing everyone singing praises to the Lord sounds so beautiful. Sometimes I stop during worship to listen to that glorious sound.

So I tried to make this a panorama using Windows Live Gallery, but it turned out kind of weird because the pictures were shot at slightly different positions... Anyways! Here is my beautiful family!





**This was some stuff that I feel that I should have mentioned in my first draft of this blog...