Tomorrow

It really is beginning early tomorrow morning.

Many students have already been on campus for a week, either participating in Fish Camp or helping with it in some way.

I've seen them on campus, and I have even had some time to visit with a few. They've looked eager and excited, and some have looked lost. They've looked anxious in the cafeteria, when they see a sea of faces and recognize no one; who will they eat with? Will someone ask them to join their newly-formed group?

They are cool and they are crazy-scared. They need you to pray for them, along with every teacher and student who begins school tomorrow. (I still get a knot in my stomach before school starts every year. It doesn't matter how long I've been doing this--the knot and the nerves always appear.)

They are walking into a story already in motion.

"In a way that's the story of our lives . . . Before we ever arrive, God is on the scene carrying out His plan and causing all things to work for His fame.

So often we think that everything happens when we step through the door.

We think the project happened because we had the brilliant idea, and are convinced that the mission was accomplished because we chose to participate. But things don't start when we have a 'vision,' or when we think of a new way of doing things . . .

God's Story is the already-in-motion story, a story that was happening just fine before we arrived and is going to go on just fine with or without you and me.

That's why we should wake up each day on the lookout for the Story of God, constantly thinking to ourselves, 'God is already here. What's He up to?'" --Louie Giglio

So tomorrow continues an eternal story, and we're all stepping into it. I wonder what He will do tomorrow?

Blessings,
Jana