The fullness of Your grace is here with me
The richness of Your beauty's all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I'm completely satisfied

For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love

A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it's filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
In Your presence God I'm completely satisfied
-Divine Romance by Phil Wickham

I love beginning the week with Sunday

I attend a church in Chicago called MissioDei (the name is Latin and means "Mission of God")and I absolutely love it (if you live in Chicago you should definitely check it out)My favorite thing about this church is that they are all about community. I walk in each Sunday and feel like I am surrounded by family. When I think about family I don't think about a beautiful portrait where everyone is sitting together in the grass with their hair done, flowers blooming, and the white shirt khaki pants look. Instead, I think of people who are connected, and this connection is beautiful because the people involved aren't perfect but they feel acceptance because that is what families do, they accept you for who you are. Attending a church like MissioDei is so encouraging to me because there is no secret agenda, it is simply a place where people come to be with family, to worship and to be fed and to spend time with others in the community, it's awesome.

The first song we sang this morning at church was Divine Romance. I decided to post the lyrics because the words to this song are so beautiful and real in my life. God has grace on me every day and when my busyness and stress,my pain and just the feeling of being tired takes over and I find myself in state of distress I need to stop, stop and remember the grace that God has on my life. His love that He gives is so much bigger that ANY state of distress. When I stop and believe that, that is when I can smile and be joyful even in the hard times because this life is so short. When I stop to think about how much I am loved, then I am satisfied. We are loved every day, no matter what and the grace that is available daily is unbelieveable, but I accept it and am so thankful.

When I am in God's presence I am completely satisfied.

I know this blog is suppose to be about my time before, during and after Africa but I wanted to share this today, because I love MissioDei and I have been so blessed by so many people there, its hard not to talk about:)

Yesterday I began reading the book Compelled by Love by Heidi Baker for the second time. We have a list of books to read for the school this summer and this is one of them. LOVE IN ACTION is the theme, "How to change the world through the simple power of love in action". This book is incredible and so encouraging, I'm sure I will bring it up more in the next couple of weeks.

Tomorrow begins my last week of school for this semester, oh yes. Preparations for Africa are still moving along smoothly. I am truly blessed and am so thankful for the people in my life who have been helping me get ready for this journey.

Life is good, and I know the best is yet to come!

Thanks for your time today, you are loved.