I write to you this evening with the rain falling outside my recently opened window, eleven floors above the ground. Lights out is in 17 minutes and most of the lights in the residence halls across campus will probably not be extinguished just yet. Not because the students aren't tired, but simply because sometimes, excitement outweighs exhaustion.
21 hours and a slight hiccup (one of the groups wasn't where we expected them to be at 5am) after leaving Madison, we arrived in Knoxville to an already flourishing campus. The staff here is more than hospitable and I can already see the planning that the Covenant has put into this experience.
Yet, after Mainstage this evening, I hope to see so much more than an experience. I hope to see a change come from that experience. A change to follow a call. A change to commit. A change to simply do.
We brought six students down. They are six of six thousand (or so). Yet, each of these six thousand have an individual heart filled with possibilities. It is my prayer (and I believe it's also that of the planner's) that each of these students, not just ours, would not just experience this week, but that they would embrace it. That they would live it. That they would open their hearts to those possibilities that lie within them in Christ and see that sometimes, we have to let people help us get where God needs us to be.
Pray that we may make decisions before clarity comes -- that we all may follow the dream that God has set forth for us. That we may make the hard choices that bring us closer to Jesus. That we may all, CHIC goers and Christ followers, become undone.
In Him,
Colin
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