soon!

so wow...

leaving for minnesota in three days. That certainly came up quick. :)

I'm really excited that a team is coming for spring break. Because they're so far away, my folks don't get to know much about my life other than from what i put on here or tell them. I'm so excited that I can spend time with my family and my closest friends all at the same time. There are more than a few people making the trip who have had major impacts on my life. I can't explain that stuff to my parents. I want to, but i just don't know how. People are all so different and God uses us in so many different ways that there is no way i could sit down and simply spell it out for them--- "well, this guy did this and she did this..."

But actually introducing my friends to my family and letting them see for themselves the way Christ shines through so many people on this campus...that is how i can try to share the last three years of my life with my parents. There has been so much.

I think it's really hard to try to explain how much I've felt like i've changed since the last night in Charleston. I remember sleeping in an empty house. The family was going to move me into school and then they were headed up to Minnesota. I don't even know what to think of that night anymore. I didn't have some big break down or think about anything in particular. I just remember sleeping in an empty house.

so much has changed since then.

God is so good and so faithful. I don't feel it every day and there are many times that I just don't want to believe it. But whenever I actually stop and look at the David Lasley sleeping in an empty house in Charleston, Illinois and the David Lasley living in Marigold 1 in Springfield, Illinois, I am reminded that He is faithful and fiercely in love with me. I would be lying to say I haven't changed. I have.

And it is because He has changed me.

It started with Him humbling Himself because I won't and doing what it took to give me a shot at this. It's still about that grace. I'm still learning...well, sometimes I think I am. Sometimes I'm not so sure I am.

I don't think i really live as though I'm convinced of that grace, but every now and then it hits me that this is amazing and maybe I really don't deserve this. I know that when my parents really get to spend some time with my friends, they will not only see a bunch of really cool people, but they will see real Love.

I can't take the credit for this. It just wouldn't be right.

have a good one guys :)
-dave