.bigger.

it's been over a month since i last shared my thoughts with however few of you read this. mostly because there has been nothing much to report. home was great and j-term has been life as usual.

but last night is deserving of some kind of reflection....

a friend called it "sobering" which i find very appropriate.

at about 9:30 a friend called me in tears and told me that she was coming over to talk. i knew that she had been dealing with a lot of stuff so i was a little uneasy about what to do, but i wanted to be there for her and i knew that, if anything, i could at least hold her while she cried.

5 minutes later, one of our asians runs in frantically looking for our hall director, and, finding his PA instead, decided to report to him that his roommate had been hit by a car from behind and was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. thus began several hours of people running around on phones, and the rest of us sitting around waiting for the next bit of news.

when my friend arrived, again a few minutes later, i let her cry and did all i knew to do to help her, all the while wondering what had become of our second youngest swallowite.

needless to say, not much studying got done. my friend left promising me she felt better. i still worried. news came that mark would be having minor surgery in the morning and that he would be fine. i was still shaken.

the title of this post is a repeat of one i wrote last year. i was reminded of this in the midst of everything last night. no matter how scared i get, no matter how much i hurt for my friends, no matter how much life feels so out of control, i know the One who's on the throne.

and He's bigger.

2 Corinthians 12:9a- "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (NIV)