What a week...

This week has been interesting to say the least.

Last Sunday, I wrote a note on facebook (that was before my lovely and oh-so-talented roommate, Fawn, took pity on me and made me a pretty blog!) explaining the lows I've been having. I wanted everyone to know that I had in fact not flown off to Neverland. I am indeed still a human being. And I do still have stuff to work through. So everything has not been rainbows and lollipops.

And my week certainly improved from there!!

This week was retreat week for all first and second year BSSM students. So our schedule was all screwed up. In a good way of course :)  This is how it went...

Monday: A quarter of my first year class met in the main sanctuary. There we were provided with fresh journals (MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!!), magazines, glue sticks, and scissors. We were told to clip out pictures and words from the magazines to paste onto our NEW journals. We were to create prophetic pictures of what our year at Bethel would be like for each of us individually. At that moment I was very relieved that I had done what my revival group pastor had asked us to do and prayed about what season I was in. It was much easier to essentially prophesy over myself on the spot when I had a little bit of information as to what God has for me this year.

I was a little nervous just because I had never thought of myself as the creative type. Back in junior high, instead of passing notes back and forth in class and risking someone finding our notes in the trash, we just kept a notebook and passed it between eachother. Essentially we kept diaries written to eachother. You could only have one notebook per friendship. I had probably four going at once at one time in junior high.

Anyway, we would always decorate the front cover of these notebooks. It always seemed like the one's my friends decorated were better than the one's I did myself. Elizabeth Anderson and I had one... She decorated ours. It was my favorite :)

So, I decided to face my fear. If I've never been creative before, I guess now is as good a time as any to start!! So I bravely picked up my scissors and boldly went where no Mischalean Elizabeth Reed had ever gone before. I cut out whatever stood out to me with no real pattern in mind. When I finished and surveyed my clippings, I was pleasantly surprised that the Holy Spirit had been guiding my scissors :)

I will post pictures of my journal later, but let me just say, it is BEAUTIFUL!! And it really does perfectly describe my season and what I believer God is going to do in me this year.

Then we went and got prophesied over by the second year students. That was incredible as well. Basically, they told me everything I didn't know I needed to hear God say. And even some things I did know I needed to hear. And some things that maybe God didn't directly tell them to say ( like that I have beautiful eyes and an amazing smile!!) but maybe they were personal opinions from the guys who were prophesying over me... :)

So monday felt like God's special gift to me after what had been happening in my soul on Sunday.

Tuesday-Thursday: Retreat at an old YWAM base in Chico, CA. It was awesome :) Too many details but I'll give you the brief synopsis. I spent alot of time with my roommate, Marley, whom I ADORE and got to know my revival group alot better. It was a blast!

Friday: I baked alot. Then spent some AMAZING alone time with Jesus. It was so good. I forget sometimes how much better everything is after I do that :)

Saturday: Discovered that not only had Jesus paid my October rent, but I also have more than enough left for groceries and other miscellaneous items that I need!! I wasn't shocked because God says He will provide. So I trust Him. But I surprised at the manner He did it in and that there was way more than I needed. Go Jesus :)

So, that was my week :) Not in so much detail but I wanted to get you all caught up!!

I love you all!!!

I hope this blog is helpful in keeping track of where my crazy life is headed!!

Love, Mischa