I'm A Winner

Today was pretty cool. At 5:45PM I went down to the special events center where there was this thing for new students to Abilene going on: lots of local churches and businesses had booths with information and free stuff (lots of food, candy, coupons, flyers, etc). I got a free water bottle from one church, free flip-flops from another, lots of flyers and chick-fil-a coupons too, but the one that really caught my attention was this one church, New Life Temple Church. As I was walking by I said hi to the guy and he said hi and told me a little about the church, gave me a flyer, and asked if I wanted to sign up for the raffle they were having. I said sure, and as I was signing my name I heard him turn to the lady next to him and start speaking Spanish. When I finished my name and phone number, one kid sitting at the table said I won a free 2L bottle of Dr. Pepper and a small bag of candy because I was number whatever to sign up, so that was cool (I gave it to a girl in my dorm because she loves Dr. Pepper. I would have kept it if it was diet though, lol). Then I went back to the guy and said, "Hablas espanol?" and suddenly we started talking in Spanish and he told me that the church has a Spanish service at 9 on Sundays and an English at 11. So he invited me to the Spanish and I told him I'd really like to come. He was also telling me about how God has been working in the church: a man apparently bought a ton of land across the street from the church and just gave it to them, for free. And another guy bought a lot of land behind the church and donated it to them too, so now they have all this land that they can build on and they own it, completely, with no debt or anything. So God clearly has big plans for this church, and I think it would be cool to get plugged in while it's just getting started.
Well then at 6:45 or so I left to take all my stuff back to my room, and at 7 I got a call from a number I didn't recognize, but I answered and it ended up being the guy and he said, "Hello, Kaleigh? Guess what you just won?" I apparently won the raffle too! So I got a free backpack with a bunch of school supplies, like pens and pencils and erasers and spirals and paper and a ruler and a clipboard and a little calculator and rubberbands and glue. It was so cool. I just can't believe how blessed I am, God blesses me in so many ways and I am nowhere near as grateful as I should be. I can't even begin to pretend that my heart fathoms the deep love God pours on me daily. If I could even understand it the tiniest bit I would be moved to tears. I'm so unworthy of everything He does for me, but He does it anyway, and I am so humbled by it. I'll never be able to grasp how much He loves me and how truly blessed I am. It would probably kill me to be able to understand the great distance between his blessings and my unworthiness. But as I was walking back to the center to get the backpack, I just started praying that God would help me to understand just a little better how much He loves me and how blessed I am so that it would break me apart, and so that I could be rebuilt into a person that loves Him wholeheartedly and more than anything else that exists. And I feel like God is calling me to go to this church, everything about me being there seems so . . . I don't know. Just all the winning and talking I did at the booth, it feels like God was trying to get me to notice it, to make sure it got my attention. Hearing the Spanish, winning the Dr. Pepper and then the raffle, hearing the story of the church's new potential, it just feels like God is trying to get a message across to me. So we'll see. I'll visit on Sunday and see what happens after that.
So that's my story for the day. Oh, and Bob from the Bean told me to come in tomorrow and more than likely he'd be ready to hire me (I turned in an application a few days ago, and he was excited at the prospect of hiring me). So that's good news too.
Right now I wish I was asleep, but I'm not tired enough, so I guess I could be reading chapter two in my communication book. I guess I'll do that.
Goodnight all, much love, and God bless!