"Great is thy faithfulness"

The name of this post is probably more fitting for the internship as a whole, really, not just this post. Or maybe more fitting for life :-)

So, as I wait on a student to show up to a lunch date, I wanted to share with you about a girl I had coffee with yesterday morning.

We'll call her Claire.

I got to know Claire last year at a Christmas parade in Davidson, when she came with a couple of the girls I knew particularly well. We got to talk here and there as I saw her around campus, and some of our interactions were more lengthy than others. Eventually, we had the opportunity to sit down and have lunch together. Claire grew up in a nominally Christian home, but I don't think Christianity meant a whole lot to her. We continued to meet, and sometimes Claire came to RUF Large Group.

Late in April, Claire's friend and classmate whom I meet with often, texted me an excited text to let me know Claire had accepted Christ that evening! I confess I'd prayed for her, but I didn't see this coming, and honestly, it had nothing to do with me, just a lot of little events that God had used in her life to show her who He is.

Though the semester was about over, I was able to give Claire a Jesus Storybook Bible, and she was so excited to get it!

This year, Claire has been coming to our girls' Psalms study, and she faithfully attends RUF Large Group. In talking with her, I've seen a change in the way she relates with people, and the way she thinks about life, even! She's excited to see the things she's learning about as helping her bring restoration to God's Kingdom on earth!

Yesterday morning at coffee, (as we bonded over our love of fall and Pumpkin Spice Lattes), Claire was full of questions: she's longing to study the Bible, and doesn't know where to begin. I was feeling particulary out of it walking to coffee, and I didn't know what we were going to talk about, or how to love her best, or how God was going to be at work. But I prayed that God would fill our conversation with Himself, and that he would be at work even as I was feeling weak. And even as God has been at work in Claire's life for 19 years, and my own life for 23 years, he was faithful in that conversation. It was so encouraging and contagious to see Claire's excitement for learning about her Savior, and so neat to be able to talk through reading the Bible.

Really, I love seeing God's faithfulness. It's so true that "his mercies are new every morning"!