Today was our second day on campus, and we were supposed to start out by prayerwalking around the campus and then start talking to people to "decode" the campus (get a better sense of the campus, the student life, where people hang out, general atmosphere, etc). Today, I was in a group of four (one was a staff member), and it was really helpful to learn how to prayerwalk and to see an example of how he starts conversations). As an introvert, the thought of starting conversations with random people kind of weirds me out, and I didn't really want to do it. On top of it all, I'm still feeling like my heart is lacking in the "Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Matt. 22:37).
He encouraged me with the story of Jonah, and the fact that God used a racist, reluctant prophet to bring about the largest revival in history simply because Jonah finally made himself available to be used. He then told me, "I'm going to encourage you to take a step of faith and start a conversation. Actually, I'm not going to encourage you as much as I'm going to force you. See that girl over there? Go talk to her." And what would you know, she ended up being an NYU student who was home for summer school. What a blessing it was to talk to someone from NY as my first person of the day!
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