The Bike Tree

Inspiration is derived from many places obviously.  For myself, it most often surfaces from the ordinary and seemingly mundane occurances of my day to day life. I'm currently reading an amazing book by Brennan Manning called Abba's Child, in which he reminded me that "We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences."
      Tonight a group of amazing people came over for our weekly prayer group and I spent an hour talking about my amazing Jesus with my friends.  It never ceases to amaze me how creative God is.  While I probably should be thinking about other things during our prayer time, that is always a reocurring thought.  I sit surrounded by these people, all of which consistently say unique and thought-provoking things about their relationship with God, each person so original and just amazing! I imagine God thinking tirelessly about each of our senses of humor, likes, dislikes, voices, thought processes and I honestly just stand in awe of his creativity.  I can't express how thankful I am for the people God chose to put in my life.
     As always I went to Dagny's after school today and had a wonderful conversation with Walter aka Superman.  I sat there with Baker, Sarah, and Archna and thought to myself how lucky am I to have such amazing friends to share my senior year with!
    Oh and I should explain the picture.. I decided to attach a cool picture I found online to each blog that provided me with a little bit of inspiration today.  I'm riding my little fixed gear bike to school for the first time this year tomorrow morning and I'm so excited about it!