Caught in the Web

Last night, I looked at the facebook prayer and support group for the Westmont fire. There are many more members than students at the school and they seem to be a random group of people, but they all have one thing in common. They are all praying for the students and the school as it recovers from this fire. I thought that was so cool. We all have some small connection to the school. For me, it's my sister, for others its friends or maybe some graduated from Westmont years ago. But we can all come together in prayer. It was so amazing reading posts by people from places like Michigan, Texas, France and many others; and I'm here praying from Georgia. This is the kind of unity the body of Christ is supposed to have.

This made me think of how many people in a day pray for me or events that concern me. I know my parents and others from my church pray for me but there are also people I don't even know who pray for me. There are probably people praying for Toccoa Falls College or the state of Georgia (or California) and others praying for Riverpoint (and my home church, Bethany). That is just awesome! I love being held up by this web of prayer that surrounds me as well as being able to form the threads that hold others up, whether I know them or not. Now we need to work on bringing this unity and connection we have through prayer into the rest of our lives. We can come together as brothers and sisters in Christ and together we can stand.

As for the fire, I'm praying for beauty from ashes. God will be able to use this in ways which we cannot even imagine, so I pray that everyone stays open to His work and power so we can give Him the glory and praise He deserves.