joy

This week, I and about 500 college students experienced what I can only describe as the most overwhelming joy I have ever known.

The best I can describe it … an all-consuming energy that makes you feel that when you jump you’re defying gravity. When you laugh it sends shock waves through your soul and you can’t stop. When you sing at the top of your lungs you are joining what has been echoing through the earth from the beginning of creation. And when you look around you at a perfect celebration of grace and rescuing love, you can’t help but smile knowing who all of that is for.

If everyone experienced the presence of God that way - when you can almost tangibly feel God showering the children he gave everything for with an overwhelming love, when you can look into someone’s face and that alone gives you an inescapable impression that this religion thing has more to do with joy and hope and romance than with rules and guilt -

the world would begin to understand Jesus.