I've found in the past weeks and months, last night in particular, that I'm barely involved with what God does through me, that God wants certain things out of me: obedience, a desire to serve others, but He doesn't need them. He will do what He wants regardless and sometimes in spite of me.

Since coming back to school here at Michigan State, I've seen God use conversations that I know I've botched, situations that I know should have been awkward and unhelpful, and people (like me) that are limited by ability and sometimes willingness. He still works, though.

I was reminded just last night in a small way of the fact that God doesn't need me. I was talking with my roommate a few minutes before Bible study, and he brought up Parker, a guy who lives across the hall, saying that he wanted to work toward getting him to come to study. I went across the hall to talk to a few other guys, when Tom, yet another guy from the floor, walked in and asked me if it was "alright if Parker comes to study."

It's a small event, I know, just someone coming to a Bible study, but it really drove the point home to me.

But...about me. My name is Nathan Harris, this is my second year in college, and I'm majoring in journalism and chemistry. Scrolling through the posts here, I saw Lisa (she has the picture with all the balloons). We live in the same dorm complex, and, as I think she said, the freshman percentage here is high, well into the 80s. There are a few of us, about 15 sophomores and a few older students, that have returned to live in the Brody complex this year for ministry. The community and what we have begun to see God do have both been amazing.

I look forward to seeing where God is taking me this year. I don't know, but I want to be game for it. It's encouraging to know, though, that I can't really wreck the plan. God will work it out.