trying to describe passion 2012

the post i've almost been dreading..in the best way possible.

passion 2012. i don't even know where to begin.

trying to describe this is like describing the impossible.

i am slightly depressed to be back, and wish i could be surrounded by Jesus and His word 24/7/365.  it's so hard to come back and not be totally surrounded by Jesus.  make sense?  

my heart is just so desiring of Him, and i often let the business of life quench that.

{the opening night we read 45 minutes of scripture.  so awesome}

the week started as me going with a group of 25 people, only 1 of whom i knew.

and that 1 girl, susannah, was not even a really close friend.

i barely knew her.  so as you can see i was a bit worried.

but i quickly discovered that there was no need to be worried!

we drove through the night (they left around 7 pm and i met them around 9 pm) and they met me down here so that i didn't have to drive 2 hours north to come back south--i was so thankful for that!

{passion 2012}

when we got to atlanta, we were all freaking exhausted.

we got in around 7 30 am and they had some of my room ready, except the room with me and my roomies.

however, someone {rebecca} graciously let us crash in their room and all 5 of us slept for over 2 hours.

we were woken up and told we had a room, and then we started getting ready for the evening stuff.

Louie Giglio--who heads Passion--started off the night with a passage in Luke 7:11.

it is about the son who is being carried during his funeral, and Jesus interrupts the funeral and tells him to get up.  

this went in to talking about how many of us are on our way to spiritual deaths and Jesus wants to intercept. and we should want Jesus to use us to intercept other 'deaths' going on.

and it got me to thinking about all the lies i have been believing and how i was on my way to my own Spiritual death.

do you know how hard that hit? 

i believe i am not good enough.

not of love, and of true everlasting life.

and not believing that is a HUGE issue. and continuing to believe that leads to DEATH.

and as Louie said, 

'Jesus didn't come to make us from 'bad' to 'good'.  but He came to take us from DEATH to LIFE'. 

so needless to say, after the first session i already knew the Lord was doing awesome things.

then, we met with our small groups.

we had community groups where everyone in the group was given a colored wrist band.

there were 19 total, and all 44,000 of us were split up.

i was part of glitter green--the best community group!

we had the largest amount of people EVER in any Passion CG and had almost 4,000 people.

not to mention, we made the top trend on Twitter throughout one session!

there were also two other times where things going on at Passion were top trends in the world on Twitter.

how awesome is that? 

{a little proof! go glitter green}

{glitter green and striped green unite!}

{my glitter!}

 {our favorite greater!  every morning she would say 'show me your glitter!'

in our group of Glitter green, our leaded was ben stewart.

he was fabulous and hilarious.

and once we were there the first night, we broke into groups of 8 people.

we were to randomly meet 3 people and on the 3rd person, stay with them.

for me that was me and morgan.

she is such a sweet heart and we connected on a lot of levels.

we both struggle with family members not being believers, and with living those those who are not necessarily interested in furthering their relationship with the Lord.

then us 2 were to find 2 more people.

then those groups of 4 were to find 4 more.

so we ended up with 8 amazing people. and that is what my group was-amazing!

{ben stewart--our fearless leader}

{glitter green praying}

{awesome family group--nick, josh, devin, bryan, julia, emily, me and morgan}

all the speakers at Passion were fabulous, needless to say.

there were several songs, quotes, people, and conversations that impacted my life.

i can't believe it took me so long to get to the Passion Conference.

the Dome was PACKED and we had to wait in lines a lot.

but luckily, several of the guys didn't go to their family groups and got there early to get us seats. 

we would have been in the nose bleed section all the time had that not been the case!

there were a couple times where Susannah, Peter and i got stuck in the nosebleed because our session would get out late and they only let you save seats for a certain amount of time.

and i tell ya, that was not a pretty situation.

we were all slightly irritated, especially since we couldn't be with our group.

and the first song we started singing?

'let Your word move in power,

let what's dead, come to life.

we are here for you, we are here for YOU'

me and Susannah instantly felt slapped in the face.

it didn't matter that we were in the nosebleed.

the Lord and His presence was everywhere.

on the floor, in the lower bowl, and even in the nosebleed.

and after this time of being in the nosebleed, we were careful to always be with aj, josh s., or other josh cause they knew their way around.

and one day before the david crowder band we could not find them to save our LIVES.  and it was so so frustrating.

peter and roxie wouldn't leave till we found them and we felt babysat.

and we ended up in the nosebleed with aj and josh. 

but again, we decided our attitude needed to change if that happened again {it was happening at the beginning so we were thinking we were going to be in the nosebleed every session! LOL}

there were many other songs that touched me so deeply, and other quotes that really hit home.

i will slit up the post so that this isn't too massive.

but some pics of our adventures {these will be split up too!}

{everyone worshiping!  so amazing to be with 44,000 others praising my King!}

{julia, me, susannah}

{AJ, me, susannah}

{annie, forget her name!, kristin, me, susannah}

{some others in the group!  danny, maddy, rixy, julia, abby, leah}

{in the Georgia Dome!}

{we raised  36K towels and 156K pairs of socks for the homeless}

{lots and lots of people.  they wouldn't let everyone go so we had to wait for traffic to clear!}

{before late session--julia, me, maddy, susannah}

{josh aka sepos, maddy, susannah, me, julia}

{so amazing to look around and see others worshiping}

here is a start.  

can't wait to share what i've learned!