i have been burdened with the issues my students are facing. or i guess i should say i have been burdened by the truth that they are facing issues- many of which go unnoticed and unknown by their roommates and neighbors. i struggle with the reality that i will never be able to know all 200 or so of them on a deep enough level to know what’s going on in their lives and walk with them through those things. my heart is burdened for the choices they make that are foolish and harmful, especially when those choices are because they don’t know anything else, or that they don’t realize they have the power to choose something better.

i know the Lord knows them, and i know He can deliver them from the things that are breaking their hearts, and that He is bigger than the things they think they cannot overcome. tonight i am praying for my Sigma residents, that the Lord would reveal Himself to them in undeniable ways, and that they would choose to live for Him. i pray my residents would learn to do life God’s way and that they would experience the hope and joy knowing Him provides.