Who needs coffee when you get some G-man in the morning?

I just want to stop and thank God for Breon. Breon run's sound for Level 3.16, one of the Impact bands. Breon and I both started working out in the mornings so one day I asked him if I could just join him and some of his guys he lifted with. He opened me with wide arms and Christ's love. I'll admit I was a little nervous at first but he's been a very big help in my perspective switch and growth. He's helped show me that the body of Christ isn't limited to color, which I know in my mind, but when it becomes real then it's a complete different story. 

Like talking with a few of the international students who came here. We would be talking bout different things and be talking about different things. During a conversation both of us would have to ask, "Wait, what? Oh, ok. We call that ______." There was a lot of cultural differences and cultural slack in between us so the conversations were something to work at. It's not thing major, but if you've ever talked to someone from another culture or just another part of the US than you, you probably know what I'm talking about. The amazing part about it is how God is not limited to the U.S. or to even westernized culture. (People in the middle east don't need western culture, they just need Jesus. I think we may be giving them the wrong medicine.) But Jesus is so much bigger than us. When talking to Andrea (Argentina) or Bevan (New Zeland) there are cultural differences, but when we start talking about God. . . it's always the same story. Suddenly, our conversation doesn't need clarifying. In my mind I thought, "wait, they teach you this story too?!" and then I realized what I thought and "DUH!" But it was one of those things you know, but when you personally experience it, it provides so much more understanding.

Anyways, Breon has been (using a churchy word) a blessing to me. He really has shown me the body of Christ outside of what I knew it to be. Today on our run we started getting into our own personal spiritual lives and it was good. By him asking me, it added some incentive to work harder, like he was holding me accountable. When I answered what God had showed me, it kind of reinterrated it to me. I had began to forget to see the power and comfort in his words. Breon helped me remember, and it kicked off my day with God, it was a good day.