How Can God Be So Good When We Don't Deserve It?

These past couple of months have been absolutely crazy. Seriously, who knew being sent to the hospital could completely change someone's life? Okay, maybe that's not too far fetched of a thought after all, but still, for me and my faith journey, it's exactly what I needed. The short story is that my platelets dropped to practically none, which, if you don't know, platelets are what makes your blood clot so you don't bleed to death, more or less. Anyway, I was put in the hospital for a couple days and had this globulin stuff pumped into me to pump up my platelets. It was the first time I had an IV put in me, which was painful all in itself because my veins are not the kind the nurses like, so I got pretty bruised up from all of that. The coolest thing that I realized while I was there was how many people cared so much about me. I had way more people come to visit and call me than I could have imagined. God showed His awesome love for me so much just through that. I got some good time to myself while I was there, and really ever since then, my faith has just shot to a completely different level.
I don't want to sit here and retell you everything in my life that has happened, you can just read my journal if you really want all of the details. I decided I would just give you a list of all the amazing ways I have seen God at work in both my life and those around me since then:

* One of the biggest things has been in Christian Student Fellowship, our campus ministry at UIS. God has truly been changing us and bonding us together in a way that I have never experienced before. He keeps bringing more and more people and actually getting them connected! We even had an international student give her life to Jesus and get baptized before she goes back to China! How AWESOME!
* I've had the amazing privilege of praying for some of my closest friends every single day for God to intercede in their lives, for them to open up their hearts to Him. I have seen God working in them as I pray everyday, knowing that He hears our prayers and that He is using me to reach them. Again, just super awesome.
* The biggest thing would have to be my relationship with my mom. For most of my life, we really just haven;t truly gotten along, that is, until I gave it all to Jesus, for real this time. I finally let His holy spirit overtake me and He has been ever faithful through it all. I have gone from praying nonstop that my mom would encounter God in such a new way that she would truly see Him for who He is to seeing Him shining through her. God has allowed me to show her to Him and He has completely saved our relationship. I was actually just telling my friend the other day that I actually *love* going home and talking with my mom. She didn't even know what to say because that is so not like me. That's the cool thing, though, it's not me, it's all God.
* Okay, this is long, so here's my last one. This whole platelet thing has been a crazy roller coaster ride, and today I found out they are going UP. Without having any of the globulin stuff going in me, they are going up because of God, not because of my medication or anything else. I truly believe that He is doing a Holy work in my body and it is so awesome to be a witness to it. Whatever happens, I just want this to bring glory to His name. He has been so good in ways I honestly do not deserve or understand. He is such a great God and I really just can't wait to tell the world about Him! That's a new thing for me, too. I didn't used to get that excited!

To wrap it up, God is really the best, and I hope and pray that all of you reading this one day get to experience that for yourselves as well. If you want more detailed descriptions of what's been going on in my life, don't hesitate to ask, I love telling about my life, especially when it has to do with Jesus. :)