yep this is my third time making a blog. let's hope it sticks this time. until i have time to add something recent here is some old stuff from this summer:
From Camp
God has been good forever, but I've seen it a lot in the past 2.5 weeks. Firstly, atheists should spend more time outdoors. Secondly, digging deep and analyzing community and what God has wired us for inside that community, has really shown me a lot about how much we should hold each other up and pray for one another. There are so many differently beautiful people here at camp, and its incredible how we interact. Forgive the cliche, but there really aren't words for how exquisitly connected everything in creation is and what has really blown my mind is how everything in ourselves and eachother has the potential for the same awestriking connections.
In creation there is a niche for everything, each living thing has its own place and its own purpose. We are so much like that in design. There is not only room for each person's gifts, but they are of utmost importance when holding us together as a body of Christ and in my case right now, a cabin, a member of the Rockmont staff, as a family member. I need to love and hold up each person in each role around me because our success as a whole depends on the success each individual member who has unique gifts that I may never even be able to understand.
If you want it, here's the scripture that i've been looking at that got me on this: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26, 1 Thessalonians 5:11.
Enjoy your summer guys, pray for me here, and help me do the same for you wherever God has you.
From Camp vol. 2
So, i have this pair of flip flops...
its the only pair i've ever really worn, a lot. When i look at them now, all i see is a my sized footprint that has been pressed so deep into the leather that the shape has almost completely changed. The way I walk in my flipflops has changed too, as they have conformed to my feet, they have changed the way i walk (how i get there).
my hands haven't sunk into the leather of my Bible. The story of God's chase after me and you isn't etched into my heart. As i slowly "break in" that leather bound book, the Word of God causes my heart to conform, it changes the whole thing into something that can't be recognized as what it once was, it changes my direction my goals, and it changes the way i get there.
i pray for the day my heart looks like it was specially made to fit, to carry, to work God's Word.
So there it is. New stuff soon!
2 comments:
yeah boy! i love volume 2..."I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches." ps 119:14
so.. im sitting here at home during fall break. i just created my own one of these. i have one on a xanga but i decided to make one that was a little more personal and updated as I have grown and i was looking at your past blog. and this one.. volume 2...that really touched me. and made me think. i struggle with this constantly. my hands should make imprints on my bible as my feet have in my flops.
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