something i was struck by at mosaic last week was that if we have gratitude to god, we're travel-ready. this comes from the biblical context of looking at the israelites trudging through the desert and longing for the comforts and food that they had in egypt under slavery. they were being extremely ungrateful to god despite his having carried them thru the red sea just 3 days earlier. if they were grateful, they would have willingly followed him. that attitude of gratefulness is sharply contrasted with being settled and not willing to budge or longing for the days of yesterday. a mature faith is grateful. it's liquid and transportable. it's travel-ready.
lately i've started to catch wind of the possibility that god might want me to be travel ready in my future. perhaps even this summer. so i'm going to faithfully pursue an opportunity which might bring me to new york for the summer. it would be a big pain (that i don't want to deal with), to figure out my housing situation both here and there and that alone would prevent me from going and continue on in the path i have going on here...but in the grander scheme of things, it's really so minor and simply a luxury.
if i felt that god was possibly calling me to do something, i should totally be willing to look and see...even if it meant giving up my apartment or having to find a new roommate. stuff so minor in the grand scheme of things. by the timing of things happening around me, i'm starting to look and see how god might be shaping my future. more on that interesting stuff later. stay tuned.
the ongoing life of lumps logs
as i've been learning things in my walk, i thought i'd share them here. stuff learned at church. in the word. in the effort to live faithfully. it's not really fitting with the audience and purpose of my other blog, but more so here. hopefully stuff shared here can be an encouragement in the paths we walk, however far apart we may be. this isn't so much a collection to record what i'm learning for myself, but more of an access point to share and encourage others.
and you observant ones may notice that i installed comments on this blog. hopefully this blog can be a communal sharing and contact point for us to meet on our spiritual journeys. (if you wanna have access to posting here, just holler.)
