An Interesting Question...

I read something somewhere recently. It posed this question: What Is It That You Can't Not Do? - I confess, it took me about two weeks to come up with a good answer that satisfied what it was that I simply couldn't not do. I pose this question to you now, I am curious, let me know. For me it is share. I am a sharer. I can't not do it, I've tried. Now, it is your turn.

back "home"

I learned a number of years ago that I do not belong here. by here, I mean planet earth. I know, this sounds very weird, stay with me. The Bible is full of things like "we are aliens," and "our citizenship is in heaven," Jesus even says that He has gone "to prepare a place for us" ...therefore, I have begun to scratch the surface of what it means to be a foreigner here. it's easy to get caught up in the every day life of this world and be distracted from our purpose at hand, to love God with all of our hearts, minds, souls, and strenght. My home is in heaven, I think I understand that more and more as time goes by. This world is not my home, I am just here for a little while...a mist of time, if you will.
When I travel I am reminded that wherever I go there is a new sense that I do not belong there. I can have a great time, I can fit in, I can enjoy just about everything about where I am... yet, there is this thing, this sense, that I do not belong there.
Still on the learning path. Still considering myself a foreigner wherever I go. And well, enjoying the brief stint I am allowed here in this world - trying to make the most of every opportunity.

28 new friends

oh man! it's been forever since I started this thing and blogged. much has happened... there is this evaluation that we had to fill out at the end of camp. one of the questions was "what would be one word to describe your summer" well, my one word was "random". camp was the farthest thing from my thoughts of how my summer would look and, well, I'm glad that God knows so much more that I do. It is amazing because, as random as it was for me to come to camp, it was precisely where I was supposed to be. amazing.
In the midst of this most random thing I could do in a summer, I was overwhelmingly blessed by the wonderful people on my staff. I really could not have dreamed of a better group of people to work with in the summer of 2005. This is a shout out to my 28 new, over-the-top, more-of-a-blessing-than-I ever-imagined, friends. You guys are an obvious gift from the Father who gives good gifts. Thank you for pouring yourselves out this summer...and all your lives. Christ was magnified in and through you this summer. I pray for you, my friends, that He blows you away this fall. I love you all and I miss you bad.