Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing
Are the same."
-- The Fray
School starts in less that two weeks. Senior year, can you believe it? And then what: the rest of our lives. The rest of my life, the beginning of everything I dream about, the end of what I know, the adventure that erupts with a cloud of graduation and slowly fades with time into glittering memories. Does that sound sentimental? And it hasn't even begun yet!
I look at it with eager anticipation. This year will be different. The road may be the same but I've got a new spring to my step. I refuse to see it as monotony but to expect it with joy, and accept its stresses with an easy laugh as I learn to put my faith into Christ like never before. God, I can feel you working in me! It's like an unveiling. Of course, what I understand now is nothing to what you would want me to understand; how much I know of you is miserably tiny in comparison to what you could teach me; my faith is lacking on the scales of your expectations, but I grow! Oh, Father, I can grow. So please, beautiful Lord, grow me closer to you, and also to the believers around me, so that I may experience for your glory what it truly means to fellowship with the Body. And as my fellowship with others who seek your face strengthens, let us continually be an encouragement to one another, let us love one another fully, and let us not succumb to pettiness or feel the need to please others, as it takes away from us fully focusing on your will. Lord, allow us to truly become the body of Christ! Not an institution!
"Institutionalism breeds task-based friendships. As long as you're on the same task together, you can be friends. When you're not, people tend to treat you like damaged goods. Now you know what that's like from the other side and one of the big things Jesus is doing in you now is to free you from the game, so that you can live deeply in him rather than worrying about what everyone else thinks about you."
--So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore, Jake Colsen (great book! check it out! whether you love going to church or not, it's really eye-opening)
2 comments:
I feel like that is my prayer as well. And cool quote; that book is by William Young too right, same as The Shack? (((That guy called Patience the other night! He was in Raleigh and thought of her! He had been reading along with her blog throughout the whole time. So cool when she told me! :))
btw, are you taking bible class? you'll love it! (:
oh, lol, duh, it's not by the same author. But I think it's in the same publication thing or whatever. Lol, I think, I know when I heard of the Shack I heard that book being said to read after.
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