Story of my life
I'm still working on the pictures...story of my life...always late and needing more time to finish a monumental task that seemingly does not lend itself enough time for me to complete it in a timely manner. Sigh...alas, the great time conundrum. Even in ministry we are so consumed with doing!
I wish I had a Mount of Olives to retreat to and a Kidron Valley to pass as I walked there each day. Life would be a lot simpler. But we each have our lot in life as Jesus did. Three years...three years to save the world. HOW DO YOU DO THAT?! 'Cause He's God. And to think we have Him living in us...then why don't we have the same type of life impact ourselves?
So many times, as I'm learning about living the Spirit-filled life, we simply don't want it. We resist and rebel. We immediately harden our hearts to Him or brush off the notion of always walking in the Spirit, quick to think it's not possible. But it is. The question is whether or not we will submit to Him and allow Him to live through us and take control of our lives?
We have the gift of free will. And unfortunately (or fortunately, for those who don't really care about doing God's will) we can choose to not do His will as often as we like. The hope is that we won't, but gosh we still do. And to think that Satan was once an angel of light, the right hand "man" of God and he STILL fell!!!! Even seeing Christ in His eternal glory there! And managed to deceive 1/3 of the angels to fall with him! Man...there are just no words for that.
Anyways, I can ramble on and on about theology, but it's past my "curfew." I've been giving myself an online curfew of 11p.m. for various reasons I care not to divulge publicly, but some of you can guess why... Preparations for summer project are going well so far. I just wish I had more time to do things! GAH! But I'm so tired day in and day out and can never get the proper rest that I need.
Perhaps even when I'm sleeping I'm not really resting. It's interesting to read Jesus' words that say, "come to me...and I will give you rest for your souls." He never said He'd give us sleep or help us sleep better. He said He'd give us rest. And I think there is a huge difference. I need to learn how to rest.
I can nap and sleep often while my mind goes round and round over things of ministry and work and life like a constant spinning top. But I don't think that was God's desire for us as we serve Him. He does not want us to be anxious, He does not want us to worry. We need only to think about today and God will take care of the rest. It's a principle of trust-I need to trust Him. Help me to trust You, God.
Pray for my summer project team Young Isaac. I am excited to have the opportunity to disciple these students this summer.
Jeffrey Chin will be playing violin (from NY!!! He's the guy on the left :) ),
Lindsey Thayer is on lead acoustic guitar and vocals (from So. Cal. West Coast!)
Brandon Carpenter is on guitar,
Josiah Washburn is on bass,
Josh Weis will be our sound tech (no, he's not the frog),
Laura Piscitello (staff intern) is on vocals, and I'll be playing drums. Lindsay and Benton Cole will be our team directors (they're both from the Keynote HR department) and Dan Bongard will be our music director.
I'm really excited to be working with this staff team. This summer I'm looking forward to being refreshed in my relationship with God and in ministry fulfillment as well.
I've shared some of my struggles with my full-time band in past entries, so you can understand. Stepping out of that situation and being in another that is different will help tons. I feel our personalities and general character types are very similar and generally very moldable and able to get along well. That is a HUGE blessing and will take "less effort" ya know? It'll be nice to not have to stress out so much about conflicts and such on the team. I really hope for a great time with them. Please please pray for us!
I'm way past my curfew now.
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I will have my pictures ready VERY soon, I PROMISE!!! Again...it's the story of my life that I'm super late on this when I said I'd have it done a few weeks ago. I want it to be great and ten million things got dumped on my plate before I was able to finish this, so yeah...there ya go. Not to make excuses, but I think you can understand. Keep checking! It'll be up soon :)
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I wish I had a Mount of Olives to retreat to and a Kidron Valley to pass as I walked there each day. Life would be a lot simpler. But we each have our lot in life as Jesus did. Three years...three years to save the world. HOW DO YOU DO THAT?! 'Cause He's God. And to think we have Him living in us...then why don't we have the same type of life impact ourselves?
So many times, as I'm learning about living the Spirit-filled life, we simply don't want it. We resist and rebel. We immediately harden our hearts to Him or brush off the notion of always walking in the Spirit, quick to think it's not possible. But it is. The question is whether or not we will submit to Him and allow Him to live through us and take control of our lives?
We have the gift of free will. And unfortunately (or fortunately, for those who don't really care about doing God's will) we can choose to not do His will as often as we like. The hope is that we won't, but gosh we still do. And to think that Satan was once an angel of light, the right hand "man" of God and he STILL fell!!!! Even seeing Christ in His eternal glory there! And managed to deceive 1/3 of the angels to fall with him! Man...there are just no words for that.
Anyways, I can ramble on and on about theology, but it's past my "curfew." I've been giving myself an online curfew of 11p.m. for various reasons I care not to divulge publicly, but some of you can guess why... Preparations for summer project are going well so far. I just wish I had more time to do things! GAH! But I'm so tired day in and day out and can never get the proper rest that I need.
Perhaps even when I'm sleeping I'm not really resting. It's interesting to read Jesus' words that say, "come to me...and I will give you rest for your souls." He never said He'd give us sleep or help us sleep better. He said He'd give us rest. And I think there is a huge difference. I need to learn how to rest.
I can nap and sleep often while my mind goes round and round over things of ministry and work and life like a constant spinning top. But I don't think that was God's desire for us as we serve Him. He does not want us to be anxious, He does not want us to worry. We need only to think about today and God will take care of the rest. It's a principle of trust-I need to trust Him. Help me to trust You, God.
Pray for my summer project team Young Isaac. I am excited to have the opportunity to disciple these students this summer.
Jeffrey Chin will be playing violin (from NY!!! He's the guy on the left :) ),
Lindsey Thayer is on lead acoustic guitar and vocals (from So. Cal. West Coast!)
Brandon Carpenter is on guitar,
Josiah Washburn is on bass,
Josh Weis will be our sound tech (no, he's not the frog),
Laura Piscitello (staff intern) is on vocals, and I'll be playing drums. Lindsay and Benton Cole will be our team directors (they're both from the Keynote HR department) and Dan Bongard will be our music director.
I'm really excited to be working with this staff team. This summer I'm looking forward to being refreshed in my relationship with God and in ministry fulfillment as well.
I've shared some of my struggles with my full-time band in past entries, so you can understand. Stepping out of that situation and being in another that is different will help tons. I feel our personalities and general character types are very similar and generally very moldable and able to get along well. That is a HUGE blessing and will take "less effort" ya know? It'll be nice to not have to stress out so much about conflicts and such on the team. I really hope for a great time with them. Please please pray for us!
I'm way past my curfew now.
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I will have my pictures ready VERY soon, I PROMISE!!! Again...it's the story of my life that I'm super late on this when I said I'd have it done a few weeks ago. I want it to be great and ten million things got dumped on my plate before I was able to finish this, so yeah...there ya go. Not to make excuses, but I think you can understand. Keep checking! It'll be up soon :)
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006.
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