Monday, October 10, 2011

Everything

"We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
As the old pine fell we sang
Just to bless the morning."

Ben Howard is perfect rainy day music. Not depressing but restfully inspiring. While enjoying a good blanket, while sitting inside looking out as rain falls feeling inspired to love every little thing like, "Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags", or a good pen to paper... Thank you Jennifer Spears for allowing the Lords love to shine through you. And thanks be to God for the Love that inspires so many to translate your  love and beauty in so many unique ways.

There are thoughts I have about the ever changing seasons. Questions, but who doesn't? My continued question is, "Will it ever be anything as I imagined it to be"? As of right now, to emphasize again, this is nothing as I imagined my life being two years ago. Three thousand miles from anything that was familiar. Now it is becoming so.

Pennsylvania is hard to fathom at times in regards to thinking I might have stayed... And what if I did? What if I pushed the Lords words to the side, like I have so many times? Then where would I be? Just as sheltered, perhaps, instead of being OK with uncomfortable.

I'm sitting alone in this cafe looking at locals while no one knows how far these feet and this soul has truly come. But what am I trying to prove? It's not about me, but, that's what I love.  I'm along for the ride amongst this field trip to experience and help others to experience the love of Christ. The mission of Christ. The ways that the Lord leads each of us through each moment. Down each trail and through each temporary stay. This world is unbelievable at times.

Let the light continue to shine through.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11;
"4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5 There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. 7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 9 The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11 It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have."

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