many thoughts have been swirling around in my head lately. and i haven't been able to form them together, but felt the need after a friend mentioned that i hadn't posted in a while. i have some thoughts that i will list below. please note that these may be completely unrelated and possibly even incoherent.
what are the ways we encounter God? through action, or through interaction? is my God a contextualized American God? is this why i see-saw back and forth with living overseas? do i think that i might not be able to encounter God there? are people so inspired by missionaries b/c of their sacrifice or because they show us new ways of encountering God outside of our context?
why is it the Jesus i read about in scripture a completely different person than the Jesus i have heard about all my life in sunday school? after being inspired by richard foster, i examined all the verses Jesus spoke of on prayer. and it, too, turned out to be a completely different concept than what i had always envisioned.
i seem to have gotten to a point in my life where i've realized that it is only possible to have a few very close friends. and sometimes your closest friends are not the ones who know you best. all relationships at this very moment are either drawing together or pulling apart. so stop stressing out.
shit happens. accept that. God still is and was and always will be. his love does not change because of my circumstance.
i want to be a person of love. to be known by love. and i need to work on that one.
--peace out
posted by Kelly @ 3:27:00 PM
4 Comments:
always thankful for your honesty and my thoughts provoked by yours.
thanks.
I definitely connect with the friends thing and also with how we encounter God but too often I am mechanical in this and miss the encounter all together. I remember asking a college student attending our pitiful little corps how he worshiped God because I didn't think it was happening on Sunday a.m. He said he worshipped through his service. This really changed my perspective.-debby
it's cool you took some time off to gather your thoughts (and are still gathering, from what i, um, gather). those people who post something nearly every day can get pretty annoying - just because you're writing doesn't mean you have much to say. :)
you, on the other hand...
Great questions.
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