1984 – Googling God’s Will

He knew I would. He knows how I can be reached, affected and known.
When I was lost in Europe's largest train station in Rome, God knew how to help me catch my train. When I needed the money for a recent bill, God knew how to lead me to it. And now, He is showing me the way, but this time...I don't know the need. Everywhere I look, I hear "1984". I goggled "1984" and found the novel by George Orwell and I saw the political issues that label that year. These ideas are all too obvious. God seems to be working more quietly this time. It is a thing of mystical beauty.
Is it that I am in a world within a world, a house within a house, as Death Cab for Cutie sings...and all along the windows were open?
Maybe....I am up for the wait and see.

Making Room

Our responsibility as we represent Christ is to allow His Love to penetrate our lives. We are also to love others and in that action or thinking, it is to "make room" for others in our lives. To walk, listen and care for the things that happen in their lives, as if it effects and penetrates ours.
"Making room" for others puts us in a more vulnerable place. It may compromise our time or personal efforts or goals. Keeping to a goal is not a bad thing, Jesus did it. Stopping to heal a few people, "make room for them," did not detour Him from His ultimate goal (proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom) but added to it.
Jesus made room for people and as He did, He acknowledged their value.
"Make room," it adds to your goal and the value of others.

Reading Material with Hummus

Today, I needed to get started on the reading for my next class. This should be my one week off but the professor has sent a request to read three chapters before class begins. I have no problem with this because I am really excited about the topic; Participation in the Ministry of Jesus Christ. Now I know what you're thinking, hum... shouldn't seminary always be about participation with Christ. Yes, you would be right. And to some degree it all comes back to the One and His Truth.
So, I set out to enjoy a day of reading with a little coffee and hummus. The two objects of reading included 1) The Church in the Holy Spirit by, Junger Moltmann and 2) Worship Leader Magazine. Two unlikely companions but real. While reading Moltmann, I was peaceful, ignited, full of insight and weak all at the same time. While perusing Worship Leader, I was over confident, passive and disconnected. This magazine in the number one resource for my profession, or so it might seem.
The beauty about reading these two resources is, I have the option of accepting and rejecting any of it I want. I can be a vessel that retains or releases all that I read. I can use it for or against my work in the church. And I can use it to nourish my own theology and life.
They both have their place. They both make up my thinking. And hummus and coffee always make up a part of my diet.