prayer

if you are looking for something to be in prayer for i can not encourage you enough to check out this website:
http://www.persecution.com/
and be in prayer for our brothers and sisters in places that are hostile to the word and message of jesus christ.
i think we forget all too often that there are people being tortured and that are dying for this and that there are still unreached places that have never heard the message of the gospel and so many bothers and sisters who are living in fear while we can love Jesus openly.
kinda shakes you out of your complacency doesn't it?

1 Timothy 2:8-10

Since prayer is at the bottom of all of this, what i want mostly is for men to pray- not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And i want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.

this is

a really cute short film,
check it out here

if Jesus separates

the sheep from the goats in heaven, and i am a sheep, i am going to look like this guy:
(Matthew 25:31-33)

king of wishful thinking

i love these pictures :)


i'm trying to figure out what i'm doing this summer.
trying to rely on God to make it amazing.
trying to let Him write my beautiful story.

also, listen to this

kingdom come

"What, therefore, is our task today? Should I answer "Faith, hope and love?" That sounds beautiful. But I would say - courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature... we lack a holy rage - the recklessness which comes from the knowlege of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth... a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth and the desruction of God's people. To rage when little children must die of hunger, while the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and the madness of militaries. To rage against the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destrustion peace. To rage against COMPLACENCY. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the kingdom of God."

-Father Kaj Munk, 1944

what if we

were all living the biggest stories we could dream of?
how different would the world look if everyone was living big, living eternally?




check this guy out:
http://www.myspace.com/knaanmusic
his music and lyrics are awesome- he's from somalia and a lot of it is a cry for social justice
wavin' flag is really good.

i love this initiative

i LOVE that it is prayer based- and that it is drawn from the example of the traditions of our faith.
i LOVE that it calls us to remember our brothers and sisters that are suffering as we all remember the suffering of Christ during lent.
i LOVE that it will change lives.
check it out! and tell your friends :)
http://www.water.cc/living-water/the-h2o-project/

okay

so i didn't get the camp counselor job at glisson this summer and as soon as i read that email i didn't feel disappointed, i felt freed. while i know that this summer could have been amazing at glisson, God just gave me the greatest peace that just affirmed that this summer will be amazing not at glisson- that i can do things that i wouldn't have had the time to do, like hang out with my family, and maybe take a trip to montreal with my best friend, and just doing things that make me happy. like learning to sew, and throwing pots, and living with people that i love.
so i am seeing this as a blessing, and i know that God will bless me where ever i am and that He has great plans for me and will write a beautiful story with my time this summer if i let Him.

IN

next fall i will be studying in South Africa with APU's semester abroad program.
i am thrilled to get the opportunity to go to a totally new part of the world and experience another entirely different culture, and while i am really excited to get there, i am probably equally excited not to be here.
i love APU and love being in california but the states is what i know and i am so glad for the opportunity to have the time to dig deeper into somewhere else that is so strikingly different.
i am also really excited about being dislodged. we are so comfortable here that we sleep through most of our lives and i am looking forward to having my framework broken up and experiencing life more awake and engaged.
and the PEOPLE. it will be interesting to be in a small group of people that are all crazy in the same way.

it should hurry up and be next semester already.



"So you'll go out in joy,
you'll be led into a whole and complete life.
The mountains and hills will lead the parade,
bursting with song.
All the trees of the forest will join the procession,
exuberant with applause.
No more thistles, but giant sequoias,
no more thornbushes, but stately pines—
Monuments to me, to God,
living and lasting evidence of God."
Isaiah 55:12-13

starting now, i'm starting over

i am drowning in homework