Well needless to say it has literally been forever since i have posted a blog. I think i have gone to start a new post like 20 times then stopped myself because i somehow convinced myself i didnt have anything quite worthy enough to blog about. how silly is that? It's not like drowns of people are reading this thing anyway,lol. Alot has been going on around here. things have been so busy. I started my spring break off with a 6 hour drive with Jas to Ridgecrest, NC to work Fuge winter camp for the weekend. This meant that we were going to be leaving at 4 in the morning..a time i was largely unaware existed. We got caught in the most wicked fog i have ever seen (detailed below in this special picture) and after finally pulling in somewhere and exclaiming we had finally gotten lost..Jas turned his headlights on to the Ridgecrest welcome sign. Thank you Jesus. it was an awesome weekend investing in students and seeing lives changed. It really is what i live for.
( The extreme fog)
(our winter camp team)
My spring break consisted of wedding planning with my mom and spending time with daniel at night. Even though it was fairly uneventful, just having time without worrying about homework or school and getting to spend time with daniel was so good. It ended with a DNOW weekend with the 10-12th grade girls..excellent weekend learning about what our actions say about what we believe about Christ.
i also went with miranda tonight to get the first ice lolly of the year..man it was good! i love those things..
Mir and i had a really long conversation the other night about friendship. The conversation went somewhere along the lines of how some friendships take more work. Im talking about the kinds where you do all the pouring and they do all the taking. It led us to another subject of how we become so consumed with our own lives that sometimes we just fail to recognize what's going on in people we say we care about. I know i never want to be that kind of friend. The kind that never initiates calling or spending time together, never asks about the other person, never sees beyond themselves. This brings me to the book i just started and finished. "Same Kind of Different as Me" is one of the single greatest books i have ever read. I was so challenged by this true story that often times i couldn't read because my eyes were so blurred with tears. The basic premise of the story is about a homeless man who becomes friends with a highly successful art dealer. The story convinced me on so many levels again, how easy it is to place a value on people and forget to really love them... like Christ. Something to chew on for a while..
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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