I'm challenged lately....as if that's something new. I look at the stuff I have (a car, a motorcycle, a big dog, etc.) and I wonder if my life could be simplified...I wonder if it's right to simplify...

I mean, each of these things in and of themselves serve a great purpose. And I have enjoyed them for what they're worth. But my desire lately to simplify, to tighten my belt, grab my biscuits for the journey and run, is strong. I don't know if it's the words of Jesus just really convicting me or if I just like the things in my life to be compartmentalized and easy to handle...I'm not really sure it matters so much right now. I think what matters is faithfulness and obedience.

This is the kind of stuff that usually drives me nuts. I just want to know, and I want to know now...yep, that's me. I'm learning a lot about patience...waiting and enjoying God in the little places my stubborn mind and heart never thought he would want to occupy. He's making a fool of me, having me make these crazy choices amidst a world so centered on predictability and security.

Well, I figure I'm just going to be content being his fool, his child. It's not like my degree's getting me anywhere... ;)

so it's time to wait and enjoy the show...

a quick quote

Since I don't have a whole lot of time right now (getting married, working for the man, getting moshed by local kids...) I'm not going to leave a profound opinion or even a mindless rant...I'll just copy down a cool quote:

"Even in this new situation all the members of the community are given their special place; this is no longer the place, however, in which they can most successfully promote themselves, but the place where they can best carry out their service. In a Christian community, everything depends on whether each individual is an indispensible link in a chain. The chain is unbreakable only when even the smallest link holds tightly with the others. A community which permits itself members who do nothing will be destroyed by them. Thus it is a good idea that all members receive a definite task to perform for the community, so that they may know in times of doubt that they too are not useless and incapable of doing anything. Every Christian community must know that not only do the weak need the strong, but that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the community."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together