where do we go from here?

Hey

So this is my first official post from wordpress. And just as a sidenote, I do agree with py, the double spacing is kind of mad annoying because it takes up a lot of room and what not but it’s alright.

Today my mom talked to me at dinner about my plans for the summer and although it was casual I could catch the hints of “don’t spend too much time at church”. And I get where she’s coming from. My sister told me to widen my horizons and I get that. And it’s still possible to serve God anywhere not matter where I am for the summer. Haha I can serve God without knowing the 2nd law of thermodynamics =)

I think I really felt called to go on a missions trip this year. Somewhere where it’ll break everything I know. Somewhere different and away from home and away from comfort and away from all the temptations of being lazy. Just me, God, His word, and His work to be done. And I guess Manitoba was what I had in mind. For a while now. I don’t know how much it’ll be or what time it is. But I want to go. But it needs prayer. Alot of it. Because right now. It’s I want to go. And that might be completely different from where God wants me to go. But it’s something that’s been on my mind for a while and I know it’ll take a relative chunk out of my summer because of the training and the trip itself.
There’s the notion of a job. And I’m not sure if that’s where I belong. Like I love doing stuff and all and I don’t mind working but I don’t want to be consumed by work to the point where I can’t effectively spend time with cell group and family and friends. Because I’ve seen that happen and sometimes when I try to plan stuff, some people can never make it because of work.

I guess when it comes down the core of it all, it’s definitely something I need to lift to God. There’s some many things that I could do. But maybe it’s not what I’m meant to do. So for now it’s up in the air and in prayer. Until after exams, that’s when I’ll sit down and begin planning. and by planning i mean sitting and praying and reading Acts. =)

Yesterday we all spent some time together and I love seeing them on Wednesdays but I feel like it hasn’t been really….God filled. you know what I mean? It’s always consumed by side conversations and I watch the time and I hope we can get everything done by like 8:45 but it never appears that it gets that and maybe for once we should just go into the prayer room. And leave the distractions and computers and just sit and pray because that’s essentially the whole purpose of meeting up anyways.

Fellowship tomorrow. Drifting Wood. Accountability with C. Excited =)

p.requests:
- not worrying about the exams that are coming and to just focus on God, family and keeping up with friends
- not to become busy to the point of losing focus. my focus is God. that’s it. and that’s all it’ll ever need to be.

thanks
-Chris