wishing well

10.22.08



sorry it's been so long :) i was writing more when i didn't have the internet....haha. so, this past weekend, i hosted my first group! they were from the LA area, and a college group, so that was fantastic. hopefully i've made some friends :) my first prayer tour went well...for me, it's the most intense 2 hours of the weekend, but i love it. i've already said before, that the Lord shows me something new each time i go on it/give it. this time, we were driving through skid row and on the street corner, there were 5 men all gathered around djembe drums, and a couple trash cans just jammin. i think in that moment, the Lord really spoke to me through those men about making the best....and that joy is not about your position i.e. what you do, where you are, the outside things that are effecting you...but about the condition of your heart; who you are, and the way that you react to those outside sources.

so often, we as humans place our worth and our source of happiness on what we're doing and the success that we're having or not having. but what's it really about? maybe if we come to know who we are and are allowing the Lord and his people to change our hearts, then naturally what we do will be an outpouring of our hearts. a couple months before i left my job at Friends, i was basically miserable. really confused as to what my purpose was, because i knew that my heart was longing for something more. but one of my mentors told me that he thought i might need to try to start asking the Lord for ways to have purpose at work. to share my heart for loving people in that place. so that's what i did....i just kept asking God to give me a reason to go to work....and ya know, when this opportunity in LA presented itself, though i didn't really hesitate to say yes, it was still really hard to leave. because the Lord had shown me how to make the best of it. i tried really hard to pour into my co-workers and especially my student workers. though some days were better than others, i tried....and He has made me better for it. i mean, not for the things that i've done, but for the way that He changed my heart, changed my outlook and ultimately the condition of my heart.

anyway....we went hiking this weekend too. this lovely little trail that led to a uhhh "waterfall" that's mostly dried up at this point in the season. but a few of the guys and i went up a little further on the trail and saw the most spectacular view! all around us were green, lush mountains...to the left we could see Los Angeles and to the right was the ocean...big and blue and full of God...and through the clouds was Catalina Island. way cool.


sooooooooo all this rambling to say, be encouraged my sweet brothers and sisters :) find a way to live out something that you're passionate about wherever you are. check out the view and take a djembe to work :)