...one of those things is the number of people who just updated their twitter and they have all the birds chirping 'me, me, me, me'(35 seconds)...a nice quick social commentary that i got the drift on...of course, i think blogging, since its not an everyday thing for me anyway, is different then opening my mobile facebook on my phone just so i can type about how Evgeni Malkin is frustrating me at his timidness (third paragraph...i clicked here for the image, and the paragraph fit) and how Alexander Ovechkin's bad helmet club face (i miss ya dad) keeps appearing on my screen...
anyway, wanted to share a few things, this whole new start process is tough...we never know who's going to come to whatever we do, we never know who is going to follow through on meeting us for dinner, coffee, movie, or a non-alcoholic beer at a bar...well, i drink the NAs...its forever frustrating, i met with another guy who is going through the same process here and is experiencing the same frustrations. both of us desperately are praying for me workers, we are praying for people who love God and desire to love people, Lord, hear our prayer...
...well, we've started having BBQs on Sundays and invite our entire phonebook/facebook/email contacts who live close, we've actually had a really good turnout, and have begun to see things take shape we desire to see happen. we really desire to have those we've connected with, begin to connect with each other, we desire to see community be built...and daggone its happening, albeit at what feels like a snails pace, but its happening. we are looking for get our garage finished so that we can have a larger meeting space for those wonderfully wet Portland nights...
...i believe God is faithful, i believe i need to be more faithful...i've begun to ask myself if my ability to see God's faithfulness is directly related to my ability to be faithful, these BBQs continue to be a product of prayer and pro-activeness, while some of our other things; that we desire but haven't earnestly, that i havent earnestly, EARNESTLY prayed for haven't come to fruition...
anyway, a whole lot of ranting about this, that and a whole lot of nothing :). check out my facebook photo section for pics of the BBQs...hopefully we'll continue to remember to take the pictures...
...may Your Kingdom come...
1 comments:
Nick, I appreciate when you write about your work. It helps me remember how to pray for you. God is faithful. He seems to like to work at a snail pace, sometimes. But you only get to see bits and pieces of the outward workings in these people's lives. Surely inside of them, God is building, healing, restoring, saving, rescuing, growing: line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. Be faithful to him. Love him the most. Rest in him, rejoice in him, trust him. Have faith. Have hope. Have love. He knows exactly what he is doing.
We're praying for you guys!
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