in love.

As promised, I want to let you know I see the Lord moving.  Sometimes that’s just in my own life.  While I was praying today, I reflected on God’s unfailingly strong love. Here are a few of my thoughts as I approached the throne of grace:

I remember that feeling of being in love, the feeling that no mundane task could cloud my disposition because there was a hope of love.  A hope of something bigger than the monotony of daily living.  A hope that couldn’t be thwarted because somewhere there was someone who loved me, who romanced me both in and out of his presence.  And I loved him too.  It’s pretty miraculous, when you thing about the way that two beings intermingle in the mutual affection of romance.  If human love, broken and immature, can be this amazing–I can’t even imagine what the love of God is like.  Let me be moved and lifted up by your love. Teach me how to love you, how to let my innermost being intermingle with yours in the mysterious light of the most intimate of loves.  Teach me to dance with you.

Once upon a time, when I experienced human romance, life had this vibrant color to it that I haven’t experience before or since. What if the divine romance is grander, deeper, filled with life and color that we can’t even imagine?

Human romance, who needs it?  Divine romance–let me know that love.

hello blog.

Hello electronic audience.  Its been quite a while since I’ve taken the time to jot down my thoughts.  There are several reasons for this.  First, I have been busy.  Two summer jobs plus support raising didn’t leave me with tons of leisure time, and the support process really just took a lot of energy from me.  By the end of the day, I just didn’t have much left to say.  Secondly, let’s be honest:  It was summer and not a lot was going on in my life.  Nothing worthy of blogging, anyway.  Thirdly, I saw the movie “Julie and Julia” at the beginning of August, and the perspective on blogging presented in the movie was convicting.  Julie’s sweet husband proclaims that blogging is fulfilling because its “all you all the time.”  Wow.  I felt narcissistic  for even having my own piece of the cyber universe here on wordpress.  Take all of these factors combined, and you get an empty blog.

But change is in the air.  Its WOW (week of welcome) here at Cal Poly, which means the air is abuzz with pre-fall excitement and the streets are filled with wide-eyed and (sometimes) inebriated freshman.  What a place.  I love it.  I also love that I have spent the last week with our SLO Crusade staff team planning awesome ways to reach every single student with the love of Jesus.  For the record, I love my job.

There have been several opportunities for me to write.  A few of the things I’ve wanted to write about were: Don Miller’s perspective on singleness, awkward phone conversations that happened while support raising, and all of the tiny miracles that make summer wonderful.  But I’ll do my best to keep you (my friends, family & support team) updated from here on out.  No guarantees on frequency of posts, but I am so very excited to share with you about how this life is unfolding.