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.

beauty in the breakdown

This isn’t a Christian song.  Far from it.  But the message is cool.  I have definitely felt the God of the universe whisper this to me in the past few months.

 so let go, jump in
oh well, whatcha waiting for
it’s alright
’cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
so let go, just get in
oh, it’s so amazing here
it’s alright
’cause there’s beauty in the breakdown

such boundless pleasure
we’ve no time for later now
you can’t await your own arrival
you’ve 20 seconds to comply

The message is continual, gentle, persistent.  He uses all means possible to convey the message…even Frou Frou lyrics.  The Most High God, creator of all things cares about my heart.  Now that is crazy.  CRAZY.  He cares about yours too.  I’m not just pulling this out of thin air.  I have tasted and seen the goodness of the Lord while I am in the land of the living. But don’t take my word for it:

Let go…see the beauty in the breakdown. (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)

Amen.

I read this while I was blog surfing today:

my mid twenties can be summed up in one breathe as this; You’ve become an adult and its really nothing like you imagined.

Amen and amen.  That’s all I can say….just substitute the word “early” for “mid” in front of twenties, and that’s me in a nutshell these days.  But it is good, oh so good.

 I’m kicking-off my internship with Campus Crusade this weekend and the appropriately named “kick off weekend” in Orange County.  Here’s to long car rides with friends, putting off homework til Monday morning and learning all about support raising.  Pray for me if you think of it.  That’s all…I’m late to my French conversation class.