Joy: The Lord has been preparing my heart in a truly beautiful way... for freedom, for challenge, for selflessness, and for the adventure bound to be pregnant with emotion lying ahead. I've spent the past three days reflecting and digging up roots, discovering that i've lived the past several months of my life with a blind selfishness, confusion, and oppression and i'm filled with this innate joy and gratitude for various circumstances, words of encouragement, and clarity in my life. I'm thankful for His faithfulness to walk through the valley as I approach the hill with the very light Himself. I'm enamored by the idea that with every passing season, i'm being conditioned to better understand the ways that Truth interacts and merges with my life... I haven't failed and I won't ever fail. I am a child of the living God, breathing and breaking love into and over my life. I'm an imperfect, growing, and learning human being that is capable of love, capable of effecting, capable of inspiring, capable of things far greater than myself. We all are. I am only to continue this journey of learning and pursuing love... not a selfish, stubborn, immature love but an engaging, forgiving, revealing love that mandates attention and pure sincerity without agenda. nothing more. nothing less. To those I will find myself in community with at any given time: I am committed to you and your well being. :Joy
Here are some photos from the past week:
Woodmen Hall on friday night. community, good acoustic, and coffee.
kristen is, by far, one of the most consistent women i know.
a good friend, Abby, and I drove 2.3 hours to Status, my home community, on sunday night. (whatsyourstatus.com) Dana (above) will be leaving for India in 3 weeks.
she's a beauty.