It's Been A Long Time...

[bebejardin]

I had no idea that working full time, interning and actng would prohibit me from updating my journal regularly. It's been a long time, my last messages being fairly negative and I want to do a better job at journaling when great things happen, as well as when not so great things happen. I tend to only write about the latter, which isn't bringing glory to God and what He's doing in my life. He is doing so much and I'm excited about the spiritual growth taking place in my life. I truly have a lot of peace in my life, and God has forced me to trust in Him more than I ever have before. I also started a women's ministry at my chruch, and have become quite close to a few young women that I never thought I would get to know. God is also revealing to me what His will is for me in my life, and that's probably the most exciting part of all this. Speaking of which, i'm working as the Interfaith Outreach Coordinator for Amnesty International and it's allowing me to work with religious communities in more progressive work in their communities as well as internationally. Right now i'm working with death penalty issues, but after seeing "An Inconvienent Truth", Al Gore's new film about global warming, I don't understand why American Christians aren't up in arms about the way the planet is being treated. Why is it that religious communities in the US can only focus on hate, intolerance, money, and war as issues to be concerened about. Why are these communities ignoring the spritual battles with the death penalty, toture, AIDS crisis and the decay of the planet??? Working with Amnesty is allowing me to be more sensitive to what power religious communities have and how to use that power for good rather than evil. Well maybe not evil, but just things like abortion and gay marriage which aren't issues that will severly impact the future of humanity. I could say so much about the religious right and how it's defrauding americans of using their religion for important progressive issues.

Speaking of Amnesty work, I actual need to finish some up. Maybe i'll update later, there is so much more going on that I wanna talk about as well :)