Tuesday, August 31, 2010

last sunday at the Garden

Well, it finally happened... after all the talking and wondering and praying and asking, we were released this Sunday into the Lord's will.  Call it a step of faith, call it obedience, we call it exciting!
The Lord has been preparing our hearts for over a year for this, and now the time has come.  It has really been strong on or hearts to be the church, instead of go there; to do what we do because the Bible says to, not because its what someone says we're supposed to; and to actually believe what Jesus said enough to try and live that way.  
So, we'll see what happens! 

Thursday, August 26, 2010

growing desire

To this day, I can't say when or where it started, but there was a desire/yearning planted in us that started to grow.  Not the kind of growth that is tame and manageable, but the kind that is semi-invasive, like the kind that has its own ideas about what areas are appropriate and/or sacred... oh yeah, and does not ask permission first! 
This inconvenient and, frankly, impolite growing desire/yearning started to wreak havoc on the relative comfort we enjoyed.  This desire and yearning for an authentic life lived before God introduced us to a new lifestyle that we are still learning/struggling to embrace: no compromise.
Our ideas of family size (what does God say about children?), possessions/wealth (what does Jesus say about money?), church (why do we do what we do?), the kingdom of God (what kingdom are we living in/for?)... the answers these and many other inconvenient but profoundly life altering questions have proceeded to transform us from being conformed to the world to being very different.  Yes, and to a lot of people, quite strange in fact. 
But we are beginning to feel like, life shouldn’t look “normal” in the normal sense of the word, in fact, there is something inherently “abnormal” about a life lived as a sacrifice.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Hey, I'm testing out my mobile phone posting! Cross my fingers

Thursday, August 19, 2010

What’s Different

The Lord has been doing so much in our hearts over the last few years! It seems like almost systematically… no, more like infectiously, every area of our life has been called into question by our Lord, and after much reflection, deliberation and eventual conviction we’ve been further submitting our lives to the Lord one area at a time. What at one time we would have considered to be radical, unnecessary, or just plain weird; we now embrace as an act of obedience to the Lord as followers of Christ.



You see, not too long ago, we were a couple who loved the Lord, loved each other, and were happy er, blessed to be starting our family and on top of all that we got to be involved in ministry, leading worship and being on staff at our church. What could be better than that? While we were content living such a (I hesitate to say) comfortable life, the Lord was not! He had and still has so much more for our family.