Wistfulations

Nothing particularly eventful to report for the weekend (or Friday really.) the most exciting experience was accidentally stumbling into a no-white people mall and finding myself having racial slurs hissed at me. Ironically, I tend to forget I’m white sometimes, so I looked around to see whom was being referred to, and then realized since I was the only white person in the bustling mall, it had to be me… The lengths I’ll go to in finding an Old Navy…


Church this morning was really good….for me personally anyway. Reminded of what a romantic God I serve… Felt prompted to re-read Hosea and Redeeming Love (Rivers’ fiction bk re-enacting Hosea’s story set in the 1950s)… I don’t think God’s ever prompted me to read a fiction book before. Then I “randomly” found it at the Barnes and Noble on my way home—happening to be about the only Christian fiction bk they had. Re-read Hosea and Redeeming Love this afternoon. One of those days you just can’t help but marvel at God’s patient faithfulness…

Pastor Mark was talking about how life with God always has a level of uncertainty about the future—not knowing exactly where God’s taking you… at the different stages of life. If uncertainty is supposed to be fun and exciting…and it can be…I’ve concluded life is more fun the younger you are. “Settled seasons” where you know or think you know the relationships, place, and ministry in general that God has called you to for the next ten years or more aren’t nearly as exciting as having no idea what you’ll be doing in a year or two…or at least no settled idea as far as knowing the relationships, ministry, and place for sure… Sounds crazy for a planner like me to decide that the uncertainty of the first decades of life is fun… But on the other hand, I have that psychotic side that is so afraid of having my future planned and in a box that I get paranoid that having a general idea is too boring…even if I have no idea the “who”s and little idea of the “where”s or other specifics…


As Third Day puts it on the album I’m currently listening to…

“I find myself just living for today cause I don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna bring… nothing compares to the greatness of knowing you Lord…”


The things you learn in church…

Did you know a group of vultures of called a “committee”?