The Love of the world

I can't believe it's only been a week :)

Hmm...

My room is vaguely unpacked...clothes hung up, my random papers hung on the walls, lots of color!

I have walked...18? miles as I have traveled from the place I volunteer to home...and it all feels great!

I sang a Psalm (#100) as I walked home yesterday and memorized it...I'll be sure and do that again (Serve the Lord with gladness. Come into His Presence with singing)

I'm educating myself as to the predicament that drugs cause and why kids choose to drop out of school (Philippe Bourgois writes good stuff)

My make up was done by a six year old today :)

I played hide and seek with two sixth graders and walked home with my siblings. We talked about "sticky balls". (The berries on manzanita bushes are sticky on the outside before they're ripe...I never noticed that before!)

I got to talk with the moms of kindergarteners and see them delight in their kids...what a pleasure.

We all have a small part to play (and it's usually not that small, it only looks small to us) in the world as we go through our daily lives. Are you connecting with people? Are you showing love? When you leave a room, is there a sigh of relief that follows you (hopefully not!) or a sigh of hope? What do you bring when you walk into your world?

I want to bring Jesus. I pray on the way to school that I would be a peace bringer, a joy bringer, a wisdom bringer, a love bringer. All these are found in our precious Savior. When we walk in His Presence, abiding in Him, the world around us has to change.

Watch yourself. All of us will be judged by our actions. What are you showing the world today?

My God shows His miracles, His wonder working power, every day. I see it in m friend Matt's life who, after being in a car accident approximately 24 days ago, is now ready to move into a rehab center after what should have been a fatal accident.

Should have been...but it wasn't.

My God is good.

And there are people who never wake up from comas. And there are people, many people, who will go to bed hungry tonight.

My hope does not lie in this world. I am waiting on a new day...

But there are glimpses here of glory...and that, truly, is what I live for.

May I be a glimpse of Your Glory Lord, as I walk this earth.

Move in me/ Sing with me/ Delight in me/ Dance with me/ Love with me...