So I’m in Canada right now Vancouver B.C. to be specific. A location for one of the first legal injection sites in North America. Vancouver is in the middle of a pretty big drug crisis. I heard about this probably a year and a half ago. I know the first thought that entered my mind was “Thats dumb so now we are just enabling them to get high.” I would always avoid Hastings street downtown like the plague. Knowing that if I walked down there I would encounter only drug addicted people and possibly get mugged. As I grow my relationship with Christ I realize that perhaps legal injections are a beginning to showing that these people are recognized as people that are dying mostly of disease and not the drugs. My next question was Ok so where is the Church in this? A quick google search answered that. A large community of churches have partnered in with the government to provide rehabilitation to many of the addicts that go through the injection clinics. There is one Church in the heart of it all. The Street Church.

Anyway, my point is. Don’t let your discomfort and stereotypes stop you from seeing the truth of the matter. And the fact that Jesus wants to be in every part of it.

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You will not see any posting here til next year. There is a romance that requires my full attention.

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Throw Rugs are quite exciting pieces of well I’ll say furniture. Especially in the local wal-mart where they make excellent bow staffs. I didn’t want to disappoint my devoted readers, all 3 of them, bless their hearts. So here is a quick post and update. I am getting steam rolled again. God is showing me what it truly means to live out loud and with out concern for myself. Jesus Christ is transforming my heart, my mind and my words. He is making me truthful and honest. The problem with truthful and honest is that you are also being truthful and honest about your shortcomings. That is new for me, I always thought it so important to put up a front that said I knew it all, I had the answers. The truth is that you don’t grow when you act like that, becoming Truth Centric is so important.

I am discovering that I have a ways to come in the area of communication. Wether it be written or spoken I want to grow so that I would be able to convey my thoughts and feelings more accurately.

Ok well there is my quick post, more to come. Keep me in your prayers as big things new things are coming.

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I am home sick today. My chronic-sinusitis has come back to haunt me. It’s not all bad. I now have a great opportunity to catch up on some reading. I started “Through Gates of Splendor” an amazing book about a group of missionaries’ goal to reach a homicidal indian tribe for Christ. Some tragic events encompass this mission, but you’ll have to read it to find out. (There is a movie coming out in January.) Any way, If you haven’t noticed it already. God has given me a passion for my home church. There is a quote from this book that is both encouraging and discouraging.

“… meeting a culture with truth from God is the most difficult kind of thing. One comes as a renovator, a conditioner of society, and society is in no mood to be conditioned. The fixedness of the human mind is the ‘wall of Jericho’ to Gospel preaching. God must shake, or there will be no shaking.” (Elliot 20)

I am excited to be apart of this ministry, to a culture already locked into its ideals. I know that any change seen will be because of the grace and power of God. Prayer will be one of the most readily used weapons to break the walls down. I know it has been said that my church is not a praying church. Not because of any doctrine or rule but because I don’t think we have yet realized the power of prayer. We are still young, I am still young. I want God to use me in the ministry that he has set apart for me. I don’t know what that is yet. As my foundation grows I will be more and more capable of hearing what God has in store. Its been a long time but I have a smile on my face, a real smile.

I have been depressed for a while now, a few of my friends were talking about how Satan tries as hard as he can to veil our eyes to the truth of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I wanted to tell them that was exactly how I felt, That I couldn’t see the truth for what it really was, and that I needed prayer. Why are we so scared to tell each other where we are with our walk with God? I know for me it was the fear of being judged. True friends are a rare find.

Anyway, I guess I have kind of spilled my guts in this entry. I hope you all are finding peace wherever you are with you walk with God.

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Setting up the Christmas tree has always been somewhat a spiritual thing in my parents house. We talk about the things of the past and how they have changed our lives. Today I took the time to pray for the things of the future. As we hung ornaments I prayed that one day I would be doing the same with a family of my own and that family would be surrounded by the love of a most holy father. I prayed that this Christmas I could be a light to my extended family. God is already answering so many prayers in that area, ask me about it I would love to tell you.

I played a new song on the piano yesterday. I made an effort to vary the patterns I had become so accustomed to playing. It reminded me how mundane life can be when when its comfortable. I was making an effort to grow my artistic talent which meant that half of what I improvised sounded like junk. Then you hear the chords begin to complete themselves. The progression builds and soon you hear a style that no one has quite yet heard. As such moving to uncomfortable situations allows me to learn and build and grow. Then maybe Jesus will say, “You are someone no one has ever seen before.”

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