"kevin, your teacher wants you to learn how to write the date and year on your paper. What is today's date?"
"Easter."
"No, Kevin thats a holiday and that was yesterday....what DATE is it? Like numbers?"
"Easter."
"Sigh... okay, nevermind. What year is it?"
"Easter."
"........ no.... Kevin the year!! year as in 20_ what? You say the missing numbers!"
"20_EASTER!!!. *sheepish grin on his face*"
"okay, Kevin you win. You can write Easter on your paper"
Now, I'm still questioning whether he really loves Easter or he was just messing with my mind. I think it's a little bit of both. Anyways, this story really has no correlation to what I want to write about, it just makes me smile when I think about it. Oh, except there is a slight connection because of something that someone said during our Easter Love Feast that I would like to really open this blog with.
Easter Day, Love Feast #2, lots and lots of artery-clogging foods. During our testimonial time, one of the brothers mentioned how yes, one prayer can change things, but if you really look at Christianity and people in the bible, it really comes down to praying many, many, many prayers. In other words, persevering in prayer and continual obedience. That really hit me because it's so damn true. Moses didn't even get to go into the Promiseland, yet it wasn't the end result that kept Him going, it was the love He had for His father. He wasn't result-oriented, but express-oriendted. He wanted to express the love of God in his entire life, no matter the end goal or prize.
What a humbling thought. I guess you can call it the season I'm in, or rather the things that life is hitting me with, I am definitely at my peak of endurance. Man.... God make me someone like Moses! Or Paul. Or John. Or any of those people that loved you who were really faced with trials and persecutions.
I just have to add a song in this blog bc...... thats just how I relate to things, but listen up folks. I'm still sad to this day that this band broke up, but I shall honor their memory by recognizing one of their greatest songs (in my opinion.. probably cause its had a great impact..)
The Format- Snails
" Snails see the benefits, the beauty in every inch." This one line alone is so beautiful. Rather than being negative and seeing the slowness of snails as a disadvantage, the format has turned the negative into a positive. Snails were created to be slow, but rather it being a hindrance, they are the ones being rewarded. They are the lucky ones, for they were created to enjoy the beauty in their surroundings.
Too deep for interpretation?? NO! this is so encouraging for me. I need to learn to be in God's presence right now. To enjoy the enormous amounts of blessings I have, rather than complain in crappy things of life. Persevere and endure! Endure because God is doing amazing things in my life right now. The beauty in every inch! man... what a beautiful line, I can't get over it.
Dear God, make me like a snail, so I can slither slowly away. haha =)
this is so disgusting. HAHAH