Whoa!!!! Double Whoa!!!!
It's been a while since I've been here. It's like I want to write but then I shy away from doing so, always coming up with some excuse or the other for why I can't write. It's either the time is not right or the environment is not right or I think I have nothing worth writing about. But you know what... the reality is that I don't want to deal with the 1001 thoughts that are coursing through my mind so I'd rather keep busy with some mundane activity. So today I've purposed that I'm going to stop avoiding this blog and just write. So please take me as I am today, with all my thoughts all over the place. I don't think there's a theme here... just me letting it all out.
Did I ever tell you I love Hillsong? Yes I do! I love their songs.... Whooo!
Oh yea.... I just got back from a trip down to New Orleans. It was a missions trip organized by my church, and the youth went down there. It is still heart breaking to me that 4 years after the storm hit and the levees broke that the situation there is still like it happened yesterday. But then again didn't it happen yesterday? The lower ninth ward was the one hit the hardest. Where a house used to stand, all you find is the concrete slab it stood upon. Neighborhoods looking like forests with all the overgrown grasses and bushes. That part of the city screams desolation. Imagine children not being able to go to their school, families scattered across the country, unable to return home. What is our government doing about it?
Interesting how they rebuilt the downtown part of the city. Expensive shops were up and running, even Bourbon street was bustling with business as usual. This is where society's priority is: Entertainment and money. The lust of our eyes, the greed to keep possessing and never reaching enough. We turn our backs on the needy, we pass them on the street and come up with an excuse for why we can't help them at that moment. This trip challenged us to go deeper in our love for people. Get out there and visit a sick person, feed the homeless, look for someone to show Christ's love to. I hope we get around to doing these things... not for our selves so that we can feel better about ourselves, but in the name of Love. One thing is for sure: Greater things are still to be done in that city of New Orleans.
Another thought:
Have you ever been in what feels like a desert place in your walk with God? Like you could try everything you know and still feel distant to Him... and it seems like you begin to fall prey to little temptations that you thought you had overcome? Now my heart cries out... I want my life to be filled with Him. That rain will fall on this desert ground. That the fallow ground will be broken and that the desert place will sing. Then will breakthrough come! Hmmm..... I'm pondering....
But for now... I will glory in my Redeemer, and I will rejoice and be glad. Because I know He is keeping me around for a reason, to show me tender mercies every morning. Maybe in hopes that He will wooo my heart again!
