My Lamentations

"...When laughter first manifests itself in the infant, it is an incipient cry...What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?" -Soren Kierkegaard

At the Cross roads

The oppurtunity of a lifetime awaits me.  See, I need an internship in order to graduate college this May and I am being guided by our Career Center to seek my intership at the YMCA of the Rockies this summer.  The main position I would apply for is the Chaplain's assistant.  I would work to meet the spiritual needs of all the staff during the summer as well as other wonderful activites that would be useful for my major, Philosophy and Religion.  I am really exictied to apply for this as I have never forgotten Colorado's mountains after spending a week there just over a year ago.  To tell you the truth I have been anxiously awaiting my next oppurtunity to go back.  And to think, here is my chance to do so for at least a summer with all necessary expenses paid!  The only thing I'm worried about is whether or not it is God's will.  You see I am so exictied I believe I would be heart broken if God decided to not let me go.  So, I am praying for the grace to know his will and follow it.  Is there a time in your life now where you are faced with the same circumstance?  If so let me know so I can pray for you to!  Well, the battery is about to die so I'd better go.  Good night and God bless.

posted by: theweeper at October 26, 2007 22:44 | link | comments |

Running away

Remember when you were a child and your parents angered you enough for you to decided to make them pay by leaving?  It is funny how parents know that you will change your mind, so some don't even bother to try to stop you.  I remember that day.  I don't even think I managed to pack my bags.  You know what is funny about these memories?  That while we can't seem to bring ourselves to run away from home as a child, we seem to easily be able to run away from God even after we are His children.  Maybe it is becuase it doesn't take too much to really run away from him. All it takes is a consistent attitude towards commiting even the simplist of sins will cause you to start to stray from God's path.  Sometimes we don't even realize how far we have strayed while other times we know exactly what we are doing.  The coolest thing about this is that just like your parents took you back when you were a small child, God take you back no matter what and he does so unconditionally.  Just like the parable about the prodical son and how he left with all his inheretance, wasting it on things that his father would have not approved of.  Then, after he came to his senses, he returned to his father to beg to even be a servant.  And yet his father welcomed him back as if his son was dead and celebrated him despite all he had done.  There are so many people running away from home these days.  Yet there are more running away from God.  God will take you back, and if you have never come to him he will take you no matter what your past.  May God's grace shine upon you and bring you the peace, hope, love, and everything else you find yourself needing in this life.  Today is the day to find your home again, whether you have been there before or not.  And the great thing is, home comes to you.

theweeper

posted by: theweeper at October 06, 2007 23:13 | link | comments |