with...
lead me to wash sandals in here...
but get stuck in this...
and somehow lead to this...
...which is far less enjoyable.
In other news, Friends University found my transcript. So that means that I'm now under the one week mark for my 9am interview in Kansas City.
I just watched the movie Gandhi, which I hadn't seen since high school.
Throughout the movie, I kept remembering one of his quotes that particularly struck me. "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
I wonder, are most Christians still viewed this way? If you are a Christian, are you viewed as being like Christ?
In this season of Lent, perhaps through sacrifice, we will not only deny ourselves only as a ritualistic commitment, but through it, learn to be dependent on Christ more and more.
What if this self-denial was truly for God and not for ourselves? What if all Christians fasted from the material desires of this world - shelter, comfort, food, success - as Christ did and worked with all our hearts to see change.
As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you GO and PROCLAIM the kingdom of God." Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family." Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."
It seems like, whether consciously or not, I seem to have the "first let me..." or "but first..." attitude.
Though this repetitious thought wars against me, the Lord still reminds me...
if you tarry till you're better
you will never come at all
i like.
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