Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Build Your Kingdom Here






































Somehow, in between all the moments spent reading Isaiah 43, and screaming during Bible rally, and walking to the meal cabin; somehow, between the moments that I sat perched behind the front desk, and the moments I sat at my picnic bench, reading and writing letters; between all the times I practiced music for worship, and during the times of joy and desperation when I cried out to the Lord my God; yes, even in the moments I spent on many fruitful and abundant trips to Dunkin Donuts, somehow, the summer still managed to slip away.

In ten days I will watch the last of the summer sun fade from the horizon as I drive off campus in my car and into the rest of my life. It is bittersweet ~ I am both painfully sentimental and intensely relieved for all of this to be over. Maybe that is because I only have three weeks in between the time camp ends and when my year at the Bible Institute begins.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~ Dumbledore

I am not dying, but somehow I feel like the above quote applies. Especially since I finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone a few days ago. I am on the cusp of my next great adventure, and even though I still have ten days and three weeks separating me from my first year of Bible college, that doesn't mean I have to wait til then to truly live. The next great adventure comes in every moment spent seeking God and His truth. Even in the mundane, I am alive, and I am free.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. ~ John 10:10

Bring it on.

1 comment:

  1. Hehe I noticed that Label... ;)

    "The next great adventure comes in every moment spent seeking God and His truth. Even in the mundane, I am alive, and I am free." Ooh, yes! I've been thinking a lot about that lately...how with God- nothing is *really* mundane. C.S.Lewis hits on that theme in his book "The Great Divorce" where one of his points is that once we accept Christ as our Savior, life can only get better and better! It doesn't always look better from a human perspective, but with God by our side, how could it not be automatically better?
    It's really something to think on. =)

    As always, I love your posts. =)

    ~Jenny

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