Glorying

I think the word for how I’m enjoying this place is “glorying”. When I hike, when I work, when I meet new people and when I wake up and look at the mountains (or fog! 😉 ) every morning, I glory in it. I guess “revel” would be another word. 🙂

I’ve met so many people, and am constantly amazed at how they love to talk and share and are so friendly. And there are people here from all over!

Plus there are Christians everywhere. 🙂 There’s two people that arrived the same day I did, that worked with ministries in the park and will be doing some kind of services here in June. There’s a guy from Philadelphia in the kitchen, who goes by “Philly” cause his real name is too long. He became a Christian after he got shot in a gang war in his home city. There’s a guy that drives the shuttle that was also involved in the ministries in the park. He whistles hymns as he drives. There’s another guy working in the kitchens. Yesterday I forgot my keys and went downstairs to the rec room, and after a few hellos he asked, “Are you a Christian?” He prayed for me – a girl came down while we were holding hands, ha ha. She was kinda freaked out. XD I love how God connects people, how the Holy Spirit instantly gives you something in common and how you can share about personal things in your life and pray for others. If they know Jesus, there is a connection that is weird to others and wonderful and hard to explain. 🙂 Love it!

I loved hiking and getting wet and feeling my body get stronger. I love working and cleaning and talking to people and pushing the mop and joking with my co-workers and having employees here know me and talk to me.

I love having spare minutes here and there – not enough to do something, but enough to sit and read Lewis or Miller or the Bible. I love it when my room’s empty, and playing worship music and singing and signing to it.

I love it all. I revel in it. I glory in it. I love living, but even more than that I love living with and for God. He gives me joy, and I am so thankful that He continually gives me life, life abundant and overflowing.

Thank you, my Lord.

Rediscover: Day 20ish – JOY! :)

WARNING: This post may ramble and not make sense. Continue reading at your own peril.

As you can tell from the title I’m in a very JOYish mood! 🙂 Well really I’m a generally joyous person. I like to describe myself as a balloon (filled with helium, thank you), I might get pulled down but I always bob back up. (I just randomly thought of Winnie the Pooh. I love Pooh. Okay Sarah, focus…)

And no I’m not ADD/ADHD or any of those letters, or on a sugar high, I’m just acting like it right now. 🙂

Nothing super spectacular happened today – I worked at my dad’s place, tutoring math to little kids. The tutors there love teasing me and talking to me. I enjoy being in the middle there – too old to be a pupil, really too young to be a tutor, yet there I am. I drove to work without shoes today, which was a very new experience that I found to be exciting and enjoyable once I got used to it. It also made me feel wonderfully Duvall-ish, even though I wasn’t driving a lifted truck splattered with mud.

I didn’t decide to go shoeless on a whimsy, though, I did it for TOMS Shoes,
an organization that sells shoes – and for every pair you buy they give  a

pair to kids that really need them. I’ve wanted to buy a pair of their shoes but just can’t justify the price… but today was TOMs annual “One Day Without Shoes”, and since I’ll seize any excuse to go barefoot (plus it’s for a good cause!!), I gladly participated.
<– There’s what their organization does. Because you were interested.

Then on the drive home, once I hit the gravel road where no one drives, I stopped and looked at the clouds. They were moving so fast from the wind it was like watching a time lapse movie… in real time. There’s something very awesome about watching clouds shift and move smoothly across the sky, almost like white, celestial tongues of fire. Forming, dissipating… very neat to watch.

So… why I am all JOYish? Well you see it’s because there’s Jesus, then Others, and then there’s You do do dooo… 🙂 I apologize to you readers. I will be much more solemn in the next post. Actually probably not, but compared to this post, yes.

Really why wouldn’t I be joyish? (By the way that’s not a word. So don’t use it where anyone would read it and laugh at you, e.g. a book, a school paper, a blog…) No matter what happens, life is in God’s hands. 🙂 And He’s good. He’s not a tame lion, but He is good.

Thanks for putting up with me. I applaud you – you have earned a Dove chocolate.

Rediscover: Day 18 – For but a moment…

I would give up my sight forever if I could look on Your face…

for but a moment

I would give up my hands forever if I could feel Your hand grasp mine…

for but a moment

I would give up my hearing forever if I could hear Your voice. Or Your laugh. Or Your singing…

for but a moment

If seeing Your pure glory means I must perish, I would do so willingly.

I would gladly never walk again if I could take one walk with You, in Your presence, as Adam and Eve did in the garden.

To live in darkness after seeing Your light would be unbearable – I would rather die and cease to exist than to bear the torment of separation from You.

I have felt Your joy.

I have felt Your love.

I have hungered for You and been satisfied.

I have been empty and been filled by You.

I have been broken by You.

I have been awed by You.

I have lived my life and will live the rest of my life with one hope, and one joy – that You live in me, and that one day I will live with You.

I can’t live without You, God. Thank You that before I knew there was a separation between us, You had filled it. Thank You that before I was aware that it was Your love that fills my emptiness, You had prepared the way to pour it into my heart. Thank You that when I fail, You are able.

Lord, You’re beautiful.