Dear Family,
My family is now arriving in Boston and I am so stoked! I get to hug them, if there is anything I want most right now is to hug them. I cant wait to enjoy their presence, enjoy talking with them and laughing with them. Hear their voice in the same room and not over a phone. Awe I am excited to be with them!
I am working on a wall as an art piece, hopefully it works out fine. I am painting and there is dimensions I am painting and at the moment it looks flat. Oh how I need to go to art school....
Today I was climbing up a latter and on the last step up I hit my knee. It was so painful! Now I am walking with a bruise on my knee. Hopefully I will be able to run still.
These last few days have been hard and I have been getting a lot of encouragements from my friends. They have been telling me to be confident in myself and not to back down from whom God has made me to be.
Yesterday I went to the beach and sat in Gods presence for a few hours, just chatting, asking Him my questions, listening to his response. There is some hurt in my heart that is being healed at the moment by Gods hand. He is kind to be walking through these hurts with me. I know that I will love even more while and after these hurts are healed.
If you are wondering about Hilary and I, well I did break up with her. It wasn't working out. She is amazing. I care for her as a friend and that is all I can give at the moment.
I have been thinking about identity a lot recently, without a official home, without a title at work, without being in the "in" crowd at Boston, I kinda have been realizing I identify myself with all these things or have a desire to have an identity in these thing. I have been asking myself again "What does it mean to have an identity in Christ again?", I have been receiving words from the Lord and actions for daily living. I am realizing (nothing deep) servant hood is a piece of me and a big piece of what Jesus calls me to be. I also have been realizing I need to enjoy the person that is right in front of me rather then thinking "oh I need to be here" or "I wish I could go there", or "I wish I was with someone else". (You see my selfishness, repentance is coming!) God is correcting my thinking, my emotions. Why should I try to be with someone or a group of people who don't want me around or don't connect with me.
A transformation is happening in the mind and its a really good one.
I had received prayer for my mentality over the last week with some friends that I trust really hear from God. One friend of mine is Helen Lee (whom leads that prayer ministry at Cornerstone) she prayed for me and my head was becoming placid in thought, my atmosphere was changing, the tension in my body was released and I could feel freedom again as if I were a child again. It was so sweet, lovely and I thought about turning my heart from the freedom but I knew this is what God wanted for me so I tried to embrace it even more in my heart. The rest of the day I sat at the beach with Jesus.
I am reading Jurassic Park and ITS AMAZING! I am loving every page of it!
Thank you for your prayers, they mean a lot. I know that God is hearing your prayers because submitting, humbling myself, hearing His voice, loving others in the mist of craziness has been accomplished easier then before. Thank you for your prayers. I am praying for many of you.
Please love each other, care for one another, take care of the poor as much as possible, keep doing good!
jordan, its so good to read your thoughts.
ReplyDeletemiss you and love you.
kirstie