Erika has been begging me to post more, so I decided to bow to her wishes. First, I'd like to wish her a happy birthday again. Erika, you have finally caught up!!!!!!! And it was fun meeting you Lauren even though, apparantly I've already met you. That is so weird. I'm used to it though. If you play in a band and travel all over the place, all kinds of people know you, but you don't know them because it is hard to remember them all.
Don't you love epiphanies? It is awesome when you are just reading something or thinking something, and then every thing is clear. That's what happened last night when I was reading Chronicles 29:1-9. It was really weird because it was this chapter that was talking about some dude that was gathering gold and silver etc. to build a temple for God. It would be sort of a boring passage had I not been looking really hard for something that meant something to me. I read the whole passage and discovered that, to me, it wasn't talking about worldly materials, but it was talking about the characteristics of a servant to God. They are things that I really struggle with like having the courage to witness to someone or the faith that God will let me say the right thing. It was a passage that gave me so much hope because is said that even though the task was going to be great, I had already been provided the things that I would need to accomplish it. I knew then that this courage that I thought I didn't have was really there and I pretty much just had to use it! It made me so happy when at the end it said that when called, many people willingly pitched in to help get the temple built. To me that meant that if I go out and use my courage to witness to other people, many people will come to the Lord, and in turn, witness to others. The "project" will get done much faster if more than one person is working on it.
