Wednesday, September 28, 2005

the working world

So, I started my first day of work at Mustang Graphics “counting out” Cal Poly magazines and strapping them for delivery all over campus. It has left me exhausted. But tonight, Campus Crusade really challenged me by asking, “Are you passionately pursuing and wholeheartedly following Christ?” So many times I want the answer to be an unwavering yes but the fact of the matter is I rarely do. It is so easy to put up this façade that my life is all dandy, but the reality is I mess up so much that it seems grace cannot cover the distance. But thankfully it does and encourages me to try again.
One day as Jesus was walking along the shore beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers- Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew- fishing with a net, for they were commercial fishermen. Jesus called out to them, “Come be my disciples, and I will show you how to fish for people!” And they left their nets at once and went with him. A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, mending their nets. And he called them to come, too. They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.
Matthew 4:18-22

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

the beginning

I am starting this as a place to organize the significant and insignificant happenings in my life that either draw me closer to or pull me away from my Heavenly Father. A place for quotes, verses, thoughts, and random stories. So to begin this as a blessing, I want to share a verse that speaks to me as a special gift from God.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39