Lovin’ Life

 

At the Bean in Chicago

If I’ve used this title Already, I’m sorry. It just happens to be a true statement… a lot. How can it not be? This life is such an awesome journey with our creator! I just got back from a 3 day trip to Chicago, for the wedding of some close friends. It was awesome… and I don’t normally even like weddings, haha! Good coffee, time with friends… 10 mile hikes through the city… lunch 95 floors up in the Hancock building… techno-dance-parties after the wedding… good times

Now in PA for a week, before heading to South America to work with underage prostitutes, street kids, and generally just people who need to know the love of their Extravagant Father. I’ll be going with a friend from Bethel Church, and a few others. I’ll share more details when I return, but think it best to keep it quiet until then. I don’t know why, but I always seem to come more alive when in a trash dump, with a few dirty hungry kids, than I do in most churches. I feel the presence and excitement of God in those places more than just about anywhere else I go. Things are so simple there, and there is only 1 rule: LOVE. Nothing fake, no pretense, no agenda, no 3-songs-and-a-45-minute-sermon-then-cake-and-coffee-church-service. Just people, Jesus, Smiles, and LOVE.

Whenever I’m there, I feel like a different person. Yes, it is more than possible to love in that way here in America. Of course. I’m simply saying that this is what happens in me in those places. I’ve never been really at home here, like I was growing up in Haiti, or while visiting Mozambique, South Africa, Thailand… I’ll Stop for now… much more to follow. Please keep me in your prayers. I’ve never read Rob Bell’s book, but I feel like the title is going to perfectly fit this trip: “Love Wins”

A couple of last thoughts… I was talking to a good friend while I was in Chicago, about the things God was doing in his life, and as time went on, he said that “On judgment day, we will have to give an account for our sins.” If you believe this, I have one question… If God “No longer remembers our sin” (2 Corinthians 5:19, Hebrews 8:12, Isaiah 43:25, Jeremiah 31:34, Hebrews 10:17), then how exactly will we be judged for them? BELIEVERS WILL NOT BE JUDGED FOR THEIR SIN. So what WILL judgment day for the believer look like? I have a few thoughts… but I’d rather hear yours