hey there!
glad you’re here with me today 🙂 all this week i’ve been trying to script out what i want to write about for this blog, and honestly? it’s been pretty dang difficult. there’s just a lot rattling around in my brain because God has been moving and teaching me so much already (what a problem i know). there have just been a lot of good nuggets! so rather than try and sift through that for one perfect narrative, i’m just going to write a little list instead. some stuff that i’ve been learning, some stuff i’ve started unpacking, and also just some stuff i’m grateful for.
in no particular order:
* breathing in deeply and being met with His breath of life.
* celebrating dear friends.
* leaving campus in a week to do hurricane relief ministry in louisiana!
* the bible is God’s love story with us! yay for reconciliation friends!!
* God isn’t a God of formula.
* settling in here, and realizing that that doesn’t translate to a state of comfort in a physical or spiritual sense.
* miracles are a norm in the kingdom.
* our squad mentor kate! she’s just speaks so much truth and always has really cool shoes.
* rain back home in oregon.
* my team! team manna!
* we are not jurors, but witnesses.
* holy spirit is active and alive in me. and speaks in and through me.
* understanding the concept that the word “the” can carry its own weight, and meaning when attached to stuff (ex: the holy spirit, the church)
* got to plan our church this week with my team, and it was SO sweet to see God lifting us higher as one body.
* storytelling can have structure. it can also be kinda messy.
* with every breath He composes a symphony.
sweet Abba has just been putting it on my heart that i don’t have to have all the words and wisdom in perfect alignment (ex: that not very orderly list i just wrote out for you). He enriches me (1 corinthians:5) fully, and completely. cause that’s just who He is. holy moly guys! what a gift!
“For Christ did not send me to baptize , but to preach the gospel — not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.” (1 corinthians:17)
Jesus kinda (completely) speaks for himself y’all. the love He offers us on the daily holds its own without my interference. it’s simply a gift that He invites us into relationship and partnership with Him. and y’all that is an identity and embrace i am running, and jumping and leaping into.
with love, erika <3
