Hi my friends! This is the second blog I posted today, and if you haven’t read my first blog, do it! For the rest of my time abroad I’ll likely be posting several at a time since wifi is limited. With that being said, this is the second part of a blog series about living an intentional life. Some food for thought!
The space we create around us is so crucial to our health- both emotionally and spiritually. I am learning that there is always enough time for the things and people we love who fill our soul up. I am learning that walking into self awareness and celebrating each other is essential. I am learning that creating a life of vulnerability and honesty and kindness and dreams is the hardest life you can create, but that it is so worth it. I am learning that I am not a Christian, but I am a person who loves Jesus and wants to be like Him. I am learning that changing my entire life and cultivating a world that surrounds the radical love that He exemplified is something I have to choose every day, but it too, is worth it. I am learning that how I feel is always justified and that comparison is never justified. I am learning that Jesus’ true character is a character that is rarely modeled and strived after in church, but if it was, there would be a revolution. You see, Jesus is a man who valued eating meals with people we love, only speaking out of love, and valued spending time in creation. Jesus is a man who wanted every person to be free from anger and greed and lust and gluttony, and walk in gratitude and joy. Jesus is a wild man who defied every social norm of His day, lived above His emotions of the present moment, and hugged the people who were the dirtiest and most broken. Jesus is a man who loved art of all forms- dancing, singing, cooking, good conversations, nature, woodwork, friendships with unlikely people, writing, reading, redemption. I know this because I’ve seen this and I’ve read this. Jesus was there at the beginning, when God breathed life into the world. God Creator is creative. He kissed dust to make man, and as he struggled to find a fit for man, he created woman out of man’s essence- bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh. Our Creator could have made whatever he wanted, but He created a world full of beauty and wonder, where life sustains itself in natural process. He then created us in His image; since we are in the image of a creative Creator, we too are naturally creative beings with the ability to create atmospheres and spaces of life abundant.
It’s hard to live intentionally everyday, but something the race has really shown me, is that hard is often good.
Love you all. Thank you for supporting me and following my life for these past 7 months!!
Cait
