“Its the sense of touch. In any real city,
you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody
touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other,
just so we can feel something.”-Crash–
My friend Kelly Chadwick (If you don’t know who she is yet, you will one day, because she is
leaving a huge mark on this world) Anyway Kelly introduced me to some new
terminology recently. She came up with the phrase skin craving, “A
psychological term to describe the body’s need for physical touch. When the
need becomes great enough, we fill it by subconsciously brushing against other
people in order to fill the craving.�
I have the privilege and HONOR, to go to Bolivia
with a group of 12 high school students tomorrow. We have been at a training camp for
almost a week now, and what I am seeing in myself, in my co-leaders, and in my
12 students are “skin cravings” physical and spiritual. There has been a huge
lack of physical touch, spiritual touch, physical love, and spiritual love in
this group of students.
I get the opportunity to be that touch in so many
of their lives over the next three weeks. Where people have left them, where people
have avoided them, where peers have made fun of them, I am coming in to run to
them and stay, intentionally “bump� into them, and build them up with the words
their Heavenly Father speaks over them. Each of my students has a huge calling
on their life. Each one has a destiny. Each one is needed. Each one is God’s
Plan A! Each one has something to offer this world. I believe in them, but more
importantly they are going to discover just how much God believes in them!
I have only known this group for about three days,
and already something has come ALIVE in me that I didn’t even know was dead.
There is apart of me that is more ALIVE than ever before. There has not been a
better season in my life, than right now! These students have A LOT to do with
that. I think in the deepest part of me I had a craving. On the surface it was
a skin craving, but on the deepest part of my soul I had a spiritual craving
for something more, to feel something more. These next three weeks are going to
launch us into the depths of God’s love. I know that we are about to CRASH into
what our souls are CRAVING.
