continued from “manna #3b: i heart obx”
forget regret, or life is yours to miss. . .
give in to love, or live in fear. . .
give in to love, or live in fear. . .
no day but today
– “another day”, rent
i now find myself having trouble resting in the present. it’s good to reflect on the past (hence the name of this blog, “ebenezer collection”); it’s healthy to hope for future. but, as the length of this and the previous posts reflects, perhaps i’m stretching myself a bit far between the past and future?
speaking of the past, here’s a tangent: that weekend at obx, i watched beauty and the beast…on vhs. such a brilliant movie. i feel like i identify with belle more than ever before — “i want much more than this provincial life. . . i want adventure in the great wide somewhere, i want it more than i can tell. . . i want so much more than they’ve got planned.”
anyway, i’m not too thrilled with the present, quite frankly. i’ve exactly a week left here in dc/northern virginia, and the dwindling days have devolved into a series of “lasts”:
- dinner and bowling in annandale
- saturday morning praise team practice.
- jam session after praise team practice. actually this might’ve been the only time i’ve stuck around after long enough. you get the idea.
- sunday at odpc (i just realized i’ve been at odpc longer than i’ve been in youth group at my home church in ny…crazy)
- lead-worshipping
- tuesday night prayer meeting. oh, i will miss those sweet hours of worship, intercession, edification and fellowship; those 3 hours feel more like 3 minutes!
- happy-hour with my colleagues
- [insert any activity particular to my life here in dc, albeit mundane, here]
and yet:
but Jesus told him, “anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.– luke 9:62 (nlt)Jesus said, “no procrastination. no backward looks. you can’t put God’s kingdom off ’til tomorrow. seize the day.”– luke 9:62 (the message)
so Lord, let this be my prayer:
give us each day our daily bread.– luke 11:3 (niv)
