It’s been almost three weeks since
we touched down in NZ and I have experienced more mind-blowing beauty
and awesomeness than I could have ever imagined! I’ve been experiencing
this lack of descriptive words as I try to explain what it is that I’m
seeing every time I turn my head. Incredible, amazing, fantastic, phenomenal, beautiful, spectacular, ridiculous…those words just aren’t cutting it anymore.
My scope of experiencing God’s creative genius is being stretched
beyond what I ever thought it could be! Where else in the world can you
go and see mountains, beach, rainforest, cliffs, farms, glaciers and
pine forests all in one glance? Aside from all that I’ve seen God do
things with my team that eclipses the natural beauty of the terrain
here. I’ve seen broken hearts, I’ve seen compassion, I’ve seen pure
love come out of people who’ve only just met, I’ve seen perfectly
genuine joy, I’ve seen struggles overcome, I’ve seen absolute
excitement, I’ve seen God’s hand fall on these “kids” that are no longer
kids…in two weeks time they have already grown into mature adults. As I looked around at the team last night I no longer saw wide-eyed wonderment, I saw focused, intentional desire to draw closer to God. I can try to describe the beauty that is New Zealand all day and not even touch on the vastness of God’s creation, but even moreso, I can’t even fathom how incredibly God has been working on the hearts of this team…in my eyes that’s more beautiful and breathtaking than any mountain or glacier or ocean. God’s pure and wonderful creation is at work inside the hearts of Eric Alyssa Allison Aubre Hannah Frances Jeffrey Brittany Whitney Katherine and also Justin and myself. The intricacy of God’s hand in our lives is more than I can capture in words…it’s just divine.
we touched down in NZ and I have experienced more mind-blowing beauty
and awesomeness than I could have ever imagined! I’ve been experiencing
this lack of descriptive words as I try to explain what it is that I’m
seeing every time I turn my head. Incredible, amazing, fantastic, phenomenal, beautiful, spectacular, ridiculous…those words just aren’t cutting it anymore.
My scope of experiencing God’s creative genius is being stretched
beyond what I ever thought it could be! Where else in the world can you
go and see mountains, beach, rainforest, cliffs, farms, glaciers and
pine forests all in one glance? Aside from all that I’ve seen God do
things with my team that eclipses the natural beauty of the terrain
here. I’ve seen broken hearts, I’ve seen compassion, I’ve seen pure
love come out of people who’ve only just met, I’ve seen perfectly
genuine joy, I’ve seen struggles overcome, I’ve seen absolute
excitement, I’ve seen God’s hand fall on these “kids” that are no longer
kids…in two weeks time they have already grown into mature adults. As I looked around at the team last night I no longer saw wide-eyed wonderment, I saw focused, intentional desire to draw closer to God. I can try to describe the beauty that is New Zealand all day and not even touch on the vastness of God’s creation, but even moreso, I can’t even fathom how incredibly God has been working on the hearts of this team…in my eyes that’s more beautiful and breathtaking than any mountain or glacier or ocean. God’s pure and wonderful creation is at work inside the hearts of Eric Alyssa Allison Aubre Hannah Frances Jeffrey Brittany Whitney Katherine and also Justin and myself. The intricacy of God’s hand in our lives is more than I can capture in words…it’s just divine.
So many times I wonder if it will ever get old or mundane, seeing such beautiful things and such beautiful places. I tend to let myself picture myself living in a place like this and seeing these things on a daily basis…would it become ordinary? Would I begin to take it for granted? Would I stop expecting to see greatness because I’m surrounded by it? I think about these same things living in community with such God-centered people who hunger and thirst for everything the Spirit has to offer. Will this community, this family ever get ordinary? Will I ever take it for granted? Will I stop seeing the greatness of what God is doing in people because it becomes a daily habit? God, I hope not!!
