February Update

 

Love getting to see people praising God together

Elias and one of our students at church

Elias would say ball every time he saw the football on the screen at the Super Bowl. Needless to say, he didn’t watch much for our sanity

Peer team with the gals!

My boys!

Line dancing at a students house!

Keanna and some of our black students planned a Black History Service last week

Worshipping God in 20 weather when we got kick out during a fire drill!

Pizza Theology

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If you made it this far, I applaud you! Ministry has found its more regular rhythms this month! It’s been a month full of hard situations and hard conversations, joy in ministry and sorrow, sickness that had me feeling rough a lot of the month(the flus symptoms stuck with me long after the fever left), loss and grief and chilly weather. Jesus has been reminding me of his goodness and how often I forget it, choosing to focus on things that aren’t the important things. Jesus says “Martha, Martha, only one thing is important” (to be with Jesus) and I get caught up in the concerns of this world. What things do you get caught up on? What distracts you from where God is moving?

My core has been going through Mark recently and it’s been so sweet to read through the scripture with my girls. It’s struck me in this reading, how concerned the disciples are for the here and now, missing the big picture. I laugh at them in their silliness and the Lord has been gentle to remind me that I do the same things. It’s Peter offering to build tents for Elijah and Moses at the transfiguration, or the disciples worrying about having enough food after Jesus feed the 4000, or the disciples being afraid after Jesus had calmed the storm. I get caught up in the little things, little things that pull me away from the path God has put me on. Little things that cause me to miss the change that is coming. I get this imagery of someone picking up sea shells when they’re about to be hit by a tsunami. Something bigger is going on here. God is moving and working. Do you see what he’s doing? Do you see where he’s moving? If not, spend some time on your knees. Cry out to God, ask him to show you himself. Refocus on what’s essential, sit at Jesus’s feet and recenter.