A little Something to warm your hearts

Well I don't really read this blog anymore and I think if you are like me that is probably a good thing. It means that we have moved on from Kaleo and have embraced the cool places God is taking us. Personally I have been learning a lot about myself. I don't remember if any of you remember when I did my Testimony time but I talked a lot about Pride and how i struggle with it. Recently i went home and was confronted with that fact again by my mom and so I have been praying that God would humble me and it has been tough as he continues to reveal the sin and inadequacy in my life. I have the privilege of working at a Church in Edmonton this summer and I love it but I am constantly confronted with how much I still have to learn. It is overwhelming sometimes to be honest. It's hard to believe that in one year I'll be graduated and possibly running my own youth ministry. Life is good though. I've been reading Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne and it is really stirring something in me. I really want to learn how to live like Jesus. How to sacrifice. I used to want to be comfortable and there is still a huge part of me that ones to ease back into Suburban Christian living... do my lil part but on my own terms. I don't think that's what Jesus wants though and so I'm stuck in this little battle between what I want and what I am called too and trying to figure out what that can look like. I've got a few ideas from people along the way. One of my best friends, Steve Karadimas, who did Kaleo 4 went to New York and worked in the Brooklyn Ghetto for a while and he came back to Victoria and was suddenly on fire to help people and inspire people. It's been really wonderful and challenging for me to watch his example, also kind of makes me want to go to New York but I think maybe God might have other plans for me. Anyway this is really more of self reflection then a blog post. I know that a lot of times I have read other peoples stuff and not really cared to much so don't feel bad if you are like oh Haws just wrote ... don't care. It's cool.

oh and for those of you who like a little entertainment



One last thing. I recently was teaching my youth on community and told them about Kaleo. It was weird to reflect on how different we all are and I think our year especially had some really diverse personalities in it... but at the same time how we all learned to live together. I just finished a really good book called RESIDENT ALIENS, I would recommend picking up a copy for sure... anyway one thing they said was that community is about different people, not people who are the same, coming together to help each other learn to be like Jesus and I think at Kaleo we did that, we didn't always like each other but we learned how to live with each other and love each other. When you think about it isn't that how you wish every church could be?

-Haws-