thunderstorm gibi.

sunday, for the first time since i have been here.......

i heard thunder and saw lightening. mostly thunder.

april and i were soooo excited because we both miss good thunderstorms..
it didn't end up raining much at all, but it was a taste of what we were both missing.

memphians, don't take your awesome thunderstorms for granted. :)

busy summer.

we had a group of 30 students here for 5 weeks. every day i was with some of them. for 5 weeks. they left on saturday and sunday. the past 2 nights i have slept about 10 hours each.

tomorrow i leave for a little island for a few days and then another week. i'll be teaching english to children.

next week, 2 of my friends will be here.. SO excited!!! yay!!!

how to live.

today i heard someone speak about sharing Truth with others. he told a story of a girl he knew that shared Truth with so many people and one day someone asked her if any had come into a relationship with God. she said no, none. that person asked her if she had asked any of them if they wanted to. her answer...no. so she met with her friend who she had the deepest spiritual conversations with and asked her if she thought she was ready to have a relationship with God. her friend became a believer that day.

that story challenged me in the way i share. i think relational sharing is deeeeefinitely the best way for me to share and i have seen God move people closer to the Truth through it... but ya... i don't ever ask.

another story the guy told was about a man who traveled to universities proclaiming hell, fire, blah, blah.. and calling out specific sins and saying all people who do "[this]" are going to hell....when "[this]" is not at all a sin...

later i talked to a friend about it and he said the hell/fire story sounded like it could pooooosibly be a prophet. i was appalled. i am aware and agree that prophets called out peoples' sins, and even an entire nations' sins, but they were not anything like these men i've run into, even on my campus. i told him how people like that, more often than not, turn people away from seeking Truth because they condemn as if it is their place, they speak false truths about sin and how you are to be in relation with God, etc. and that if those are prophets i don't even want to be a part of it. somehow i am convinced that's not at all what God had in mind when he said love one another. take my words to the nations. live like my Son. nope, not convinced.