its a hard knock life

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Fall is here, a new season, old things are becoming new again. And new things are being birthed.

I have so many thoughts that I want to just spill out.  My heart is racing because I love. 

I love seeing Jesus in the stray kitten that graces our doorstep for but a day, just as if to stop by for a meal and a place to stay, then move along towards its destination. 

I love that our inheritance lies in giving water to someone who is thirsty, food to someone who is hungry, internet to someone who can now myspace every day.

I love being able to walk to the store and snatch a tasty pina colada paleta. 

I love having plexmates that care about justice and caring for the least of these.

I love playing Catch Phrase.

I love puns and crosswords, or even better– puns in crosswords.

I love being reminded of child-like faith through hugs from precious children that I do not even know and do not know me.

I love taking an 11:30 pm drive around town guided by a 20 year old “Dr Phil” carrying an illegal knife.

I love learning from this guardian and protector of his family how to gladly accept and receive his insistence on filling up my gas tank after our nighttime tour.

I love that the A side is (hopefully) becoming a hang out place for the towns’ g’s.

I love hanging out with kids that have experienced a side of life that I will never begin to understand.

I love that giving a jug of water to a house whose water is turned off is adding one piece to the Kingdom of God.

I love, after having wept and plead with God to stay true to His promises that He has not forgotten his children, remembering and believing that He is Lord over all the lords that seemingly reign on the rez and in kids’ lives. 

I hope that I will remember that the things that seem to rule in this world will one day fade away and disappear.  I hope I will remember and continue to believe that this world cannot fix itself.  That I cannot fix the world.  That no one can fix the world.  But that there is a greater hope–that there is one not of this world, who was in this world at one time, cast a vision of Truth , and gave authority to anyone who chooses to believe in that Truth to make sure that Truth was not forgotten.  To work towards something greater than themselves, knowing that their lives are not in vain.  That there is a Creator who has a plan, that simply requires requires three things: faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these being love. 

I hope that one day, everything that seems backwards and goes unnoticed will be recognized, ‘well done, good and faithful servant.’

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