Onions!

All righteo, so tonight our homegroup went to Union Gospel Mission to help serve the meal and to chop up all of these onions and fruit, actually chopping up food is quite fun, especially if you have people to sing with you while you're doing it! So I have been inspired by Marcia to start writing in my blog a little bit more often, guess I've been doing other things lately...like walking in my park!

So here's the story about my park...two days ago I went walking and found out that it was slightly flooded, which ended up in my shoes getting really wet! Then yesterday I was smart and wore my rubber boots which decided to give me blisters - I guess they weren't made to be worn for long periods of time! And so I got to splash through puddles and squish through the mud - oh it sure made me laugh out loud so many times! Yup, my chipmunks are back - they were really playing tag a lot today, and chattering at me of course, scolding me just in case I might even think of stealing their peanuts!

But anyway, thank you so much Jesus for this amazing weather, you are so good...I was just reminded of this quote from Blessed Child by Bill Bright and Ted Dekker:

"The greatest differency between present-day Christianity, and that of which we read in these letters (of the New Testament), is that to us it is primarily a performance; to them it was real experience. We are apt to reduce the Christian religion to a code or, at best, a rule of heart and life. Perhaps if we believed what they believed, we could achieve what they achieved." (Actually that quote was by JB Phillips in his introduction to his New Testament translation).

Hmm, that has definitely been true of me, I sometimes read the stories of the miracles that Jesus and his disciples did while viewing them only as stories, the meaning of what they are actually doing doesn't always sink into my heart...but I want to much more than a religious code, rules for life, I want to believe what they believed - wow, they actually saw Jesus and heard him speak, but I have his words right here in front of me and His Spirit inside of me:

John 14:12 says "The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father."

So yeah, to remember that a changed heart is just as much of a miracle as seeing someone healed of a physical disease or ailment...Jesus would you teach me about what it really means to believe in you, to let you outside of the box that contains my present understanding of you - I want so much more, have your way in me...whatever that means (yikes that's a scary prayer)!