I would like to start by reading first john chapt. 4 verses 7-11,
-Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Our mission in Vermont was a test for each and every one of us as we were taken away from our daily rituals and put into unfamiliar surroundings filled with new faces. Conversation came easy for our group actually being one of the smallest we were in fact one of the louder groups, not that there are any surprises there. The youth works staff required our churches to be spilt up into different groups based on ben and jerry ice cream flavors, for those of you who are not aware Vermont is where ben and jerrys ice cream originated. As our daily tasks were thrown at us we invited each other in to help, emphasizing teamwork, which is essential in all aspects not just in mission work but in life. With each day something different was discovered with relationships, whether it was during devotion time towards Christ or consoling an old or new friend in some cases both. During the night of feet washing was when you could feel Gods presence and not just know but feel the meaning of faith, that night we all became closer. As we all cried a friend that I made on the mission said to me, “it is those who cry together that stay together.” I consider these people some of the greatest friends I could have in my life, both the new ones I made and the old ones that have always stuck by me.
Our mission in Vermont was a test for each and every one of us as we were taken away from our daily rituals and put into unfamiliar surroundings filled with new faces. Conversation came easy for our group actually being one of the smallest we were in fact one of the louder groups, not that there are any surprises there. The youth works staff required our churches to be spilt up into different groups based on ben and jerry ice cream flavors, for those of you who are not aware Vermont is where ben and jerrys ice cream originated. As our daily tasks were thrown at us we invited each other in to help, emphasizing teamwork, which is essential in all aspects not just in mission work but in life. With each day something different was discovered with relationships, whether it was during devotion time towards Christ or consoling an old or new friend in some cases both. During the night of feet washing was when you could feel Gods presence and not just know but feel the meaning of faith, that night we all became closer. As we all cried a friend that I made on the mission said to me, “it is those who cry together that stay together.” I consider these people some of the greatest friends I could have in my life, both the new ones I made and the old ones that have always stuck by me.
ive been traveling so much doing all kinds of things this month, im acually coming down with a cold.
Lately, ive been debating the course of action i plan on taking with my future career blah de blah blah, the future planning is getting bit redundant. Right now i just want to live for the present soon as summer ends its back TO THE FUTURE. People are becoming too concerned about their futures that they forget to live for the here and now, i dont want to have to be one of those people who look back and say why the hell didnt i do that while i had the oppertunity instead of slaving my life away towards a future in which i have no memories to back it up with.
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