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I'm just a girl, searching for where God wants me next, but living constanly in the present, reflecting on the past enough to see hope for the future.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

I am Old

Now, i know most of you a thinking, you are not old, your hair is still brown, your skin still smooth and forheavensakes, you are not even thirty yet. But i feel old.
First off i went to a worship thing, and that was not good. The message was based on like 30 passages, and we sang songs i didn't know, and the message was so.... ... milky. I started thinknig should i be craving some kind of deeper spiritual food? I do, so now the question become where do i find it? if i am wanting something deeper, are other people too? then why is it so hard to find. If we are all (as chrisitans) searching to learn more about God and His charecter and grow in our relationship with him, then why is it that so many messages are the same thing... milky. i think i am not explaing myself clearly, (words are not my forte) How many alter calls to you have to hear before you get to learn more about God, who he is, and how he communicates with his people. I have given my life to Christ, so i don;t have a need for altar calls, i know some people do, it is good to provide the oppurtiuny, but what about those of us at differnt points in our faith. Any insight, please!?

I feel old today becuase i am tired. I have been up at 6:30am and to bed by after 11pm and it makes me tired. but i went to a teachers confeacne today and it was good, i felt old there too, because that means i am almost an adult.

Anwayz, my students constructed thier own understanding and am teachnig this unit they way teaching has been modled for me at Dordt, and it is being succsessful! Also, a student and i decided together on a book for her reading level, and that was huge prgress for her, then enthusiasum in her voice was amazing.

5 Comments:

  • At 7:34 PM , Blogger Andrea said...

    I echo your milk statement. The new campus pastor is a great guy, but he only talks in milk language. It's very frustrating and it turns me off of Christianity when I hear stuff we learned in elementary school.

     
  • At 11:24 PM , Blogger Matt said...

    Good... you said the words I didn't feel like writing. Yah, I ask those questions too but I wasn't in the mood to type. Instead I spent some time with photoshop touching up a picture that I took on our trip downtown, a picture that almost haunts me when I look at it. I mean, its not spooky in the haunted house sense, but every time I look at that man something inside me cringes. Something in my heart breaks, it calls out him... it calls out to the suffering. I guess you know you're still alive inside when you are moved by other human life. A good thing I guess...

    Check it out my photo blog... I posted it there.

     
  • At 11:37 PM , Blogger Matt said...

    ps. About your post...
    I think that once we mature as christians beyond the milk stage we start desiring something more, something with more substance. I guess its things like digging into the meaning in the bible, the spiritual truth, starting to take leaps of faith, living your faith every day, learning more and more about the character of God. Its kinda like growing to know someone more. Once you get past the shallow-hal stuff you get to know their nature, who they really are. Ask God to reveal a part of himself to you. I bet He'll blow your mind. I think its at that point that personal devotions start to mean a bunch more. Anyway... sleep is needed... perhaps a conversation for another time...

     
  • At 2:21 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Hey Rachel - are you coming to Dordt sometime? I'd love to catch up with you. And I was wondering if you have my ABC signing book. I think that I gave it to you last and never got it back, so if you could bring it or send it to me, that'd be great. Oh, and by the way, I know what you mean about the whole milkiness. Going on a semester abroad (especially in Egypt), makes me realize that a lot of things here in Christian culture are very milky and shallow, and it's very frustrating...maybe more when/if I get to catch up with you. anyways, I hope that I get to see you soon... :)

     
  • At 9:05 AM , Blogger Tom said...

    Yo Rach!

     

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