Now this blog post is going to be a little different than all of the others. Recently they’ve just been updates on what I’ve been doing and how I’ve been feeling about it all. This post is more what I’ve been thinking and questioning.
Monday night we had a presentation about our trip to Marruecos (Morocco). Let me say I AM SO EXCITED!!! We leave this Friday and have 3.5 days (return Tuesday night) to experience the entire culture. We get to go to a women’s shelter, a children’s school, a village in the mountains, a family’s house to eat and sleep, and then possibly go to the Atlantic coast and ride a camel! I have this feeling that this trip is going to be the trip of a lifetime (within a trip of a lifetime). Something is telling me that my eyes will be opened and my thoughts and actions will be different after this trip.
So during this presentation there were a lot of quotes that really grabbed my attention so I wrote them down for further pondering. They were:
- · Borders create issues
- · Imagine living in a closed off world (like if I lived in East Germany before the wall was torn down—our presenter lived in East Germany during this time so he spoke about it once or twice)
- · We’re all humans
We’re all humans. Now this one really hit me even though I know it sounds so simple and so straightforward, but try to follow me and really ponder this.
God created all of us. He created me; He created Adrian, Fernando, Lucelle, Eugenia, Carlos, Josh, Kris, Jennifer, Justine, David, Kevin, Sara, Regan, Janet, Mark, and Mary. He created the man I pass on the street, the woman walking her son to school, the homeless man, the lady selling gloves—GOD CREATED THEM ALL. God has a plan for each and every one of them. For everyone you see and everyone you don’t, God is specifically working in their lives. God uses their life and their plan in the grander scheme of things—in the grander plan to give God the glory. And each of these plans works together and is connected in some way. Each plan in working now, that was in the past, and that is in the future, is all working together. Now that throws some weird spin on time, does it not? That essentially everything is working together at the same time...anyways, every single person matters to God. God specifically loves each and every person. Jesus specifically died for each and every person. Is that not mind blowing?! Granted we’re told that even if you were the only person on earch, Jesus would still die for you. Now this is true and all but Jesus didn’t just die for you, he died for everyone-EVERYONE- not just for your friends, not just for your family, your classmates, your city, your state, your country, E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E.
But sometimes I get wrapped up in the idea that “my” God is only the God of me and of the people I meet—like that is how “my” God is defined. But once again, I’ve found I’ve put God in a box- limiting Him to only what I know as opposed to letting go of all limits, of all boundaries, of all borders.
This flows into how borders create issues and how would life be different if I had lived in East Germany with the wall always stopping my ambitions and closing my mind to what else is out there or what else is there to know. If I create borders for myself or for God, how will I ever grow; how will my awe of God ever grow? Borders can keep you from understanding one another; they keep in stereotypes and judgments while keeping out truth and love.
I said before that I had a feeling my life was getting too comfortable and that I needed to be uncomfortable. I’m tired of the borders I’ve put up around myself. I’m tired of the walls. Even though my view of God has grown tremendously in the last couple of years, I know God is not done showing me how much more land (literally and figuratively) I have to cover to know and love Him more.
Please pray for my trip to Morocco and for my continued journey here in Spain.
This is all truly going to be one eye opening experience.
He explorado, soñado, y descubrió
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