lent.day 3.sanai

In Exodus 19, God brings the children of Israel to a mountain called Sanai.

Its this place where they camp out for a little bit.  Moses, their leader, goes to the mountain top to talk with God.

God speaks to Moses and gives him direction for the children of Israel.  But more than direction, He gives them a calling.  He tells Moses to the tell the people to be for Him, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.  In essence,  its as if God gives them a mission, a calling that day.

The interest thing is that they haven't arrived at this point (to the Promised Land).

God gives a CALLING to a group of people who are being brought out of bondage but haven't reached the Promised Land yet.  I was reminded of that today.  I feel like I'm at a place of Sanai over the past couple of days.  I definitely haven't arrived.  But I feel like I'm receiving a new calling with my life.  Maybe I'll write more about it later. Eh?

lent.reflections.questions

And here's another question:

Do I really look like T-Pain?

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I'm having a conversation with a friend right now on Facebook chat and he says these words, "My faith has been reduced to some form of soup in the past year.  Not anything concrete by any means. But still there.  And a part of me wants to pour the bowl out."

This is completely unnerving for me.  I'm not sure how to deal with this.  Because when I hear that question, my mind races in thousands of directions.  I want to start asking questions like, "when?", "why?", "how?".   All questions whose answers will lead to other questions.

Everything my friend said in that paragraph was preceded by him telling me about all of the death that he's seeing so close to him.  It affects his friends and the people connected to them, which in turn affects him and the people connected to him.  It's like his whole world is being turned upside down and he says, "It just makes you question the world and God when things like this happen."

But what is even more unnerving for me is that just moments before this, I was watching this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NlyZqJhwk&feature=channel_page

Which of course had me questioning everything about MY world.

My reflections this evening in this season of Lent: my world - how do I interact with it?