Random ramblings

fun title huh!?  ok, well...  Egypt was amazing and God is opening so many many doors right now-- i hope and pray that there will be many who walk through those doors while they are still open-- admit it, not all of can fit through windows!  I must admit, God will have to do a greater work in my heart to feel called to go to a big dirty city such as Cairo, but I loved getting to meet the people in the villages and the people I did get to briefly talk to in Cairo-- I loved that too!  I think sometimes that we make missions or evangelism or whatever label we want to put on it, so much more difficult than it needs to be; could it be that sometimes God's call is to go drink tea with someone? 

I do not think that God gives us a passion for something to be counted useless: I don't think that He gives one a burning desire to draw or speak or write or build or to work with children or teach or do mechanics for no purpose at all.  We are to count the cost; but what is family apart from crying out to God as "Abba;" what is life compared to eternal life; what is relationship aside from intimacy with Jesus Christ-- what is the cost of everything when He promises the surpassing riches of Christ...bold words are easy to fling across cyberspace and i think that the cost will look all the more costly when i am given the billing statement-- but, I hope that at that moment in time, in order "to know Christ" I'll "press on..." to whatever He calls me to.