| | This week has been enlightening for me.
I started my summer book list with a book called "Everything Must Change" by Brian D. Mclaren. Subtitled: Jesus, global crises, and a revolution of hope.
Yurah asked me via facebook to talk about "Where is God when all the earthquakes, problems, wars, basically saying where is God in this deep poop-hole that this world is in."
Sarah asked to raise funds for the Chinese Earthquake Relief, and WE DID! : ) we raised 240.00! AWESOME!
Also, I can't get the man that we met at greenlake out of my mind. He was a Chinese man who played volleyball-kill with us. Seem very sincere and kind... Yet he was an "odd" one in the standards of U.S. THE A. culture.
North Korea is always on my mind.....
Things are happening around the world... in a very fast pace... earthquakes, tornadoes, wars, nothing changing in Iraq. People dying... the people in Myanmar are being kicked out from their refuge camps... their government is neglecting them... another earthquake hit Philippines... The beef stuff in Korea... (mad cow disease stuff). The gas prices going up, heard it will go up to 5 dollar soon..
In midst of all this, the Church in America and other western Christianized organizations are building their own EMPIRES in their own ways... They are preaching BS Gospel and living a life that is truly dead... It is in this dreadful system that we are in that has infiltrated the minds of the "Christians." There is no cost... Where is the COST for following after Christ.. the TRUE GOOD NEWS... the TRUE Gospel... The story of OTHERNESS. Truly loving and giving...
I feel great sorrow and uneasiness as I attend worship events, conferences, preachings... What are we trying to maintain so much that we forget to count the cost for Christ? Where is the Cross? What is the Cross... Do we really want to bear the burden of the Cross? Is this message being preached to our generation?
I just saw Rambo IV : ) Horrible movie.. But there was "truth" in it... The genocides and the mistreatment of the poor, women, children, and the weak are portrayed truthfully in the movie. It is still happening...
In United States, it is happening through emotional/mental harm... (though there is still physical abuse and great harm done in the darker side of US)
In China, North Korea, Myanmar, Iraq, and other countries in the world, it is happening through horrific physical actions... HORROR... Guns that are sold by US (over 50%, and the French/British, and other WELL OFF nations...)
I knew about these things before... BUT this week... I am being stirred... There is a shift that I can sense in my mind and heart...
I am angry... disappointed... and saddened... So I ask myself, now what? What am I gonna do with this shift?
I will seek out opportunities in the context that I am in to get involved... First, in knowledge, and then I pray that God will open up the doors for me to join with the right people to create hope... Let's see where this will go... Maybe this is the spark towards NK. One day...
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