it is now 5:24 in the evening. i just got in the office after braving some fierce rush hour traffic (wichita-style). and down the hall, there is either some late-80s/early-90s country and western music playing, or it might be some early-90s era hosanna praise and worship music. i don't know which. and all of this background to say this:

today has been good. i ate downtown for no particular reason. i'm about to go hang out at a pool with a bunch of pretty cool high school kids..and i'm getting paid to do so. i also bought a microwave today for the dorm room this year. and i'm excited about it.

i haven't posted for a while, but i'm looking to fix this. i apologize...

soon....

have a great day.

its funny

so today has been good. i finally got pics from africa on my computer. and driving around town, running out of gas, and plenty of other things. anyways, its funny how friends can put something down in words and how it can say exactly what you have been thinking and feeling for a good while.

since coming back from ghana, culture shock has hit me a few times. though, looking around a room with thousands of dollars of computers and music equipment and looking out at a parking lot at my car, its hard to wrap my mind around the thought that less than a month ago i was a completely different world away. the fact that i was standing next to a kid that was literally eating my trash and now i'm sitting in a room with enough to feed his whole family for a year is hard to process. and you'd think there would be a feeling of guilt.

but there's not, i'm more trying to figure out what to do now. i've seen this and what do i do now? where can i best put my resources? which causes can i be most effective with?
and then...you figure out that it is not my job to bring aid to a continent (though, i certainly have a responsibility to help and do what i can) it is not my job to heal nations and show people life. that is Christ's gig, and the church should have a part in it, but ultimately my biggest task is living in a way that brings attention (or fame, or glory) to Christ.

my main job is to point every ounce of my life back onto Jesus, because He is the one who will heal nations and give life. so all i do should simply point back to that.