All love originates from God. It’s simply what He is. So love is about what He desires and what He has planned. It’s about the burdens of His heart. It’s about what and who He loves. And because He loved me first, my only response, the only one that would make any sense at all, is to love Him back with all my heart, mind, and soul. True love for Him is never going to be about what I want or what I think is best.
They say that home is where the heart is, right? For the first time, I truly understand that saying. Flying into Asia, I had the sense that I was flying “home,” and being here has only confirmed that over and over.
Wowzers! Walking out of the airport I was completely overwhelmed by wave after wave of emotions. After putting all that I had into seeing this year’s Campus Target team reach Asia, I had just waved the last worker through security at the Rochester airport. The final push to get them there involved crazy things I [...]
I saw some guy doing bike tricks and jumping on and off tables. I went up to him and told him I love extreme stuff and I said I can do something cool, check this out! I started breakdancing and that was it. Him and his friends loved it, one of his friends even knew classmates who breakdance and wants to link me up with them. How crazy is that? Some kid from New York goes all the way to Asia and finds breakdancing!
I was sitting on an airplane waiting and wondering and praying. There were lots of things I could have been thinking about, but I was asking God to just let my friends and co workers make the flight. As the time ticked away, I was beginning to think what it would mean if they missed the flight. [...]
Nothing else would make more sense than to go, to tell people of a love that never fails & never changes. It makes me glad that God dreams bigger than I do. Policemen live life on the edge. Truck drivers get lonely. Cubicles get boring. But the life of the redeemed is one that will change your eternity.