Tales From The River

Last year I would always come home with crazy stories of things I encountered on the bus. Well, since then i've moved across town and am not on a different bus route and haven't really experienced any crazy encounters. But, I have seen some crazy things at the river that I feel I need to share!

*During spring break some friends and I went to the river one afternoon and this is what we saw:
- A duck chasing a girl, in the water. (some guys distracted it and it eventually left her alone)
- A dog chased the duck, in the water
- The dog chased the girl, in the water. I think the dog got confused and thought she was his owner.

*Yesterday, while I was at the river, there was a really good steel drum band playing.

Just wait, there will be more to come!

Go Green

A few days ago I was praying, laying things down at the cross, giving struggles to God; a sometimes hard, yet beautiful thing. I saw a picture of The Cross, I was there in front of it kneeling and praying. At the foot of the cross was a bunch of trash (or at least that's how it looked to me) representing our imperfections and sin that we've given up. Last night at a worship service I saw that picture again, but this time I saw it more clearly and was able to just sit and meditate on it for a bit. I saw that it wasn't just trash that was at the foot of the cross but that it was trash that was recyclable (plastic bottles, cardboard, used paper). God showed me that he wants to take our imperfections and sin, that trash, and recycle it ... make it something new, useful, beautiful out of it. But first, we must give it up, release it from our hands into the powerful hands of God.

"Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent. Then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear. " Job 11:13-15

2 Corinthians 12:8-10 - When we are weak, God is strong

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose" Romans 8:28

Ecclesiastes 3:11 - He makes everything beautiful

So, why not give God our "trash"?