Amazing

Yesterday, I, along with my friend Tim, auditioned for The Amazing Race.  The whole experience was crazy and spontaneous and exciting and so much fun!!!  I could not ask for a better partner and I really hope we get to continue.  :)  Because of our little adventure, though, I am a little behind in blogging and a lot behind in praying for the world.

I would like to report a renewed sense of purpose in this Radical process.  Last night at Bible study we discussed James 5 and the Lord really spoke to me through verse 8.  It says to be patient and establish your heart.  This whole process of living radically for a year takes patience, but is establishing my heart, or building a foundation in me to be the woman God has called me to be.  And the result of this patience and establishing my heart will be steadfastness, which I have come to realize in the last couple of days is really what I long for.  I want and need to be steadfast as life changes.  When changes happen around me at work, at home, at church, with friends, with family, with anything... I want my foundation to be so firm that nothing changes it.

Exodus 32-33
The Israelites make a golden calf because Moses is gone for a while.  They actually make it so they can say it brought them out of Egypt.  That blows my mind.  How can they even rationalize that something they have made in the wilderness brought them there?  I guess I trust in myself too much sometimes as well, though.  Then God tells Moses that the people can leave Sinai but He isn't going along.  But Moses pleads with the Lord saying, "If your presence will not go with me, do no bring us up from here.  For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people?  Is is not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"  That has been a prayer of mine many times, and continues to be- Lord, do not send me from here if you will not go with me!

Matthew 26:69-27:14
Judas betrays Jesus and His questioning begins.  He says very little.

Psalm 33:1-11
I love this verse and how it expresses the bigness of God:
"He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses." verse 7

Proverbs 8:33-36
This is still Wisdom speaking as in the first person.  In the last couple of verses it concludes with "for whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord." verse 35

Pray
Vanuatu- In the Pacific.  A group of islands with at least 108 languages.  Here is a crazy statistic: more than 60 languages are spoken by less than 1,000 people.  There is religious freedom.  Many are followers of Christ and the country itself has been dedicated to the Lord.  But they still must battle ethnic religions, an influx of other faiths, and a lack of Bible understanding.