Beunos Aires, Chicas!
Hi Family!
Can I just say what an INCREDIBLE thing it is that we have started out our lives post-high school with such an EXCEPTIONAL example of what the Kingdom of Heaven looks like? I will bring Kaleo evs. Oh man I miss you people. My doe-eyed friend and Matthew Brown have been on my heart for the last two hours... Oh man I love you guys.
"So K-Bone, what is God doing in your life?"
Oh, thank you for asking, my good man! Well, it's been hard at home. Speaking to friends has been difficult because it's so hard to hear and see the death in their lives. The world feels like a graveyard sometimes.
I spent three hours with my pastor today which was WONDERFUL. I have been so blessed to be so tight with the leaders of my life. Anyways, over last reading break I had offered to do a sermon alongside him on the issue of "the gay". It's something that has come up (or 'out', if you will...) in my church recently and has been quite difficult for 90% of the congregation to cope with. Sigh. Anyways, he asked me today if I would think about sharing my life/ message with the church in June. My heart feels like I'm about to go on a giant roller coaster... like one with a million restrictions and curiously damp seats. I can't discern right now whether I'm experiencing the Holy Spirit's nudge, or my own anxiety. In any case, I don't see a better way to submit to my Pastor or offer my life as a holy and living sacrifice than this. Please PLEASE pray that God in his grace give me a double whopping of the Spirit; allowing me to write with wisdom and love for my church family, use me as a mouthpiece on June 22 (the date we're thinking this is going to happen), and guiding me when responding to the encouraging, understanding, awkward, confusing and upsetting feedback as Jesus would. AND that the next two months would prepare my heart for this, I feel like there's a storm coming. I've been warned of that buy a few people in the last few weeks. I don't want to be thrown over any cliffs! (Luke 4:29 anyone?)
Oh life. And Jesus. I can barely fathom this faith is for real sometimes. It is SO radical. I love it. I love you guys and LONG for you. NOW. Hahahha.
Grace and Peace, Agape AND Phileo... Kaleo Phileo...
Cautious Kevin signing OUT!
Can I just say what an INCREDIBLE thing it is that we have started out our lives post-high school with such an EXCEPTIONAL example of what the Kingdom of Heaven looks like? I will bring Kaleo evs. Oh man I miss you people. My doe-eyed friend and Matthew Brown have been on my heart for the last two hours... Oh man I love you guys.
"So K-Bone, what is God doing in your life?"
Oh, thank you for asking, my good man! Well, it's been hard at home. Speaking to friends has been difficult because it's so hard to hear and see the death in their lives. The world feels like a graveyard sometimes.
I spent three hours with my pastor today which was WONDERFUL. I have been so blessed to be so tight with the leaders of my life. Anyways, over last reading break I had offered to do a sermon alongside him on the issue of "the gay". It's something that has come up (or 'out', if you will...) in my church recently and has been quite difficult for 90% of the congregation to cope with. Sigh. Anyways, he asked me today if I would think about sharing my life/ message with the church in June. My heart feels like I'm about to go on a giant roller coaster... like one with a million restrictions and curiously damp seats. I can't discern right now whether I'm experiencing the Holy Spirit's nudge, or my own anxiety. In any case, I don't see a better way to submit to my Pastor or offer my life as a holy and living sacrifice than this. Please PLEASE pray that God in his grace give me a double whopping of the Spirit; allowing me to write with wisdom and love for my church family, use me as a mouthpiece on June 22 (the date we're thinking this is going to happen), and guiding me when responding to the encouraging, understanding, awkward, confusing and upsetting feedback as Jesus would. AND that the next two months would prepare my heart for this, I feel like there's a storm coming. I've been warned of that buy a few people in the last few weeks. I don't want to be thrown over any cliffs! (Luke 4:29 anyone?)
Oh life. And Jesus. I can barely fathom this faith is for real sometimes. It is SO radical. I love it. I love you guys and LONG for you. NOW. Hahahha.
Grace and Peace, Agape AND Phileo... Kaleo Phileo...
Cautious Kevin signing OUT!
posted by K-Bone at 5:21 PM
4 Comments:
hey Kev! i'm sure i'll talk to you sometime, but know I'm praying for you!
I appreciate it! I've been really anxious since I posted the blog. Post-Kaleo is getting to me stress-wise.
Hey Kevin! Stay strong man, don't let those anxieties run all over you. To quote this awesome famous guy by the name of Rob (hope you don't mind rob=) who sent this to me yesterday..."Just remember with all the stress of "stuff" to find that Jesus overpass when your thoughts start catching speed on the highway toward anxiety (love the analogy). Anyway, stand firm, brother, let nothing move you. Give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know your work is not in vain. (1 Cor. 15:58)" Those were his words and they were what I needed to hear....Kevin I'm praying for you!
"Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure at heart."Psalm 73 I love this, i love reading about all the silly things that Israel did (worshiping idols and such...) but that God kept his covenant with Abraham, Isac, Jacob, Rebbecca etc. He did this through it all(even though his rath could woop them). I find that it is very easy to forget about who we are serving. Reading about it in the story of Israels trek into the promise land brings light to how easily we forget. But God is so good to us hey, he always ALWAYS pours grace upon us whether it is a leader (your pastor), a friend (Kaleo) or a guy at 7-11(??)... He always holds our right hand. I am amazed by this love. I pray Kev, that you would be in awareness of where your heart is, surrendering it constantly to the living God, and that in this you would receive an abundance of love and discernment in where he is leading you and what you are to say or not to say.
So much love for you and your lovely wonderful kaleo gang.
I hope you will continue to pop into my head because i would love to continue to be apart of what God is doing in your life.
Blessings bro.
(wow, Gods blessings are ... woow.)
Nicki
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