More Lessons!

the roomie & I went to a real football (soccer) CIU Rams game

Our boys did a GREAT job

We won 5-0 :)

So my previous post was on 4 lessons I learned in Peru and I have 4 more I would like to share with you. But before I do allow me to tell you what the Lord has been up this past week in my life and in the lives of many others at CIU (Columbia International University).

This past week was Christian Life Week, which basically means in our chapels and all week long the focus is on the basic truths of the Christian Life. Well this week we had a wonderful speaker, Dr. Charles Price a pastor from Canada, he spoke on the truths and the Lord spoke through him right to the students at CIU.

 All week the Lord was speaking to me about how I cannot just sit back and do nothing yet I cannot do it all. So very sinfully I got fed up and threw my hands in the air and said "Ok, I'm done, I don't know how to balance it all. You show me." Oh and did He ever! Hahaha! That day I got a phone call from a friend, who I worked with this summer. They so kindly reminded me of the 5 things we agreed to do at the beginning of the summer or as Inca Link calls it "our contract." These 5 things shapes who we are and help us in the way we look at life.
And they are:
1. Give a 110% - give all you've got then a little more and what you can't give God will

2. Be here now - pay attention to what you are doing in the now and don't be thinking about the future because it will come and you might miss what God is doing.

3. Challenge by choice - there will be things that you will not want to do, it might be rude not too or it might be something simple but what would happen if you did it or didn't do it? (For example: I do not like heights but this summer I had the opportunity to do a high ropes course and one of my friends wanted to go. So I chose my challenge and went with her. I really enjoyed it because she was such a good encouragement to me but what would have happened if I never went on the course? Would I regret it?)

4. Choose Joy - (I love this one!) No matter what the circumstance whether hard & difficult or easy & enjoyable, CHOOSE JOY. It can be so hard at times but it is in those times I need to choose joy the most and it is the most rewarding.

5. Love covers all - Be like Jesus who loves without limit. "Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs (Proverbs 10:12)."

So once reminded that this contract is a daily process and as a follower of Jesus who is trying to imitate Him, its an honor do these things. I went to chapel only to heard Dr. Price talking about how there is a balance in the Christian Life, its not just God doing it all nor it is just me. And I can always trust that He will be doing His part, now the question becomes will I do mine? ... Yes.


(The rest of the lessons from Peru to come next time... :)