Posts Tagged ‘adventure’
What has happened?
Grace and I both felt our courtship was distracting us from our most important relationship, our relationship with the Lord. We have decided to call our courtship off and refocus on what God has for us as individuals. We are still friends.
The main purpose of courtship is to glorify God and draw us closer to him. Even though this courtship has come to an end we have avoided splat . God is faithful above all else and He has given both Grace and me a great deal of peace about our decision.
From the archive. Here is the video we made for refuge a few months ago. If you have ever tried to fast this video is for you. Scott Cheek deserves the credit for all of the behind the scenes work as well as playing Jesus. Ultra Fasto-Boy is played by Jonathan Lees.
I am setting of on one of the biggest, most exiting and dangerous adventures of my life. And I am not talking about my trip to Ecuador. Grace Chambers and I are now officially courting. And by official I mean Facebook official. After several meetings with her dad he asked her if she was interested in starting a relationship and she said “yes.” If you don’t know Grace yet I’ll just say you’re missing out on an amazing friend. I don’t really know much about courtship having only observed it from a distance. In other words I have no idea what I am doing. It is fun though, in that top of the roller coaster looking down afraid for you life kinda way that is.. You know when you are about to jump out of a plane and your realize that 10,000 feet is a lot farther down than you thought? You know that as soon as you step off that plane you will feel sheer terror and then either either a happy landing or splat. Splat is not an ending of the relationship. Splat is dishonoring God. We don’t want splat. I want this courtship to be fun and God honoring. I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive but blending them is a challenge. We live between two cultures. One values hedonistic pleasure over holiness. The other looks down on others with contempt and pride and sees most pleasure as some form of sin. I will be blogging occasionally on what I learn as we go. Maybe you can learn from us and avoid our mistakes. Risk If relationships were easy would we value them as much? Or does the risk and the danger make them special? Grace and I officially started courting on Wednesday March 12. Since then Grace has the flu and I am leaving for a different continent. The challenges of long distance relationships has just been multiplied by a factor of $2 per minute phone rates and 3000 extra miles. I can’t wait to get back to Texas |
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Every beat of a man’s heart pulses the desire for greatness. We long to take up our sword and join in the fray. Yet, the lives of most men don’t look like a grand battle. They look more like a game of put-put golf. We don’t realize the things we do have little impact on the world outside the miniature golf course. The game is fun, but it lacks meaning.
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