Mystery

I finished reading Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller this morning. This stood out to me..

I think the most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. Sometimes when I go forward at church to take Communion, to take the bread and dip it in the wine, the thought of Jesus comes to me, the red of His blood or the smell of His humanity, and I eat the bread and I wonder at the mystery of what I am doing, that somehow I am one with Christ, that I get my very life from Him, my spiritual life comes from Him working inside me, being inside me.

This is what I strive for. I don't think I'm there. Sometimes I feel that I haven't fully fallen in love with Jesus, but maybe thats because I haven't fully accepted His love for me. I think that the mystery of Christ in me is amazing and I long to experience it and to live it on a constant basis. Maybe, well I'm almost sure of this...the way to fall in love with Jesus is to see Him in others, meaning not being so self absorbed...which I am pretty much all of the time.
So anyway, I've just been thinking today about what it would be like to live with Christ as the very thing that makes me alive...not food, clothes, sleep, or anything...but Christ. And being in tuned with Him so that daily I am changed and shaped and made alive!

For Sale

Well the house is for sale and has been for almost 48 hours. The house is very clean! (Well done housemates!) I'm not really a big fan of having the house on the market...its stressful and people are invading your space which doesn't even really look like your space when its all cleaned up. But we'll just keep praying that someone buys it quickly so we can move into the The Charles House!

I took my mom and Brinks to the house yesterday. They both liked it! I'm sure that Brinks is really going to like living downtown. He had the best time walking there yesterday. He sat outside of Caroline St Cafe with my mom while I ordered our lunch and made lots of friends.

I realized today that I really enjoy my job. I left the house this morning not feeling very well and not really looking forward to the day but when I left work I realized that I felt completely different. I really enjoy meeting new people and developing friendships with people that come in every day! Its so fun and different from jobs I've done before!!

Ok now I'm going to learn the purl stitch so I can make my brothers Christmas present and then Brinks and I will head out to get Ryan from the train!

A few things

Well its been a while so I have a few things to say!
First....I would like to be the first person to announce to the world that Ryan has trimmed his beard! however, I'm not sure that he's very happy about it so he's blaming me for it.

Second, I have finished knitting my first scarf of the season. Jamie has let me borrow a book about knitting and it has inspired me to start a knitting group in the Fredericksburg area. I know that somewhere out there in this crazy town there are lots of young people who enjoy knitting and spending time with others that enjoy knitting so therefore..I would like to knit with you! I'm thinking of getting together one night a week say around 7pm at Hyperion Espresso downtown and stitching...I say stitching because I would like this group to include crocheters as well as knitters...this way Jamie can come!!!

Third, we spent a wonderful day a Grave's Mountain Lodge with the Hypes' and Poe's enjoying the apple festival. I just had my first apple from there dipped in peanut butter. Here is a picture from the day!