"God isn’t content with yesterday. If our eyes rest on how
things were we miss the new horizon, the next stage God calls us towards.
Christianity should never be comfortable; it should always be a challenge. The
moment life revealed by Christ stops challenging the way we see and relate to
the world around us we know we’ve lost sight of Jesus. As far as this life is
concerned, there is no arrival, there is always a next step and a new challenge
intended to bring us closer to the reality of God and his kingdom. We can rest
in the knowledge of God’s love for us, the authority of his action, his deep
intent, and our identity as sons and daughters of God, but we can never rest in
thinking there is nothing more to do and nothing left to learn. The deep
challenge of true relationship is the ever-present demand to love and love
deeper, better, and more fully than the day before. The expectation to maintain
an old self or a present comfort distracts from the point of the thing. Like a
young child, growing pains are a necessary reality of becoming a full-grown
being. When we seek to maintain, rather than embrace the challenge of growth,
we embrace our own disfigurement and stunted growth."
I've got about a month left in Haiti and I want to finish well, no idea what that looks like or what comes next.
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