Sweet Job Offer. Last conviction changing?

God works in strange and amazing ways in my life - and usually to show me how powerful He is. I have an example from my Bible when I was in China. It reads: "9pm 12/29/00 (I think?) sister is coming to Beijing tomorrow and I have no money to get a cab to pick her up (as I stressed). 11pm 12/29/04 mom just called from US and told me she just put $500 in my bank account." What the?!!

Anyways, my last conviction yesterday is challenged by the recent development from last night. I came home to a Fed Ex packet with the job offer of my dreams in Washington DC. It makes me see the future with more stability, as I can already picture myself building a solid career over the next few decades and loving it! That's definitely new, and makes me see life very differently with this new found stability. There's more to it... but I have to make garlic bread now for the Italian feast my family is preparing for this Christmas evening. More on my job stuff later.

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Praying for God to be gentle

When I was younger, like in high school, my youth group friends and I used to pray dramatic prayers for God to give us trials. We knew that trials would strengthen our relationship with Him, but He would really bring it on! I'm especially sensitive and weak these days, so I've been praying for Him to be gentle with me for now. I'm all for being broken, but I'm kinda already broken and humbled already... and not by circumstances, but by experiencing Him so fully during my time in Creel, in Mexico.

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Nietsche sucks

I just finished reading Nietsche's "Birth of Tragedy" last night. There's this part where he bashes Christianity so badly, but his arguments were pathetic. I could see the lost reading it and agreeing, but we know God from experience, human testimony, and the prophets from across the ages. I'll write more about it when I have the book in front of me later...