"Well how much was the ticket?"
"I don't know, I just gave it to my Mom"  

"I was going to, but it was hard"

"It was kindness week at my school...And I didn't"

"What if a mute person has no hands"


Monday, March 10

It is good

Name: Chad
Scripture: Acts 10:28 God has shown me that I should not call any person profane or unclean

OAP: I had a conversation with Scott today, he brought Jamba we did accountability, for both I am very thankful. We were discussion my situation, I kept using legalistic terms, clarifying what was and was not allowed. Afterwords I tried to make it clear, its not rules, and when I speak of what I am allowed to do, its not like it sounds, but there is not really any other way to phrase it. The term I have been subsisting for it is not allowed, is that it is not healthy for me right now. Anyway, we were walking on the trail near my house and Christine and Greg come walking from the other direction. Side story: I went to see Jade cheer at Santa Teresa and Morgan and Emily were there, I knew that I couldn't talk or sit with them, but they saw and called out... I waved and sat far away. It would not have been healthy for me then. Back to original story: I talked to Christine, with Scott and Greg. That is without a doubt against the rules. It was good, and it was God. As I have been learning the difference between God's good and my good I found out that God's good isn't definable. No parameters or rules, even the 10 commandments can be shrunken down to two, one even if you are picky. The gut instinct of my good was to obey the law set before me, No groups with people from Church. How much more obvious can it get, I really believe that God put that as a law for me. But God had more and I almost didn't listen. This in no way throws out the "rules", the rule is follow God. I am going to do that to the best of my ability which as of right now entails no community. However I will not be so presumptuous to assume that I can declare something off limits like I could have today. God intervened just like he did with Peter, and I wanted to reply, "certainly not, I have never broken the terms of my fast". It is not my place to declare Christine unclean and profane, but I am working off the assumption that she is.

God, thanks for making this one painless. I am so excited that it wasn't a deep struggle, but rather a calm understanding that you validated in this verse and in your felt presence.

Intersting Sidenote:
So there are two things things that have been marked in my calender for the past year, one is my legal year for my licence, the other is supersmash bros brawl. I have the physical ability to do both of these things....yet no means to do them. Today I was surprisingly completely OK with this...I am weirdly at peace, with more important stuff too....But this illustrates it well

1 comment:

Nate Snow said...

Well, you may not be able to make outgoing calls, but I actually need to talk with you about something...this could potentially coincide with some 1x1 SSBB...Pray about the latter, and somehow, let me know about the former.