why we do what we do

Why do we do what we do.

We are the people who are helping to raise up these future leaders for the Lord. Who will lead the next charge of peaceful marches on this generation of injustice; that which has yet to be addressed over the ages past. The turning and burning of pages and chapters of hurt and ignorance. Raising up the voice that will soon narrate our children’s story book hero and heroines.

God willing, the people who will break off bondage from women across the world and call out the authority and the imago dei; the image of God that they had no knowledge they possessed. We are the people who help the process of healing, tending to wounds so that generations to come, can dance freely on right set bones. We, the shared flame, that will spark the conversations that unite fathers and mothers and children and friends. Ones that believe and hope for things that maybe don’t make sense to love towards.

We hold the belief that love works. That it’s slow and transformational and it is super effective. Much more so than shame or sin or success. We are the people who maybe hope too big, but allow the Lord to catch us when we fail into disappointment or dissatisfaction. And we are teaching these really hungry children of God to do the same. Teaching that in conflict and fighting there can actually come connection and nearness because in order to wrestle you have to be close.

These are the people we see and help create and wake up. the ones who will shake and stir and right size and disciple people long after we have had kids and have passed on. Long after the seeds we are planting have grown and born fruit that’s bore more that’s bore more. When dust comes and settles on the silk flowers in cemeteries our prayer is that the hope and tension we cheered on would echo like the angels from here to heaven to eternity. These are the people we are in the fight for. The people we get to become and watch as others step like hopscotch towards becoming.

It’s beautiful and worth it and hard. And it’s talking and talking again and apologizing and trying again and building relationship with people and God and praying and hoping and trying one more time and borrowing hope and borrowing faith and waiting. And it’s all really really special and it’s all really really close to what it feels like when heaven draws near. It’s angels holding their breath just to be let out with giddy giggles because life with people and life with the Lord is just so full of delight and of hope and of love. The realization that this, the work of the kingdom of God, is both hard, and also just so so worth it.

This past semester has been so good. AND hard. and worth it. I would love to tell you more. If you have never received my quarterly ministry newsletter, drop you email below. For everyone else, it should be sent out pretty soon. I can’t wait for you guys to hear and taste and see and smell and experience this past chunk of time through my words!!!  

These words I feel like really capture my heart for my life and what I desire it to be and continue to be. Not my commitment to AIM or world race but a life chasing after creating the kingdom of God here on earth. 

Thanks for reading and following along, 

Maranatha, 

           Carissa !