This Beautiful Mess

Zach pointed out that I say "life is messy" pretty much every time we talk. I totally do :) Cause it's true! That is one huge thing that I think has changed in the past few years....learning to be ok with and engage in the mess. If you knew me in highschool or freshman year of college, you would agree that was not always true of me!

I'm reading a book right now that I'd love for all of you to read! It, along with life, has helped me make sense of how the Gospel and the Kingdom of God is real and active in our totally flawed world and how God is still at work holistically redeeming our lives. He even addresses the confusion of what it means when Jesus says the "Kingdom of God is among you"... and " the Kingdom of God is near"

This Beautiful Mess by Rick MckinleyMy favorite quote so far in the book is...

“In the kingdom, the places we put our heart into and work at are places where we are collaborating with kingdom life. We don’t collaborate with programs or buildings or technologies, although God can use those for important ends. Rather we notice and invite and affirm the kingdom in people: In the nervous young mom next to us on the bus, in the migrant farm worker waiting in line ahead of us at the 7-eleven, in the man next door whose duking it out with old age and chemotherapy, in the child in our own household who’s crossing the threshold from from playground to pimple hell.”

My favorite quote from today is "...relevance is a consequence of Kingdom living, not a cause. We become relevant when we are committed to being that signpost of heaven in some part of our world. When we study Scripture, we find that relevance happens naturally when we choose to be real people caring for other real people..."

Ok that's all...just read it and let's talk :)