not much has happened lately to blog about, but i guess actually a lot has happened in the last two weeks. First off I’m moving to LA to go grad school. I’ll be going to Fuller to get my masters. That snapshot is exciting enough, but lets add moving, job searching, and trying to find a place to live to the mix. Plenty to do in the next few weeks. I think the official “i’m outta here” date is Sept 16th. I’ll be there in time for all the festivities of orientation and then classes begin the following week. This week a korean exchange student that stayed with my fam a couple years ago is coming back to visit for the week. She comes in tomorrow and will leave next friday. Also next week i’ll be driving down to LA on Thursday with a friend. Now this trip was planned a couple months ago before i even applied to Fuller. My friend is moving down there to start an internship and asked me if i would drive down there with her. So we can just call this “driving to LA round 1″. I’m going to spend the weekend plus a couple days down there to hopefully find housing and look for jobs. Then i’m going to come back the 12th and yes, leave again the 16th for “driving to LA round 2″. It will be a busy next couple of weeks.

Luckily i have a lead on finding a place to live and have turned in a couple resumes so i’ll have plenty to figure out when i go down there this first time. I have realized how often i find myself in this waiting game with God. Especially this summer and still even now, but it has been a common theme in my short life. Usually it consists of me wanting to know and not yet knowing and then me worrying about not yet knowing. Some of you that know me, know my dorky tendencies to come up with sermon titles in my head. Well i think i would call this one When God is not on time. Because generally when i’m waiting for Him i seem to think i have this indignant right to already know the answer and the reason i don’t is because God isn’t doing his job. So like all the similar times i have found myself playing the waiting game I have been humbled and learning how to do it His way. the amazing thing is He has never failed, He has always kept his word and it has always been better than i could ever do myself. talk about a faithful Father. isn’t it crazy how if we have to wait longer for somethng than we want to or expect to, we can question who God is. in this culture and society i think it is our achilles heel. anyways this type of time always makes me learn, seek and trust.

another random theological thought is that isn’t it amazing that we also think when it comes to waiting heaven isn’t good enough?  i don’t want to go on too much of a tangent, but heaven is absolutely for sure and the promises that come with it. freedom, justice, redemption, etc and yet we can get discouraged when we don’t see such things right now. as if temporary is better than eternal. if we recieve it here on earth then we have experienced our reward. i’m free in the most literal sense now, so i won’t be celebrating it has much in eternity as some who spends their whole earthly life captive waiting for the day they will experience freedom forever. now who do you think is going to appreciate it more eternally? i  don’t know why i have been thinking about this lately, but isn’t it interesting how waiting makes us weary when it is meant to make us stronger. If we don’t see it now then we lose hope. When who would want 80 years when you could have forever, ever and ever. This is a undescribable large promise from Christ who invites us to have that kind of forever. We may see it now and we may not, but we are guaranteed through Christ to experience it forever. relax, the last 2000 years are to God just a couple of days…