God-Time.

So it's about halfway through summer, and I figured now would be a good time for an update! I haven't written for a while, but I know that I'll have some things (possibly many things) to write about.

This is because of how the summer has been going. It's been really good! But. For some reason, instead of presenting one thing to me at a time, God has decided to just assault me with a lot of different lessons, none of them really wrapped up in a bow. I've been learning a lot about a lot of different things, including God as Holy Spirit, God as Father, my own identity, my own story and life and sins and struggles and salvation. Oh, and video games and math and music and yeah.

Pretty much everything! And I haven't come to an understanding of these things, or enough that I could write about. So I haven't written to you guys for that reason secondarily, and also because I've just been trying to connect more with the crew and life at Sky Lodge rather than spending too much time on my computer. :-) Another thing I've been learning about.

So let me just leave you with a simple story. I was struggling with our slushie machine in the Hitching Post a week or so ago. We were open for people to buy stuff, and it wasn't making "slushie" (whatever that is). It was basically frozen, plopping out and not producing nearly fast enough. It was a problem! And I had no idea how to solve it. I tried a few basic things, and nothing was working. It wasn't until after we were closed that I realized I could just pour warm, new slushie base into the machine, and it started working again. I was satisfied in solving the problem, even if it wasn't so useful anymore.

I had been learning about problems and solutions through Math last year, and I feel like I finally came to something of an understanding of that after the slushie experience. We come to a lot of problems in life (and Math), and in modern culture we expect them to be instantly solvable. But in real life, we face many problems that aren't instantly solved. They require thinking and time to ruminate. And God will let us sit in those problems for a while, thinking and reaching out to him for help. And then later he provides a solution. And it's so much more satisfying! And it has much more of a lasting effect, because we struggled with it for a substantial amount of time and came out victorious.

God brings things about in his own time. He works much more peacefully and meaningfully then we're used to. We should thank him for that, too, because his love has much more meaning that way. All things in his time, eh?

So that's my current two cents, and I'll give you the rest of the money later. :-) Have a good week!

~Sam