Beautiful Wedding

The wedding of two people who are committed to ministry and God is an amazing ceremony to witness.
Unfortunately it is too rare today that couples have their first focus on God. I know that my two friends who just got married were questioned all along the way.
Moving to the same town most would think it would be normal for them to live together. They chose not to. A simple gesture like that shows how truly committed they are to each other but most in our society do not see it that way.
Father mentioned that for both of them their greatest goal now is to get their spouse to heaven. How often is that mentioned at other wedding ceremonies these days?
The greatest thing I took away from the ceremony was hope.
There is hope for the future as long as we have faith-filled couples like Jake and Tiff in our world.

We Need a Healthy Distrust of Our Spiritual Emotions

One of the best nuggets of spiritual guidance I've gotten this summer is that God does not care about our emotions and we should have a healthy distrust of those emotions, especially spiritually.
This makes a lot of sense to me, as over the years I have let my emotions lead me, especially emotions that I experienced during spiritual moments. I can honestly say that most of those did not turn out well.
As Christians, life shouldn't be easy or comfortable. As father said today, life with a healthy relationship with God will be better, not easier, and those are two very different words and very different lives. Our emotions, or at least mine, often lead to selfish desires and those emotions have really clouded my vision of Christ in the past.
Just a nugget I wanted to get down.

Peace all

Adaptability and Harmony

As part of our training week for the upcoming summer camp all the councilors did this thing called strength finders. Basically we took this test and it told us our top five strengths, according to this test.
Two of my top three are adaptability and harmony.
For the most part I agree with my top five, but it's these two that drive me crazy!
Basically, when I read these I think "wow, I'm a hippy"... since I'm all about going with the flow and peace and harmony and all that jazz.
The funny thing about all of this was our priests response to the whole thing. We could tell he was not into it from the start. By the end if you wanted to hear a good rant all you had to do was bring up strength finders around him.
Father had a good point though. It's great to know what are strengths are, but as those who have read at least some of the Bible know, God likes to work through people's weaknesses.
Moses, huge amount of stage fright apparently, God still had him be the leader of his people.
Peter, definitely not the most faithful or upstanding of Jesus' followers, but he was named the rock.
God works through our weaknesses and thankfully I have many of them.

Peace all