Journal Entries / Italy 2011- Aug 5th
This is my last day at global expeditions, and I am heartbroken. I've yet to start crying but soon enough the tears will flow. I have met the most wonderful set of people I could have ever wanted to meet. God has trult set his gracious hand ipon all of our hearts, leading us in love to love one another, for His name sake.
As for God, He isn't just a divine concoction or tend that we have fallen into to seek acceptance from our peers, but He is the Omnicient Divine Matchmaker, Relational Being, actively constructing and deconstructing relationships in this world. Through our relationshps we can guage our spitiual well being, and the closer to lvoe we are in all of our affairs the closer we are to God. I have yet to fully digest this trip, but I have found so far that this trip was so much about us, the individual. Our personal growth has far exceeded our expectations for this trip. I have larned to grow far past u comfort zone. Past air conditioning, past beds, past showers, past rest, past food, and past security. I believe we have all been humbled in such a way that it was necessary for us all to cry out to God for His strength, as we were all pushed into submission through our trip.
Our faith has grown as well. Not only have I gained a new perspective of this big world we live in, I have also gained anew perspective of the believer. I have become less cynical toward the spiritual warrior. For they have merely been given a different lense through which they see the world. Previously I had been skeptical of spiritual warfare and healing, but now I see all things are possible with God.
I don't know how to say goodbye.
-Ryan Jackson
"...Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." - Psalm 30:5
As for God, He isn't just a divine concoction or tend that we have fallen into to seek acceptance from our peers, but He is the Omnicient Divine Matchmaker, Relational Being, actively constructing and deconstructing relationships in this world. Through our relationshps we can guage our spitiual well being, and the closer to lvoe we are in all of our affairs the closer we are to God. I have yet to fully digest this trip, but I have found so far that this trip was so much about us, the individual. Our personal growth has far exceeded our expectations for this trip. I have larned to grow far past u comfort zone. Past air conditioning, past beds, past showers, past rest, past food, and past security. I believe we have all been humbled in such a way that it was necessary for us all to cry out to God for His strength, as we were all pushed into submission through our trip.
Our faith has grown as well. Not only have I gained a new perspective of this big world we live in, I have also gained anew perspective of the believer. I have become less cynical toward the spiritual warrior. For they have merely been given a different lense through which they see the world. Previously I had been skeptical of spiritual warfare and healing, but now I see all things are possible with God.
I don't know how to say goodbye.
-Ryan Jackson
"...Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." - Psalm 30:5
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