Slowing down.

If my recent posts aren't an indication, I've been feeling an overwhelming pressure to combat every injustice on Earth. As you can (hopefully) imagine, this left me with an enormous feeling of helplessness and frustration. I spent much of last week just being angry with the World.

Now, I'll stand by the fact that the world is messed up and that we need to do things to change it and be conscious of what's going on. But to focus on the negative (which I'm definitely prone to doing) will only drag you down.

At the pm last night, Joshua talked about the Kingdom of God as being the grass that grows up through concrete. He used the image of empire (read: injustice) as being the concrete and how it can often seem so heavy and overwhelming. This of course made total sense to me, as it was just what I had been feeling. He reminded us of many injustices, but the thing that really stuck with me was his encouragement to us. He said that even if we only come to the pm and get angry about it like 5 minutes every week, that's great. He encouraged us to look at what we're doing right (not in a self-righteous way, in a burn-out-avoidance kind of way) and not how wrong the world is.

This morning in our SIL Team meeting, my supervisor echoed that thought by encouraging us to do our jobs and not get ahead of ourselves. It was so refreshing. Jesus was speaking through Joshua and Tara. He's in control, I can't do it. He's done it.

Paint it Black has a lyric: "Even when your ship has run-aground, don't let the bastards get you down."

Keep your head up and your eyes open. Not only to how the enemy is working, but to how God is working too. My life (our lives) is (are) not result dependent. I forgot that. We need to be reminded of it, or we'll lose our minds.

God is good.