We are coming to another transition point.
Leadership Training participants and leaders are finishing up their time.
Internships and Co-ops are in their final weeks.
Students that have been home are planning their returns to campus.
New students have been through orientation and are now starting to get their stuff packed.
Grads are starting to feel the reality that they won’t be returning this time.
Those of us in the New River Valley are seeing people start to pour into the area, stores are getting busier, school supply list emails are going out and houses and apartments are changing hands as some leave and some arrive.
It has even dropped into the low eighties in the evenings a couple of times!
And this is the last Diaspora post for the summer.
As I reflect back on the summer and what God has spoken to me about, I keep coming back to his sovereinty. The fact that he is God and is ultimately in charge. He is the one that has most earned the right to guide my thinking, my soul. He is the one that is most in love with me and has the most fulfilling use of my short time here on earth in his mind.
He is the one that challenged me early in the summer to consider who is really blessed as compared to who I can feel is blessed.
He is the one that challenged me to really look at how much I actually take Jesus’ command seriously. Am I willing to be sent into the world as Jesus went, or am I just going to busy myself with the business of putting on a weekly church gathering?
He is the one that challenged me to really consider where my faith stops and my fear takes over. To consider what my definition of success and failure are.
And all through it, he has just been with me. There have been some amazing moments where I clearly felt his presence.
It has been a great summer and I have so enjoyed walking through it together with you all.
Peace, Jim
