it makes sense doesn't it.....doesn't it.....there's a struggle within, a shock to the system and i'm finding it difficult adjust back to life as it was before i left. the cultural shock i feel now is far greater and requiring more of me than adjusting to life in Tirikovil. as with any great experience i am forever changed the extent to which i only have inclinations and the heart of which is looking for ways to manifest, to birth. the brevity of life - the necessity for adventure. echoing in my mind are the words we heard from Colton and Bandulla - make your mark. not an egotistical challenge, but one to be different, to live with impact on those around you.
our created systems, structures of 'doing church' and religion - why do we fight so hard to keep it alive?
it's going to be an interesting upcoming few days - this weekend i think i may escape the madness and head for the mountains for some time of being.
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I experience this (to a much lesser degree i am sure) when i return from annual trips to Mexico. Something i have been thinking about is the response i get from others. People always say "back to reality"...but what does that mean? Wasn't your experience there reality? Is a continuous fellowship and lifestyle of service not reality? Is that something we are only to experience on a "missions trip"?
I was thinking about how inticing that lifestyle is to me- the adventure of serving God out "in the field"- to spend months, years? out serving people, revealing God's love. But is that in some way an escape from the "real world," an attempt to shake off the limitations and restrictions one finds in "reality?"
random pieces there...what do you think?
i think the term "real world" or "back to reality" is such an american thing... it's like reality only happens when you are putting in your 40 hours+ at the office or something.
i agree which is why i used the phrase "back to life as it was...." being in sri lanka was reality, and coming back is as well.
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