Support

I had a great conversation with a friend about being hungry for God and how I need to find some others like that. There's this strange balance between being there for people who are still figuring stuff out about their faith and being fed yourself. He said if you weren't fed yourself, how could you be there for others? It's amazing how awesome the sense we call "common" is. Just to tell you a bit about myself, being open about my spirituality has been hard for me, it's been a struggle. I went to a very religious church that didn't match my culture and I was embarrassed about telling others about or bringing others to it. Now that I go to a church who's culture matches my own and the people around me, I feel so joyous to bring others, to share with them the awesome stuff God is doing in our lives. So I'm a shy spiritual blogger right now, but I'm learning to be more forthcoming. Dear readers bear with me.

Sacrifice

I don't think humans can really totally understand sacrifice. But I think that true love can be evidenced when sacrifice is present. Although I don't really understand the story in Hosea, where God compares Isreal to Hosea's wife with the cheatin heart. He tells Hosea to take her back and to love her the way he loves Isreal. I don't know if I could do that. But love truly does forgive all things, it sees potential beyond the present, it hopes beyond anything we can ever understand. God must get frustrated with our lack of omnipotence, we need things explained really slowly, and then we might just get parts of it.