Day 8/9

So, I know I did not write yesterday--- FORGIVE ME, MY INVISIBLE READERS! 

But anyway, Day 8 in summation: "Sabbath". "Farming". Maria & Sean's Engagement party. 
The Quote of the day is that. Basically.

Day 9. 

Candance and I made our way back from LI for a Sunday at Brooklyn Tabernacle. 

Gorgeous building, great choir, beautiful guest performance, & a lovely new experience--- but let me jump into the meat (mmmm, meat...Maria fed me. Or at least her mom did...). 

“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated” - C.S. Lewis

This goes into how when we cannot tell what is from God and what is not...we kinda of just need to read, because, as the pastor said, "God sounds just like His Word...He has something to say about everything!" 

But, obviously not all our problems and hard decisions are written out in the appendix or glossary, so what do we do?

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 

- 1 Corinthians 6:12

And then ask these three questions:

1) Can Jesus hang out with this? (Is this profitable?)

2) Could this thing hang onto me? (Does it control me?)

I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.

- 1 Corinthians 10:23

3) Is this thing hanging anyone else up? (Is this edifying?) 

And this is more than "WWJD?" or follow the old testament to the "T", it is looking at your life and realizing God has an answer to everything, and He says it all in His Word. 

But what really got me was what made it into my Quote of the Day: "Rod & Staff".

Did you know that the staff/rod is essentially the same tool, but just different names for the two ends? The curved part if the "stick" would be the staff, and the dull point or bottom would be the rod. 

Now, when the sheep goes away, the shepherd uses the rod to poke at the side of the sheep to, let's say, stop it from falling off a cliff. When the sheep perhaps gets away, falls, and is now crying out for help--- the staff is used to go around the sheep's neck and pull it back up! 

In our lives, we do things and Jesus is poking our sides, and we feel in our "gut"--- Princy, this...is a bad idea. And sometimes (a lot of the time), we just go ahead and do it, get stuck, and cry out for help---so Jesus comes, and he pulls up by the neck and it hurts because we have fallen so low and we need to be pulled so strongly to get back to Him!

Wow. That blew your mind, right? Because that blew mine.

On that note, we had a great Family Night. Tacos. And homemade nachos. 

Words.

Goodnight & Goodbye,

Princy

P.S. I want to DO something from this learning experience...so...starting a Christian sorority on campus? YES. Because I want to make changes and I would love to get to the Greek community. Now...whoever is reading this...hold me to this! This will take research and lots of work...but change happens when God is with us and we put in the effort!