My church here is pretty awesome. For Pentecost Sunday, we had groups from all over the world (primarily: Africa) give special music from their countries. Oh how I was blessed. Today I was reminded of something. First, that I seriously need to get to Africa one of these days, and second that I need to get out in Moscow more. I'm very bored, actually. I supposed I'm being "challenged" or whatever, but I have no life. I kind of was in a "oh Russia, why am I here? I have not friends and no one even cares if I learn this stupid language or not." One line of the sermon stuck out to me:
"Reach out to people in their own language"
The pastor was probably being metaphoric about reaching people in a relational way or whatever, but to me I instantly wanted to cry, so strong was my realization that this is why I'm doing what I do. This is why I love learning languages: I love people. God loves people. He will give me the mind to learn what I need to even if I don't know why, what the end result will be, or how I will need this whenever/if ever in life. I'm being blindly prepared for something, which to be honest freaks me out becaue I'm a map-loving person. I read maps to know where I am, where I'm going, and to find the best way there. God doesn't always work with my preferences though, but he's God so I'm being Ok with that more and more.
#2 awesome thing: a girl from Taylor, Maggie, miraculasly showed up at my church today! I knew she was coming here ot teach English this summer but I had no idea when or how we'd see each other and there she was 3 rows behind me. We actually don't live that far from each other, too.
Tommy has a baseball game tonight that I'm going to go to. I'll probably read for Historic most of the time though. Oh, being "challanged..."
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"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." John 12:24
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