Really, I do. No excuses though. Nothing eloquent tonight. No sage advice, charming witticisms or brilliant theological insights...frankly, I'm pretty tired.
Spring break was this past week. Again, I went down to Florida with Navigators and we worked on a site for Habitat for Humanity. Again, I had a blast. This trip I had just bought my camera and so I got to play around and take all sorts of really cool pictures. I'll get them posted later when I have the time to deal with uploading and reformatting and all that jazz.
I learned a lot of things this past week, some of them were even about construction.
This week showed me just what encouragement means, and that it's not just a gift, it can be a habit. I know quite a few people who are just natural at encouraging other people (a couple of whom were on this trip), but I learned this trip how to make the decision for myself each day to be encouraging, to seek to "speak as though it were the utterances of God." What's more, it's habit forming, the more you do it, the easier it gets. Go figure.
I saw a side of myself that I haven't allowed to show for a long, long time. Nothing bad, I assure you, just some well placed mischief, lots of laughs, and cheesy smiles. I realized that I really do like who I am, in my entirety. Not that I don't have things to work on, but I'll let God show me what those things are instead of trying to pick them out myself. Really, who am I to find flaws in God's creation?
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