It'll be Alright.

Working in YWAM is amazing.  It’s one of the coolest blessings I’ve ever been given.  Sometimes it feels like a giant Lego block board; everything we decide to do, we build ourselves.  One of the endless spirits of YWAM is pioneering.  Along with that, one can find many woes in structure.  

In my role of Communications, as well as facilitating communication, I’m at the hot spot center of seeing what kinks are happening and what need to be changed or resolved.  Often times that can make structure issues seem like giants.  I can always hear people having qualms about how something needs to be done this way, or that way, or why didn’t this happen on time?  But every once in a while I need to take a step back.

One resounding theme I see as I scan through the tomes of the internet, reading blogs and news articles is seeking for ingenuity and change.  The focus on most technology related platforms is how it has improved, what’s new that makes things easier.  Reading a blog right now called The Spartan Diet, it’s talking about how the industrial food industry has messed some things up in our methodology towards food.  These things make me realize something that I can lose sight of, they make me take a step back:  Life itself is not fully properly structured.  

In the full face of multiple problems dealing with our DIY missional lifestyle at YWAM, I can realize that those problems seem so stark because their an inch from my nose.  Other problems, perhaps more severe, are miles and years off, including all mankind, not just me and my community.  It helps me to realize that perhaps my expectations for a life so deeply drenched in colorful media haze and Hollywood pseudo-beauty maybe is much more raw and simple than I can venture.  It helps me see the lilies of the field more clearly.  I can count my blessings!  I’m not a part of a corporation wherein my resounding anthem is that no matter what I do nothing will change, and so that keeps me there just for a wage; and yet I have a roof over my head, and Jesus provides.  

So I ask you, what are some of the things that are right at the tip of your nose and red hot?  Maybe their not as bad as they seem to be in view that we all fall short, and nothings as solid as it seems.  And behold instead, the lilies of the field; how they do not toil nor do they spin.  Yet even Solomon, wisest of all me, in all his glory wasn’t adorned such as one of these.