Tomorrow is Sarah Kurtz birthday, hurray! Really looking forward in celebrating just her as a person. God’s gifted this girl ridiculous amounts of talent. So other than me really wanting to see these two movies (eclipse and avatar: the last airbender) everything has been pretty chill over here. Lots of work still of course. Ditch digging. Filling ditches with rocks we have to dig up and find. Not to mention this storm that blew through here and caused several trees to fall down over power lines. We were only out for a day, but now we have to chop up this big maple tree, separate firewood from sticks and burn them in a bon fire. I liked this task for about a day, but when its 95 degrees outside working with fire? Fire is fun. Just not when you’re swimming in its heat.
Two nights ago Sarah and I slept at the Torch, one of the churches we are helping with, and we slept on the pool table! Did you know it gets really cold when you sleep on one? I think it’s because of the cement slabs that are its makeup. That morning we had to ride on our bikes back to the house (on BMX bikes with construction helmets…because we couldn’t find any other helmet). Bikes are so much fun!
On a deeper note:
I’ve been really struggling with the Holy Spirit and what to think of with speaking in tongues. This is what I know, it’s a way to get fed, it’s God working through us which comes out in this set apart language. I’ve never spoken in tongues. I don’t know if I ever will. I’m open to it, but I never ever want to force it. This other church we are helping with, in a way, pushes it. They think that it’s for everyone, that you haven’t experienced God if you haven’t spoken in tongues. I disagree. I don’t think it’s for everyone. It’s a gift. You can ask to receive it, but if that’s not what God has given you, you can’t open it. This is just my feelings on it. I really don’t have extreme strong convictions on it, because I still don’t know that much about it. It’s frustrating. Not knowing a clear answer. Right now I don’t feel led to try. When or if God tells me to, I will gladly accept.
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