Say won't you Say

The Cross, and A Stirring Heart

Sunday for our day of outreach we did something a little unconventional, but ended up being so good. One of our guys built a huge wooden cross and as we all spit up into groups along the coast, we ended up taking turns carrying the cross all the way from our Balboa pier, to Huntington Beach. For those of you in Texas, this is a very long way, we carried it down the boardwalk till the boardwalk ended and then it was transported by truck over to where the sidewalk began again. A lot of people here on Project were very nervous about what this was going to be like. Its definitely out of the ordinary to see people carrying a Cross, and down major walkways along the beach too. But I found that for the most part it just sparked peoples interests as to why we are doing it, and through that we handed out lots of tracks and people got into spiritual conversations through it as well. After the cross left my location I just went out sharing on the beach like normal with another girl here and we got into a couple of great conversations with some girls on the beach. It is really becoming so much more natural for me to share my faith, I know that going back to school it will look a little different from sharing on the beach, but we are just getting lots of good training and opportunities here.

Later that night we had our weekly bonfire on the beach, man I will miss those! Then I watched the movie The Passion for only the second time ever, and it really put the exercise we had done that day with the Cross in perspective for me.

Last night after a long, but fun day at work, a discipleship time with Anna my new discipler, and our Action group leaders meeting, I decided to throw on my hoody sweatshirt and go spend some alone time with God on the Beach ( this almost never gets to happen, so I was thrilled!). The Stars were so big and clear, and it really reminded me how small I am in comparison to our Big God! I just chatted with Him about how it has been so easy here in this place for me to fall more and more in Love with Him, and how my heart is constantly being stirred for Him here, and nothing here is robbing my hearts affection for Him here. But I also realized that it wont be just like this when I go home in a few weeks and leave this place and these people and this environment. The amazing thing is that He never changes, through location, through time, we are the ones who change, not God. While I'm a little bit nervous about how things will change when I leave this place, I'm confident that He has taught me so much about intimacy with Him, and has given me a new perspective on the power of the Gospel, and these are things that can't possibly forgotten. There is just something about this place though, something about the sand, and the waves, and the palm trees, that is so familiar, and yet before these last 6 weeks I've never seen them before! Crazy!

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 10:27 AM