Building a Cathedral

My InterVarsity chapter at Binghamton University would meet every other Sunday night (well, we tried to, anyway) for our Core Meeting.  Carrie, our staff worker, would help us spend the first hour recapturing stories from our recent events, lead us through prayer, or an activity to help us put things in perspective of the vision that leaks so easily.

It was my senior year, and I think it was the middle of the spring semester, the time where we tend to lose quite a bit of steam from the semester New Student Outreach events and start to get a little crabby from all the hustle and bustle of the end of the year.  At one of these meetings, Carrie read to us the old story of "Building a Cathedral" (at the bottom of this blog page) from a book series called Habitudes.  

It struck a particular chord in me.  I don't think I'd claim myself as burnt out or dragging my feet through things (not that I never am/do, but at the time I wasn't), but it did remind me of the big picture I had easily forgotten.  Without much effort I could identify with the first two laborers, who could get caught up in the trudges of survival and everyday tasks/routines.  But I wanted to be like the third, whose perspective stayed focused on the vision.  It didn't mean he didn't know what he was doing, or that there wasn't a plan or that he didn't have a particular task at hand - but by keeping his focus on the big idea of what he was working towards, he found value, direction, and purpose in his particular job.  And he was excited about it!

That's what I want this blog to capture.  I am a world changer, a kingdom builder, and I want to use this to try and track the journey that God leads me through, and to share this with all of you as well.  Notice in the cathedral story that the third laborer says, "We're trying to build a cathedral," not, "I'm trying to build a cathedral."  Your prayers, care and support are extremely important to me.  God made us to be in relationship with one another, and I would be a very different person without my relationship with you.

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