A Foreign Concept in a Familiar Place

Have you ever done something that should come SO natural and yet yourself and everyone around you can't seem to grasp what exactly is supposed to be going on? 

So yesterday for chapel we prayer walked the campus.  I have decided that prayer walking is something completely foreign to Americans while not on a mission trip.  I remember when I was living in Argentina and we would have groups come down from Bellevue in Memphis.  One of the first things we would do when arriving in a new town we were to minister to was prayer walk.  So this "(spiritual) exercise" was nothing new to me.  However, it seemed that once the leader dismissed us to our different stations around campush, each time in between was a catch up time... a hang out time... a "lets finish the conversation we were having before the start of chapel so rudly interrupted us." (Maybe not that extreme, but you get my point...) And it was SO frustrating... a Christian College campus- supposed to be taking these few minutes to prayer walk for our school, nation and so much more, and yet we can't wait 30 minutes to talk to our friends? I mean, come on! It's a Prayer Walk.  Emphasis on the prayer part!! 

So as we are walking between stations I am thinking about this- how it's so frustrating that people don't grasp this concept and it reminded me of a story in the bible... Found in Luke 18.... 

"The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'"

God, I thank you that I am not like these other Christians- they talk, joke, can't focus for 30 minutes- or even like this freshman.  I can pray for thirty minutes... while i'm walking! 

Ha! What a realization that was!! I spent most of the time between the first two stations thinking about how we don't really know how to prayer walk in the U.S. and how it was frustrating on a Christian campus (full of leaders) that we couldn't focus on God for 30 minutes and how I was going to vent about it on my blog... Yeah... I felt stupid, so I corrected my attitude.

Lessons learned- I still think that it's sad that a campus at a college for Christian minister's can't focus and prayer walk for 30-45 minutes.  I need to learn to focus better.

In other news---- We had 52 on Sunday morning!! That's a jump of ten!! Already! in two services!!! We have a drummer playing with us on Sunday!! That's way exciting! Annnd I'm hopefully going to meet with someone who can play bass to find out if we can get him over here!! If we can then that will be the "base band" that I wanted to launch with on October 26th! So that would be WAY sweet if it happens!! Otherwise, we will make due!! We have started getting in all of our lights and sound stuff! THAT is way exciting!! God is already moving!! It's awesome!! I cannot WAIT for this Sunday to see what He's going to do!!

So, I'm riding my bike to class today- so I need to go!! Adios!!

Greater things!