It amazes me that it is already Christmas, it seems like only moments ago that I was boarding a plane to move to Charlottesville and become a youth minister. The past three months have felt like a second and an eternity at the same time.
There is nothing like the unknown.
I have begun to read an amazing book by Rob Bell, a pastor in Michigan, who has a fresh and insightful way of writing about following Christ. He writes in the first chapter of his book Velvet Elvis,
"Central to the Christian experience is the art of questioning God. Not belligerent, arrogant questions that have no respect for our maker, but naked, honest, vulnerable, raw questions arising out of the awe that comes from engaging with the living God.
This type of questioning frees us. Frees us from having to have it all figured out. Frees us from having answers to everything. Frees us from always having to be right. It allows us to have moments when we come to the end of our ability to comprehend. Moments when the silence is enough."
As I have joined Church of Our Saviour and as we have begun to form a community of youth following Christ it is this that I cling to, it is that pure questioning that I hope to spark in the hearts of my youth, Abraham Joshua Heschel once said
'I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder.'
So as this blog begins to chronicle the journey that we are embarking on as a community that is what I pray for... wonder.
