Genie in Japan

What’s Been On My Mind Lately…

So many things that I feel it in physical weight, like my head weighs more so my neck and shoulders and back are constantly strained…but I’ve been experiencing and learning so much that I never could/would have back in LA, and for that I am inexpressibly grateful.  How do you say thank you forever and ever and ever?

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I just got back from Nagoya & Osaka CCC’s annual ski-camp in Nagano! It was so amazing–the facility we stayed at is called “Northstar,” a Christian outdoors ministry.  The staff are expert snowboarders & skiers from Canada, the States, Japan, wherever, and all have a heart to serve the people of Japan with what they’ve got.  I was so humbled and amazed, that God would use snowboarding of all things to reach people for Christ.

You know, sometimes we think we’ve got to do certain things, be a certain way, but really God can, will, and wants to use you just the way you are–your background, your interests, your passions, your joys, be they business, boxing, juggling, home-making, whatever.  He made it–He’ll use it.  But we just have to make that intentional decision to direct our interests for God’s glory.  Easier said than done, isn’t it?

I’ve experienced the beauty of seeing people do that–people in their niche, people who have found their forte.  People who have discovered who they are and are comfortable with that and proceed to actively live that out with such passion–let’s take those snowboarders for Christ, or my good friend Master Hahn on the drums, Francis Chan behind a podium, or JCCC Staff Kohei with a gospel tract in hand. 

I have yet to become one of those people, but I think I’m on my way.  Just discovering day by day what I like, what I don’t like, who I am, who I want to be, who I am not, who I never will be and do not want to be.   Every once in a while my identity can get even more clarified or a little bit blurred by books I read, things I experience, or what people say–the other night, a Nagoya staff member said to me, that if a person really believed in Revival Japan that they would put their money where their mouth is and invest their time, their life. To be there.  Here. 

I am challenged.  Is “here” where I’m supposed to be? I know for now, for the next six months it is.  But after that–is Japan my “place in life?” I know it has been a part of my life, a big part.   But…but?

That’s all for now.      

Posted by genieinjapan on February 21st, 2007 filed in Daily Life