the latest

so here it is, what's been on my heart and flowing through my mind for the past few days. i'm feeling that if i don't explore it more and write it out, i will definitely explode :). i'm not being "cautiously excited" with this one! haha. that was for alli. anyways...

a friend and i have been tossing around the idea of starting up an intentional living community. since getting back to san diego, and joining the amazing congregation at green valley church...i've been immensely blessed by people. it truly is an authentic community of christ followers that are doing just that...striving each day to follow Him as Lord of everything in their lives. so incredible. in january i joined up with a pre-existing home group of "20-30 somethings", and was immediately accepted as part of the family. the best part was, i don't feel as if it were forced because that's what we're supposed to do as christians, but that those people genuinely welcomed me into their lives...and i did the same. so its only natural that a few of us would consider taking a step further, and living life together in the fullness of the statement.

if we want to truly embrace what it meant to be disciples of christ, i think it's pertinent to follow the examples of those original men and women who walked with him in the flesh. we see ordinary people being called out, and abandoning their own lives...what was important to them...to answer the greatest purpose they would ever find. from there, they spent life together. every aspect was not only with God, but with each other. and thats what we want. we want to take the spiritual experiences...past present and future, and share them fully with one another. thus this crazy idea to move 6-10 of us into one home and begin a journey that holds wonders i'm sure we can't even imagine yet.

that's that. we've only taken a tiny baby step in even considering this pursuit, but my heart is telling me it's going to be a wonderful ride.

i'm way excited about it all, to be perfectly honest. i know that as humans we're not meant to be alone, and the prospect of finally being with people...growing through life with them - i can't help but smile. last night after a brainstorming session, i could barely sleep...thoughts, ideas and hopes we're flying through my brain! it was crazy. and even today as i went about my day in a normal monday fashion, i couldn't help but imagine what it would be like knowing that i had a home with a loving family waiting for me when i leave work. and as i emptied the dishwasher i had excited chills as i realized that living together would encompass a servitude towards one another and our community that perhaps i've never experienced first hand. i do know that this whole endeavor will carry with it some obstacles and hardships. but what would life be without them? i started this blog because of lyrics i heard once, that said:

we break and we bend...
but we turn it inside out
to take it back - to the start...
and through the rise and falling apart,
we discover who we are.

done...and done. :D.

so, if you're so inclined to perhaps add your thoughts, join with us here in so-cal for this endeavor, or just simply lift it up to the Father in prayer...all are gladly accepted :).