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I thought I'd share this video that was shown at the end of the sermon yesterday at our church.  I'm not sure how many reading this are familiar with Francis Chan, but this guy is on a whole new level when it comes to serving the Kingdom...if we, as Christians, were all on his level, this world would look totally different.  I read his book "Crazy Love" a while ago and it messed me up something fierce.  It took me a long time to get through it because it stepped on my toes in the most uncomfortable, but necessary way.


Catalyst East 2010: Francis Chan from Catalyst on Vimeo.

Recently I made the decision to go back to school.  It makes absolutely no sense...and I readily tell people this when they ask me about it!  I never thought I'd want to be a student again, but I really feel like this is something that I'm deciding to do, knowing that the outcome will be bigger than 'me'.  My hope is to start nursing school at the beginning of 2012, spending this next year taking some pre-requisite courses at York Tech.  I'm the kind of person who needs to know what steps 3 and 4 are before I even start on step 1 and let me tell you, I have NO IDEA how all of this is going to work out.  I just know that  I'm enrolled in the class I need to take next semester and that I've given this whole process to God so steps 2, 3, 4 and so on are going to be totally what HE wants them to be.  Our church was doing a series on the book of Esther the Sunday that this was all laying heavy on my heart and the key verse was the following:

"For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.  And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14

It's the 2nd part that messed me up the most.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to start this endeavor at this point in my life...but what if that means this is the exact time I'm supposed to go after it.  Also, if I were to do nothing with what God was screaming so loudly at me that Sunday, I can without a doubt tell you the outcome...nothing.  God is at work in our world everywhere, every day.  He doesn't NEED me to get the job done (HE is God, after all), but what would happen if I took a big trip out of my comfort zone, stepped into His bigger plan, and met Him where He is already at work...what would that look like for my life?  I guess I'm about to find out!