So today a friend asked me why I had stopped blogging and I said cause it took much time and well to be honest I'm not really sure what I would write about but than something hit me. I'd write about what I need most, life.
Life seems to be everywhere around us but what makes a life and how does it matter to me. I could go around and live how everyone else wants me to. Fitting into this prenotion of what life is to be according to this world. Especially now in college there seems to be this way of life that we have to fit into perfectly or otherwise something is not right with you and people begin to worry. I believe is something different though and finally we are at an age where we can decide what that is!
My most interesting class this semester has to be Theology. My prof has studied the Bible forwards and backwards and he has studied the history with it. He brings out all these things I have never even thought of and begins to tie things together. The most interesting part is how you can tell that he believes every part of it but he teaches it to us in a manner that makes us think about it but we don't necessarily have to believe it. It's all facts and than left for our interpretations. His favortie passage of the entire Bible though is the woman at the well. (Yes this whole little blurb actually has something to do with life.) The story of the woman at the well has Jesus asking this woman at the well for water. (The most interesting part of the story but save that for later.) She responds by asking why a Jew would ask a woman who was a Samaritan for water. Jesus repsonds by saying if you knew two things; first if you knew the gift of God and second if she knew who was asking her for a drink than she would have asked him for living water. The story goes on but the woman at the well seems to think that Jesus is talking about some type of water that will quench her thirst. Jesus is really talking about this living water which has a different meaning and this water gives eternal life. This life is supposed to be overflowing. It's supposed to be different and break cultural normalcy. It's supposed to be radical and different. Jesus was pointing to the fact of two things that he is enough for life and because of that we are supposed to have a radical overflowing life!
That life is something I will always strive for. I don't think that we will ever make it there in this life time but we can always strive for it our entire life and always keep learning new ways of how to do it. Trying to be radical is difficult but I think you know that you're in the right spot when everyone is questioning what you are doing. Then you know that you are outside the bubble of normalcy and going against the world. Its an adventure worth living and you begin to understand what life is. The things that are important come into focus and life is worth living.
Live a radical life for him who is enough.
