Enjoying the Journey

This weekend one of my friends was moving out of town, so I had her going away party at my house. I used to always have potlucks at my house for this particular groups of friends, but stopped because no one ever showed up on time. CP Time. There was a guaranteed two hour delay before the party got started and we got to eat. And there are very few things i am pressed about, but i am impatient and don't like to wait too long after a set time. But anyway, it started at 8 and noone even arrived until 8:30. lol. black people. But anyway we had good fun, good food and good fellowship. We cracked ourselves up, it was the equivilant of what my college friends would call a Shuckfest i.e. us eating, talking, laughing, playing games and most of all being loud and crazy. I miss that kind of fun. I will have to reinstate my potlucks and just tell people 6, so we can be eating by 8. Anyway i'm going to miss my friend, one of very few people here i can just be myself and hang out with. But she has gone off to continue on her journey, and doesnt really know what God has for her next, but is moving to the next phase in faith.

Oh, i was in church the other day (i've decided to just stick with the new church which i love, i'm always excited on sundays, and i havent felt like that in a long while) and the pastor said something in passing that struck me, that Jesus was a carpenter for 30 years. I think this struck me because, here he is the king of the universe, with all power in his hand, and he was making furniture for 30 years and did not do one miracle, or anything that had to do with his appointed purpose. This says something of him, not comming into his ministry until the appointed time and him not moving until the father said move. This made me think about how he was just ordinary for way more time then he was extrodinary or doing ministry or fulfilling his purpose. I thought about how i feel so ordinary right now, and I feel like i have so many skills that i am just sitting on. And i am like God, what is with all this, when is my time going to come. Lets get cracking, i feel like I am in the meantime, between time. And others in my life that are struggle with figuring out what they are supposed to do and trying to find out their calling and use their gifts. I feel like so many people are pressed about it these days. And i go back to Jesus was an ordianry carpenter for 30 of his 33 years on earth. Can you imagine knowing that you came to change the world and have to sit on your power for 30 years. Anyway, it made me think that hey, my time will come, chill out, and maybe its just not an appointed time but a journey. And as my mother says "Enjoy the Journey"