I'm alive...

"Blogging" would imply that I post often and regularly update my blog "community" on my life. This....I don't know what you would call this thing. I just heard someone say (literally 30 seconds ago) "you can't write about life unless you're living it!" There is truth in that. I guess I could say, I've been "too busy" living my life that I've found little--or actually NO--time to update everyone.

Not sure what happened to Summer 2009, but it's gone. G-O-N-E...gone! But it has certainly been a blast, and I wouldn't trade any of it for even a little more free time - not a chance!

I could write about all the fun things I did, books I read, people I visited, cities I explored...I could even post some of my favorite pictures. But my mind has been hurting and my heart has been heavy with everything God's been teaching me this past week.

One of my close friends shared a verse with me yesterday which just about sums up all this:

"How can we sum this up? All those people who didn't seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives. And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it. How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing. They were so absorbed in their "God projects" that they didn't notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road. And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling. Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together: Careful! I've put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can't get around. But the stone is me! If you're looking for me, you'll find me on the way, not in the way."

~ Romans 9: 30 - 33 (MSG)

ON the way, not IN the way...

I go speechless every time I read this passage and it was only brought to my attention yesterday! In fact, I can't stop reading it.

Ok, I'm going to go read it again. Be back soon to fill you in on my awesome summer...just had to get this out ASAP because my faithful blog VIPs were starting to wonder... :)