Sunset at Heritage Park in Kirkland

serious breaking of the law right here in Pike Place market.

Needing a shaking...

Over the past month or so, I have been asking God to help me become child-like again - not childish, but child-like. When I look back on my life over the past several years, I realize that I have become so engulfed in doing things in my own strength and within my own limits. I feel like I have been building and establishing my own life and material goods. I am not saying that establishing things in life is bad, but I have been caught up in creating a comfortable life. This past weekend, I allowed some time to reflect on the differences between my life and the disciples life in the Bible. I cried some deep tears because I realized that I have not been focused on the hurting, needy, hopeless people that I come across on a daily basis. I am convinced that one of the enemies greatest tactics is to get us busy building our own comfortable lives so that we gradually stop noticing the hurting, lonely, poor, broken people. One of the greatest things we as people hold onto is our time. So, if we are busy building our own comfortable lives, then even if we do see the hurting, needy, and broken people, we may immediately reason that we don't have time to love them, because it doesn't fit into our focus of creating a comfortable life. I pray that we lose our comfortable lives and get desperate about loving people unconditionally and giving of our lives to see the lost found, the hurting restored, the broken mended, and the hopeless restored to Hope! Help us get uncomfortable God!