"My Cup Runneth Over"

I had yet another day off today, but I’m not complaining. Woke up late since Wishes kept me up last night (again let me just restate, epic). Got up and kinda had a lazy morning. I took care of some internship things like activating my Disney debit card, almost ordering books for classes, ya know, the basics. Did some more reading, caught up on some I Love Lucy, which oddly enough has become my coping technique when I’m feeling homesick. Odd? Tonight, I headed to Hollywood Studios with the friends I made at my “Traditions” class to catch the Fantasmic show; however, epic fail, it wasn’t playing tonight, so we decided to just hop on a bus and head over to the Magic Kingdom again (oh, the perks that come with being an internship student ☺). We rode some rides, ate some dinner, and watched some “SpectroMagic.” We got a little rained on, but it only made the night better!
Another great piece of answered prayer. I’ve been praying that God would supply me with some Christian friends while I’m down here. Well, “my cup runneth over.” My friend Jill from “Traditions” brought two friends with her tonight for our Fantasmic excursion. Kayla and Jenn are both Christian girls. Kayla is Baptist and Jenn, Presbyterian. We got to talking and I think we might try to head to church together whenever we can. Seriously, we have one awesome God!
As far as reading goes, I jumped into chapter nine in my book. It was filled with stories about Christians that live or have lived obsessed lives. It talked about Rich Mullins, Rachel Saint, and Shane Claiborne just to mention a few. Chan makes the statement, “I hope [these stories] have eliminated every excuse for not living a radical, love-motivated life. I hope they have challenged the multitude who ‘feel called to the rich’ and ignore the poor” (Crazy Love, p.164). This is such a bold statement that brings with it heavy amounts of conviction for someone like me. I have been blessed my entire life (I’m at Disney World for goodness sake), and I get nervous thinking about how much I haven’t really given back to the Lord. After all, all these blessing have been given to me from his gracious hands, I need to not hoard them for myself, but give them back to Him by giving them to others. Most people look at this as just giving their money, and like Chan said, that’s definitely a part of it, but it comes with the giving of your time and abilities too. There are some tremendous volunteer programs offered me while I’m down here and I need to take advantage of them.
Also something else, in Aaron Stern’s podcast last night, he touched on the subject of demonstrating you have faith by living it out. He made the claim that you really don’t believe in what you don’t act out. I thought that was pretty bold! I’m not sure exactly how I feel about that one yet, still sorting through it—just something to think about my few BUT BELOVED readers ☺.