Sweet Kona

this week the students are off to Kona, a city on the Big Island, leaving us staff here at the now ridiculously quieted base. They're participating in a series of lectures given by professors at Bethel College in Redding, California as well as staying with the YWAM base there. and guys, this base is HUGE! it runs like a university and is more or less the hub of YWAM around the world. They run dozens of different schools there so it's very much a change of pace;( i.e., last year, in my Kona week, a group of 20 or so four-year-olds helped usher us into the presence of God by being the first ones to dance in a worship session of upwards of 6 hundred people. later the tiny-infant-missionaries were found praying for healing over the sick in my school; later that night, at a worship concert, i saw two senior citizens willingly crowdsurf = )
even the southern baptists dance over there! )
anyway, this week there's only ten of us or so on the base. needless to say, cooking for 10 people is somewhat easier than cooking for 60, especially when some of them are fasting this week, so it's been a welcomed reprieve. i'm still busy, but it's not the controlled chaos that it can be = )
it's been good. i've gotten a chance to just sit and hear the Lord whisper to me. being still. knowing God is God and He's got this whole life/future/world/whatever held in everlasting hands so i can stop wringing mine and freaking out.

Zephaniah 3:17

The LORD your God is with you,
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with his love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."

i think i've spent a lot of my life thinking that Jesus is like some
cosmic social butterfly. but that's not quite it. He spent just as much of His earthly time, if not WAY more, in solitude and prayer as He did preaching to crowds and lovin' on kids. it's amazing to know that Yeshua is equally introverted as He is extroverted, to know for myself and all the other back-of-the-classroom, short phone calls and long emails, forget-to-wear-pants-before-i-ever-forget-my-journal kinds of people: God doesn't think we're wierd

this week hasn't been necessarily life changing nor this revelation heaven-rending and it doesn't need to be. it's just been sweet to taste and see the Lord's goodness these couple days.