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I had a very detail oriented blog tellling you more information than you even wanted to know about my trip.  It got lost, again. Oh well. This happens on this blog regularly, and when the little sign comes up and you realize you've lost your blog-it makes ya sick.  So, I'm claiming Romans 8:28, and just assuming that for whatever reasons the details of my trip shouldn't be shared here.  But if anybody wants to hear any details, just find me and I'll be glad to share.  I will say the trip was incredible, and I learned alot. 

Last night Matt and Erin Blair spoke in Focus and invited Vision to join in, and I'm so glad.  Matt spoke on the Barbarian Way, which is an amazing book on being a radical Christ follower, willing to go against the grain of what's considered the norm in Christianity.  I was encouraged as he talked about he and Erin living this sold-out-for-Jesus lifestyle.  He said that they're closer than they've ever been, and trusting God to meet their every provision as he has decided to not go after the normal Christian industry standard of record labels and publishing deals.  He was willing to talk with me for a bit and I almost felt guilty for taking up his time, but it make me excited in every when he wanted me to listen to a few songs he'd written and tell him what I thought.  It's very inspiring to be around people like them, or at least it is for me.  I was going to go to choir but by the time I was through talking with Matt it was almost 9:00!!  Sorry Joel. 

Now the problem.  How do I take his message and allow it to encourage me to do the radical things God's called me to?  I want to.  But, lately I've felt so knocked down that I just assume I'll fail again.  Do you feel like sometimes people don't get "it"?  It being life, it being God's call, it being your passion.  I'm reading Job and it is so comforting to me.  Talk about somebody misunderstood by everybody.  We think it's so foreign to be rejected by people, but not according to this story.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%209-10;&version=31;

So my prayer for us both today is that we truly will live by the following:Acts 5:29 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! You can trust God today.  Does trusting God mean that we'll never face earthly rejection?  No.  But it doesn mean we can make it through that knowing we are not rejected by the One that matters most.  

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