A year ago, blogging was left to the side of the road as I took up a few other callings in my life. But after a year, I've felt the draw to return sorting, processing, and sharing. The adventures of this Foreign Albanian have continued on... in this year I've been silent.
I've since traveled back home twice, once at Christmas and once just a few weeks ago on a research trip. God has been faithful, and this year has been like none other.
Summer has started, and the long days are stretching into the evening. God's whispers are in the cool still spring wind of Oregon, and his glory is painted in the skies.
As always, there is a point to my writing, a personal calling and challenge of my Lord. This summer the challenge is to manhood, to learn who I am. I was at a weekend conference last month on Identity and one of the speakers described sanctification as becoming who we already are. He gave two illustrations, that of a husband and a father. On his wedding day, a man becomes a husband. It's who he is, and nobody denies that. BUT then he spends the rest of his life learning what it means to be a husband and striving to become who he already is. The same goes for a man who before the birth of his first child is not a father, but then one day becomes a father. He can never not be a father now, but he sill spend the rest of his life learning and growing into who he already is.
I need not prove my manhood, or even my status as a son of God, but I have felt a specific calling to truly learn what it means to be a man of God.
This spans over every aspect of my life from what I do when I'm at home to who I am with friends or strangers. This is my summer's journey, so far it's been amazing!
There are too many to talk about right now as my mind get's overwhelmed by the thought of even trying to mention all the lessons and thoughts that have been pouring into my head, but I guess a lot of them will need their own blogpost!
I guess this will be nothing more than an introduction, and the summer will tell how much I will actually write about my "Summer of MAN!" as I like to call it!
(after reviewing some of my old posts I see a DISTINCT need for brevity which I am now instituting!)
