Thank you for your terrific sense of humour, your patience, your lovely stories and being yourself and being willing to share all this.

I found the answer to my question last night while I was reading the bible before bed (a new habit!). God tells Moses and the Isrealites that they must not worship any other God because he is a jealous God! And that they must not show affection for other God’s. This is interesting to me because God doesn’t say that no other God’s exist but that you shouldn’t show affection to the others. And honestly as I look around, the happiest most tolerant people I have encountered thus far are Christians.

I am in FL on a work trip and last night in the hot tub I ended up talking about heaven with some Catholics from Omaha. One guy could not believe the conversation we were having! It’s as if the conversations from Maui transplanted themselves here.
I guess the conclusions I am coming to are in regards to heaven–how can we expect to be effective spiritually in the next realm if we aren’t effective in this realm? This is called progression and seems like a combination of “heaven” in the philly cream cheese bible way and reincarnation buddha style.

I am really challenged by the things that are so clear in the bible, to love thy neighboor and also to love people we are indifferent to as well as our enemies and above all to love God. I feel like a big hoser because I am doing exactly what the show was set up for, I am questioning things intensely and have already accepted that Jesus is God. Though it may be to reason there are more than one God out there, Jesus, Ya Weh, the LORD have done some of the most amazing miracles back when he came to us in the form of a being. Now I just feel God as an entity. Perhaps because we think too much these days the Great Mystery no longer appears as a being, with his big hand coming out of the sky to praise meat sacrifices!

Someone told me that prayer and sacrifice go hand in hand. This is my new meditation for the day. Thank you all of you at Dare 2 Share, the best days are ahead of us yet.

I also have to do a good bit of pre-evangelism as most of the kids that I work with (and I think the same is true for kids not in lock up) are biblically illiterate.

Wow! It was awesome to have you as part of GJ Maui. You did a phenomenal job representing your point of view. You had mentioned that you may have some questions for me. Do you? I’d love to talk to you about them. Let me know and then I can get your contact info from Blake to continue the conversations that we all started in Maui. This time though, instead of on a Volcano or in a boat we’ll talk over e-mail…not as fun but still effective!

Hey Heather!

I’m proud of you! It’s only taken me 42 years to learn how to dialogue in love about our differences. George Whitefield (preacher man from over 200 years ago) used to pray “God give me the mixture of the lion and the lamb.” I’ve always been more lion than lamb. But, thanks to much prayer and a wife that reminds me constantly to put others first I have been able to see improvement in that area. So keep up the good work!Keep engaging all your friends with the claims of Jesus while remembering that the biggest argument that we have is the love of Jesus poured forth through our lives and lips.

Becky…keep up the research! you go girl!