March 2008 – Page 2 – No Small Talk

So God has put on my heart lately a lot about sending and receiving… messages that we hear and say to one another. I know that for most of my life I have filtered the things people say through the experiences of my past. I also know that when I say things to people I expect them to understand the message in the same way I would. Again when I send a message it’s being done through my life filter.

Over this next week I’ll be building a sermon on the importance of being aware of how others receive your messages and how to send messages in an effect way. I figured this is a good place to process since the written word can be much more thought out.

Get the message?

Pretty much I summed up my trip in my post called “well“. But a few afterthoughts have made their way to my head. The first real bit one hit me last night at church, we had a special children’s service called “The shared family experience”, during the worship time I cried a few tears because I realized that the joy of God and all his goodness was truly understood in these children, and that Alexis and I will be raising our child away from such an amazing ministry. We trust that God himself will be with Emma and that such a ministry is absolutely possible in Poland, it’s just that we have an amazing church here and leaving will be just that much harder now.

I uploaded new pictures to facebook (the albums are public), see part 1 and part 2.

That’s all for now! (my birthday is tomorrow, here’s my wish list).

Month: March 2008

Sending and recieving… TX/RX

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