day 2b Work Mustard Seed Blitz Mustard Seed

so after a day like today it is hard to write the things we would want to say.... just know that our view of the workings of the world is constantly being reworked... that a static scripted worldview passed down may not be informed enough to survive... as a team of young students, college aged, and adults we were all touched by the stories of men, women, and children that we met today.... from a former sound tech for van halen who likes to bike at night, to a rambunctious asian-canadian boy with a rat tail, to a set of ladies from the Caribbean, to a young guy who just never took advantage of his privileges until now, to a fiery old gal who biked 100 miles to make it for a meal... we lived the life of a bottle picker this morning, we learned that there is a sub-economy for those living on the street... bottles and cans are the reap from the fields of dumpsters and dealings with small businesses... 

zac's take-

i dont want to be preachy, but i think there was a reason that the top ten list for Jesus's friend circle consisted of the publicly broken and marginalized... there is a clarity with hurting that deeply, there is a reclamation of humanity at the end of the rope... it is either a way out or a noose for sure eh... we that live with our private sins of the mind, body, and heart can live from day to day in our own battered darkness seeping and soaking in the privacy of our own kerneled dens... but eventually all of our sin leads us to death whether in the public sphere or the silent corridor it all comes around eventually... 

i dont know where you are in life friends but all our hearts, all of humanity cries out from a brokenness, you and i may have different issues that are weighed differently by a broken society and that our diversity fragments reflect on the pavement but we are all in need of a grace that is greater

mission is not a charter, organization, job, calling, or career but the unique/communal character of God

that to partake in the divine is to assimilate, replicate, duplicate, disciple into, follow hard, model, reflect...

and i am beginning to think that Grace Rescue Mission is a divine redundancy