Hello friends!
It all started a few weeks ago. Ed and I were driving with our friend Dave, and Katy Perry's new single happened across the radio. As is often the case when a pop song that actually sounds good shows up, we all affirmed that it was indeed a good pop song. There are so few. It even seemed to have, to at least our amateur listening ears, a semi-Spiritual message hiding in its lyrics. Thus began the thinking.
A few weeks later, as we were sitting around trying to determine the theme for our year at Veritas, the ideas were bouncing around the office like wildfire. Actually that's not true. A 6th theme is hard to come up with without repeating the previous 5. And so we thought until smoke came out of our ears. And then the song appeared again, and we knew it in a heartbeat. This year, Veritas would wake up.
Boy, we need it don't we? Looking around at the various blog posts I've put up this week, all of which seem to surround Christianity and the news, it would appear as though most of us who are practicing Christians are sound asleep. We are sound asleep to how our words are used, heard, and interpreted by those who need the living word most of all. We are sound asleep to what it looks like to make hay out of a fast food restaurant rather than have a civilized debate about where we might disagree. We are sound asleep to the grace of God in our world.
"Wake up sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you." (Ephesians 5:14)
Are you wide awake? Are you wide awake to the way God is moving in your life? In your family? In your relationships? In your community? In your workplace? Are you wide awake to how your lifestyle affects those around you and around the world? Are you wide awake to your relationship with God? Or are we in some kind of half-snoozing slumber, where things are happening, but we're only a little aware of it?
Come to Veritas starting August 29th, and wake up.
Godspeed,
J
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