Wouldn't It Be Beautiful If

One thing I realized over the past couple months.

Wouldn't it be cooler if instead of going on beach week, a class decided to serve for a week? Sigh. Beach week is really dumb in my opinion, it has the potential for something beautiful I won't deny it. But... if anything it's like a narrow path and a wide one haha. Wide for being a waste.

But serving is a gift from God, it's an opportunity. So why not do it instead? Of course this is idealistic cause not everyone wants to serve. Not everyone should serve in the same ways as other people. Etc. Sometimes it's worse for a short term missions to come then if they had not come.

But wouldn't it be beautiful? Wouldn't it be beautiful if we didn't restrict helping others out to just spring break or maybe winter break or summer break, but we found ways to involve it all year round?

Honestly, I've gotten closer to people I've gone on service trips with than others. And I decided to go to beach week on a whim cause it's the last one, and already I'm regretting it. Maybe... I'll just go back to Little Lights by myself or something. Who knows.

It's funny though. My mindset for the previous two years was completely different concerning beach week. I looked forward to it, although I only went once. But now... haha. How fickle am I...

Ya... I just feel like serving is cooler. And interestingly enough, it helped me work harder over the past couple days-ish or at least more efficiently. If you are an underclass and reading this, don't think there are but just in case, next year try to go on a service trip instead of beach week. Maybe keep it somewhat less intense than Hana, but like even Habitat or something. I dunno... if you do LL make sure you do prayer walks and try to just talk to people in the city and maybe share the Gospel with them, and if not that just share the love of Christ through actions. But ya... this is the end of my rant/thought.

In the end, God be praised. In prayer and petition I shall lift up my requests, and I just ask that You would lead me. Do not let my cynicism and foolishness detract from the fact that You are great and work beyond all ways that I can understand. Let me focus more on You and less on me or my thoughts. In Jesus name, amen.