After one long day at work, I jumped on my bike to head home to have our house spiritual night. It was an average day for L.A, sunny, breezy, and warm, and as I was enjoying my commute home, I noticed that I was hitting a few bumps harder than normal. I pulled off to [...]
I have tried writing this post 3 or 4 times and each attempt failed. I started by picking some vague, topical issue and then I would attempt to apply my circumstances to it. I got a paragraph in each time before losing motivation and deleting everything I had down. Its frustrating having nothing to share. [...]
When I started EUIP I thought that I would learn about God in a different way than I was used to. I thought I would learn about God the “right way”. I figured being in a community where people read their Bibles daily, prayed, went to church, etc. I would be inspired to do the [...]
I have begun to feel like I have “heard it all” after only being on the job for 7 months. It is making me impatient. This is not a part of myself I like to own up to – my impatience – but it has always been there. And it has not been easy lately [...]
As I have reflected over the course of this year on why I chose to do a year of service and what it means to me, a phrase keeps coming back to my mind. Here I am. Throughout the Bible, servants and prophets of God have responded to His call with this simple, yet powerful [...]
When I first came into it EUIP I thought that the intentional community portion would be like any other roommate situation, but I was wrong.(Another one of my expectations blown) My previous situations included myself living with people but never having any meaningful interactions, unless they were about money or house guests. So when I [...]
With only 4 months left of my year of service with EUIP I’m having to start thinking about what I am going to do next. Where am I going to work and live next year? I’ve always struggled with starting things early and my approach to figuring out my plans for next year has been [...]
From the second I open my eyes in the morning to the moment I get off the bus to go to work at eCALS High school, I find myself in complete silence moving about without uttering so much as a word. It is during these periods that I often make sudden realizations, workout troubling thoughts, [...]
My Morning Prayer book challenged me today to consider the sacredness of the places we set aside for prayer in our homes. So, I looked down at the beautifully worn wood table in our kitchen and began to think about all the ways in which this little table served as the heart of our community. [...]
February is a reflective month for me…not because it has less days to actually reflect in, or the fact that its the end of the fun part of winter (anything post Christmas classifies as the “non fun” part of winter) and thus I am contemplating the meaning of life as I struggle with boredom, but [...]