Motion and motionlessness
I left Peoria Sunday, spent two nights with my roommates at Olivet, and am now back home... chillaxing, researching nursing jobs out East, being with my family, starting to read nursing school textbooks again.
And I'm reading The Irresistible Revolution too... a little more than nursing school textbooks. Ha. Who's surprised?
I love The Irresistible Revolution. The only thing I don't love about it is that it makes me feel guilty for sitting still reading it when I could be out there trying to change the world like Shane Claiborne and the people he mentions are doing.
I keep wondering what Jesus did for the first 30 years of His life. And did He have to ward off feeling guilty for not starting His ministry sooner?
Having read the book, I agree that it is a great book, but guilt is not something we should feel if we are convinced that we are called to do exactly what we are doing. Grace frees us from the 'obligation' to do wonderful things, we are called to be honest, broken human beings. If God has not called me to be a student (as I am) then I can feel guilty, but I believe he has called me to be a student, and has not yet called me to live the life of Shane.
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