 Almost Friday my friend
I am still so jet lag, so hard to get up in the morning and to fall as sleep early.
Your personal crazy nut wrote while she was waiting the kick-off the opening of the conference. I wanted to record the thoughts that went through my noodle and share them with you. I was not alone, you were with me all the time in my thoughts. This conference entrance looks like a finish line, don't you think/agree?
Friday February 24 2:30-ish p.m. "I am sitting at a coffee shop having a hot cocoa and a croissant. The conference starts at 4:00 p.m. and I just walked around the convention center, looking at people. I am wondering what brought them here. Of course I have to answer that question myself. -Around the end of November I think, I ran into a paid add on Face Book of the conference. It caught my attention and I browsed through the conference website. My heart was pounding, you know like when you find something you have been looking for. I prayed about and God provided the resources for this trip, in a G-d amazing kind of way. God nudged my heart and I acted on that. Since that day my heart has been waiting with expectation, as if it knows that something big is going to happen that will change the direction of my life. I do not know how drastic or how soon that will happen or if or how it will happen; maybe it will all happen unnoticed and I will realize years after this weekend how much it changed me. My expectation that something big will happen though is not attached to whether something specific happens tonight or tomorrow or not. This could be a marker of an defining moment in my life. By Monday, I pray I will be able to put in words how this influenced me.  Looking at the crowd, I see youth, young adults, middle age adults and elder adults. Each gender is well represented both male and female. This community is very diversified; there are Hispanics, Anglo-American, African-Americans, African-Caribbean, Indian, Native Americans, you name them, they are here. All united for two days to learn how we can impact the world and deliver/support justice for God's people. What creatures are these that travel miles and miles away to attend a conference on an issue that is so wide and so hard to fight for? Jesus said that there will always be poor people, is it perhaps that God's oppressed people are the best way for G-d to get us to long for his coming? His second coming is all about judgment of the world and fighting evil for once and for all. To me living for Justice is living expecting the second Advent of Christ with the conviction that we will see that day come ourselves. We live by faith and not by sight, yet it is so hard to keep a fresh perspective. This verse comes to mind: 2And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn-bush: and he looked, and behold, the thorn-bush burned with fire, and the thorn-bush was not being consumed. 3And Moses said, Let me now turn aside and see this great sight, why the thorn-bush is not burnt. 4And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him out of the midst of the thorn-bush and said, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:1-4 
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