Forgot

I forgot, yesterday was a lot of fun. I went out to eat with Nikole, Craig, and Laura. We were celebrating Nikole's bday. Anyway, we went to eat at this place called Chin Chins. At least that's how it's pronounced. So I had some delicious pasta there. Oh, I forgot, on our way there we saw this homeless lady, or just a lady begging and so we stopped to talk to her. Well, I didn't talk, but Nikole and Craig did. We asked her to come to lunch with us, but she refused and pointed to her ankle and said she couldn't walk there. We really wanted to take her to lunch and treat her to a meal. But she didn't, so this disappointed us a bit. Anyway, after lunch we walked around, went to a couple stores, Nikole got her ear pierced (fun experience to be there for that)...and then we stopped and got bread and a meal to go, so that we could give it to the lady we met. Anyway, we walked back and the lady wasn't there.

So we walked around, trying to find homeless to give the bread too. So, after not too long we find a man lying on the ground and we offer him the bread. He says he doesn't want it. But we leave it there beside him anyway. As we walk away, he throws it at us, but we keep walking and hoped that he would eat it anyway.

So yeah, it's tought being an "ordinary radical" here in Korea. But we are trying and that's what matters.

The phrase "ordinary radical" comes from Shane Claibornes book "Irrisistible Revolution." If you haven't read it, I encourage you to read it.

Anyway, after all this we went back to Nikole's and baked a cake and made some awesome icing (okay the icing didn't turn out right, but was still good), and then I went back to work.

Well, just wanted to give you a story of life here in Daejeon. Hoping to find more opportnities to be an "ordinary radical" here. The sermon today was really encouraging as it was from Acts 3 and the healing of the man who couldn't walk.

Which makes me think, why can't we just tell people who are begging and can't walk to just get up in the name of Jesus Christ and walk? We have the power to do this and more. Why don't we use it? What makes us so scared to believe that God can actually heal?

These are just questions going through my head. I wish I knew these answers.

Blessings,

Mike