Another Week Gone By (Including Colossae Week 4)

So this week was a pretty good one! Some stuff is finally coming together which is great and encouraging for me! The engineering job search as I have mentioned a multiple blog entries has been nothing more than stagnant, which I think understandably has been frustrating for me. As I continued to search and try to find any entry level engineering stuff, i just started realizing that maybe I should look for something else at this point, do that job for a while during this transition phase. First of all, because I think it will be healthy for me mentally and socially to have some work and some place that I can easily meet more people. Secondly, I need to start making some money so I can do that little thing that we like to call "SURVIVING". As of Saturday, I was officially hired to be a server at a new California Pizza Kitchen that is opening up here! I am stoked about it! Though this wasn't my college dream: to graduate with a prestigious engineering degree and pick up a waiting job, I really think God is going to use this time to teach me a lot and I am honestly excited to be a server. It is something I always thought I would be good at so I am glad I actually have the chance, I mean, we only live once right? The interview process included 3 interviews... if you think like me, you are probably wondering "what in the world job at CPK needs 3 interviews". If they had done a full background check on me, i would have been a little more curious as well, but I am getting good a role play waiting =). Other than the interviews, and all that Jazz, the week was pretty uneventful, just enjoyed my time with some random hail for a few days.

Now onto Colossae Church Week 4:
So I am still stoked with the church and seeing that passion that everyone is bringing to the group. We are consistently staying at about 20 - 25 people (when I say consistently, that means all 4 weeks that this church has been in existence). This week Chuck spoke out of Acts chapter 4:32-25. This passage is when the apostles show the importance of being one body, and continually providing for the body. As we read through the passage, we began to discuss what it looks like to live as one body, to live where you truly believe that no possession is your own. Some people when they read this are going to be naturally inclined to fear that we have all decided to join a commune and that we are going to make Karl Marx proud through living out fundamental communism....haha, well that isn't what it is about. I am just excited that we are really starting to prod our minds and questions what our priorities, where we struggle in areas of trust, what it looks like to be selfless and thinking about the body over ourselves. We want to be the body of Christ, yet I know that I struggle a lot with this. I personally cling to my independence and as my parents know, I have had the urge to be independent since I was young. The idea of having to be real and show needs when I have them, to actually not rely on myself when I am in need but trust that the Lord and the body are the for me truly scares me. I think that a lot of us feel that we don't ever want to be a burden to someone else. So this passage is definitely challenging in multiple ways, but I am excited to see what God starts doing. It all comes back to the passage from last week: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind." So it was definitely a great 4th week, I am overjoyed!