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WNF Devo

8.19.09

By: Tim Walker

Wow!! How amazing was this weekend?  God moved and was present.

Did you really see Him?

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so Back-to-School Retreat 2009 is over. and it was kind of…well…sweet really.

really?

really.

and i only got to see it from my eyes. i didnt even get to experience all the fun and chaos that you saw. so for those of you that are blog friendly - share your favorite moments or outtakes or random chaos that you got to see with the rest of us.

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Impossible

There are so many things I want to do and see that I know are impossible.  Once in a while I will have a dream in which I have the ability to fly.  On these rare occasions in the dream I really feel a sensation of flying, swooping up and down.  I am able to soar over the city and on to roofs and walls. Ohhh I wish I could fly…but I can not.

At night I will take out my telescope and peer up into the night sky at far away galaxies and nebulas.  I imagine what the view of the suns, stars, and skies must look like.  The planets themselves would be amazing and strange.  I would so love to be able to instantly transport myself around the universe and just see the greatness of creation…but I can not.

Here on Earth I see suffering and need.  I see lonely people.  I see so many who are lost and depressed.  I see a world that in so many ways is starving for meaning and life.  I want to fix what is broken.  I want to heal what is hurt.  I want to feed those who are hungry.  I want to give them hope.  I want to reveal a God who is and will always be.  I want them to see a savior who loves and forgives.  I want them to have the hope and promise of eternal life.  But often as I look at the troubles of the world they seem too big.  I feel like I just…can not.

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