Sleepy... but with a voice.

1:30 bed times are not healthy... but Conversing with my heavenly Father is... mmm I'm sure these 2 can balance at some point... lol especially if i take more time during daylight hours to chit chat :P Anyways. Today was pretty epic, so enough about last night...

One highlight of the day was Convocation. Its Student week of prayer and while I have been far from faithful about actually attending that, today's AM one nice it was about prayer and such but honestly my favorite part was song service. There is something inspiring  about singing with friends and then having the whole student body as well.

In other news, Intro to Ministry was really good today as well. We ended up getting into a discussion on Truth vs Love as far as outreach is concerned. Well I should say they got into a debate. I formed my opinion and then sat back and listened as they overlapped one another, in most cases. Later, a fellow classmate ran into me and encouraged me to speak out more in class. I responded that I learn more from listening but maybe sometime I would.  - well even though I suppose it doesn't count to write about it on here, here's my take:

In reaching other people and taking the commission to heart - Love and Truth need to be balanced. They need each other to actually work. - like gears of a machine, the "teeth" of each interlock to better make our evangelism effective.

You can't just force truth to people and expect them to accept it - Read your dusty history books if you don't believe me. Check out colonial eras and various native people who "Christians" forced into belief. Or take a look at at the more modern example of the rebellious teenager who is fighting against all the years of forced repetitious (yet empty) ceremonies.  Truth without love is bondage.

Now then on the other hand, the "all we need is love" theory doesn't work either. (reference the hippies and other flower children movements) If all we needed was love, then God would not have had to DIE to show us the truth of the destructive/darkness of sin. He could have just loved us back to Himself without the unveiling of the truth of our perilous situation.

In the question of truth and love, we as  a lost human race need both. They work together, despite their  surface differences. Just as God is full of both Justice and Grace (a whole another topic in itself), we have to present both the love and truth when pointing people to Him. Nature was created by God, and nature is naturally balanced, so is it really any surprise that He would use the same principle when setting up basic principles of His church?

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton