just wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes, love, and gifts on my b-day last week. I'm really touched by you freindship and thoughtfulness.

i just finished taking a course on Augustine at school...for you pplz who don't know who he is, he's a great thinker, theologian from the early history of the church. one thing that came up in the course was how in the early church community, togetherness, was so much more important then individualism. the Spirit was found among the community of believers. Love for God was shown through the fellowship of believers. Its kinda messed how western culture has given us an ideal of individualism, a just me and God sorta attitude

much love to all those at the praise/new songs nite @ kyrios. it was a joy to worship together with you all, in one heart , one mind. to see your faces intently turned to God. hands raised in submission, in praise.

i should probably go sleep, but theres just too much goin on in my mind. peace

i was doing some reading on the bus ride back from the states and came across this. it made me think about the what we really want to strive for at kyrios and the church as a whole. i found it inspiring...hope you do too.
"most groups of Christian youth are communities, not communions. A community's identity depends on common characteristics, interests, and history. Communions, however, strive for more than having things in common. While communities can exist without intimacy, communions can not. In communities we are generally nice to one another; and while this is true of communions, in communions we also take on the lives of one another - we participate in a common life, united by Jesus Christ, not by mutual interests or similar personalities, and experience the joys and pains of others as though they were our own. This is far more difficult then being nice. Communions require repentance and forgiveness, speaking the truth in love, hospitality and reconciliation, the tender trust of knowing and being known, the assurance that our friends would lay down their lives for us." - "the Godbearing Life"