I guess it's been nearly a month since I last posted. The blog I most officially endorse didn't even exist the last time I posted. It's this by the way. There are two posts now.
But I have some reason. Well, thirteen of those days have no reason...at least ten of them I probably didn't do anything but waste time not fund raising amid the fund raising I was doing. But since June 21st, I've been very much all over the place. 10 days in Wisconsin, 2 days in Wooster, 2 days in Findlay...about 13 hours at home somewhere in there.
All of it was great.
All of it was full.
Some of it was magical.
In Madison, I participated in InterVarsity's Orientation for new staff. It was ten full, full, full days...but I've never been so energized to raise support, I've never been so in love with the mission. I've never been so ready for what God's going to do on campus this year. I'm not always enamored with being at Hillsdale, but after ONS, I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter where I am: it is a privilege to be involved in God's mission in the world no matter what town or campus I'm serving.
Every single time a friend gets married, my life feels new. It's nowhere near as new as it is for the married friend. But life is attached to community more than we might realize (and some of us wish we would both realize and act in that direction more often). I actually thought I'd be a lot more emotionally unstable last Friday than I was...that's good, but it will always take awhile to think about people as a unit that isn't just a unit but is, by definition, a unit exclusive to itself.
It really makes quarrels about women taking men from their friends seem ridiculous. (vice versa as well).
I'm not quite feeling up to writing tonight...I just felt like I should and didn't really have anything else to do right now. I should probably try to get some sleep, but I slept too much today already and that's going to be hard.
I should probably say something about LeBron, but all I can say is that I hope he comes back. A lot more than a simple basketball player choosing a team is underneath...He's not just Cleveland's best chance for a championship since the mid-nineties Indians, he is probably Cleveland's best chance for a championship for the next 10-15 years. I would hate to see that squandered....I can't blame him as a person for leaving..he can do as he pleases...but Cleveland needs hope for something. Sure, it's just sports, but Cleveland is a city full of people that could use a lift, if even for a sports season...thankfully true hope isn't found in sports. Even so, civic pride and reputation can go a long way and bringing the Kingdom to a place.
That's what I hope, pray, and act for at least. Is it okay to pray that LeBron makes one decision or another? I don't know. But when I pray he returns to Cleveland, it has a lot less to do with sports and a whole lot to do with a city and region of the world in desperate need of all forms of justice.
-Zack
"I guess every super hero need his own theme music"
-Kanye West
