Allie Ballie

I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now with Rachel Cohen. I just finished reading some chapters in a great book and drinking my chai tea latte. Now I am soaking up the sunlight while writing this, and listening to wonderful musical ballads of coming home. Days like these are few and far between. But when they come I want to lose myself in them. I become the person I want to be. Even if its in a place I feel I am only in temporarily. I appreciate Chattanooga and the people here so much when it's like this. I feel like I can see the whole world from the couch I sit on as I write this. I see the world as a place I want to make a difference in. I don't want to just see the world and not appreciate it, but I want to do something about the problems we have. It gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Be in the world, but not of it." I see what it means the be in the midst of the pain and hurt in the world, but not defining myself by it or anything in it.

I think Jesus gives me these days exactly when I need them. To renew my heart and to give me strength for days to come.