Routine

Wow, has it only been two and a half weeks? Well, to answer my own question "yes." But it also feels much longer. As I was reflecting about why we are as tired as we are I realized that from the first full day we have been here we have been working. We have had two days off so far, but that is changing this week, as we have been allowed to slack a bit. But more importantly, the church has changed a lot in two weeks. Incredible! It is so fortunate for us to have been able to witness progress in a large scale that quickly after we arrived. It has given me personally encouragement and the desire to do more, to make this building look even more beatiful then it is. I know that so often the more subtle changes that go unnoticed are as important or even more important in such things as renovating the church. But it is energizing nonetheless to see big and drastic change.

And it seems that we are slowly starting to work ourselves into a routine, which is nice and important I think. This week we get two days off completely, with two days of work and then today which was meeting+hanging with the Pritzkaus day. To top it all off, we found this store fairly close to were we boys reside which sells so many cool things that it is very hard to not spent money there. It is a craft store, but it has all sorts of neat things, starting with amazing Lego sets to build-it-yourself models of all kinds of things to the cherry that tops it all of which is this: die-cast airplane models. Man, that store is like heaven. So today, upon going there a second time, here is my purchase: A model of a Swissair DC 8-53 that flew with Swissair under registration HB-IDB, and was converted sometime in the sixties from a -32 to -53. Anyways, its a 1:500 model, and it's very detailed. It is painted in classic Swissair livery and it is beautiful. If this piques your interest do look the registration on Google and you will find tons of pics.

Now, to finish this rather uninteresting post of I want to quote out of 2. Corinthians 12:9

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

This verse has popped up a couple times this last week and again today and I find it very appropriate for our team and for myself. I hope that I can continually let God work out of my weaknesses rather then I working out of my strenghts. I realize how we often just try to be strong, or smart, or practical; we all try to be somebody. And yet, God does not ask us to be any of that, he does not ask of us to be something we are not. All he ask of us is that we give everything to him, including our weaknesses that we so often try to hide from this productivity-driven world we live in and let him take care of it. And the promise and often for us the dread is that God will not always use our strenght, but his true power comes in that he uses our weakness. I believe that is harder for us to embrace the we think, and so I will keep on trying and praying and surrendering.