Random - Double take...

Been spending a bit of time looking though more pictures for the Grad Video CD. Although most of the new stuff I got doesn't help me much (mostly have past grads...), it's interesting to once again dive back into this environment...big CCF names has passed by over and over again, names I've started attaching faces to just from this project. People like Alexis. Sofia. Waiki. Jiffy. Andrew Wong. People who (from these pictures anyway) seems to have been around for a long time...Joyce, Jane, JT, Johnny...even a few random shots of PT, Heidi and Auntie Maureen (but it was at KWCAC, so not really CCF...)

It just seems so far removed from me, even though these events only happened last year...or two years ago...or three...funny how much people pass though CCF, yet it still looks so much the same. Random outings. A trip to the Ontario Science Centre. All the retreats. Lifesong.

I guess I've been reflecting on Auntie Maureen's latest words, based around this Sunday's sermon. Quite often we don't know what we're doing...just...waiting. Offering what little we have and just waiting...even a little boy offered his five bread and two fish, before just sitting down and waiting...

I think, when we're fighting a war on multiple fronts, it's inevitable that we lose some battles. As painful as that would be, it's true. You can't defend four or five sides all at once. In our limited sight, we can't really see the full picture, and focus on the one or two pieces that we just lost...instead of thinking of the ten or twenty pieces we can get from that one sacrifice. What are we exactly called to do? Does one ever question the way he walks?

Maybe instead of praying for the ability to run, we must first pray for the power to stand...