Change

Ok, yeah, so, I have been urged to continue on blog, as I have been negligent in said activity. My apologies for said negligence.
So, I try and keep these to generally one main subject so they are easier to digest, and have less tendency to bore or confuse. Today the subject is change. Many people say that change is good, that it is necessary. I believe this to be true; if there were no change life would be one long monotonous rut. Even though this is true, I don't think it makes it much easier for anyone.
The change that I want to talk about though is a good one.
Have you ever been reading, watching a movie, or just sitting around contemplating life as you know it; and suddenly have an epiphany. Well, this weekend on a Memorial trip in more ways than one, which provided enough material for this blog as well as a few more I have cooking upstairs, lightening struck my brain. Not in a literal sense of course, as I would most likely not be blogging at this point of time, but in the sense that things clicked and a thought entered my brain that just blew me away. Now the following thought may not be new or original to me, but making the connection I made just provided that much more incite into my Creator.
I was reading a book called "Messy Spirituality" which I highly recommend as an eye opener to what a Christian life should look like, when I came across a passage that related the Story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. This connected me to the parable of the Good Samaritan and this is where the lightening struck. For some background: To the people that authored the Bible , Samaritans were little more than waste to the Jewish people, they were a wayward and evil nationality that were to be avoided at all costs. Jesus ignored this unspoken rule of the Jewish people when he offered a different kind of water to the Samaritan woman at the well.
Now this is what got me: When you hear the word "Samaritan" what do you think? Do you hear a filthy bread of creature to be reviled and avoided? No, your immediate reflex is to think of the servanthood and kindness of the Good Samaritan portrait in Christ's tale of a Samaritan helping one who hated him and his kind. With one small tale that most likely took less than 5 minutes to tell, He turned around the view of a whole nationality for the rest of history. A whole nation got their "rep" reversed by one solitary story. That is unheard of.
Yeah I know this is a bit more of a heavy, dramatic blog than my previous but this just struck me me as incredibly important to relate. Now I have been a Christian for quite some time and I know now as I have grown and realized some things about myself that if not for my upbringing and my beliefs that I would be a much different person, and definitely not for the better. God has changed my life in many ways and continues to do so day in and day out. But when I think about what He can do for a whole nation by just telling a story, I know I am not taking full advantage of my relationship with Him. When I see what he can do with a few words, it makes me want to delve that much deeper into my relationship with my Lord.
So, this is my return to blog, I don't have any media recommendations other than the book mentioned above at the moment but I'm sure as the summer movie season starts up there will be more in due time.

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