What's Your Mission?

Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday, commonly referred to as the birthday of the Church. The focus for Pentecost is mission. When most of us think of mission, we think of going away to different places to help fix things or to tell people about Christ. In reality, the biggest mission call that we have is how we live our lives. St. Francis is attributed with saying, "Preach the Gospel at all times, when necessary, use words." Its important that we remember that we have to walk to the talk. If we say we are a people of love and compassion, then we have to show that to everyone we meet. So the questions that I would challenge you to think about in the wake of Pentecost are these:

How have you shown love lately to those close to you lately?
How have you shown love to those you do not know very well?
How have you shown love to those you do not get along with?

In the immortal words of the Beatles, "All you need is love." How are you going to be love to all you meet in this summer of love?

God is love,
Fraz

What's your I-Pod on?

As I sit in my office begining this adventure of blogging, it is kind of funny that the theme song from Star Wars should come onto my I-pod as it shuffles from song to song. It makes me think about the idea that many times in life we bounce from thing to thing in our lives on our own shuffle pattern without really trying to take the time to organize things into a playlist that makes sense.

As summer is approaching and we are given a chance to take time to step back and look at things, I would challenge you to take time to think about what you want to be as your favorites in your life. What is it that are the things you want to make a priority this summer? Is it friends, family, sports, vacations?

Summer is a time of rest and relaxation so why not take some time out of the calendar this summer to work on your relationship wiht God?