Monday, March 29, 2010

epic road trip adventure

Maybe we'll go camping tonight...

Day 3 of the epic road trip adventure and Jeannie & I have not camped yet. We have had some great adventures, though.

First, we missed a ferry and got ice cream. Then, we explored the UW campus. We crashed at the coolest house in all of Seattle. We worshipped Jesus with the people at Mars Hill Church. We drove 4 hours to see the Goonies house. We climbed every stair of the Astoria column and stood on the observation deck in 40 mph winds. We tried to get a yurt at Fort Stevens...but they were all full. We took our pictures with the wreck of the Peter Iredale. We stayed at a Hostel in Seaside. We listened to the rain and wind beat against the hostel window until 3 am.

That pretty much brings us to now...

Jeannie's still asleep, so I have some time to catch up on life using the wi-fi at the Hostel (it works now that the storm is over!) The verse I've been coming back to againandagainandagain this week:

"LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am."
Psalm 39:4 NAS


When I texted this verse to Megan on Thursday, she thought I was depressed or suicidal or something. But it's more beautiful than that. "Let me know how transient I am." A prayer to cling to for the trusting side of eternity.


On this Spring Break road trip, there is no plan. We can't be late because there is no time line.  We can't get lost because there is no destination. Somewhere along the way, I hope to get more comfortable with this concept of trust. Because, right now, it's stretching me more than I want to stretch! In fact, I'll probably march back to the room soon to wake up Jeannie so we can keep heading down the coast...


But to be transient in life...


The psalmist isn't talking about couch-surfing or temp jobs, I don't think. More like: we are passing through our time on Earth so quickly. We have eternity to worship God, but only right now to share about Him. We only have right now to trust Him. We just have right now to be His hands, His feet.


Lord, let me know how transient I am.




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2 comments:

  1. Pom PomMarch 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    I love this verse and it jives with the book I'm reading. I am thrilled for you and Jean Jean the Dancing Machine. How fun to take an epic road trip with your sister. I know I would love to do that with my sister. We'd laugh, I know. Somehow, we tickle each others' funny bone! Bless you. Enjoy! Say hello to the ocean for me. I glimpsed it's other half in Australia.

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  2. nicoleMarch 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM

    so awesome Laura. what a beautiful picture to see ourselves as transient, trusting fully in the Lord to lead us. i'm so glad that you're having fun on your trip!!

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Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving. For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light – for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth – and find out what pleases the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. But all things being exposed by the light are made evident. For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:

“Awake, O sleeper!

Rise from the dead,

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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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