Posted by: jamiegoldstone | March 16, 2006

FLYING THE COUP!

SO this morning i got up kinda early and went to Gould’s Inlet and watch the early part of the sun rise, is was needless to say magnificent.  After a super fun night out with some friends a few of them got a litle ahh drunk ha ha, i managed to stay sober and just hang out and dance and listne to some live music which is always fun. Afterwards it was my job i felt to get the les coherent ones of the group home and in bed which is fine, i have to say though in the back of my mind the whole time i was think woo i gotta get up in a few, a couple, and then and hour, i knew this would be the case however i was willing to make the sacrifice for some brothers of mine.  Well back to the sunrise, how great it was, the deep reds to the bright yellows and the flourescent oranges that i saw, however i saw something else, the oddest thing.  As the sun was rising i noticed a few birds flying north i guess for the summer, something that i had always heard but never really witnessed first hand.  Well the crazy thing was that at first it was like 10 birds off in the distance and they got almost out of veiw and then they turned around, as i follewed them with my eyes i realized that the were flying back to wait for some other birds that were a little bit back in the distance, so then a back of what seemed like 30 birds did the same thing.  As i watched them fly back to where i first saw them the group went from maybe 30 to 70, it was quite a sight to see.  Well this went on for about 10 minutes, back and forth back and forth until finally when i had to leave there must have been 500 birds turning around once again to get some other birds fying back up north.  As i was driving down east beach i saw the full moono from last night sinking further and further down.  So on the 10 minute ride to waork from there i started thinking a little and it occured to me that though they are girds and we are people we are very much the same, spiritually that is exactly what we do.  When one of our brothers gets a little behind, startes to stumble, or is going in the wrong direction we shgould instinctavley turn around to help them get back on their path.  The more and more i think about it and become more mature spirtually the more and more it is evident to me that community among beleivers is not something to chase after, but something that is neccesary to suceed and finish the race strong, and all for His glory on our flight north.  The other thing that i noticed, was not that the mon was in the south, but from the direction that i was in it almost seemed as if the were flying from the darkness into the light.  I love so sit back when not in the flood as the Davids put it so well last week and whatch God work, like Jay reminded us today in ” the 

2nd cup” today, After God made everthing, he didn’t call it good anymore, he called it very good.  Have you been doing your part in picking up and slowing up, and putting up with the slackers in your life, moreover, do you go back out of your way to help them? :)


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  1. It’s easy to forget that we didn’t get to where we are by ourselves. After reading your blog I was reflecting on all of the people that have influenced my life and who have helped me to get where I am today. I would be a fool to think that I had done this by myself. Our culture celebrates an individual’s accomplishments but how many individuals actually accomplished anything without the help of someone else. Thanks for reminding me that I’m not alone in this crazy world.

  2. Call them balcony people or the great cloud of witnesses but we each have a lot of people pulling for us. People we don’t even realize know us. Community is essential and learning to live in it is hard. It reguires patience and forgiveness. It reguires believing something real and beautiful CAN happen and it requires not giving up when it doesn’t happen as quickly as we would like. Sometimes I think we think it means not getting to the destination as quickly as we could have alone – because we had to turn back to get a fallen friend – but the truth is we will not make it without our fallen friend. We need them – because when we fall they will be the ones that come back for us.


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