We Have Ice Cream!

Yes, I'm going to write about another chapel speaker. I'm sorry, they're just such Godly people and they always astonish me. Today, Shane Claiborne was the guest speaker for APU's chapel.

The first topic that he brought up was the fact that the amount of people that are dying of over-consumption is almost as high as the amount of people dying of under-consumption. Gandhi said it best, "The world is big enough to satisfy everyone's needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyone's greed." Deuteronomy 15:11 says "There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land." This is one of the many verses that is saying that those who are able to give to those who are needy, should give to the needy. We have no room to be greedy and keep what equally belongs to everyone.

Mother Teresa was truly a saint. Shane wondered about her deformed feet, but he didn't want to ask her about them. One day, a nun asked him if he has noticed her feet and he replied that he has. She said that they would get enough shoes for everyone in their town to get one pair each. Every time, Mother Teresa would dig through the shoes to find the worst pair and she'd wear them so nobody else had to. This caused her feet to be deformed.

Shane said that they would throw parties once a week in their town. One week, a little boy told Shane that it was his birthday and he knew he wasn't going to get anything. Shane wasn't supposed to give anyone more than anyone else got, but Shane gave the little bot an ice cream cone. The little boy yelled "We have ice cream!" The boy had his little friends line up and let everyone take a lick. The kid was able to share his ice cream with all of his friends, because that is how Mother Teresa treated them. She taught them to treat each other equally.

Turning Dreams Into Material.

Chapel was lead by Erwin McManus, it was an amazing message. I have never heard of him before today, but he is an awesome speaker. He is a pastor and author. He unknowingly attended a Christian college and that's where he started his journey with Christ at the age of twenty. He's come so far from knowing nothing about God.

Something cannot come from nothing, nothing comes from nothing. God is eternal and He is proof that we didn't come from nothing. The world did not come from nothing. God has ideas, He imagines, then He brings to existence. He materializes His ideas and it is our job to do the same with our ideas. We have dreams and goals, because God gave us the ability to have them. He didn't give anything else on the face of the planet the ability to think up ideas. We don't see cats or dogs building anything. It is our job to turn our imagination into reality. We are co-creators to God. Not to say that God needs our help for anything, but He willingly gave us the ability to think and imagine. It's the reason we have dreams for our future. We are beings that look to the future with hope. We don't look to the past with hope, we hope for the future, for an outcome of some sort, even. Lets glorify God by bringing to existence our goals and dreams.

God's creation is so dang cool.