A friend from 10th grade (RVA in Kenya) pointed out that Moto mail’s drop down menu did not have an exact match for the address I gave. I checked the addresses on the Moto mails I have received, and in every case but one (the most recent Moto mail from Joe), the address on the Moto mail envelope WAS different. Thanks for pointing that out, Ruth. The 2nd line (after the 1st line, my name) can read either 1 MEF G2 or 1 MHG, the rest is the same (Unit 42540, FPO AP 96426-2540). If Moto mail gives you the option, 1 MEF G2 may get to me a little faster (from when it is printed at the local post office to when I get it in my hands), but the difference is a matter hours, not days. Thanks to Joe, who has written the most often—I really appreciate it, frequent reminders of your thoughts and prayers are very encouraging. Thanks also to my niece, Nicole, who gets the award for the longest Moto mail so far (written from a Starbucks Internet Café, which just to think of a Starbucks starts my mouth watering and my brain cells yearning for a venti caramel machiatto)—It was very cool to get an insight into your day, discover that you are indeed a reader after the family tradition, and at the risk of upsetting my other nieces and nephews (but hopefully starting a ‘longest Moto mail to Uncle Jon competition), I will facetiously admit that you are my favorite Niece.
Last Sunday, as I reported in my blog, it was very meaningful for me to be engaged in worship. However, there was a sense of something missing, of my engagement in worship not being complete. I initially looked inside myself to discern why: lack of preparation for worship, an inability to turn my thoughts from myself and my work towards God and His work, a hardening of my heart, something like that. Some of those things are probably always true, sometimes to a greater extent than at other times, but God’s grace is not dependent upon me. I realized that my sense of disengagement while engaged in worship here is because I feel a void where the Community of SCPC (the people of my church) used to be. That is not to say there is not a Community here that God has provided—I simply have not engaged with it yet. This is, I’m sure, partly a question of time—please pray that the sense of being disengaged, even isolated from God’s Community, will quickly dissipate, through continued interaction, further involvement, or God dealing with me as needed that I may worship Him in spirit and truth with my life.
Semper Fi, Jon G.
3 Comments:
Joe: Your encouragement and prayers are meaningful to me, coming as they do from someone who is no stranger to trips and worship in places far from home and with 'strangers.' There is a lot of truth to the "you don't miss it 'til you don't have it" line.
Semper Fi, Jon G.
Nicole: OK, I can safely say you are my favority oldest niece, or my favorite tallest niece... How about that :) I sort of assumed when you said you were an internet cafe, it was a Starbucks, or at least that they served fru-fru coffee. Speaking of coffee, do you partake, or are you a non-coffee hacker like my younger 'little' brother Matt?
Semper Fi, Jon G.
James (as I recall, more correctly phonetically rendered Chaiymes): Thanks for the heads up, we'll track it to see if they're as good as they say they are (should print here within 24, be delivered to me within another 24, end to end max 48 hours). Hopefully, you wrote Southern so I can actually 'hear' your voice as I read it.
Semper Fi, Jon G.
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