Pen Light, instead of Foxes, Subways, and salads

 

                One thing has been sticking with me all day, when Mr. Leeper said (forgive me if I can’t quote it exactly) “on an all Christian campus with bright light everywhere it seems sometimes like I’m only holding up a pen light, like its worthless”. I think that captures faith exactly for me, how often I feel my faith is not even as large as a mustard seed. I look around me to see most everyone doing so well, or at least knowing as much about God as I, so whom shall I witness to? Is it insane that I miss discussing with my atheist friends why I do not always agree with them on issues of origin? I think not, God calls us to go out into the world, and proclaim the Good News to every nation, and every people. I think he puts the desire to talk about these things with those who disagree, but I know why I’m here, to prepare myself for when I leave Huntington to speak to the world God gave each one of us. An upside to this campus to me isn’t being surrounded by people who agree with me, but with ones that disagree on some fundamental levels, if not on where we came from. So though my light is but a flicker of a candle, each light is a different color, making each person distinctive if not biblically correct all the time. In a way that unity despite difference is beautiful.