Spiritual Formation

So this semester I am taking a class called Spiritual Formation, and for one of our assignments we have to make a "creative project" displaying spiritual formation. I have chosen to make a video. The gist of it is going from a broken life through a journey towards being healed. This is being portrayed via cardboard testimonies. I could not do this project alone so i recruited 6 friends, 3 female 3 male, to help me with it. 

Side note; at the end of the creative project we must write a short paper on how the project has helped us grow and grasp spiritual formation or something of that kind.

I did not think I would have anything to write about. Until I witnessed my friends write down some of their innermost secrets and struggles. Everything from sexual addiction and abuse to the feeling of being hopeless and having no ambitions; to the flip side of their cards expressing the recovery, redemption, hope, and drive they now have through Christ. This is not just a little film I am making for kicks and giggles; there will be other students that know them that will be seeing this video. Not just students but Professors, people who would have no idea. I pray that they will see the boldness of these six and see the healing they have found through Christ and be inspired. Given hope. Sure they may not (probably did not) get there through sola scriptura But through a process involving solitude, scripture, prayer, and community.




I shall edit this video and maybe post it up her for y'all

New Friend

I get excited to see you
your laugh makes me smile
your crazy faces make me laugh
your love for Christ inspires me
your love for teens warms me
I am glad I have met you
you have helped me already in many ways of which you may never know
may God bless you
may we grow closer as friends
who knows what the future holds for us
all I know is that I am blessed to have met you

Trust

I say I trust you
Yet I still have a foot on the ground.
All aspects of my life I have given
except one
for some reason I am still scared
if I have a foot down I can catch myself.
yet, I am the one who causes me to stumble all the time.
Not you.
This should be easy
but I don't know how,
how do I lift my foot so that only You are holding me?
What do I think.
Pray.
What do I do to lift this foot?
I need help
I want to live for you in the now.
Help me to trust you.

Tree

So last weekend we had our STCM retreat for school and while on the drive back home I was listening to my music and looking out the window watching all the rocks, water, and trees as they passed. At one point I looked up at a tree and I noticed that it was dead. No leaves, no moss, nothing it was deader than dead; however, it was surrounded by living trees that were full and big and a nice green color. After seeing this I thought to myself "no matter how hard that tree tries it could not be made alive again by the other trees." No matter how close it was to them how much it touched there healthy branches it just would never happen. The process would have to happen within the tree and down in it's roots. I then thought of how this relates to our spiritual lives. When we are spiritually dead how we sometimes think that "if i am close enough to those who are alive it will rub off." If we associate with those spiritually well we in turn will be made whole again. This could be true to an extent but it would never fix what it is that is making you dead.
The only way that tree could be living again is that if it was healed of whatever was killing it, and if it had proper sun light and watering. Like wise, we would need spiritual healing, live into community, read our bibles, pray and be honest with God. Only then can we be made alive again.