Just a Few More Days

I've been in Oxford for a few weeks now, and I have mixed emotions about leaving this Saturday. I will miss the wonderful people that I have met here as well as the exciting experiences that I have had. But I am also filled with excitement about working alongside the people of Gateshead for the next five months. 

I'm sitting here in the lower reading room of the Radcliffe Camera, thinking about all of the great thinkers who have studied here before me. I would like to think that I am included in the 'great thinker' category, but I realize that labels aren't terribly important. My real hope is that the knowledge and experiences gained here will draw me (and my new found friends) nearer to Christ. That seems more important than all the books of 'great thinkers' which surround me. 

In any case, I think the Lord has drawn me to go deeper; to ask the difficult questions; but also to trust Him when the answers are not apparent. For this reason, I will continue to follow where He leads, even though I don't have the answers. When He asks "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?", I hope to reply "Here am I, send me!"