Been Interning!

I write this sitting at a coffee table in the hallways and byways of the UMD campus, that is the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus. We come down here each tuesday for about 6 hours and handout info and coffee, absolutely free. This isn't some watered down cup of joe, no it is NOT! We brew the finest pura-vida coffee from shade grown trees in Costa Rica... but that's not the point.

When was the last time you were on a college campus? Do you remember the walking. About 500 people have passed me in the past couple of hours, and all of them are living the lives of 21st century pioneers. Every one comes and goes with the intensity of sure bred stallions, finding freedom in knowledge, knowledge in freedom. I can't help but want to join them. I want to walk the halls and remember what it was like to live that life. Pursuing knowledge in the halls of the up and coming, sorry to say in the halls of the elites. It isn't the elitism that draws me, but it is a truth of the American life.

So i've spent almost two months now coming to campus multiple times a week, handing out coffee or free food. Talking to students. Networking with students. Hearing their stories. Trying to share life as completely as I know how. There is room to grow, and it is tough doing ministry in this aspect, with people rarely very rarely do you see finished products. We are human beings. We are in flux, we are on a journey. The day your finished, your finished. Who wants to really be finished? But when your job is helping people, with every interaction you begin a relationship, you have created in your mind a loop. A beginning. Yet you are missing an end. It sits stored in the back of your mind, you unconciously think about it, pray about it, plan things around it and take it into consideration. I never want to approach people as products, or things to be worked. Even looking at ministry matrixs, you need to constantly remind yourself, every number having to do with stats and goals, every number is a life, it's a person. My life. My life has to do with people. Luckily my life isn't people, it just has to do with people.