So heres the start....
why the wiak (last name janoWIAK) but pronounced jan o wick. Wick- to be lit on fire for Christ to burn for Him.
We have been married for 90 days today! Now that everything has settled down, post wedding has left me lots of time to ask Jesus for dreams, for passion and for boldness.
My new journey I hope to share with you is one of trust. Yesterday I was thinking how easy my life has been simply by living in America (not that people don't suffer or are poor), but the fact in trusting Jesus for things, with my day to day life has huge gaps filled in by money, accessibility to meds, clean water, food and education. Why have I been thinking these things, well I am glad you asked. I have been falling in love perhaps with the poor, the destitute and those who Jesus called blessed in the beatitudes.
Shane Claiborne wrote:
Its a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are longer a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle. One of the verses I have grown to love is the one where Jesus is preparing to leave the disciples and says "I no longer call you servants...Instead, I have called you friends" (John 15:15). Servanthood is a fine place to begin, but gradually we move toward mutual love, genuine relationships. Someday, perhaps we can even say those words that Ruth said to Naomi after years of partnership: "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried" (Ruth 1:16-17)
And that's when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and towards justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with folks in struggle, we start to ask why people are poor, which is never as popular as giving to charity. One of my friends has a shirt marked with the words of late Catholic bishop Dom Helder Camara: "When I feed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist." Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping the poor people. People are crucified for joining them.
Food for thought
Jesus my prayer is for new season, season of LOVE! to love and give sacrificially of myself to others. Let me give away all that you have given to me...thats why I have soo many blessings is to give away for your glory!
-leah
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