Back and Forth…

Brief life update:

1)  Life on the Westside continues.  I’m still here, still alive, still healing. 

2)  Community is moving.  I feel blessed by my church community, and am taking steps towards serving more here and considering leadership.  I’ve shifted my primary commitment from the evening young adult service to the Spanish speaking service, which is less than two years old and actually started around the same time I moved out here.  Not leading yet, but helping out with sound, checking out their home group, building relationships, etc.  Dios es Bueno…

3)  I’m discovering myself as a salesman.  Six months ago I left the insurance biz and started working as an outside salesman for Blair Graphics.  I’ve had a lot to learn, but love driving around L.A. and the Valley meeting clients and walking thru doors.  Hit me up if you need digital printing!

4)  Thanks to the new job, I picked up a new ride.  I am now driving a 2007 Camry Hybrid (pics to follow later).  I’ll be paying for this vehicular upgrade for a long, long time, but it’s good on the gas and really fun to drive around.

5)  I am attempting to re-connect to the digital networking blogospheric social entity thing…yeah, I’m realizing that a lot of people keep in touch and network online.  It’s not totally my thing, but I’ll give it another go. 

 Be blessed, y’all!

Eric

Update 1/31/07

I’ve been living on the Westside for five months now and pursuing personal healing. Life away from the front lines of ministry has been difficult but also restful and good. I’ve spent more time with white folks in their 20s in the last five months then in the previous four years combined! And I am actually enjoying it:-)

As I feel less of a need to be incarnational these days, I’ve put away my normal hip-hop/latin playlist and am treating myself to steady doses of gospel music in my car! I’ve been strongly anti-Christian music a lot in my adult years, but I gotta admit that songs of praise–if they’re well-done–hit me in ways that no other music does. This makes me wonder: how much time have I spent trying to fit in instead of connecting to Jesus? Have I left home for the sake of the gospel, a spiritual kingdom, or just to exchange my old culture for another physical one?

It’s occasion for thought and reflection.

E