Jun 3, 2007

A New Chapter For Me...

I'm sitting in a youth hostel in DC right now, waiting out the time it will take until I can check into my room after a red-eye flight from Los Angeles last night. I have a rash covering the entirety of my body, and i felt like my skin was literally burning off through the entire overnight experience. Yet as I sit on the leather couch, mooching free internet and trying to kill time and itch urges, soaked to the bone from walking from the Metro station in an unpredicted rainstorm, I'm hopeful.

I'm hopeful because I'm headed to participate in Pentecost 2007 tonight, a Sojourners production labeled "Taking the Vision to the Streets". I'm hopeful because i'll hear from Jim Wallis tonight, Shane Claiborne tomorrow and tomorrow night will be able to attend a live debate between Barack & Hillary. I hopeful because this was actually put together, that there was the desire of the organizers but also enough people who care about the poor and the oppressed, about justice and equality to pay money and travel to be there to witness it.

Two weeks ago today, I walked across stage as a college graduate. 7 glorious years in the making, and its done. And i'm here, i care, i'm excited and i am hopeful. and as discouraging and bureaucratic and "jump-through-the-hoops" as i found my 25k a year education, i am the better for it. So bring the rash, bring the insomnia, bring the disillusionment, because i am finding hope in the message of the courageous.