Corri Goates’ blog

Tonight I walked out my back door to do my laundry and the breeze whispered the first hints of fall.  I know it's still summer and will be for a few weeks yet but that chill in the air makes something in me feel vital and alive. I guess it's the promise of a new season, new possibilities and the next step. I just can't wait to see what the next season holds for me.

This morning as I was walking to work I had a moment of what I can only describe as synchronicity.  I was listening to my iPod and the Switchfoot song “Love is the Movement” came on. And the words of the song really hit home. And I realized that God was calling me to move (and that I didn’t know what that meant). So I prayed that he’d show me what he was wanting me to do. I looked around and everything seemed to tie together (Have you ever had a moment where everywhere you look things are falling into place like pieces of a puzzle? If not it’s bizarre in a wonderful sort of way). And all of the things that I saw were things that I see everyday (the crossing sign on the street light, fallen alder leaves that are shaped like hearts) but they seemed to tie together in the general theme that NOW is the time for change of heart and that its time to stop being static. I just can’t wait to see what this actually means.

And as a strange twist I turned up my internet radio and the song that came on was Becoming by Tree63 here are the lyrics for the first verse-

Does anybody feel a change coming?

Does anybody feel like up and running?

Does anybody here want to volunteer

To break through into a new atmosphere?

I guess when God wants to get my attention he has to use everything around me to get it.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how I need to be making a difference. It's really something that I've felt for a long time but in the past week I've felt it more keenly. I read about an organization called TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms). They are all about taking about depression and getting people help (that is a really boiled down version that doesn't do them justice). And the more that I think about it I realize that I live in a place where I could be actively helping others and I haven't been. Call it being too busy but the truth is I've let my priorities get out of whack. So it is my plan to be more present and make the changes that need to be made. I live in a City where the lost and broken are all around me and I've lost perspective, allowing life's busyness distract me from what I should be doing. So here's my plan- I'm going to actively try to be a force of change in my community. I'm going to get bus tickets so the next time a homeless person asks me for change for the bus I don't have to say I don't have change (even when it's true..I feel calloused not doing something). I'm going to start researching non-profits in my neighborhood and serve. Here's my challenge to you- Start making a difference. Don't allow life's busyness stop you from serving.

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This is the lake that we were camping at last week(yes, the infamous Beaver Bay on Yale Lake). So amazingly beautiful.