Comments on: Learn to Trust, or Not! http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:37:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Stephanie http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-81 Stephanie Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:35:38 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-81 Jamie, I check your blog often - love hearing your stories, but more importantly your heart. Your writing challenges me - it calls forth a response that I am not always ready to give. It begins to open my eyes and sometimes I don't know what to do with the sight. Recently, though, I wasn't able to really READ your last few blogs - just a few min. to skim. So, just sat down and read your last four. What's so interesting is that as I was reading the ones from Learning to Trust or Not - City of the World (I know, backwards order - but that's kind of how I do things :), I was pondering my thoughts over the last little while. In all of this living life, am I really LIVING life? What do I want my life to look like? What is my part in changing (or not changing) it? Every time Switchfoot's song, This is Your Life, comes on I just want to cry... Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes This is your life and today is all you've got now Yeah, and today is all you'll ever have Don't close your eyes Don't close your eyes This is your life, are you who you want to be This is your life, are you who you want to be This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be When the world was younger and you had everything to lose Part of me says yes, another part of me screams NO! There is a part of my heart that has been lying dormant. I don't know what I've thought - God's timing, just a season, or have I just forgotten to dream and walk out those dreams? What do I fear loosing? Then I get to your blog from Israel/Palestine, Nostalgic at Heart, and that is exactly what you are talking about! When I was in Europe for three weeks in December I felt SO alive -it called something out of me that the Creator wrote on my heart. So I've been asking myself, what does that look like now, here? How do I live "on the edge?"¨ Am I supposed to live on the edge, or is that just something that happens for a time and then I need to "settle down." I don't think so. I don't want to live in the past, but I definitely don't want to settle in the present. I am asking God, "how do I maintain 'that pioneering spirit and that radical attitude'" as you so appropriately put it. It's 2:30 in the morning, so I hope some of this makes sense :) Oh, how I long for a nice, long conversation...but until then... ~Stephanie Jamie,

I check your blog often - love hearing your stories, but more importantly your heart. Your writing challenges me - it calls forth a response that I am not always ready to give. It begins to open my eyes and sometimes I don’t know what to do with the sight.

Recently, though, I wasn’t able to really READ your last few blogs - just a few min. to skim. So, just sat down and read your last four. What’s so interesting is that as I was reading the ones from Learning to Trust or Not - City of the World (I know, backwards order - but that’s kind of how I do things :), I was pondering my thoughts over the last little while. In all of this living life, am I really LIVING life? What do I want my life to look like? What is my part in changing (or not changing) it? Every time Switchfoot’s song, This is Your Life, comes on I just want to cry…
Don’t close your eyes, don’t close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you’ve got now
Yeah, and today is all you’ll ever have
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes

This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

Part of me says yes, another part of me screams NO! There is a part of my heart that has been lying dormant. I don’t know what I’ve thought - God’s timing, just a season, or have I just forgotten to dream and walk out those dreams? What do I fear loosing? Then I get to your blog from Israel/Palestine, Nostalgic at Heart, and that is exactly what you are talking about!

When I was in Europe for three weeks in December I felt SO alive -it called something out of me that the Creator wrote on my heart. So I’ve been asking myself, what does that look like now, here? How do I live “on the edge?”¨ Am I supposed to live on the edge, or is that just something that happens for a time and then I need to “settle down.” I don’t think so. I don’t want to live in the past, but I definitely don’t want to settle in the present. I am asking God, “how do I maintain ‘that pioneering spirit and that radical attitude’” as you so appropriately put it.

It’s 2:30 in the morning, so I hope some of this makes sense :)
Oh, how I long for a nice, long conversation…but until then…

~Stephanie

]]> By: Jen http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-80 Jen Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:01:43 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-80 Ok so I left 2 comments! Ooops! I'm not too bright when it comes down to Computers!He he he ~Jen Ok so I left 2 comments! Ooops! I’m not too bright when it comes down to Computers!He he he
~Jen

]]> By: Jen http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-79 Jen Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:59:43 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-79 Hey Jamie, I have already tried leaving a comment but I dont think it worked! So I'll leave another one. Like I said in my other comment, I am so excited for you to be on this amazing journey of traveling! And what a journey it sounds like! I hope and pray that you are learning and enjoying every minute of it all! Say hi to Bustos for me! Blessings to you both! ~Jen Downer Hey Jamie,
I have already tried leaving a comment but I dont think it worked! So I’ll leave another one. Like I said in my other comment, I am so excited for you to be on this amazing journey of traveling! And what a journey it sounds like! I hope and pray that you are learning and enjoying every minute of it all!
Say hi to Bustos for me! Blessings to you both!
~Jen Downer

]]> By: Jen http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-78 Jen Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:20:12 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-78 Jamie- It is great to hear your amazing adventures. I know you have been dreaming of this for a while. Have you gotten a chance to take a lot of pictures? Hope so. These are the moments in life you should capture on camera. Who am I kidding-knowing you I'm sure you have over a dozen rolls of film taken already!!! Ha ha ha. Well many blessings to you, and say hi to BUSTOS for me! God Bless, ~Jen Jamie-
It is great to hear your amazing adventures. I know you have been dreaming of this for a while. Have you gotten a chance to take a lot of pictures? Hope so. These are the moments in life you should capture on camera. Who am I kidding-knowing you I’m sure you have over a dozen rolls of film taken already!!! Ha ha ha. Well many blessings to you, and say hi to BUSTOS for me! God Bless,
~Jen

]]> By: jonathan http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-77 jonathan Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:49:24 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-77 Hey there. Sorry to hear about the LSAT. Are you sure you can't get into law school? I know that a decent GPA and extra-curricular activities can offset a mediocre LSAT. Anyway, your adventures are pretty interesting. Keep it up. Need more gossip and photos. Hey there. Sorry to hear about the LSAT. Are you sure you can’t get into law school? I know that a decent GPA and extra-curricular activities can offset a mediocre LSAT.

Anyway, your adventures are pretty interesting. Keep it up. Need more gossip and photos.

]]> By: jpjonathanphang http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/09/learn-to-trust-or-not/#comment-76 jpjonathanphang Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:54:49 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=17#comment-76 I continue to enjoy your adventures and pray for you and wish you the best of luck. I continue to enjoy your adventures and pray for you and wish you the best of luck.

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