Hey friends of Mosaic (and perhaps others who are reading this),
I’m pretty excited that Lon has decided to start up this community blog for Mosaic. I really encourage you all to be able to post your thoughts and reflections as a way of sensing the greater community of Mosaic. I will also try to do the same as honestly as possible so that again we are able to support and pray for each other as a community who love God and loves people.
It’s great how Lon started this because I remember couple of years back when some of us U-Life people were still back at Rosewood and I remember someone suggesting the idea of a communal blog that we could all sort of just update everybody about each other’s lives since majority of us studied out of town. Sadly, it never got started, but I’m thankful that Lon has taken that initiative to start one for Mosaic.
It’ll be great to hear about hopefully work, social, spiritual, and emotional parts of your lives on this blog. I really think when we have people here who are willing to be open and to ask for more help/for support/and pushing people to be more/etc. perhaps then we could start living better like a community. I think that is what Lon is trying to get at from his post. I think that when we should be able to ask people to help us when we need or to be able to ask/push people to know that they can be more than what they can be at that very moment.
Last night when I was reading the post and looking at the picture that Lon had posted up and the first thing that came to me was “toughness”. Just how a coach pushes a player to be the best player that he/she can be. It’s up to the player to respond how strong/how capable he/she will be in the future. But sometimes I don’t think it should just be the coach who pushes the players, but the players/peers should be able to push each other to excel, to support each other, or to get each other to respond accordingly to each situation. I think Lon mentions this as well.
I’m just going along with Lon’s post about “Remember the Titans” and his picture of Denzel Washington pushing his player to do more push ups and etc. I found this picture of the team who probably have been pushed to their physical and mental limits. But I see them as a unit/brothers/team/etc. that are going to pick each other after each fall. They’re continually pushing each other to be stronger/faster together.
Yeah, it’ll be tough and tiring sometimes, but ya know we just got to keep pushing each and everyday. Living like this, as a community who won’t leave the last man behind and who is willing to ask our community for more and asking them to want to be more for Christ, there’s growth and blessings to be seen and prizes to be received at the end.
So this is my first post to this communal blog and I just wanted to tell you guys that I’m really excited that in this way I am connected to the Mosaic community when I’m away at school. I had just wanted to perhaps go along with Lon’s post a little bit and again as well encourage you all to post and share thoughts/feelings/reflections.
So I’m excited for posting and updating you guys and even more so, I’m excited to read and be updated on the community at Mosaic. =) I hope to be encouraged by you guys and in turn I hope to also encourage you as well.
So till next time,
Kevin
