Response-Ability

At our Sunday night College Age thing (not really a worship service, not really a bible study, so we don’t know anymore) we talked about responsibility, graduation, and life change.  Appropriate I guess for the timing and all, but it was weird being on the other side of that talk for the first time.  A friend broke down the term “responsibility” into response-ability.  It is only with our response that we are able.  Nothing will come if we do not act.  It made me think about responsibilities as they relate to my life now though in comparison to life before graduation.  Life just suddenly takes on so much more responsibility and depth after graduation, or at least that’s how I feel about it.  It is the first time that you really step out of that track that you have been racing down in education and set your own path.  I remember last August when Meg and I moved down to God’s Resort.  Moving there was like enrolling in a crash course in adulthood/parenting/missions.  We had responsibilities, a lot of them.  Not just responsibilities to ourselves either; we had responsibilities to kids, their parents, our home, bills, jobs, the church, ministry, the city, and so many others. 

Over the last couple of months some friends have moved into our neighborhood as well.  It is weird because the sudden influx of young adults has caused an insane increase in the traffic of college students wanting to hang out in our neighborhood.  Sometimes it feels like I am living in the dorms again, sometimes it feels like I am living in a communal living room known as my “home”.  I realized last night though that as much as part of me wants to go back to being that college student with no responsibilities; that isn’t me anymore.  It can’t be and I cannot choose to live like I have no responsibilities without being disobedient to where God has me.  It’s kind of weird, but I like being an adult.  The chaos of having no direction, boundaries or responsibilities is not somewhere I want to go back to.  I think it is the same reason we find so much freedom in Christ despite the laws and sacrifices that carries.  A certain order in ones life can be very godly and I’m thinking it’s one spiritual discipline I cannot afford to ignore.

 

 

 

 

~ by aworldupsidedown on May 1, 2008.