Sustainment

WE ARE GOING TO GERMANY!!! No, seriously. We are going. In like 3 months, we will be back in Dresden. Well, I will be back and Chris will be there. Chris will be with me in Germany. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! I am so excited. I am so excited. The end.

Tonight we had our research banquet. It was a lot better than I anticipated. But then again most things that I don't want to do are. We had this amazingly nice catered dinner. And these missionaries spoke which was kind of odd but apparently they fund a good chunk of the research we do during the summer. So they were talking about their mission in Fiji and he said that one of their goals was that their work would be self sustaining. That kinda hit me weird- good weird. Self sustaining...Basically, what he meant was that they wanted a church in which the work would continue after they were gone.

So, now, of course I want that for Dresden. I want mine and Chris's work to be self sustaining. But what if we took it a step further? I mean don't we want everything about our lives to be self sustaining. Don't we want to leave a legacy. But I guess the way that I am really thinknig about it is don't we want even our daily mission work to be self sustaining. Don't we want everything we do in our ministries and when ministering to each other to be self sustaining?

Christ was the perfect example of self sustainment. Look how many years His legacy has lived on. So shouldn't we then want everything we do in His name to be self sustaining?