Surreality

Surreal sure is real. I have a dare for you to experiment with:

1 Tell God, "Here am I. Send me!"
2 Buckle up...
3 You are sitting in a foreign country miles from normal.

Each morning, in a haze, we start cutting family deals. Then it starts... Wondering over Opulent 700 year old architecture minutes from where we climbed Napolean's Arche de Triomphe. A few minutes later, dodging suicidal scooter riders, I blow through a red light against traffic on a one-way road and get stopped by foreign police. The day before, I pushed my way through throngs to get the front row position of viewing Da Vinci's La Gioconda (Mona Lisa) and later that afternoon a city-wide siren goes off, "Is that an air-raid horn?" Crazy stuff, but we still also deal with the cliche,, "He's hitting me," from the backseat.

Then like the unveiling of a masterpiece, or a sick movie preview of Marvel's latest summer flick (for all you fellow Gen Xers), we were divinely inspired by a simple meeting with some simple friends who God has used extraordinarily. A couple days before we left Colorado Springs, we came into contact with Eric Celerier, a french man who founded Jesus.net. He and I clicked. "Why don't you come visit my office when you are in Paris?" We did...

Through the now 50+ website partners with Jesus.net, they have just crossed over 10 million new Christian conversions in countries including Gospel closed places like Iraq, Pakistan, China, etc. In fact, every 10 seconds you can watch a visual map on their wall scroll to a new foreign place where Jesus has just entered the life of a new believer. Writing this, I'm still crying. I have never seen anything more beautiful or amazing. And to think that I might be able to be a part of it? Is this why we are here? I don't know anything yet and I have no other words right now. More to come soon...