a change in title.

You may be wondering why I chose to alter the title of the blog at this place in time and history. “Donde Esta Timoteo?” did its job for its time, but recently, the Lord has put something new in my heart, or at least a new description of it.

This last December, as I was home driving on Interstate 82, from Ellensburg to Cle Elum Washington, I was pondering, and the thought came to mind, “Everywhere is a place you can go.” Some may say this is arguable, but the way I see it, there isn’t a place you couldn’t travel to. Though there are national borders and visa restrictions, I would like to think that all portions of the planet are accessible in some way or another (in some cases we would have to be more creative in making travel arrangements).

So, there was the beginning of this idea, which I believe was dropped into my brain by the Lord. Then, as I prayed about this idea slightly more, it was sharpened into something more specific: “Everywhere is somewhere we must go.” Jesus told us to go into all the world (Mark 16:15) and as His followers, we have the privilege of taking seeds of His kingdom with us wherever we go - seeds like justice and love and mercy and hope and life (momentary and eternal).

In Psalm 145, David talks about the kingdom of God.

All Your works shall praise You, O Lord,
And Your saints shall bless You.
They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,
And talk of Your power,
To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,
And the glorious majesty of His kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
(verses 10-13, New King James Version)

So really, is there anywhere the kingdom of God mustn’t flourish? God wants His love to be known in the deepest parts of the Amazonian Rainforest, in the brothels of Bangkok, in the Holy Land, in Zimbabwe, in remote villages in Eastern Iceland…