New blog = New name

This is a new adventure in my life and one that I believes warrants a new blog. Here are a few of the particulars. 

The blog address name comes from:
This song...
All these victims/ Stand in line for/The crumbs that fall from the table/Just enough to get by/All the while/Your invitation/ Wake on up from your slumber/  Come on open up your eyes
~ "Slumber" Needtobreathe
This song...
Wake up child/ It's your time to shine/You were born for such a time as this
~ "The Anthem" Jesus Culture

This verse...
 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
~Romans 13:11-12

The explanation..
I have come to the realization that as a child of God my life has a divine purpose. A purpose specifically designed for me, to serve Christ and His Kingdom.  

The blog title comes from:

"...And they'd go to a rabbi, and they'd apply to that rabbi to become one of that rabbi's disciples. Now, when we use the word "disciple" we often mean "student," but we generally mean somebody who knows what the teacher knows. But a disciple is something far deeper. A disciple just doesn't want to know what the rabbi knows. A disciple wants to be like the rabbi and wants to learn to do what the rabbi does,... if the rabbi thinks, "This kids has got it, this kid, I think this kid could do what I do," the rabbi would say to the kid, "Come. Follow me." So you would leave...your family, your friends, your synagogue, your village, and you would devote your entire life to being like your rabbi, learning to do what your rabbi does... So, a rabbi comes to town. A powerful rabbi, and he's got, like, his little pack of disciples with  him, and they're doing everything they can to keep up with him 'cause they've devoted their lives to doing what their rabbi does. So if you're a disciple, by the end of the day with your rabbi, traveling on these hot, dusty, dirty roads, you've got whatever your rabbi stepped in just caked all over the front of you. So, this saying developed among the wise men and the sages. You would say to a disciple: "May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi"."

~ Nooma: Dust by Rob Bell* 

The blog subtitle (Part I):
I am daily learning what it means to be a follower of the Teacher (Rabbi means teacher in Hebrew) Jesus. The next lesson for me is a Kingdom Journey. And what is that? To be continued in Part II...

I have never been covered in more dust, literally, then in Uganda. Every night we would come home caked in red dust. We called it our Ugandan sun tan :-)

*This is in no way a promotion of Rob Bell or his beliefs. The blog title is based in Biblical/Jewish history and I think he explains it well.