enter Zoe...

I think this is a fitting enough place for me to enter this blog. Especially seeing as Susana's last post was about me.

Yes, I was sick. It was the kind of sick that you really don't want to write about where all kinds of people who I don't know (and those I do) can read about it. So I won't.

I must admit, this is pretty much as intimidating an experience as Susana described to me. But I'm glad I don't have the pressure of being the very first one. Phew!

As this is the "LQ blog," I should probably take a brief moment in my first entry to speak my 2 cents about what an LQer is. Hmmm. When I ask myself the question, "What is a LeaderQuester?", my first answer is "A disciple." LeaderQuest is one other way for people to learn and grow in their relationship with God -- what I've come to see is one of the more important things we're put on this planet to do. My second answer is "A discipler." This one is a little harder. Let me explain. I have been told that the Great Commission (it sounds more official if it has capital letters) is to "go and make disciples of all nations" (Matt 28:19). To me that sounds all very well, and all very honourable. And I am quite happy imagining someone else (someone definitely more spiritual and knowlegable than I) doing great and wonderful discipling in all these nations, but now I am being challenged to apply that in my own nation, in fact my own city of Halifax. Maybe when I'm older I'll feel more ready to use such big verbs as "disciple" and "evangelize" without getting at least a little freaked out.

Anyway, I'm having a blast in this program. And as Susana said it was intended to do, I AM feeling like I'm developping my gifts, and discerning my future. But I can't help looking forward to the end when we graduate and get our caps and gowns; it will be so satisfying to unwrap and hold in our very own hands the gifts God has given us that we've been working so hard to develop, and don't forget the manilla envelopes telling us who we really are, with maps of our whole futures laid out in great detail.

tongues-in-cheeks tonight folks.

time for bed.