just do it

First week of campers here at camp this week. It's been a pretty hectic time! But all in all it has been good to finally get in the swing of things. The summer staff this year is pretty awesome I must say. Although, I am missing a few from last year. We, as a staff, are going through the book Love Does by Bob Goff. I highly recommend it!
Each chapter is a different story from his life with an amazing twist to it. One of the first chapters we read he talked about how love just does. (hence the title of the book) Love is an action, love is a verb. (cue in dc talk song here....) But sometimes in order to life a life of love we need to just do. In the introduction Donald Miller, who writes it, gives a really good picture of what Bob is going to portray in the rest of the book.
"...love does things. It writes a letter and gets on a plane. It orders pizza and jumps in a lake. It hugs and prays and cries and sings."
I love that! How many times have we just not done something because it scares us or it seems to crazy or to big or outside of ourselves?? Well, each chapter of this book tells a story of stepping outside of that and taking action and letting love do things. Loving is scary! Doing something for someone else with no motive...who does that anymore?!? Each story that we have read so far Bob is doing things. The first step is to just do it. To step out of that typical-ness or normal and comfortable and live a life of love. And not just live it but to live it in a way that it becomes a part of who we are.
We were all going out to do something one night and one of the summer staff wanted to sleep, so one of the girls turned to him and said, "When you are old and you look back on your life are you going to say, 'oh man, I really regret that time I didn't get enough sleep.'? No!" I liked that. I know there are times I wish I did more, I wish I helped out a certain person, got to know a classmate or co-worker better, or really took time to share my faith with someone else. So what is the answer to all that.... don't sit around and wish you did...just do it!