free high fives

#1 What is your perspective on Jesus? How has your perspective of Jesus or his life on earth changed

#2 What is the central theme out of Luke 5:27-35? What does it really mean to be in the world and not of the world?

 #3 What does going out and sharing your relationship with God mean to you?

#4 What prevents you and or what keeps you from going out into the world and sharing your relationship with God?

#5 Where do you stand in your walk with Christ? Do you run to the world or run from it? Do you even know Jesus?

So we worked through some of these and had a very satisfying discussion. One thing that particularly stuck out to me is when we talked about sharing our faith. A conclusion we drew together is that we seem so encompassed in our life or our problems that we really our sensitive to what Jesus may have for us. In fact, we may be so disconnected, we really to have much of an honest relationship with Jesus. So, Now What? This is truly a "NOW WHAT" moment. I have heard that phrase used poorly before and seen no action take place. But action is essential. Faith only works if there is action.  As I talked about worship yesterday, I talked about value. In that same vein, our worship is more about what we do than what we say. So, I hope great discussion and relationship happened in other groups, not only from our church, but perhaps around the country. I hope that you experience human contact in a refreshing way and hopefully in a way that impacts your life. The challenge is to do something, and not just, but DO SOMETHING NOW! 

Dopo cena, lasciati i due stranieri, ci siamo reincontrati col gruppo, l'ora tarda ha richiesto le magie per rimediare qualcosa di alcolico vicino all'hotel, per fortuna la fata turchina era con noi ed e siamo riusciti a bere qualcosa.
A notte tarda i mezzi scarseggiano a Toronto, siamo rimasti in albergo con i ragazzi.

La mattina di ritorno a casa per una doccia rinfrescante (fa caldo..), io poi avevo il mio appuntamento con il solito gruppo di CouchSurfing, persone meravigliose devo dire.
Era un meeting al Kensington Market per un'altra sessione di Free Hugs, questa zona e' piena di vita easygoing, e ieri era proprio la giornata senza auto, centinaia e centinaia di persone per le strade dell'area e una 15ina di folli muniti di cartelli con su scritto "Free Hugs" (Abbracci Gratis), e di abbracci gratis ce ne sono stati davvero tanti, situazione decisamente migliore di quella scorsa in Dundas Square.

Finito il pomeriggio di abbracci in 6-7 siamo andati a prendere qualcosa da bere, io mi sono poi staccato per raggiungere Roberto e gli altri della band, rinchiusi in un recinto abbiamo potuto bere una birretta.

Il concerto e' stato decisamente piu' coinvolgente, sotto cassa vecchini, giovani e bambini, ci siamo fatti coinvolgere volentieri.

Birretta dopo cena in zona albergo e poi a letto.
Purtroppro le cose sono un po' precipitate nelle ultime ore, ma era comprensibile dopo mesi stressanti di tour.
Devo dire che mi sono divertito in questi giorni, non mi aspettavo certo quello che e' successo e sono contento di come sono andate le cose (quasi tutto ecco:)

Filmuletzul este tare dragutz :) Si emotionant :D

Free Hugs! Pentru O Lume Mai Buna!

PEACE!

P.S.: Melodia se numeste : Sick Puppies - All The Same

Lyrics : I dont mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
But I dont like illusions I cant see
Them clearly
I dont care, no I wouldn't dare
To fix the twist in you
You've shown me eventually what you'll do
I dont mind
I dont care
As long as you're here

[Chorus]

Go ahead and tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It's all the same

Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
But in-between it always seems too long
Suddenly
But I have the skill, yeah
I have the will, to breath you in while I can
However long you stay is all that I am

I dont mind, I dont care
As long as you're here

Go ahead and tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It's always the same

Wrong or Right
Black or White
If I close my eyes
Its all the same

In my life
The compromise
I'll close my eyes
Its all the same

Go ahead say it
You're leaving
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are now
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It's all the same

Chegou a Tel Aviv, a cidade-bolha, também.

Não é uma novidade. É só para desejar um bom fim de semana...

I've been working on an interesting project to help SAVE MIGUEL. In case you're wondering who MIGUEL is...check out the website.

Rob Schneider SAVING MIGUEL:

FREE HUGS guy SAVES MIGUEL TOO!

You can even plant a tree in google maps here.

Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands. So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.

Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting.

He planned to take and return as many calls he could, but on Monday at 5 a.m., his T-Mobile cell phone payment will begin charging him for his generosity when he is no longer eligible for free weekend minutes.

"I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about it," he said. "Come Monday, no way I'm going to just hang up on people and say, 'I don't have the minutes.'"

Fitzgerald, who said people consider him "easy to talk to," was inspired by Juan Mann. YouTube video clips of Mann offering "Free Hugs" to strangers became wildly popular on the user-controlled Internet site.

"Some people's own mothers won't take the time to sit down and talk with them and have a conversation," Fitzgerald said. "But some stranger on YouTube will. After six seconds, you're not a stranger anymore, you're a new kid I just met."

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Juan Mann – talks about Free Hugs.

- On Its Origins - I'd been living in London when my world turned upside down and I'd had to come home. By the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown.
Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting their waiting friends and family, with open arms and smiling faces, hugging and laughing together, I wanted someone out there to be waiting for me. To be happy to see me. To smile at me. To hug me.
So I got some cardboard and a marker and made a sign. I found the busiest pedestrian intersection in the city and held that sign aloft, with the words "Free Hugs" on both sides.
And for 15 minutes, people just stared right through me. The first person who stopped, tapped me on the shoulder and told me how her dog had just died that morning. How that morning had been the one year anniversary of her only daughter dying in a car accident. How what she needed now, when she felt most alone in the world, was a hug. I got down on one knee, we put our arms around each other and when we parted, she was smiling.
Everyone has problems and for sure mine haven't compared. But to see someone who was once frowning, smile even for a moment, is worth it every time.