So I am sitting here talking to Johannes. We just watched The Hunger Games (the first one), him for the first time and me for the second, but it's been awhile. We were both teary at various stages of the film, and the story touched us both pretty deeply. "You know, talking about being a 'follower' of Jesus and not a fan...it's things like this that make me want to be more radical," he says, "We're sitting here watching a movie, crying for characters, when the world really is that bad. We're sitting here behind a 900€ laptop, with everything we could ever want and need and ask for at the tip of our fingers, complaining about the stupidest things in our everyday lives." Last night I was honored as a receiver of a pretty cool scholarship at the Uni Heidelberg. We stayed out late, we both were tired. Today we both had jobs to go to. I have homework to do. We have exams to study for. These things somehow drag us down. These are spoiled-people problems. We didn't want to cook dinner so we ordered pizza. Food delivered to our door and cash enough to pay for it without feeling remotely burdened. It was just so easy. We have it so easy. We want a change. We want to be radical followers of Christ. It's uncomfortable to talk about, to think about. But God sees our hearts, and I ask that He keeps this realization we had tonight on the forefront of our minds. Me, I complain about school being hard, about writing essays in German, about having to study harder for exams than my peers because of the language barriers...when I am getting an Ivy League education for next to nothing. Those complaints need to stop!! Joh complains about experiments in the lab going wrong, about being tired, when he is about to become a doctor with no debt to show for it. The whole world is at our feet We are BLESSED. We want to bless others. God, please teach us obedience.