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we complicate simple things. we fabricate reasons why we can’t have what we want, and why we can’t do things that we actually want to do. we complicate prayer, love, grace, mercy, and God. see, by complicating it, we give ourself an excuse for not understanding or pursuing it. we give ourselves an out, by pretending [...] sometimes I get really spiritually frustrated. well, who doesn’t? but as of late, my main internal frustration has been petty, childish, selfish, and just plain stupid. I was frustrated that I saw God answering everyone else’s prayers but my own. but then God’s love began to overwhelm me. we were singing a song in church [...] so, I gave away a book of mine that I really want to read again. ): I guess this means I’ll have to rebuy it. and, the other book that I mentioned in that post, The God Who Smokes, I seem to have completely lost. I remember buying it, remember being excited about it, but I [...] keep it holy. take a breath. do nothing today, nothing worldly. take the challenge. love God, reflect on His greatness, and remind yourself whose throne you [...] lost & overwhelmed & small. that's me today. I am a perpetual child at my Father’s feet. I’m perpetually lost in a world that seems too big for my small stature. Verses swim through my mind when I start thinking like this. The ones that say that until we humble ourselves like children, we won’t be accepted [...] I go to a pentecostal church. well, they don’t call themselves a full-on pentecostal church (is it bad I could only think of the phrase full-frontal?), but it’s pretty close to just that. there’s dancers that I can’t watch out of embarrassment, but overall, I’ve actually found myself loving it. that first Sunday months ago, I [...] today I got my fourth tattoo. it’s graffiti found in 1945 on the wall of a basement in Koln, Germany, where a Jewish believer is thought to have been hiding from the Gestapo.
“I believe in the sun even when it isn’t shining. nobody ever said it was going to be easy. so when things seem easy to you, stop what you’re doing, look around, figure out what you’re not doing or saying, and do/say it. encourage conflict or uncomfortability. keep kicking at the “politically correct” boundaries until they collapse. push issues, be respectful, and be passionate. I’m not passionate about [...] so I’ve only been working in the restaurant business for a week or so, and already heard funny stories about servers receiving tracts for christianity, hinduism and even new age. I’m a christian, so let’s get that out of the way. even so, I make fun of tracts along with everyone else. especially the ones with hand-written [...] |
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