Sacrifice
Before The Parade Passes By
I've got a goal again
I've got a drive again
I've got to feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by!
I've got a drive again
I've got to feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by!
I was bitter about missing the lunar eclipse, but this made up (:
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
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36176wonderings: the new year
I don’t really get excited about the new year.
That may be because half of the time I can’t remember what year we’re in. 2010? 2012?
What year it is isn’t really important to me. It’s my birthday that mark a new year for me. That’s when I make resolutions and goals. On my 15th birthday I made a list of where I wanted to be when I turned 16 (braces off, get in shape, get my license, etc.).
My next birthday is my 18th.
I’ll be a legal adult.
I was always the kid who never wanted to grow up. In my first grade journal I said I would run away before I grew up. But unless Peter Pan comes to my window, I’m doomed.
So where do I want to be when I turn 18?
Gosh. I’ll have to think on that.
My alarm clock got unplugged and it says that it’s the year 2009.
Obviously I’m aware that it’s not 2009, but what if it was?
How would things be different from the way they are now?
Imagine if it really was 2009 and you had to live 2009, 2010, and 2011 all over again?
Imagine doing things differently, or not doing them at all?
What a weird feeling.
I don’t like it at all.
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wonderings: an old poem and some hope
goodbye, holidays
I’m really enjoying Christmas break right now. I’ve had so many gorgeous little moments.
I sketched until my hand hurt,
I painted while I listened to the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack,
I read,
I sat at Starbucks with my hands curled around a Caramelized Apple Spice,
I oohed over my beautiful new copy of Sense and Sensibility,
I cursed Wayne Thomas Batson for killing my favorite character in The Errant King,
I pondered,
and I’m basically dreading school starting again because I love all this free time to be creative and relax.
A Teaching Moment
Love, love, love this! I volunteered at an inner-city middle school for a year, and this post broke my heart. In a good way.
Yesterday, I watched a man give his wife his last bite of his cheesecake.
That is love.
Michelle from “The Vintage Apple” Blog
(Source: thevintageapple.com)
Man, I love Joy’s videos.
reading: mere churchianity (part I)
I’m rereading “Mere Churchianity” by Michael Spencer. I read it a long time ago and I couldn’t really remember what it was about besides people leaving the church and finding Jesus. So, I decided to reread it and blog my thoughts after each chapter.
Introduction: The Dairy Queen Incident
The book starts out with a story. Mr. Spencer was in his early twenties and took his youth group to Dairy Queen after church. They were rowdy, rude and left a huge mess. He later received a letter from an atheist that worked there. She basically told him that it was Christians like him and his youth group that convinced her that God was a myth.
At the time, he wrote her off as a young girl who was mad at the church. Thirty-three years later, he realized that she had been telling him that he had lost touch with Jesus.
Favorite Lines:
“Mere Churchianity” is written for people who have come to the end of the road with the church but who can’t entirely walk away from Jesus. - Page 5
We assumed that being in church would make us more like Jesus…and everyone assumed that more church equaled more Jesus. - Page 7
Here is the truth: Far from being Jesus-shaped Christians, we were church shaped. - Page 7
Discussion Questions:
If your youth group went to Dairy Queen, do you think they would receive a similar letter?
How would you react if you got a letter like that?
Where do you find feel like you find Jesus?
Mere Churchianity is written for people who have come to the end of the road with the church but who can’t entirely walk away from Jesus.
“Mere Churchianity” by Michael Spencer, page 5
“180 Movie” Shocking, Award-Winning Documentary
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wonderings: leaving the church
