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| ever write something that you read again years later and not only think to yourself, "did i really write that?" and, "wow, that still holds significance even now?" well i just came across this:
"Its a tricky thing the past. by definition it is not supposed to exist
anymore other than in memory. But how often through those memories,
the only portals it has left into our lives it creeps upon us like a
stalker. Ever relentless and persistent we can not lose it no matter
how we try. We are shackled by its grip and slaves to its punishment.
Our only hope is the Grace afforded to us by our God and Savior, but
how often we lack faith in him to deliver us from past's tyrany. I
myself have failed again and again to grasp the faith for which i
profess. Its there I know it is, but somewhere deep inside me its held
at bay by the very foe against whom I am fighting. So I stand here,
stand waiting............waiting for what I do not know. What does God
do with those that have faith but bury it deep. Do we get cast out
like the servent who buried his talents or do we rise up from our
prison, but if so, how? I wish I knew..................."
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| Oh my gosh an update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So news for some, not news for others. I am on hiatus for the semester (aka couldnt come up with the money for MVNU) so i will be leisurely be staying at home and finishing up my gen eds here at Washinton State CC. Thats about all for now, sorry for the short depressing post, lol.
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| Ok, watch out everyone.......here comes a long one
So in helping a certain sibling of mine on a theology paper some things have been kind of stirred up in my mind. First off let me start out with a few confessions. I have done my fair share of wrongs in life, I have been an avid gutter mouth before (surprisingly at my Christian elementary school, before i gave it up during public middle school), I've done my fair share of lying and cheating. I remember cheating on a couple tests in school over the years. Have I ever done drugs, smoked, or drank before.........no.........but ill be honest with you in saying one big reason is probably because i was never in the type of crowd that would have offered it to me and thus never had oppurtunity. So needless to say ive done alot of things. I say this to you now to let you know Im being REAL with you. Just as real and my physical presence proves to you. I was thinking to myself earlier, that often i think we forget or neglect to willfully think that Jesus is just as REAL as you or me. Hes not an abstract idea or ideal, he was and is a living being. And just as you and me he wants to be REAL with us as well as he wants us to be REAL with him. So why is it so hard for us to be real about our faith.
Before anyone starts thinking to themselves, "I am real about my faith". Let me ask you something. What is your faith? Why do you believe what you believe?
I see it so much today. Parents handing off the family torch of faith to the next generation of kids. But thats all it is, its just a torch being handed off. The kids just pick up what their parents told them to beleive. There is no conscious recognition or thought put into it. I think anymore we forget the purpose of the church and ministers. We (society) expect to go to church, youth group, bible study....etc. and be told what to believe. COME ONE PEOPLE!!!! Martin Luther and others after the Reformation gave us a wonderful gift. They gave us the Bible in our own languages for us to read for ourselves. No longer do we have to rely on the clergy to tell us what to believe, we can figure that out ourselves. Now dont get me wrong, your minister is still a needed figure. But the function of the minister has changed into that of a guide, they are there to help us to understand and interpret, but not there for us to sit back and be fed our faith.
Now ask yourself another few questions. What denomination are you? Do you know what the doctrine believes and do you agree with it, or are you just there because mommy and daddy go there? I challenge you to find out what it is you believe. Make it REAL in your life, and not just another torch to hand off to your kids someday for them to go through the motions. Its so easy to say we beleive in something but look the other way when we want to fulfill other desires of ours. But its another thing when in those situations that we make a decision to keep it REAL.
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| So apparently the consensus is that i need to update. Now the question is what to update about. Not much is going on. Schools out, summer has come, and i find myself looking for employment. That about sums it up. Other than that feel free to leave me a message or talk to me on IM. | | |
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