December 2010
16 posts
It’s A Wonderful Life is truly one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Every year it keeps being great.
New Favorite Christmas Song
http://vimeo.com/8295154
“My resolution’s not to call you, and we’ll finally drift apart. The promise I make, always tend to break, and we end up back at the start.”
Only A Fool Believes That He Is Different From the...
In all fairness, it is foolish to think that we are so great. What makes me, as a human, better or different from any other creature? We are bigger, sure. We have more complex ways of thinking, we have invented so much that birds have no idea even exists. But we also do a lot more harm to ourselves than they do. Sure we are bigger and stronger, but they can fly….and I’d rather be...
"I want you to know that I am not going to hit on you tonight, but I don't want you to get the wrong idea."
"You don't want me to think you don't like me?"
"No, I don't want you to think that I don't want you to like me."
Drive; Doubt
I have been mired recently in this intense period of doubt. At one point I was questioning whether I was ever a Christian at all. Perhaps I was reprobate. This was frightening. Thankfully, after a rough week and a long talk with someone, I came to realize that I am, and always was, elect, and am therefore justified. This is a great source of comfort.
This does not, however, erase the doubts...
Fear
Is there a reason we fear failure so much? How often does the fear that we wont succeed keep us from trying at all? Or from giving our all?
It is paralyzing to think that if we give our all, the we try our very hardest, and do everything we think is possible that we might still fail. The answer seems obvious. At that point, there is really nowhere to go. If you try your best and it still...
I believe there exists at least one bicycle in the world that has two seats. Shall we buy it? I have a vision of us pedaling across the country in exactly a straight line and arriving at the ocean past sundown. The water will be black. The sky will be black. We are chilled, but we have coffee in a thermos. We watch as night dies and the sun pops up. We will stay for an early morning hour. And...
When we preach the Gospel we say that anyone who truly wants to follow Christ will not be turned away. Why do we think this? I know Crusade has the verse from Revelation where Jesus says “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” The problem there being that this verse is taken out of context. Jesus here is talking to a church of believers who have attempted to partition their lives...
“Anyways, the important thing is that, instead of going to your friends for help, you ran screaming into the night.”
“Basically.”
“Perfectly logical response.”
“I thought so.”
On Beauty
Think of the most beautiful picture you have ever seen. Now, who took it? I doubt most people would know. I doubt most people would find the beauty in the shutter speed or contrast. The beauty is in the thing captured, not the one who captured it. I could spend hours with the artist or with the sculptor but I’d rather spend five minutes looking at the art itself. I think that would...
One keeps emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down?
Sooner or later I must face the question in plain language. What reason have we, except our own desperate wishes, to believe God is, by any standard we can conceive, Good?
This is a question I have been taking very seriously the past several days, as I am growing increasingly uncertain. What proof do we really have God is good? All the things my foundations were built on were based on the...
Your Ghost
It is like a ghost. Haunting me. The remnant of something that once was, that once lived. And now, in death, there is no peace, only a lingering fragment. So much less than what I remember, than what once was. And it follows me around, taunting me, reminding me of everything that used to be, everything that has been lost, and how everything that remains is a shallow and hollow shell of what...
Last, let me concede, just for arguement’s sake, that it does not “really make sense” to say that a saint can believe that God is good and yet disbelieve that God is good to me. “Does not really make sense” here can mean at least two different things: (a) it is impossible for a saint to believe God is good and not also believe God is good to me; (b) it would be...