Summer.

Summer, come faster please?

I long for your sun on my skin, I anxiously await your freedom.

Summer, hurry please!

P.s-I will meet you in Greece. Wait for me?

Life past here.

"To live life with an attitude of invincibility is like driving a car with no sight. "

It is so dangerous as Christians to believe the world is sin, out of reach, and irrelevant to us. While this is the extreme side of the "seclusive church", this idea is real and seeping through the walls of church.

As this idea has been on my mind a lot lately, it was fed by several events/realizations I had this weekend. We are soon to exit our safe bubble called christian high school (or life with our families and familiar churches) and enter into college. We all have heard that it's hard, it's challenging, it is stretching. But can we really do this and be ok? Can we get there and not cave under the pressure? I'm going to be honest, I'm a little worried about compromise and rationalization taking over.

Please be there when I need you to be. I promise I'll be there for you, anytime. We can do this.

Flaw.

I am desperately flawed.
I am dependant on the meaningless.
I am defined by my inabilites to accomplish.



I am desperately flawed, and hurting here.

Media.

My exterior is beginning to crack, but unfortunately by the ever increasing exposure to these perverse and twisted ideas you continue to pour out of your studios and present to the easily impressionable mind. It frustrates me that even I am becoming desensitized to this, not because I choose to stand on my pedestal and denounce the world, but because I, personally, have begun accepted some of this. Not only accepted, but on some ways have allowed myself to expect the media's interpretation of truth to seep into my own life and become actuality.

How am I supposed to maintain my grip with these false representations of love and future and relationships breaking in, when I struggle enough with the definition of these ideas already?

I need truth in it's purest form. I need the media to quiet itself for a moment, please? I cannot hear correctly, I cannot think correctly. Will you quiet down for just a little while?

Trend of the Week=Green

A comical occurrence has been continually presenting itself to me over the past few months, so I will use this time to expound.

Have you taken time to notice the powerful influence that current cultural trends have on almost every social angle?

It seems that every other advertising scheme relates back to the overplayed phrase-

Go Green

Clothing, cleaners, and cars are all resorting to the popular economic bend. And it think it is rather humorous to me....why? Because it is a moment, a trend, a phase, just like peace&love in the 70's.

So we must recycle, reuse, reduce. Maybe to save our planet, but probably to be socially acceptable.

So let us hug a tree, at least until this fad will fade.

Spackle god.

"Deuteronomy 10:21 He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes."

Is this our God? This indescribable wonder that continues to shake up and burst through our lives? Who is moving and shaking our tiny, inadequate minds to somehow understand we are selfish, needy, and desperately fallen short, but desperately in need of Him?

Yet we continue to try to paint His image on a canvas, and explain his deep complexities after reading a book about it?

We chose a topic, read verses with the key word in them, and use God's work as a paste to fill in the gaps of our theories. His word is a filler, to prove our point. We generalize, we guess, we assume so much about God, and who he is.

God is overly surmised to be the safe, comfortable God we need him to be.

Can we, can I stop trying to shove this explosively wonderful God into a box? Stop trying to contain His person to fit the struggle, question, or feelings I am currently having?

God is more.

God is huge.

I am small.