Memes give me something to blog about, so that’s cool. My friend Jim at Lord I Believe, Help My Unbelief tagged me with this one about favorite books of the Bible. It was started by another friend of mine, Brother Maynard at Subversive Influence.
I don’t think I have a favorite entire book in the Bible. [...]
Is it a good idea to have expectations of others in a love relationship? I mean, is it even really possible to do that? To expect someone to behave a certain way or to become a certain person or improve in a certain way? I think that is making love conditional, because love and acceptance [...]
Now I’m testing Scribefire, a similar addon that appears a bit more complex and full-featured than Deepest Sender. Sorry for the flurry of little posts.
ScribeFire
I’m testing (and writing about) a Firefox addon called “Deepest Sender,” that allows me to create and post entries remotely, from within my browser, without actually going to the blog. I’m still not totally sure why this is a useful thing but I’ll let you know if I decide I can’t live without it.
Grace doesn’t give us the ability to do supernatural deity-like feats of perfection. That would just make us more selfish. Instead, grace gives us the opportunity to lay down on the altar, die, and let Jesus be perfect, in us and through us.
I guess she had to do it. She didn’t know any other way of making the separation happen. The separation is supposed to happen, when a child grows up. For some reason it didn’t happen with her, not the way it is supposed to. Like when you’re 12 and you inch away from your dad [...]
Jesus tells us over and over not to be afraid.
Fear of the unknown can drive us to do many things to feel safe, not the least of which is to surround ourselves with unnecessary structure and rules and people to tell us the right things to do so that we never need make a mistake. [...]
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Many of us are victims of hurt from other women. Most of the time it comes from a childhood hurt. For me, it was rejection. Cold, unfeeling rejection from two girls that I thought were my best friends. Many years later, I realize it is possible that neither of them meant to hurt me. But [...]
I make it my business to avoid the systems of this culture and this world as much as I am able to see those systems and recognize them for what they are. If you’ve never seen The Matrix, then maybe you’ve never thought about the systems of this world and how they conceal true freedom [...]
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From Sterling Hayden, a passage that has given me pause this morning:
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs [...]
