There is a very big difference between running away from something and walking away from it.
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Sometimes you have to take what it is that others are saying about you, chew it and digest. Other times you just need to know who the hell you are and keep walking.
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Grown-ups don’t say grown-up. They say Adult — and it’s pronounced “Aaahdult.”
Growing up both pays and costs you.
When faced with the choice between being the person ‘everybody’ wants you to be or the person you can sleep with at night, choose the latter — but with all humility.
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I always feel like — somebody’s watching me.
I swear — Bob Marley’s”Jammin” always comes on my pandora station right when I’m at my witt’s end.. It’s like God sees me dehydrated and soaked with sweat in the heat of life’s kitchen and, - in his infinite compassion- decides to hand me a musical margarita.
So I’d like to propose a toast to the all the songs out there that make complete fools out of stress & anxiety.
You are everything that is right with the world. Here’s to you.
Seatbelt check.
Bin Laden is dead and everybody is making jokes about it. I won’t lie, I giggled at a few— my friends are dang funny. But then I realized something…
The devil is celebrating too.
There’s a little knot in my stomach that says we’re cheering for a goal that wasn’t made by our team.
I don’t want to be a legalist or anything. And I honestly get as much of a kick out of a good #Jesusjuke as the next guy. But I’m starting to wonder if in our pursuit to be Christians who are “real” — we sometimes— in some ways— stop being real Christians.
Jesus spent much of His free time with prostitutes & thieves. And Saul, the man who wrote the largest portion of the bible, had spent his entire life murdering & torturing Christians. He’d just petitioned and been granted government permission to go and massacre a group of Christians that He had discovered in a territory called Damascus when He encountered the Lord during His trip there. His life was forever changed by one encounter.
King David was a corrupt military leader who had a man sent to the front lines of battle to be murdered so that David could sleep with His wife, Bathsheba. And yet God refers to him ad ” A man after God’s own heart.”
If these men were in Osama’s shoes, I fear we’d be celebrating & making jokes about their deaths, as well.
That scares me.
I want eyes to see & ears to hear what the Lords doing in the lives of those around me — and I want to be apart of it. Even if it’s my worst enemy.
“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” -Ephesians 6:12
(Ephesians was written by Paul— former government-sanctioned murderer of Christians)
May we learn to see the world — the people & events that take place in it— through the lenses of the Father’s heart.
Now, for my digression. I do believe %100 that God was, is & will be in control. And it apparently wasn’t his will for Osama to be the next Saul or David. ;) My intention in this blog was not in any way to rebuke or reprimand anyone who celebrated our victory as a country, democracy, & a leader of the free world. I CELEBRATE JUSTICE. There are and were many more brave, kind-hearted, faithful servants to this country who are or have given their lives to Make sure I could go to sleep & wake up a citizen of a free country. I’m eternally grateful for that. Genuinely. I just worry sometimes… That my words and my thoughts and my actions don’t line up with my heroes: Jesus, Paul, David, John…
It’s just a verbal seatbelt check.
