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One Body
LUKE 18: 9-14
"To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even ( Read more... ) -
So my field education......
Let's just start by saying that I am a little bit angry right now. Don't get me wrong, I love my field education site, and the supervisor rocks, but right now I think I am justified in being just a little bit pissed off. Because, you see, I was excited about my field education site specifically because I was being given some room and freedom to ( Read more... ) -
Sermon of the month: Sept. 30, 2007
I preached this morning at my church. The text was 1 Timothy 6:6-12, 17-19. Let me know what you think ( Read more... ) -
*sigh*
So I'm not really ready to write about it.... but F'ing A, man. F'in A.
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Finding A Place in All of This
When I was a child, I breathed horses. They paraded between my eardrums, galloping and whinnying wildly. I counted them when I travelled, read about them at the library, covered my lined notebooks, my journals, my sketchbooks with their majestic bodies, pretended to be one when nobody was looking. Oh how I loved horses. Brown ones, Black ones, ( Read more... ) -
what im afraid of.
I am afraid of what recognizing and accepting my truth would mean for me. Because if I did really acknowledge it, I'm afraid of the consequences. -
Going Home
I am officially DONE DONE DONE with New Testament...... Feels so amazing, I can't even tell you. That class has been a major pain in the A all semester..... basically it was more work than my other three classes, one of which was Greek and another of which was a Seminar on Literature, combined. So turning in my final exegesis paper today feels ( Read more... ) -
I have no idea what I am doing...
"The world is your oyster ( Read more... ) -
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I've been desperately praying to feel what I don't
Hoped to be held (though I know that I won't)
when I slip out the door, not a single one sees
And not one stands beside me while I'm on my knees
crying to God, begging her please
that just for one moment, she might love me
And lift me up out of this sadness I breathe. -
A further thought on inner transformation.....
"John's Gospel should be a reminder...that true change begins with faith, the kind of faith that leads to love, the kind of love that builds a community, protects that community's present, that guarantees its future even as and probably because it challenges, counters, and resists the hostilities of the world around it. This is the kind of ( Read more... )