"Prayer is essentially the expression of our heart longing for love. It is not so much the listing of our requests but the breathing of our own deepest request, to be united with God as fully as possible."

"Prayer is death to every identity that does not come from God."

So take heart
Let His love lead us through the night
Hold on to hope
And take courage again.

There is a light
It burns brighter than the sun
He steals the night
And casts no shadow
There is hope
Should oceans rise and mountains fall
He never fails

HOLY CRAP. It's like Brian McLaren is talking directly to me ( Read more... )

"'For many years now, with my white hairs, I have perceived that many people believed they had a right to despise me; to the poor, ignorant crowd I have a the face of the damned, and I accept, hating no man myself, the isolation of hatred. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am about to die. What have you come to ask of me ( Read more... )

It's like my well-being steadily decreased like a diagonal line going downward on an xy-plane. And then suddenly, it immediately jumps up to a higher y-coordinate than the point at which the graph originally started. Kinda like this piecewise function:

{ y + x = 5 ( 0 < x < 4 )
{ y - x = 6 ( x > 4 )

Assumptions about God made by the AVERAGE Christian in Alabama (I could very well be wrong, this is just my perception ( Read more... )

I feel like this is what God's been trying to tell me. I've heard/read this twice in the past 24 hours, most recently from the book that Paula xeroxed for me ( Read more... )

Took "Why Christianity Must Change or Die" by John Shelby Spong off my bookshelf. It's been around three years since I last read it, and I think I'm ready for it this time. Here are some quotes I relate with that make me shout YES!! or make me go Hmmmm ( Read more... )

I'm still listening. I think I could hear you tonight.

Sometimes when I play, it feels like I'm no longer on this earth. I'm somewhere else, a place for which there are no words. I crave that feeling. I need it the way I need to breathe.