Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

Fullness of Life in a Body of Disrepair: A conversation between two Seeking the life of Christ in a Broken Body. Scott Grace wrote : If you ever have a free moment I am interested in learning a bit about your views on the state of the Church today. Maybe this is unfair in an email, however I am going to ask anyway. I have not heard much concerning your Ecclesiastical associations, but, as you can imagine, when you left FBBC many uniformed fundamentalists from my upbringing "labeled" you unfairly. I never heard the story from your side. I know that might be an entire dinner conversation, but I would be happy to hear the readers digest version or even sound bite version. I welcome your thoughts, for the reason that I am trying to process through, myself, my understandings of what the Church should look like in respect to Scripture, History, and Tradition. Here in Dallas I have attended four very different "forms" of Church, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Bible/Community, an...

STARS OF LESSER GLORY Im trying to discover a concept so that I might put that concept in writing, a concept that classifies and describes the man, or for that matter woman, who has found what it is to live a life consumed with honesty and vulnerability demanded by existence. One who knows the importance of life free from the horrors of rugged individualism. However, the absence of individualism is simply only one aspect of that persons character. This person is also a pietist, one who understands the power of spiritual formation and theological wisdom, yet they are a humanist in that they understand the human psyche so that they are most helpful to individuals in their present situations. Though this archetype fulfills these roles, she is not so self conceited to think that hers is the final argument for she knows that her life is formed and shaped through the very own society she wishes to understand. This human is consumed with the divine, however he understands the absolute relevan...

" There is an emotional element in the makeup of each human individual, which calls to be expressed in any genuine appreciation and welcoming of another's love, whether it be the love of a friend or a spouse or the love of God in Christ ." J.I. Packer " Keeping in Step with the Spirit " Why do we need to experience love? Could we not simply exist without that desire? What is it about humanity that requires this aspect of divinity? It is that we are image bearers of God. However, unlike God we are not self-sufficient, but we must rely on God and others for wholeness. God loves and experiences love because that's what he is, humans have to love and experience love because God is teaching us that we cannot, in complete self-sufficiency, survive on our own. We need God just like we need others, plain and simple. We need to be needed and we want to need. The soul left to itself, such as the man who says "I am an island" is the soul left to dry and dissi...

Oh England, land of enchantment, today you will find that life has arrived. One whose home is beyond your shores, who seeks your good hospitality. give to her your good hand and keep her, show her the majesty of your beauty, shelter her in the kindness of your palm, care for her until the time of return happens upon her. Oceans cannot deaden care for her, for her home will call to beckon her return, Distant land, she is not yours to claim, she must come. It is not with you that she belongs, no, she is only with you for a short while. She will return. Time, yours is the ability to keep us from each other, Distance, yours is the strength to separate our lives, But do not be high minded, In the grace of Affection we are reunited in due season.

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate ? Clay. the final becoming of life, fully in Gods image.

Why is LOVE so hard? Why dont the people i like like me, and why dont i like the people who like me? Its bizarre. Its as if there is a evil mastermind throwing people into my life who I will like but they have been zombied to never think of me romantically. Its like an buffet of all sorts, but when you bite into your food you find that its plastic. I read a quote yesterday. it said, " great love and great achievement involve great risk." I dont know who wrote it, but its so true. I risked my friendship with a girl the other day. We have been friends for so long. I have always thought she was wonderful. I finally told her, I had to, I could not have lived my life knowing that I did not tell here, always wondering "what if." I dont think she will accept my movement, but we are friends nonetheless. I guess thats all i can really ask for, right? I mean, whats the worst that can happen? She can say no, and we never talk again because I freaked her out. Oh, my. I hope not...

yet another semester... mary is leaving, jenea and harvey are getting married, austin and festa are dating again, me and katulka are getting coffee more often, kelli palmer and katie bibb are getting married... so many changes. so much to deal with.