Oh, internet, lately you are making me really sad.

It seems as though no matter where I may be roaming through the interwebs, I'm pleasantly enjoying myself until -- wham! -- suddenly I stumble over a spike of anti-Christian vitriol.

And then I just sit there and feel... not angry, or even very offended -- just really, really sad.

Yes, it bothers ( Read more... )

I remember, back in the days when my family's life was pretty bleak*, my mother used to say: God is good. All the time, God is good: because He is, as a fact, not a trait, not something He's doing right now, not because He just did something noticeable for you -- in the slums, He is good, and in the starlight, He is good; when you weep, He is good ( Read more... )

2006 is nearly over; to the grave with it, I say. I've had enough. I'm quite ready to wipe the slate clean. Preferably with wire-wool and disinfectant.

I've had my triumph, though, I reckon, but I can't think of this year without seeing Baby Jabez's makeshift grave in my mind, and Dad's office empty and the walls painted over, and sometimes it ( Read more... )

So.

In regards to my previous post, which I didn't have enough time to write properly and now have equally little time to explain properly--rather, I have worlds and worlds of time, but little on the computer--I'm not leaving Christianity, or the church. I'm a little sick of the church, though, seeing as I've been hurt by nearly every single one I' ( Read more... )

I find it confusing and somewhat bothersome that I can wax lyrical ad nauseum about so many things, and yet when it comes down to deeply serious things that really matter, I find myself completely at a loss.

(Such as now, for example. Plague.)

But here is one conclusion I seem to have consciously reached today: I have little use for the trimmings ( Read more... )