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[mirabear]

I want to be like Enoch, but I have no clue how he got THERE.
I find Modern Christianity to be so exasperating.
I love the Lord. I hate Church.
It's rough to go at your faith on your own,
and perhaps I feel I have to because most church-goers infuriate me.

All I want in my life right now is to teach in a high risk school.
I want to love kids who have

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[timfinnegan]

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd

And he said: 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

...These will ask Him, "When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?" And Jesus will answer them, "Whatever you neglected to do unto one of these least of these, you neglected to do unto Me"

Since an early age Ive always inspired to know what made Enoch who he was, what he did, how he lived. As a child I always searched for his story to unlock his secret. I know now- but I fail, and thats tough to come to terms with. Recently I was speaking to a friend who was wanting to go out on a trip driving across the country to really unlock the meaning of life and its secrets, I advocating really stepping out there and serving others for awhile. I think that lifestyle has its secrets that cannot be found anywhere else. I think you'd be a lot more in touch there with God, than just out in search, although Jesus himself had to take breaks and times of solitary prayer and reflection. I think the very purpose of living here with each other in the same circumstance is that compassion for one another. I loathe what churches have become today, halls of gossip and it frustrates me. I hear more church politics than anything; but its an institution up kept by men, you cant expect much more. "And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Ive always found this verse to be curious, he in recorded text has never been so indignant with man as he is in this place. I think thats important, God wont sit idle long while this happens and will deal with it most severely. "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." Though they attempted to seize him and chuck em off the edge of the town Jesus slipped through only to show up again and again every sabbath at the temple to read the scrolls and teach.

"Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." "Above all, love each other deeply... Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms... If anyone serves he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ." With Christ as our ultimate model, I think thats really our responsibility. How much more for the little ones mentioned in the opening verses there? God has a very special place for them. "What you did not do for the least of one of these you did not do for me." They say that the gift of life is the ultimate gift. If we can give that up, not necessarily in the sense of a martyr, but in the sense of a lifelong devotion to our brothers who all have the equal breath of God that we have.

"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."

Hmm.. pardon me for the long-winded rant, I always tend to overdo myself:P I hope it comes to something and/or express my complete empathy with your post there. Be good;)