I think sometimes it is easy in today's culture to embrace the love and the mercy and the grace of Christianity and close our eyes to the utter, gruesome brutality of the cross. Love, kindness, and acceptance, are all words that the world wants to hear, *needs* to hear, but it is a vital part of our salvation that we also see, and at least in some ( Read more... )

Y'know, after I graduated, I thought about a lot of different places I could go to live. I could try to find a job in Naples, staying near the people I knew down there, staying involved with my TaeKwonDo school. I could go back up to New York, back to my roots in the Buffalo area, back to that whole world and culture that felt more my own than ( Read more... )

I do not understand how authors (or people in general) who write drafts can ever get anything done. Any time I let myself re-write anything, I just get caught in an endless loop, writing the same thing over and over again - not even just editing, but starting over entirely, as though convinced that if I start over just one more time I can write it ( Read more... )

I am a human being; and in many ways, as a human being, more or less average or typical. It should come as no surprise, then, that, be it to my advantage or disadvantage, or more often considered a fairly neutral fact, I am in possession of certain qualities or attributes and not of others, and that one of those attributes the possession of which ( Read more... )

between being homeless for a week ( Read more... )

So, who remembers all those fun pastries and snacks we had back around my birthday and graduation?
Who remembers me not being able to take them home with me?
Who remembers volunteering to stop by the House and take them home to eat over the summer?

Who remembers finding them in the Battle House kitchen having sat on the counter the entire summer ( Read more... )

So, I really like JD's/The Summit's idea about telling people all the nice things you think of them this week. Except...I'm kinda hesitant about it. Because for some reason most of the times I've tried to really encourage someone, tell them I appreciate them, tell them how awesome they are, etc., they've reacted like I'm some kind of creepy ( Read more... )

"Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire"
but
"a man of many companions may come to ruin."

I hate when I get a mixed message, because generally then my "discernment" between the two is just based on my own feelings. Boo.

(Maybe God has a LiveJournal and will post a reply? ;) )

Poor People Like Pizza

Gothamist

And I Am Not Lying

We Have Lasers!!!!!!!  (…I think I found someone I went to elementary school with, actually.)

Sexy People Blog

My Parents Joined Facebook (and the less amusing “My Kids Joined Facebook”)

Historical Tweets (and from there, Famous Last Tweets)

SomeEcards

This is why you’re fat

...In other ( Read more... )

 Just curious who, if anyone, still reads this journal.  There's one person I think does, but my lack of replies is leading me to wonder if anyone else is here.

So if you're reading this, please reply - I don't need anything deep or insightful, just a "yep, I'm here."