Observation in Condensed Form

21Apr08

Well I’ve read that one of the tricks of maintaining a good blog is to update often. Apparently, I am failing. But thoughts are in the works. As always.

But anyways… for lack of a better thing to write about, I’m just going to make some general observations about life as it rests right now:

• Its refreshing to be able to turn on the news and not see either Obama or Clinton’s face immediately. The break between primaries was nice. Too bad it ends tomorrow.
• Juno was a fantastic movie. Go see it. And listen to the soundtrack.
• Folk music is relaxing and happy.
• Summer is coming. And with summer comes goals so I don’t waste my summer. More on that later.
• The world is driven by conflict. Between countries, between groups, between people. Sometimes I wonder why we can’t just get along. And maybe thats why Jesus came. To solve the conflict we have between us and God. Because the world wasn’t made for conflict.
• This Christian thing wasn’t meant to be done alone. American Christianity places too much emphasis on the individual and not enough on the communal. We weren’t meant to be islands. But again, more on that later. Much more.
• I’m going to Costa Rica in June. And I don’t have any money for it yet. Send me money?
• The idea that truth does not exist is nothing new. It happens about once every century. And we get over it.
• “The Church” is an organism. “Church” is a structure to hold the organism. Much like a hermit crab needs a shell. But sometimes the organism grows to a point where it needs to discard the shell in order to find a new one. If the organism doesn’t discard the shell because its too attached to it or likes the way it looks, it begins to constrict the organism. An organism constrained by the shell cannot grow to its full potential. Sometimes its necessary to do away with the old in order to achieve its full potential.

So thats about it for now… Each of those bullets is a post in and of itself but for the sake of time, its the Reader’s Digest version. More perhaps later, or talk to me about it. Its nice outside. So stop reading and enjoy it.

And one last observation:

• I’m late for class.

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