Things I know.
1)I have a black cat.
2) I have brown eyes. (stole that from you)
3)i have a conformity complex.
4)Christmas is celebrated december 25th.
5)My nose is big and german/polish.
6) GOD IS BIG.
The ride home is always interesting after spending time with Lindsey. lol. After long thinking (haha 20 minutes) I can say that I know God exists. This is dangerous but listen to my thinking. All throughout our conversation I talked about God being big. I never doubted it. God had to be big. "I just dont think God is so small" or some quote like that. If I know God is big, how can I not know that He is there? He is there and He is big. I am not lying to myself. (at least....i know this right now...i might not know it tomorrow, or in ten minutes, but now IT IS OK.) God is the air we breathe. I was reminded of this on my way home, and I know it because I have experienced it. When it was very hot in the summers of the little tiny non-airconditioned church of Northside calvary I would always sit by the open window in the back, (during a period when i was made to wear long flowy skirts) and I could feel God in the breeze and breathe Him. I breathe God. that is how I know He is. A God I can breathe, small? I DONT THINK SO.
now on to the conformity complex.
so the question is "what social group would you most identify yourself with?"
We all kinda know that its not the "evangelical" group. this group is very special and very committed, but I guess from where I sit they make God look small to me, and as previously mentioned I know God is big. Its not to say that theyve got completely wrong ideas, just that they arent my ideas.
We also established that it wasnt really GSA either. lol im gonna say this and you are going to laugh, but I feel far too normal lol. I love GSA at marquette, and plan on going back there next semester, but i dont completley identify with them because there is something that makes me different.
I could go through this and name every group that Ive ever belonged to. The conclusion that I have come to is that labels are what you make them, so Im going to label myself.
I hereby label myself a GRACE-TAKER. Grace-taker, pretty much means christian, but has no expectations except well...taking grace. Modern christianity is full of expectations and stereotypes (Im not conservative, not honest, not really humble, not generous etc.) BUT I am a grace-taker, and recently Ive learned I think, that grace is all we can really ever have as our own. haha we talked today about how each person has their own conception of God, well I agree. Therefore I make up my own denomination, and know that the probability that I am wrong about who God is and what He does is probably 100%.
what do you think of that? does this make sense? (as much as any of the things I say do...lol)
2) I have brown eyes. (stole that from you)
3)i have a conformity complex.
4)Christmas is celebrated december 25th.
5)My nose is big and german/polish.
6) GOD IS BIG.
The ride home is always interesting after spending time with Lindsey. lol. After long thinking (haha 20 minutes) I can say that I know God exists. This is dangerous but listen to my thinking. All throughout our conversation I talked about God being big. I never doubted it. God had to be big. "I just dont think God is so small" or some quote like that. If I know God is big, how can I not know that He is there? He is there and He is big. I am not lying to myself. (at least....i know this right now...i might not know it tomorrow, or in ten minutes, but now IT IS OK.) God is the air we breathe. I was reminded of this on my way home, and I know it because I have experienced it. When it was very hot in the summers of the little tiny non-airconditioned church of Northside calvary I would always sit by the open window in the back, (during a period when i was made to wear long flowy skirts) and I could feel God in the breeze and breathe Him. I breathe God. that is how I know He is. A God I can breathe, small? I DONT THINK SO.
now on to the conformity complex.
so the question is "what social group would you most identify yourself with?"
We all kinda know that its not the "evangelical" group. this group is very special and very committed, but I guess from where I sit they make God look small to me, and as previously mentioned I know God is big. Its not to say that theyve got completely wrong ideas, just that they arent my ideas.
We also established that it wasnt really GSA either. lol im gonna say this and you are going to laugh, but I feel far too normal lol. I love GSA at marquette, and plan on going back there next semester, but i dont completley identify with them because there is something that makes me different.
I could go through this and name every group that Ive ever belonged to. The conclusion that I have come to is that labels are what you make them, so Im going to label myself.
I hereby label myself a GRACE-TAKER. Grace-taker, pretty much means christian, but has no expectations except well...taking grace. Modern christianity is full of expectations and stereotypes (Im not conservative, not honest, not really humble, not generous etc.) BUT I am a grace-taker, and recently Ive learned I think, that grace is all we can really ever have as our own. haha we talked today about how each person has their own conception of God, well I agree. Therefore I make up my own denomination, and know that the probability that I am wrong about who God is and what He does is probably 100%.
what do you think of that? does this make sense? (as much as any of the things I say do...lol)
posted by Stina | 1:19 PM
1 Comments:
Much sense, much, much sense.
Good start. Keep going- ten, I think, was the assignment?
I'm going to need some help with this Spanish stuff- any ideas?
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