September 25, 2007
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I tried
to make snickerdoodles. it doesn`t really work right with raw brown
sugar. tastes a little gritty. still, i put them on a little silver
platter and went around to everyone here for seminary tonight, giving
out American cookies. I can`t even remember everything i put in
them…i just started adding spices.“i fell out of a tree today”
“and?”
“and it didn`t hurt at much as i thought it would.”I have never broken a bone in my body. this is the first time i feel ashamed to say that.
Reading “The Barbarian Way.”
The beginning wasn`t so hot, but i hit this amazing part
in the middle…“We understand that whoever walks in front
walks closest to death, but even this knowledge does not slow us
down…somehow Christianity has become a nonmystical religion. It is
about reasonable faith. if we believe the right things, we are
orthodox. We have become believers rather than experiences. To know God
in the Scriptures always went beyond information to intimacy…the
entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is
important but inadequate, rather than unleashing of a unique, original,
extraordinary, wonderfully untamed faith.”“People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.”
“Sometimes it is easier to believe in a love you can touch rather than a love that is real.”
“When
we fear God and God only, we are no longer bound by all of the other
fears that would hold us captive. The fear of death, failure,
rejection, insignificance–all the fears that know us by name and haunt
us in the dark of the night become powerless when we know the fear of
the Lord. And if this is not enough, we discover that perfect love
casts out all fear. Not even God will hold us or control us by fear.
When we fear Him, we in essence begin to live a life where we are
fearless.”“How many stories do we need of children who grow up in church being forced to act like Christians rather than being won to the heart of God? The civilized Christian does what is right out of fear; the barbarian does what is right out of love. The Christian civilization is held together by rules and rituals; the barbarian revolt is fueled by the passio of God and guided by the mission of God. If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk, and adventure and choose a life that is boring, mundane, and ordinary.”
oh yeah, and then he let his son jump off the roof. pretty sweet. he was like “well, are you going to do it sometime anyways? i’d rather you do it when i am right here to catch you…”
Please pray for Eukias. I don’t know if things are not good in his life or if he just decided to shut down part of his life…Just pray for God to reveal that He is already there with him.
