hey you!

hey you! yeah you...

you've affected me.

So much for being open minded,

so much for not learning how to say no when coffee--or tea--is on the table.

now here I am-- forgetting all the reasons why not; while you--forgetting the reasons why at all.

Why at all did your mind go crazy, thinking all those things over someone who never really was quite that great.

Why at all did you say all those things that you wonder now were they even true--would you say them again, probably not.

I like to forget the reasons why not, if not for facebook I would keep that up for longer...

My Uncle Al's facebook status

Hey, I am not calling you beautiful as an adjective comparing you to some static lumped outward image of what I have raised up as beautiful, rather I am calling you beautiful as an adverb embracing that dynamic, unique, glowing, ever growing, life giving, creative quantum of activation that shines through in the sparkle of your eye... You being You... Just as You Are. You are beautiful!!! (Albisan 2010)

Everything is permissible for me...

...but not everything is beneficial

Everything is permissible for me...

...but I will not be mastered by anything.

Our father, who is in heaven

Hallowed by thy name,

Your kingdom come

Your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from evil

for Thine is the kingdom

the power and the glory

Forever and ever

Amen.

Pipe Dreams

Gandhiji! I did this for a sociology project, go figure. I also spelt his name wrong in a paper for a south asian history course. MY BAD. Anyways this man is awesome. Such an inspiration. If anyone likes him enough I will sell you this picture for money so I can maybe go to Thailand this summer, or if you want me to make you any other art. WILL DRAW FOR MONEY. lol. It's a pipe dream. Flights are cheap.

our pumpkin got old.

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UUUUMMM, so how's about...God is Good. Let's just think for a second what that might mean, and how some of the ways we might be thinking of God don't match up with this statement. Maybe it's time to challenge those ways of thinking.

Let's stop worrying about right and wrong and just CHILL OUT. Wasn't that how it was in the garden of Eden? Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and Evil. But these days we feel lost without that knowledge. It is what makes us feel safe and in control. Can you imagine giving that up? Well it can be a scary if you don't also add in a very important relationship, one with God.

If we all stop caring about sin and also don't have a relationship with God, well that is anarchy. But if we all stop caring about our sin and DO have a relationship with God, well that is FREEDOM!!! We will do right because we care about God's heart, when we don't do right we will repent because we've hurt His heart, but we will then know we are forgiven.

Give up your right and wrongs, give up your judgements of yourself and others. Chill right out. God cares about our hearts not our actions.

These thoughts are compliments of conversations with dear Charlotte.