"The breakfast cereal talked more than we did all day long."

One week and I'm finished with high school.

"High school"

The title has become synonymous with monotomous time wasted and superfluous drama.

"The place we can't wait to escape"


And where, exactly, are we escaping to? The real world? The real world full of real people?

I'm beginning to question how much a diploma will be able to transform the disdained "high school" persona that has come to represent my peers.


I want to live for more than today, yes, but I also want to live for more than tomorrow.

"It's hard to find a friend."

4/25/07

I don't remember the last time I authored something worth reading.

4/7/07

Loving people with all that I have is hard. It's hard because people hurt . . . because loving hurts.

"Love is watching someone die."

Ask me

I've got a lot on my mind this week and I don't think I'm going to spill it into a computer monitor this time. A lot of times, I think, I put my thoughts into words because I like to tell myself that putting those words out into the world makes this "renewing of my mind" tangible.

God says that we will seek Him and find Him when we seek Him with all of our hearts. Seeking is more than keeping my eyes open, looking intently, or searching from a vantage point. Seeking takes movement. Seeking takes action.

A journal for myself is one thing, a good thing, and to an extent that's been my intention in blogging. Sharing my experiences across cyberspace with a faceless, nameless audience, however, has become a way for me to silence that hunger to live what I'm learning and it's not enough.

I'd love to talk and laugh and pray and sing and cry with you. Let me. I'd love to tell you face to face, hand in hand, running and jumping and and dancing, who Jesus is to me and what He's showing me in my life this week. Ask me.

Some days

Some days are one of those days, you know . . .

those days when I just wish I knew how to stop thinking about him.

ridiculous, right?

Genesis 45:4

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The end of Genesis concerns Joseph's reaction when his brothers come to Egypt for food during the famine Joseph actually prophesied when he interpreted the Pharoh's dream. None of Joseph's brothers recognize him, and he purposefully keeps up this deception, seemingly not out of spite (he breaks down weeping a few times) but out of a desire to test their character and see their hearts. Though he never once seems to hold onto bitterness, giving them the food they need and looking after their well-being even while he is lying to them, his outright forgiveness comes only after he realizes how broken they are.

So is Joseph justified in what he does? Or the better question, is he right in God's eyes?