Well, the Packers lost, Favre got hurt, geez....but it's all gonna be ok, cause one game doesn't mean that much. The Packers are still going to have an awesome season!
Today was the last church service at North Street, and the first service at Mt. Comfort. It was interesting moving in the middle, police escort and everything (i thought that was a little over the top but i guess moving that many people at once might be hazardous--i heard about one near-wreck =) Something happened today that made me think about how wonderfully and confusingly complex human relationships are. As a Christian, we are supposed to be examples to the people around us of what a life with Christ is like. When I fail to do that, I feel like sometimes its something I can never get back--i feel that with some people, i will never be able to really talk about Christ with them without knowing that they are smirking, inwardly if not outwardly, because they know how imperfect i am.
That's kind of depressing, at least to me, but then the other side of that, or at least adjacent to it, is the fact that people influence each others' lives everyday in different ways, often without knowing it. This influence can be for good, even if that person isn't doing 'good' at the moment. Sometimes I wonder if it all just cancels out or if there's actually any accumulation of good or evil relative to one another in the world. I hope i'm not becoming a nihilist.
Anyway, I'm grateful for a certain person in my life right now, though he doesn't know it, because he's the only friend i feel i haven't disappointed or betrayed right now. funny thing is, some of my other friends don't know this. Like i said, human relationships...incredibly complex and...verrueckt...sometimes.
i really should be finishing my paper and starting on another, but i'm intensely apathetic right now...hopefully it will get done anyway.
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I know that it can be frustrating to think that your witness to others may have been ruined, but God can do anything. Don't forget that your imperfections and sins reveal God's perfection and grace. Still frustrating, yes, but you can point them to the God who has redeemed you and invite them, as a fellow sinner, a jar made out of strong yet breakable clay, into grace and abundant life.
One of the biggest damnations that the world pronounces on Christians is that we're hypocrites. Absolutely. And strangely enough, I like it that way. Because that means we're proclaiming and striving for a high enough standard that we are going to fail. But like the saying says, "Shoot for the moon, and if you fall short, at least you'll land among the stars." Strive for perfection, yes. When you fail, let God use that, and don't give up on yourself, on others, and especially on Him and His power to accomplish what He wants how He wants to.
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