nothing was thrown up here last week because i had a life. i was out living. i came home exhausted and very early in the morning.
i loved it.
to me, summer is exhaustion with the option of being able to sleep whenever or wherever you'd like.
nothing to do, nowhere to be consistently, heat everywhere. heaven. or something supremely positive.
but yeah, another reason was, that since it was march break, i didnt have as many youth related things going on, so sadly, less group oriented spirituality to dissect.
however, i did read 'velvet elvis' by rob bell. good book, nice and challanging. some of his theology seems screwed up, and apparently he pisses off fundamentalists, which makes the little anarcho-punk in me happy.
but in all honesty, fundamentalists are people too. they just dont know how to have fun.
i kid.
anyways, he paints a nice analogy about how the christian faith should be more like a trampoline then a brick wall. we can't make the assumption we know everything definitively, because, we don't. not to say that there is no way of knowing anything (because how could we know that?) but being mule-headed and unflexing in your beliefs isnt going to do anything. and if one brick is taken out, the entire thing is weakened.
besides, it's way more fun to bounce on a trampoline then it is to run into a brick wall.
aside from the content, he also had an interesting writing style. he had a habit of saying something in a very wordy way, then going down a line
and reiterating it in a simple sentence.
possibly with the intention of being quotable, which he usually succeeds at.
anyways, it was an interesting read. but, on to more fun things:
homework
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