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take up your cross

What does it mean to take up your cross and follow Jesus? It is clearly obvious that this is an important action to take, and that it is one that we should be very comfortable with, as it is required daily. Although this is how it should be, it is not. I know I wake up most mornings and instead of reaching to my night stand and picking up that cross and following the Father I hit the snooze button and continue to sleep. That is not only literal. Seriously, I hit the real snooze button too, but that is not what I mean. I clearly intend to say that I keep on sleeping and not walking with Jesus. Yes, it is a painfully cheesy analogy.

Okay, vent time: Christians are called to take up their cross and follow Jesus, denying their selfish ambitions, sinful nature, all that heinous stuff. So, as a Christian, does that not mean that we are called to not go out and get drunk as a community? Are we supposed to not have sex?

Should we go out as a group of Christians with the intention of getting drunk and not rebuke each other when we are in the process of that sin?

Absolutely not! We are called as Christian brothers and sisters to rebuke even in situations that may be out of our precious little comfort zones. That is part of being a good Christian family.

Guh. Too much distraction to finish this thought.

love is the only answer...

I wish that I had something monumentally important to say or something that would forever change the way we viewed the world. I was reading Airman Jones' blog this morning when I decided that there could be a certain beauty in a blog. I am going to try to treat this as a forum for discussion, even if it may only be my mind doing the discussing. Here is a place that I can come to explore the meaning of things. Here is a place I can come to discuss the atrocities I see. Here is a place that I can come simply to talk about the world.




"please slow it down / there's a secret magic past world that you only notice when you're looking back at it / all I wanna do is turn around / I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean / because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun"

-Rocky Votolato "White Daisy Passing"