I Can Be a Christian and Vote Obama

Let me introduce myself spiritually. I strive to glorify God in everything I do. I seek His will and follow it. I examine the teachings of Jesus Christ and strive to follow Him. I also seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in my thoughts and actions. I believe that God has a calling on [...]

Living in Harmony

My house has kind of become home to a lot of bugs. I’m not quite sure how, because I don’t exactly leave my door open for them, but bugs constantly find their way into my house- daddy long legs, spiders, wasps, flies. Today I came across a spider that was the size of my fist- [...]

The Doer of Good

To preface- this isn’t me and I don’t plan on taking credit for it. The following was written by Oscar Wilde and I’ve spent the past three days racking my brain about it and it raises so many questions for me. Wondering what you all think of it. Perhaps I’ll throw some of my questions [...]

C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.

Christian. What a crazy word, huh? Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is what that word really means today. When you think of a “Christian”, what is the picture that pops into your mind?
Here in Mission, people have very different ideas of what a Christian is. I’ve had people ask me why I was watching [...]

Why me?

Ok, I know that title sounds a little whiny. But just hang with me for a little bit- this is not laced with self-pity, I promise.
I’ve had a few visitors in the past three weeks and it has been absolutely amazing to see some of the people I know and love out here again. I [...]

I Heart the Body of Christ

So thursday was a crazy day. In the morning I checked into my house! I didn’t really move in because I want to stay back at the church with my peeps as long as they’re here but I got my keys, went inside, and took a look around. It’s a really cute little house with [...]

Some things I’ve been thinking about today

a. I’m currently very depressed over the state of the human race and the measures we have to take to make sure we don’t all end up killing each other and how those measures involve a massive amount of human suffering anyway. I would gladly give up my personal security if it meant people didn’t [...]

Disturb Us

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen [...]

It’s time to grow up

These are very exciting days. These are also very sad days. I don’t think I’ve ever been so conflicted in my life. Icame to some very real realizations yesterday while talking to an amazingly wise mentor, teacher, and friend of mine.
I love the reservation with my entire being and I know that it will always be a [...]

Get ready for some emo

Hmmmmm….. so I’m going to premise all of this with the fact that I know I am being completely ridiculous and the vaste majority of emotions that I am feel are completely stupid and I just need to stop being such a baby-cakes and get over it but I just feel the need to get [...]