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What People Believe

Sometimes it not just about what someone believes when you sit down to a conversation about God. Sometimes you just have to keep your mouth shut. I don’t think I should always keep my mouth shut, but sometimes I think I might be more of a person who puts doubts in peoples minds than hope.

I know I’m a sceptic and I want to know what’s really going on. The conversation moved into how this guy liked to see the sports guys giving God credit for their touch down or win. I turned and said, “well thats nice but how truthful is it.

I guess my beef lies in the fact that our society is so based on what we see and what we perceive that I’m always wondering how true is something. I don’t go around openly proclaiming Gods wonders and blessing out in public because when I stub my toe I tend to freak out and blurt out a loud “FUCK!!” then I look around to see if there are any kids. hopefully not

My point of my horrible train of thought is that I’m curious about how far our country will go before it self destructs. Self righteousness and pride can fill a nation like it fills a person, and bam one day things all just fall apart. Hope is lost and chaos can take over.

August 19, 2008

Culture

Tags: Belief, Influence, People, Thoughts@ 8:56 pm

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Accepting Forgiveness

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After thinking about a few things I think one of the biggest steps to finding a new way in life is to understand the repetition in accepting forgiveness.

Obviously I don’t fully understand it or I wouldn’t be thinking about it. I know of a few stories about forgiveness and accepting it. Thing is, copping and accepting forgiveness for mistakes made over and over is can be kinda hard.

Asking and accepting forgiveness for a single mistake really isn’t a problem, but asking and accepting forgiveness for mistakes you know you will make over and over again is harder.

It’s the classic case of feeling it’s easier to stay down when you get hurt rather than getting up when you fall. It’s not a new concept, but a way of life that has to be learned the hard way.

June 17, 2008

Forgiveness

Tags: Belief, Forgiveness, Life, Repetition, Thoughts@ 10:30 pm

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Pre Bible Belt Church

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I’m going to Church tomorrow in a small town south of Nashville. I have only been to Church a few times in the last few years. This should be interesting because I get a little weirded out when I go to some Churches. I’m curious what kind of Church this is going to be.

Basically I’m, Critical, Hypocritical, Cynical, Judgmental, and some other kind of mental that I can’t think of right now. Church just seems a little fake to me at time. I know it’s not always that way, and it’s certainly not that way after you get to know a few people. Thing is when I was apart of a Church in the past I found my self doing and saying things that made me feel all the Mentals from the first sentence in this paragraph.

In fact every time I start to write about this topic I get about 2 paragraphs in and then I’m out of ammo. I seem to realize that most of the problem is probably coming from me. Then again I start to think, “I just don’t want to be the same Christian as I was, and I don’t want to be just like everyone else.”

“I don’t want to be the same Christian?” What does that even mean. I don’t want to be the same person that I felt I was being. At this point I just don’t think hindsight is 20 20. I see what I think and not what I was.

Over and over we’ve been told everything anyone can think of from the Bible. We’re encouraged to do, do, do; do something for someone who can’t do. Give, Give, Give; Give something to someone who doesn’t have, and there is a balance somewhere that I’m not seeing.

What I see is a Christian Subculture, their intentions seem right, and their actions seem based, but we seem to have a lot of really expensive stuff.

There is more, but I’ll leave it alone for now. Just a reminder for myself though, why does it seem like people who turn to God have nothing to loose? It’s like a last resort or something…

June 14, 2008