make the world fall in love with you....

hmm......does this sound confusing? what is that supposed to mean? i'll try to explain. i don't know anybody who doesn't like to be loved.........or anyone who doesn't do something in order to please someone else. we all have our different motives......some selfish and some unselfish. some people strive to make the world infatuated with them.........by achieving greatness in position at their careers.....they strive for the highest point of aknowledgement.....admiration from others. they greedily claim a crown....fight for a spotlight.......and walk on or step on whoever they can to build their own pride and make others bow to them in utter embarassment by flexing their intellectual muscles and by pointing out everyone else's inadequacy. i would hope that there are many people in this world that would be able to see through this rediculous masquerade, but i know that people can and will do this........and it seems to work. the world seems to worship the almighty dollar.....success......fame. but this is all part of the carnal world..........the world that will only come to find these pursuits mostly empty......meaningless......and shallow. there are two parts of the human being in this world.......the temporary........flesh.....and the eternal........spirit. the flesh craves...comfort....warmth....and safety. the spirit craves.....meaning......purpose...and the will to sacrifice. because flesh desires so strongly to be gratified......the world has come to cater to satisfy such strong cravings immediately........we will be able to ignore the spiritual craving if we only continue to numb it by injecting our flesh with a constant dose of self-gratification. the world has seemingly falling in love with self and status. but we as christians must not be decieved in that we have no choice but to follow this pattern.......we can't follow the pattern of the world to acheive greatness........our greatness is found in Him.....and we must follow His example, which in fact......takes a very different approach to the world's systems.........
The Hero arrived in humble attire. Peasant dwelling, modest occupation. Capable and confident, yet meek. The King in disguise. He came not to conquer an empire but to win a heart. Healing the sick, lifting the oppressed. Feeding the hungry, raising the dead. Instructing teachers, embracing children. Condemning evil, forgiving sinners. He quickly became the object of great praise--and envy. He longed to reveal his identity, embrace her,and carry her away from the emptiness she endured. "I dare not. She must come freely. She must love my heart rather than fear my position." Hand extended, he invited her to his side. Reaching for his strong, gentle grasp, her hand trembled at his touch. Their eyes met. In his, a love long forgotten. In hers, a desperate cry for help. The dawn of love--again.
The world cannot fall in love with God when all we preach to them is position.......it's not more about mere position with God........it is about the heart. this is what is so amazing about God granting us free will. we choose to fall in love with Him......or we don't. He will not force us to love Him. yet He continues to win our love in the most unlikely ways......He came to serve...not to be served......and the world began to fall in love with Him.........He came to show His love...and not expecting the world to love Him......they hated Him and they killed Him.......He prayed, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do.".......and on the third day........eyes were opened..and the world began to fall in love with Him. God.......so loved the world........that He gave His only Son.....Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world.......but in order that the world might be saved through Him.......and the world began to fall in love with Him.
Be more like Jesus.........and the world will fall in love with you........more specifically and more importantly......they fall in love with with Who you are reflecting.
p.s.......remember........the world may hate you........just as it hated Him and killed Him..........love anyway.
so........the moral of this long story is..........show love like Jesus showed love...........at all cost.........whether love is returned or hated. Just love.

don't be ignorant anymore...it's all happening right outside your back door

.......that's right.......wonder where you can go to be able to make a difference?.........are you thinking......well........maybe when i move to the big inner city......or someother country......that's when i'll be able to minister........um....wrong!!! oh my gosh......everyone open your eyes!!......you are right where you are for a reason...........now. i'm sick of the fact that we continually try to convince ourselves with shallow excuses for not doing anything right now and thinking only off in the future.....where one day....i guess we plan to be real, authentic christians and examples. there are hurting people next door.....who are.....waiting for you.......waiting for you to discard your fear.....and show them what....love is. they're waiting for you to stop being so self-centered and waiting for you to stop being so concerned about what "other" people think of you. you are already....."sent out"........not "waiting" to be "sent out". you grew up where you did for a reason........you live where you are for a reason.....you are at your school for a reason.......you are at your job right now for a reason........and it's more than just a job.......it's more than just some co-workers/peers.......they are real souls. you are more than just "another human/co-worker/peer"......you are a soul too.......remember the person who decided one day........to stop giving into their own fears......and worries......and chose to deny protecting their ego and reached out to you.....and in result..........changed your life. i am tired of church services....or campus crusades where when there is a salvation message and alter call.......and no one responds.........because everyone in the building is.......a christian. don't get me wrong.......praise God they are all saved........but you cannot deny that something isn't quite right with that scene. are we making a difference?......are we doing what we can to reach the harvest?.......are we really who we say we are......and doing what we promised we would do?.......what could we adjust in our lives to reach them......in a real, authentic, honest way? john the baptist realized that........."I must decrease.......so that He can increase." the harvest is everywhere......when Jesus said......"go out into the world and make diciples".......i think He really meant it.
i'm so sorry.......i don't mean this as a rebuke to you......i'm writing this at myself...........stirring myself up.........i'm offering it to you if it might also help stir you.

Emptiness.

Run from religion.......and fall in love with Jesus.

Oh......here i am again....fighting through this life....tearing through the lies and chains my religious spirit has weighed upon me. in this culture of romance....movie love....unrealistic love....ludus love.....empty love......we easily are ensnared into this web of fanciful lies. what is love? what is it, truly? is it right to attempt to define such a wild word? look beyond the word itself.....you will see it is living and breathing, laughing and crying......wholeness and brokeness, beautiful yet humble, changing and growing, painful yet worth every tear....it's air in your lungs when you've been held under for too long.....it's promise.......it is faithfulness.....passionate........compassionate.........it's risk.....unpredictable....spontaneous....exciting......moving........capturing......sacrificial....dangerous. love will transform your world and everyone within it.
jas....came across this the other day on myspace..........and read it to me......it was awesome....so i thought i'd share it with you.
Ultimately.......God is love.....if that doesn't change you....i don't know what will.

Join the Resistance: Fall in Love

Falling in love is the ultimate act of revolution, of resistance to today's tedious, socially restrictive, culturally constrictive, humanly meaningless world.
Love transforms the world.
Where the lover formerly felt boredom, he now feels passion.
Where she once was complacent, she now is excited and compelled to self-asserting action.
The world which once seemed empty and tiresome becomes filled with meaning, filled with risks and rewards, with majesty and danger.
Life for the lover is a gift, an adventure with the highest possible stakes; every moment is memorable, heartbreaking in its fleeting beauty.
When he falls in love, a man who once felt disoriented, alienated, and confused will know exactly what he wants.
Suddenly his existence will make sense to him; suddenly it becomes valuable, even glorious and noble, to him.
Burning passion is an antidote that will cure the worst cases of despair and resigned obedience. Love makes it possible for individuals to connect to others in a meaningful way—it impels them to leave their shells and risk being honest and spontaneous together, to come to know each other in profound ways.
Thus love makes it possible for them to care about each other genuinely, rather than at the end of the gun of Christian doctrine.
But at the same time, it plucks the lover out of the routines of everyday life and separates her from other human beings.
She will feel a million miles away from the herd of humanity, living as she is in a world entirely different from theirs.
In this sense love is subversive, because it poses a threat to the established order of our modern lives.
The boring rituals of workday productivity and socialized etiquette will no longer mean anything to a man who has fallen in love, for there are more important forces guiding him than mere inertia and deference to tradition.

Merry Christmas.....

ha ha..........yeah so today i was in walmart and they were already playing christmas music through out the whole store..........crazy. hey........i love christmas but NOV. 1st!! really people. let us not forget thanksgiving.......maybe there needs to be more songs written about thanksgiving......and then we will give the holiday more credit. let us not forget to say "thank you" before we begin to say "i want, i want, i want".

may i have your attention please.....at this point in the proceedings......it is a tradition for me to write another blog...

....and it's a tradition for us to take a little nap! pah!
ha!.........that was your blog?.......that's the worst blog i've ever read........in fact......it's the only blog i've ever read! pha.....it was dumb.....it was obvious.....it was pointless..............it was short.....................WE LOVED IT!

........ha ha......so yeah......if you don't comment me.....i don't know what you think......and this is why i love to write......for #1...myself........it helps to allow me somewhere to put all these random thoughts flying around in my head.......#2......i aim to inspire you....maybe put a smile on your face today.....entertain you......or offend you. it's great........and it's an addiction. : )

thank you to all my friends who take the time to read my writings.......and comment......i love to read your responses...........it's so refreshing and keeps me going........i love you all! it's very encouraging to know that someone takes that much interest in you! God's blessings to you all!

he loves you....he loves you..........he loves you.

A chilling tremor shook eternity.
The aroma of death once again invaded the King's domain.
Something had gone wrong, terribly wrong.
"Her choice is made, my love rejected. Seduced by the banished rebel, no longer mine, she accepts the deceptive caress of another. He steals her heart to break mine.
He will rape her innocence for his sole pleasure.
He will defile her beauty and discard it as rubbish when vengeance is complete.
Oh, my beloved. My cherished beloved!"
A tear fell down the divine cheek as his beloved slipped willingly into the darkness.

Once pure, easily enticed by the first sensations of excitement, the beloved now endured the repulsive indulgence of prostitiution.
Perfect beauty ravished away, blush of innocence gone, life replaced with survival.
Covering tears with laughter, she moved from one hollow pleasure to the next. Traveling farther down the path of despair, freedom forgotten, she knew only slavery.

The beloved wanted something better. Her empty, callous heart was stirred by brief encounters with enduring beauty. These faint reminders of grandeur and nostalgic yearnings prompted her spirit to seek an explanation, a purpose, a hope.
Her lingering question: "What is my story?"

*........sometimes i wonder how God could ever manage to risk giving us free will.....He knew that what He made.....could one day choose to reject the maker....spit in the artist's face.......refuse to acknowledge where they came from.....where they began.........looking back at these previous writings we can tell......where we have gone wrong.....how easy it is to deny our maker.....and risk to live on our own terms....we know how fun self-gratification can be......much like drug addicts...we know what we like....we know how to get it....and no matter how hard we try to refuse ourselves of it.......we always at some point return to indulge.....one last time......and it's never just......one last time....we are traped in a sick cycle of sin.......like i heard sister helen say....."you ain't doin the drug, baby....the drug's doin you." we sometimes find ourselves drowning in our guilt, shame and pleasures.....desperatly longing to come up for the hope of feeling air in our lungs one more time......we lose ourselves in it all.....and hope to be redeemed...again.....we constantly slip into the darkness as we look on to see a constant stream of tears running down the cheek of God.............
He loves you.....He loves you.........He still loves you. you've got His heart and you're the one who's always on His mind.
now tell me........who can seperate us from the love of God?
nothing....not one thing...........what are you waiting for?

*writings taken from...The Divine Drama....by Kurt Bruner

sister helen....

yes......thank you sister helen for showing us how selfish we christians can be....how much we lack compassion....and fire for justice.........yes i do believe.....there is either justice here or justice there...before the very face of God.
if you all were wondering......."who in the hell is sister helen?" we'll i'll tell you that you won't find out there.......she is dancing with the angels.....and i'm sure she is kickin it in her mansion with the big Guy up stairs. i met this character....sister helen....and i mean...quite the character...by picking up another documentary at the library last week......it was amazing. i'm tellin you guys.....you gotta start checkin these things out.........soon. "sister helen" is the title of the documentary........she isn't any ordinary sister, she's part of a convent in New York.....but she lives and serves "outside" of the convent.....she runs a huge building with rooms that take in and house recovering drug addicts.....alcholics, so they can detox....and try to earn their lives back...with the support that they need....from sister helen. this woman was 69 years old at the time of the film.....and she's tough, amazingly sarcastic, and swears once in awhile....she can make grown men cry by giving them tough love and earns their utmost respect all at the same time. she feeds the homeless.....loves on the needy.....the broken....the addicted......the hurting.....and the hopeless........she is a true inspiration. i laughed and i cried.......i showed it to bethany a few days later..........she bawled. i'm serious........you have to see this.......be moved and allow your heart to break and then examine your life's goals and aspirations....you'll be changed.
i know i was.