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Finding Consistency

August 31, 2009 Adam 1 comment

I haven’t written here for a while the last few months. I’ve been figuring some things out.

You see, I don’t think I really deserve the right to post here.

I write a lot of stuff on my blog that I really believe in, but then don’t live them in real life. When I write here, I can feel free to express myself. I can post my crazy continuously-morphing ideas about what it really means to actually follow Jesus and not just be another pretender in the Christian sub-culture. But I don’t usually live those ideas out.

I am a poser.

Actually, I bet blogging lends itself to people doing this type of thing a lot. Living their life one way but then only expressing what they really think on a blog, often anonymously… safely. As though its an outlet. A place to say what you really think. It’s really quite cowardly.

I’ve been thinking a lot about consistency lately.

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A “relationship with God” is…

August 10, 2009 Adam 1 comment
  1. Sharing lunch with homeless people
  2. Exploring rugged mountian ranges
  3. Campaining for justice for the poor
  4. Dancing on injustice
  5. Listening to old people
  6. Gazing at stars through a telescope
  7. Placing your self between guns and their victums
  8. Selling everything and giving it to the poor
  9. Sending your enemies presents for christmas
  10. Stashing money in love notes in downtown
  11. Reconciling people who hate eachother
  12. Working to understand another culture
  13. Offering redemption and forgiveness to those who wrong us
  14. Accepting forgiveness from those we wrong
  15. Overcomming evil with love
  16. Boldly going into dark places, just to put some light there
  17. Being with the poor in spirit
  18. Talking to strangers
  19. Giving away free stuff
  20. Eating a meal with people you’re not suppose to associate with
  21. Enjoying life
  22. Making a difference
  23. Accepting people for who they are
  24. Accepting yourself for who you are
  25. Exposing Exploitation
  26. Being Noisy
  27. Being Quiet
  28. Admitting you’re broken
  29. Doing what’s right when it is hard
  30. Being dangerous