Friday, March 16, 2007 at 2:04

Let us get this one thing straight. God can do anything he damn well pleases, including damn well. And if it pleases him to damn, then it is done, ipso facto, well. God's activity is what it is. There isn't anything else. Without it there would be no being, including human beings presuming to judge the Creator of everything that is. - Virginia Stem Owens

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 3:47

⁶You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

It is almost over. I am very tired.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 3:33

Quite often we will have amazing thoughts of something new and something wonderful. We will work and try to start something different, something that will effect change upon a stagnant community. I understand that this year has been different. I don't think I've been in a year where so much of the year has been dominated by politics, by an inability to get over egos, by disappointing surprises of friends, It is because I see behind-the-scenes, behind what the frosh year showed me. I see beyond the numbers that attend, beyond figurative leaders. It is depressing at times. A friend said that this place was almost a desert, a dry and weary place where there is no water.

It's funny how we can criticize things like inter-fellowship worship services, but perhaps only the critic loses out. I am quite sure many find that they can worship in such a place (I often find myself as one), to freely worship across fellowships, across denominations, even if maybe the leader may not be the best worship leader, or if it comes off as a concert rather than a service wholly given to God.

It's funny how something as small as a concept for a new beginning for what we see as Church can cause so much thinking in myself. And to come around full circle after months of debate and questions that I can respect it as something that God Himself could use.

It's funny how patient God is. Every day, I am the worst sinner, yet I am still alive. He gives me what I need, every need blessed by His "Yes".

I want to be merciful and understanding, compassionate and bold, and full of His love.

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Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 21:03

Oh God, hold me now
Oh Lord, hold me now
There's no other man who could raise the dead
So do what you can to anoint my head

Oh God, where are you now?
Oh Lord, say somehow
The devil is hard on my face again
The world is a hundred to one again

Would the righteous still remain?
Would my body stay the same?

Oh God, hold me now
Oh God, touch me now
There's no other man who could save the dead
There's no other God to place our head

Would the righteous still remain?
Would my body stay the same?

There's no other man who could raise the dead
So do what you can to anoint my head

Oh God, hold me now
Oh Lord, touch me now

Sufjan Stevens

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