"I was talking to a homeless man at a laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math. Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever."
--Don Miller

I'm at Starbucks waiting on Tommy...  Figured I'd spew out a few thoughts here.  I've been thinking a lot recently about owning up to things.  I think I've been coasting by for far too long and it's time to take on some of the things I've promised to do...  this meaning things that come with being a Christian.  Yes, I realize we are saved by grace plus nothing.  We don't HAVE to do anything.  But Jesus does mandate us to live a certain way in living a life honoring God.  These things would include caring after the poor, the orphans, etc.  I feel as though many things we (as a people) don't do, are because we've never seen them done first.  Relationships for example; we rarely see biblical, Godly relationships lived out.  Discipleship, for example (thank you, Mark Treas) is passed by because we so rarely see it lived out the way Jesus intended.  Anyway, Tommy's here, so I'll wrap up but basically I think it's up to us to change this.  I think we can't let it go by for the next generation to deal with...