Roscosity

Love

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

-C.S. Lewis

Sometimes

You wonder how other people sort their priorities, when your own make so much sense to you

I’m always amazed at the difference between how one person values something over another, perhaps there isn’t an objective truth to how valuable things should be or are in our lives

On another note: It seems as though people are growing a lot lately, I wonder how everyone’s doing

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Attack the Block

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The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith

Perhaps when the church rises up, and begins living not for itself, then the world will be able to see Christ through us

Give the world your best, not for your own sake, but for His glory

Be broken

Saying God heals and remaining broken is like saying we have the best auto mechanic in town and yet our car remains perpetually broken

Proclaiming that God heals and attempting to appear bulletproof shows no evidence of Gods work in our lives, it’s like claiming to know the best auto mechanic in town without ever needing him, and so his place in our lives holds no significance

But admitting that our lives were once broken, and showing people the healing in our lives displays the ability of God and His worksmanship in our lives… It proves the auto mechanic exists, because the car that was busted beyond repair is better than new

God is who He says He is, regardless of whether or not we believe in Him or subscribe to certain “portions” of Him

Be broken, be human
It’s how God made you

Reality

I think I’m losing my sense of wonder and amazement….

Facing the Mirror

I think I’m learning that… the reason it’s so difficult to face up to our biggest demons is because it scares the hell out of us when we realize how similar they look to ourselves…

I think one of the first steps we need to take towards the light, is admitting that we have darkness within all of us… after all, we can never defeat something we’re not fighting

And how can we fight that which we don’t even acknowledge?!

Contentment

The idea of being content seems to be something that has been scratching at the door of my mind…

It bothers me that I realize there are so many people who shy away from anything truly exceptional, that we settle for mediocrity for various reasons, and as varied as these responses are I find that the majority of these reasons are inadequate…. they should not excuse us from pursuing something greater than what we have…

I was listening to “These Things Take Time” (Alliteration for the win…) by Sanctus Real… and one line struck me hard

“Why am I so afraid of the dark, but I stray from the light?”

I think this speaks volumes about the human condition of contentment and what I was reading about concerning things like co-dependency…

When it comes to things like pain, like being dissatisfied with life… you would assume that most people would do anything possible to try and rid themselves of these scars and these burdens that shackle them down, that prevent them from feeling truly happy

The sad truth is that many individuals would prefer to accept the pain, because it’s familiar, it’s recognizable, they know the limits it places on their lives and it leaves them with an observable boundary in their life within which they feel comfortable

It’s something they are well acquainted with, they know every last inch of every last memory and thought and feeling, they know exactly what to do with every situation that could present itself regarding this pain, and so it seems comfortable and manageable…

But I tell you this… no matter what form or shape it takes in your life

A prison, is still a prison

When it comes to my faith, I wonder if there really was more to what Jesus saw in us when He gave His life on that cross… that perhaps He wasn’t just aiming at giving us a bigger prison to live in

Luke-warmness is something that troubles me dearly, to know that there are so many people of faith living in fear of rejection, of failure, of condemnation…. but Christ died for more than this… we weren’t just brought out of darkness to be in a dimly lit room with four walls and a door…

It’s time we started realizing what exactly Christ bought for us, what exactly He died for… it’s time to break the comfortable and familiar chains of our worlds and begin to see life anew…. life without borders… without limits

Indeed, it is time to discard contentment and pickup ambition… to find our dreams and to chase them down

Never be satisfied, there is always more… but never settle for less because it is easy or it is comfortable

Fight for what you believe in

Fight for freedom from co-dependency with your pain

Fight like your life depends on it

Because it probably does

Rededication

I guess I lost track of where this tumblr was going, it kind of just became this random place to kill time

But it’s about time for me to turn things back around and find what I’m looking for here