Category archives: Nonfiction
Forget About Yourself 29-31“What’s the price of a pet canary? Some loose change, right? And God cares what happens to it even more than you do. He pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the… continue reading »
The Sims mindset
I know I’m a fool, no one needs to tell me that. We talked about pilgrimages today in English and it made me very pensive. I mean, very. To go into it at all would be confusing and overwhelming so… continue reading »
Another one of those days.
[[Disclaimer: If you have anything to do, don’t read this blog. I just wrote what I felt and sometimes what I feel is nonsense. But if you want to anyway, feel free.]] Well, how do I begin? My car… augh,… continue reading »
kill the inconvenient truth
[Another attempt to find myself politically. Here’s to being a left-winger. *Cheers!*] Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I’m on my dad’s 2000 IBM PC. Imagine what it was like to surf the web 8 years ago. Yes, it’s that bad. My dad,… continue reading »
Grace vs. Truth (Part II)
I don’t know if I really want to glorify Grace over Truth. I mean, yes, I believe everything I have said about Grace: that it is the message of the New Testament and that Christians tend to de-emphasize it, but… continue reading »
that thou art in the dark and hast no light;
Grace vs. Truth. Here we go. At the very pit of me, the very core (the mean core, the ha… HARD core) is rather rude. harsh. I want to see justice served. My first minglings with God started with me,… continue reading »
to love at all is to be vulnerable.
I love God and I love the idea of the Church. But right now, I’m not to fond of her. I don’t want to say I hate Christians, because that’s not true. I’m a fan of church, youth group, college… continue reading »
who is number one.
I’m glad my view of politics have been shallow for the past few elections. In fifth grade we had “mock-elections” for the 2000 presidental campaign: Bush vs. Gore. I remember my social studies teacher made Bush sound like this amazing… continue reading »
and character, hope.
So in contrast to my last two blogs, I’d say this one is a lot more chipper. (You’ll soon understand why.) I think I’m nearing the end of a “trough” and entering what I, or Uncle Screwtape, calls a “peak”… continue reading »
that leads me to valleys of sorrow
Troubled soul, thou art not bound to feel, but thou art bound to arise. God loves thee whether thou feelest or not. Thou canst not love when thou wilt, but thou art bound to fight the hatred in thee to… continue reading »