It all started with waking up. The threads of consciousness, woven and spun into the glory fall, worked their way into me, seeping into the dreams lingering in my mind yet being steadily dispelled by the constancy of activity in the physical domain. Stillness. I had a thought upon waking up, profound and personally meaningful. Yet the wording and phrasing of the thought escaped the frail grasp of my groggy brain leaving nothing but the...
Ok, as I begin this post, I frankly have no idea where it's going to end up. Sooooo, here goes. Today began with the word "change" for me. I noticed that in the word "change" is the word "hang" and I realized that so often change feels like your life is hanging in the balance. Right now, my life feels like it's hanging in the balance. I'm on choir tour with my school, and things started off pretty well, but something today went out of whack. I'm...
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” —Matthew 3:2 To repent is to change your mind, to change the way you think. Anything that we do or say, anything that we allow to set itself up against God, we are called to repent of. We are called to repent of anything that refuses to give God dominion. I was reading the Psalms today and the writer was pleading with God to bring retribution to the wicked. The wicked in this passage were...
