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livingforthekingdom — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:19:48 +0000

“When we’re not at peace, when we aren’t content, when we aren’t in a good place, our radar gets turned on. We’re looking. Searching. And we’re sensory creatures, so it won’t be long before something, or somebody, catches our attention.

And it always revolves around the ‘if’ doesn’t it?

If I just…

The idea creeps into our head and heart that we are lacking, that we are incomplete, that this craving in front of us is the answer.

The ‘if’ means we have become attached to the idea that we are missing something and that we can be satisfied by whatever it is we have in our sights. There’s a hole, a space, a gap, and we’re on the search. And we may not even realize it. When we are in the right place, the right space – content and at peace – we aren’t on the search, and our radar gets turned off.

Adam and Eve fixate on this one piece of fruit from this one tree when God has given them endless trees with infinite varieties of fruit to enjoy. Which is often our problem. There’s so much to enjoy, and yet we fixate on something we don’t have.

This is why gratitude is so central to the life God made us for. Until we can center ourselves on what we do have, on what God has given us, on the life we do get to live, we’ll constantly be looking for another life. That is why the word remember occurs again and again in the Bible. God commands his people to remember who they are, where they’ve been, what they’ve seen, what’s been done for them. If we stop remembering, we may forget. And that’s when the trouble comes.”

- Rob Bell (Sex God, 73-74)

I am wrestling with this.

I’m Voting Republican

livingforthekingdom — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:02:06 +0000

This is a funny video. But I should preface it by saying this: I am not a democrat or republican. I don’t even vote. So please do not assume that because I am posting this video that I hate republicans and love democrats; I don’t. But I do agree with most of the sentiments of this video. Anyways, it’s funny, so watch it.

livingforthekingdom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:07:16 +0000

Yesterday I decided that I would greatly enjoy going to Itasca State Park in Minnesota where the Mississippi River starts and taking a boat all the way down the 2,350 miles of Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

On another note, watch this, it’s great:

New Home

livingforthekingdom — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:47:07 +0000

I’m still finding my way around my new blog home.

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