Return

It’s been a long couple of weeks. All I feel that I’m doing anymore is scheduling more of my time with work and trips. But there comes a time, like the last couple of weeks, where I actually try to breathe so as to not just go from one busy semester to another busy semester. Thinking about the tough academic schedule I have ahead of me, my work schedule (here and at school), and co-leading a small group next semester is exhausting.

So I come to two not disconnected thoughts after an extended leave from the blogging front. The first comes from paying attention to the whole Iran situation that’s been going on recently. The first condensed looks something like this: Change comes from opposing the majority and having the guts to challenge what hasn’t been challenged before. The second came in a recent conversation (again quite a different matter) I had with a friend: Too many people have accepted Jesus without accepting their failures.

I’ll have to expand later, but I’ll start back into blogging briefly.

Stressors

I’ve always found it interesting the irony in our prayers and the things that happen around us. One of my better friends and I have been praying for each other the last couple of months, and I’ve constantly asked him to pray for struggle in my life in that I will be able to grow. If there’s one thing I hate the most it is spiritual stagnancy, or any form of stagnancy at all. Summer has been rough because I am fighting the fact that I know I should be doing something, while living in a confined spot where there is apparently not much to do. And then in that reclusive state come a streak of irritations that sparks a drive for action. There’s some movie that I watched with the line “stress is the fertilizer for creativity”. Currently I am frustrated with the lack of effective Christianity for me. I see a high number of well-intentioned Christians who are well-read in the Bible who in my observations tend to be conservative religiously (as well as politically). Then there are the more “liberal” Christians who take the effort to be different but sell themselves on Biblical intelligence. It may seem hard to argue with a “love everyone” approach, but believe me it’s not as difficult as it may seem. These stressors are at present my current motivation to be better. Why do we not see more Christians who are both well-read, as well as having the liberal practices that would boost the non-believing world to take Christianity more seriously? So friend (who I believe should be able to pick up on who I refer to), thank you for your constant prayers for trials in my life.