Blue Like Jazz

If you want to be refreshed, challenged, inspired, and be infused with hope about God, His Church and His people, then you have got to READ THIS BOOK!!!

"Blue Like Jazz"
By Donald Miller

www.bluelikejazz.com

I am humbled, amazed and thankful after reading this book. I love people who are honest and real about their own lives and about the church! This is the best book I have read in a LONG time!

Simply Sleep...

An oxymoron if you ask me. But anyways, due to my health problems as of late, I have tried this was of "sleeping simply." Ha ha ha. When your mind and your heart are full of thought, worry, emotion and dreams, you might find "simply sleeping" nearly impossible. I want to document my life. I want to jump back into the conversation about spirituality and the church. I miss getting fired up about current church affairs. Yet, the thought of actually renewing my membership in church culture scares the hell out of me. Will it just be the same it has always been?

Today, I was driving in my car. I drove through the scene of a yucky accident. There were police on both sides of me along with a mangled car and people in shock on the side of the road. Naturally, I slowed way down to make sure I was not hindering the process. Well, the guy behind me was not amused to say the least. He rode my tail through the accident scene and then proceeded to speed by me as soon as possible. The thoughts in my head were these... "Stupid, Mexican, Illegal Immigrant treating me and others like crap!" Then as he sped by, I noticed his license plates said "honorably Discharged Veteran." The guilt was immediate. This guy serves my country and me, and here I am being an absolutely idiotic, judgmental, snobbish, b*%ch!!!

It is times like these when I conclude that I am why people do not like Christians. I want to change! I prayed for forgiveness immediately, but I must change!

We must change! The church must change! I want to follow Jesus. Yet, my actions speak louder than words. May we as young people who are seeking to know Christ strive to be the generation that does change. May we start with ourselves, and in turn impact change for the world!

Simply put... I love God, I am not perfect, I need forgiveness, there is too much on my plate, and yet, I am going to try right now to "Simply Sleep."

Goodnight...

What you miss by being a Christian

So, you know me...always having weird experiences. Today my husband and I were at Sams Club doing some grocery shopping. I saw a big, shiny tool box and told Nick that his brother might like something like that. So, naturally, being a man, he went right over to check it out. Inside one of the drawers was a tract. Yes, you read that correctly. On the front of the tract it says "What you miss by being a Christian." My first response, was "ha ha, someone ripping on Christians again." So, I put it down to read later for a good laugh. A few isles later, I opened it to see who produced it. Want to know what it said?!?!? HELL! That's right... HELL!











Then it lists all of the descriptions of hell from the bible. On the back side, it tells you how to make a decision for Christ to avoid going to hell and then a place where you can write these crazy people and tell them you are now a Christian because of their horrible flyer.

Crap like this makes me NOT even want to be associated with Christianity!! Who the HELL! thinks this is a way to get people to become Christ followers? Are we even concerned with leading people to be followers of Christ anymore? Or are we just concerned with getting people to pray a certain prayer so we can put another notch on our belt of people that we have saved from HELL!

I am embarrassed to be a Christian 99% of the time. No wonder people think we are total freaks!

Needless to say, I am going to write these tract producers and tell them about my experience with their tract. It may not be very Christ like :) ha ha ha.

For those of you who may not know Christ, I apologize on behalf of these people, and all of us who do not represent Christ well. Including myself! He is full of grace, mercy, compassion, love and forgiveness! Not hate! Please forgive our displays of religion, and seek Christ for who He really is.

For a copy of my response to these yahoos, just shoot me an email or comment. It is not suitable for my blog. ha ha ha.

God Help Us!