"I love how the Gospels start, with John the Baptist eating bugs and baptizing people. The religious people started getting baptized because it had become popular, and John yells at them and calls them snakes. He says the water won't do anything for them, it will only get their snakeskins wet. But if they meant it, if they had faith that Jesus was coming and was real, then Jesus would ignite the kingdom life within them. I love that because for so long religion was my false gospel. But there was no magic in it, no wonder, no awe, no kingdom life burning in my chest. And when I get tempted by that same stupid Christian religion, I go back to the beginning of the Gospels and am comforted that there is something more than the emptiness of ritual. God will ignite the kingdom life within me, the Bible says. That's mysticism. It isn't a formula that I am figuring out. It is something God does."
(Yeah, lets forget the routine and ask God what He would have us do! Blind faith! Isn't that what He asks? Not for the cold, comfortable, sure thing)
"...Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder."
(How about if we quit trying to figure out what He's doing and just focus on Him and surrender to the beautiful awe of Father!)
"When I think about the complexity of the Trinity the three-in-one God, my mind cannot understand, but my heart feels wonder in abundant satisfaction. It is as though my heart, in the midst of its euphoria is saying to my mind, There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. NOt only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this."
"At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to folllow.
I don't think there is any better worship than wonder."
(I agree with Mister Donald Miller... it would be hard to worship something that we had all figured out ... then it should worship us! Hm. He's trustworthy and greater than we can even begin to imagine.)
you have to commend summer for her FAITH. i mean, she hopped on a plane with two strangers to meet a guydoll. and she got left in hammock?! i wonder if she ever made it. i bet her blind faith carried her.
she's still a ho bioootch
Summer probably fell in the hands of someone that loved her dearly and saved her from her bioootch ways.