Stop Being Happy!

You know, I have this overwhelming sense of hope that I have never had before. When I think about things that are going on in my life and people's lives around me, I know that things are going to be ok. Bad things happen, yes, but I know that whatever happens, I'll be able to deal with it. I thank God for giving me this certainty.

I don't care what the world throws at me, now. It's gonna be alright!

I think he'd just give us one of those ....dude... looks.

I think Christ would tell 21st century America to stop worrying so much about ourselves as individuals and start loving each other. Our generation knows pain. Kids grow up without parents or with parents that hate each other. School isn't a place to learn but a place to survive. We look on each other as inferior. Christ loved us so much that He died for us. How many of us would die for another person let alone the people of the world? We can not truly love the Lord until we can whole-heartedly love each other. There is nothing like our God and there is nothing like His love. His unquestionable and unconditional love is the cure for our Society.

I think that love is the most important aspect of being a Christian. In America, where's the love? I'm not saying that America is a terrible place, but we live in a society that is so focused on individuality that we forget why we were placed on this earth. A society whose dream is to further advance positions in the social ladder. Make lots of money. Get a big house and have kids who grow up to be baseball stars.

I don't mean that we shouldn't want good things for our future. We want to be blessed with a means to survive, and we want our future kids to be successful. But at what cost? Do we want to be so rich that we put money on a pedestal and make that our purpose in life? No. We all want to be successful in life but success isn't equated to money.

When we die, God won't care if we made a million dollars or a quarter. Instead He'll look at our impact in other people's lives. He'll wonder if we loved those around us. He'll wonder if we loved our enemies. Did we reach out to the people around us or did we live our secluded individualistic lives? Jesus would tell to love because He is love and everything He did was for love. "All for love a savior prayed."

Get Going!

Some days I get in these inspired moods to do something major. Some days I feel like it's my duty to try and change the world. Some days, I feel like I need to completely change myself.

I was watching some drum corps videos of Phantom Regiment 2004 (my favorite year) and I decided that I was going to make Phantom next year. I was going to go practice until I could play everything off of the left as fast and as high as I could. Well, I can't play everything off the left and sure can't play everything as fast as the met can go. I'm no Tim Jackson but hey, I got better even though my wrists hurt today.

Sometimes we need to feel like we can do something major like changing the world. I've expressed my interest before for uniting Christianity, and if not all of Christianity (which would most likely never happen) then uniting Fort Wayne Christians. It doesn't seem like this city has anything very exciting or out of the ordinary to offer. We as Fort Waynians seem to mock the lives of big city folk or the west coast. Why is that? I feel like this city needs something profound. Something amazing. Why can't we as Christians make an amazing and loving environment for both believers and non-believers to come and be pulled out of there bodies?

The most important thing for me is to remember that nothing gets done without starting somewhere. I can keep all of these ideas inside of me forever and they will remain forever ideas. Everything has to start somewhere.

Starting......now!