You can take everything I have just don’t leave my side now
-Copeland
This along with some previous and soon-to-follow posts are ones that i have saved but never published so I decided to put them all up now. Awhile ago, I felt such a clinging to Christ. This Copeland song kept running through my mind. “You can take everything I have, just don’t leave my side now”. We are so reluctant to give up everything we have. This seems to be a lot that I cannot shake. The whole shoe thing at Mosaic has really stirred up a lot in me and will hopefully bring about a lot of changes in the materials I own/purchase as well as my behavior.
Am I willing to sacrifice for others? What would that look like? We have a very misconstrued sense of sacrifice. For example, with me giving up my shoes, I thought about what the situation would have been had I been wearing other shoes that I had owned for a while and weren’t really attached to. I would have given them up in a heartbeat. But true sacrifice is giving up things that really mean something to us and have become a part of us.Similarly with time and friends/strangers. It is easy to “sacrifice” study time to hang out with friends but are we willing to sacrifice for someone we barely know in the line at Starbucks that just needs a friend or a listening ear?
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March 14, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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March 17, 2008 at 9:09 am
Dang Mateo. I would love to hear about more of the stuff that has been stirring up and on your heart while God’s been slowly revealing these things to you. I heart you.
October 6, 2008 at 12:31 am
Starbuck’s Quote #287: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” first appeared on coffee cups during Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, about a year ago. I thought the message was rather clear: vote for Hillary, or suffer eternal damnation. And, if Starbuck’s makes it public, as was its intent, it’s fair game. But speaking of old news, did you know Madeleine K. Albright, the quote’s originator, may not even believe in hell? According to my sketchy knowledge of theology, hell is a tenet of the Christian religion. So, according to Ms. Albright only Christian women who fail to vote for Hillary will be thrown into the pit. Ms. Albright is a converted Episcopalian. But believe you me, even though the Episcopal Church is a Christian denomination, certainly no Episcopalian believes he or she will be consigned to that place where the wicked are punished after death for exercising the right to vote. According to Madam Albright, “Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics.” Were Madeleine to be believed, it’s just something she screamed from a second story window at Georgetown University that miraculously found it’s way onto a coffee cup: http://theseedsof9-11.com