-No.
-Can we set you up on a date?
What's your type?
Are you interested in anyone?
A. I'm sick of this question.
B. Sometimes growing up in the church has drawbacks.
Or is this supposed to be a good thing?
I've spent so much time being "taken" I completely forgot what this part is like. Down for an arranged marriage right about now.
I'm probably gonna take that back real soon.
Immature rant over now,
Angela
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Fasting without prayer is starvation.
"If a king wishes to subdue a city belonging to enemies, he first of all keepeth them without bread and water, and the enemy being in this wise harassed by hunger becometh subject unto him; and this it is in respect of the hostile passions, for is a man endureth fasting and hunger regularly, his enemies become stricken with weakness in the soul." - Abba John
Matthew 15:18-19 "But the words you speak come from [YOUR] heart - that's what defiles you. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander."
Psalm 51:7-11
"Purify me from my sins and I will be clean;
wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
Oh give me back my joy again;
you have broken me
now let me rejoice.
Don't keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Do not banish me from your presence,
and don't take your Holy Spirit from me."
"God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides." - Andrew Bonar
Sometimes what I want to say has already been said,
Angela
Matthew 15:18-19 "But the words you speak come from [YOUR] heart - that's what defiles you. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander."
Psalm 51:7-11
"Purify me from my sins and I will be clean;
wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
Oh give me back my joy again;
you have broken me
now let me rejoice.
Don't keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Do not banish me from your presence,
and don't take your Holy Spirit from me."
"God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides." - Andrew Bonar
Sometimes what I want to say has already been said,
Angela
Sunday, February 19, 2012
GPOY
Why do I love Chandler so much? He has these gems. Cute girl talks to him? This is what he says.
I believe my exact words were flkajsrlkstn.
I feel ya Chandler.
I believe my exact words were flkajsrlkstn.
I feel ya Chandler.
Stuff Christian Girls Say
I've been going to the same church for 21 years. I am one of many of "those" church girls sometimes. I'd say about 1/3 of these things are spot on. The rest is embellished, but then again I'm biased.
:35 Guilty. Haha yikes. I've read Ruth one too many times apparently.
:35 Guilty. Haha yikes. I've read Ruth one too many times apparently.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Confession
I love Miley Cyrus. I'm glad this is coming out online so I can avoid the glare I'd have gotten just now. I don't love all her work. Especially in the last year. However, I think she rocked this one. I love this song already and her cover is great. Plus I can sing at her key and I just looked up the chords to it. No stoppin me now.
"Been shooting in the dark too long
When something's not right it's wrong"
"I think the worst feeling in the world is feeling alone and when you hear an artist and you know that they feel the same way that you do it's really inspiring." - Miley
Edit// 2.20.12
And she finally did well live! Jimmy Kimmel too! I love when she sounds a lil country.
"Been shooting in the dark too long
When something's not right it's wrong"
"I think the worst feeling in the world is feeling alone and when you hear an artist and you know that they feel the same way that you do it's really inspiring." - Miley
Edit// 2.20.12
And she finally did well live! Jimmy Kimmel too! I love when she sounds a lil country.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Reconciliation
I just discovered Redeemed. A resale Christian bookstore. I could easily blow a paycheck on books.
I refrained, and just got 2 though. One of them is this:
Letters Across the Divide
By: David Anderson & Brent Zuercher.
David got his degree from Moody and is a pastor of a multicultural church in Maryland. Brent went to Southwest Baptist University and is a CPA. They met in Chicago and became good friends. Good enough friends to publish a book of their letters to each other discussing racism, racial reconciliation, injustice, and a lot more. It's mostly opinion and only 2 men representing 2 entire races, but it's incredible. A lot of it is very true! The privacy of the fact these were letters between Christian friends allowed for a vulnerability other discussions of similar topics lack.
The fact I even bought this book proves how powerful God is. There is no way I'd have considered reading this a year ago. Now, I love it. Just a few tidbits from it worth sharing.
(White man asked why aren't black people over it by now.) "My question to the battering husband is this: 'What are you willing to do to build bridges of trust with that abused wife?' If he answers, 'Well that was a long time ago. She should just get over it so we can live in peace today,' I would respond by saying, 'You don't really want reconciliation. You want accommodation. You want someone to accommodate your sinful behavior so you don't have to feel the repercussions of wrong choices.' If the husband truly wanted to reconcile with his wife, he would want to know what he could do to build bridges of trust again."
//
The white man asked: "Cannot blacks see all the tremendous advances toward eliminating racial discrimination that have been made in the last thirty years? Why the hatred of whites? Slavery was a long time ago and as best as I can tell, life for blacks as a whole today is better in America than in any of the African countries their ancestors were kidnapped from." (What a white thing to say. I'm pretty sure I've said this in more or less words at some point in my life.)
The response: "Blacks have had to fight for every inch of freedom, respect, and privilege that has been gained. The feeling and mentality are that no one has given us anything. So when you say we're moving forward and advancing, it's not as if blacks are somehow feeling thankful to whites for it."
//
"We both know that racism is not a skin problem, but a sin problem."
//
"Once the definition [of racism] becomes subjective, it becomes a moving target. Anyone, white or black, then becomes able to defend his actions or choices as being only tainted in favoritism, partiality, or insensitivity - lesser evils in the sight of man. As long as we can justify away our racism as being favoritism, then we don't need to seek reconciliation, and racial unity will continue to elude the church."
One time during a mission trip I did last year, that was very culturally diverse, we did this exercise as a group. We split up into different rooms: Asian Americans, blacks, whites, Hispanic, biracial, and international. I had been in California for 5 months at this point and had gotten used to such multicultural venues. I go to the white room and the director, Scott Hall, started speaking. He asked, "How many of you feel uncomfortable right now?" Every hand went up but mine. Californians are very used to being the minority or at least not the majority and never the only ones.
He said, "How do you think the other rooms would feel if I shouted 'I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE' loud enough for them to hear? What if Krystina yelled from her room 'I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE' and we heard?"
Scott asked us how we felt about being there and the exercise we were doing. One guy said, "I just can't help but think all the other rooms are having more fun than we are." Has white become neutral? Culture-less? The standard against which to measure? Mexican food is spicy and white American food is bland. Black people are loud and white people are lifeless. (Not if a white person from Missouri moves to LA, lemme tell ya, I've never been more aware and proud to say I DO have a distinct culture even on the white American spectrum.)
I'm not really making a point. Then again, I am definitely trying to. Partly because I'm still processing a lot of this and partly because I could, but it would be a very long post.
Angela
I refrained, and just got 2 though. One of them is this:
Letters Across the Divide
By: David Anderson & Brent Zuercher.
David got his degree from Moody and is a pastor of a multicultural church in Maryland. Brent went to Southwest Baptist University and is a CPA. They met in Chicago and became good friends. Good enough friends to publish a book of their letters to each other discussing racism, racial reconciliation, injustice, and a lot more. It's mostly opinion and only 2 men representing 2 entire races, but it's incredible. A lot of it is very true! The privacy of the fact these were letters between Christian friends allowed for a vulnerability other discussions of similar topics lack.
The fact I even bought this book proves how powerful God is. There is no way I'd have considered reading this a year ago. Now, I love it. Just a few tidbits from it worth sharing.
(White man asked why aren't black people over it by now.) "My question to the battering husband is this: 'What are you willing to do to build bridges of trust with that abused wife?' If he answers, 'Well that was a long time ago. She should just get over it so we can live in peace today,' I would respond by saying, 'You don't really want reconciliation. You want accommodation. You want someone to accommodate your sinful behavior so you don't have to feel the repercussions of wrong choices.' If the husband truly wanted to reconcile with his wife, he would want to know what he could do to build bridges of trust again."
//
The white man asked: "Cannot blacks see all the tremendous advances toward eliminating racial discrimination that have been made in the last thirty years? Why the hatred of whites? Slavery was a long time ago and as best as I can tell, life for blacks as a whole today is better in America than in any of the African countries their ancestors were kidnapped from." (What a white thing to say. I'm pretty sure I've said this in more or less words at some point in my life.)
The response: "Blacks have had to fight for every inch of freedom, respect, and privilege that has been gained. The feeling and mentality are that no one has given us anything. So when you say we're moving forward and advancing, it's not as if blacks are somehow feeling thankful to whites for it."
//
"We both know that racism is not a skin problem, but a sin problem."
//
"Once the definition [of racism] becomes subjective, it becomes a moving target. Anyone, white or black, then becomes able to defend his actions or choices as being only tainted in favoritism, partiality, or insensitivity - lesser evils in the sight of man. As long as we can justify away our racism as being favoritism, then we don't need to seek reconciliation, and racial unity will continue to elude the church."
One time during a mission trip I did last year, that was very culturally diverse, we did this exercise as a group. We split up into different rooms: Asian Americans, blacks, whites, Hispanic, biracial, and international. I had been in California for 5 months at this point and had gotten used to such multicultural venues. I go to the white room and the director, Scott Hall, started speaking. He asked, "How many of you feel uncomfortable right now?" Every hand went up but mine. Californians are very used to being the minority or at least not the majority and never the only ones.
He said, "How do you think the other rooms would feel if I shouted 'I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE' loud enough for them to hear? What if Krystina yelled from her room 'I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE' and we heard?"
Scott asked us how we felt about being there and the exercise we were doing. One guy said, "I just can't help but think all the other rooms are having more fun than we are." Has white become neutral? Culture-less? The standard against which to measure? Mexican food is spicy and white American food is bland. Black people are loud and white people are lifeless. (Not if a white person from Missouri moves to LA, lemme tell ya, I've never been more aware and proud to say I DO have a distinct culture even on the white American spectrum.)
I'm not really making a point. Then again, I am definitely trying to. Partly because I'm still processing a lot of this and partly because I could, but it would be a very long post.
Angela
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