Times they are a changing

I need prayer. In general. I find that the more I learn about life the less I like it.

Someone asked today why can't people just be nice to each other. I think if more people asked this question less people would have to ask this question.

I am starting to realize that I need to trust myself more. I doubt my wisdom alot and I'm starting to see that God has blessed me with some amount of wisdom and that if I trust myself I can bless others.

I hate questions that crush the human spirit.

I hate questions that have no right answer.

I hate questions that will never ever leave anybody happy, and usually end up hurting innocents.

I hate finding out that life isn't as simple as we thought.

I'm going through this book right now called "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell. It's a really interesting and fresh look at Christianity. Rob Bell has some very interesting views of the meaning of being a Christian and for the most part I agree with him. I would highly recommend him to anyone who has real doubts about their faith and would like to read something kind of modern on the question of spiritual authority. I'll give you a little excerpt I read earlier today that really caught my attention. "The ultimate display of our respect for the sacred words of God is that we are willing to wade in and struggle with the text-the good parts, the hard-to-understand parts, the parts we wish weren't there. ... when you wrestle with the text you walk away limping."

Well I have a lot of thoughts wandering through my head, some deep some not so deep, some distinctly bad, so I'm having trouble sleeping, but that's par for the course lately. Well I think I'll go take a shower or something.

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