The year 2005 “was a very good year” as Frank Sinatra would sing. Oh sure, there were times in the buy prada glasses last twelve months that I could have done without. There were some heartbreaks: isn’t there in every year? But if you buy prada glasses want to win a big one, you have to pay for buy prada glasses it. As someone has said the higher the price, the greater the buy prada glasses prize: reminds me somewhat of Mark 10:30.
I discovered Jesus in a buy prada glasses whole new way: a deeper more intimate life was opened unto me. Lo and buy prada glasses behold, I discovered I was a mystic! Me, the logical one. I was always emotional (one of the traits my mother gave me), but mystical? Hardly! But then it became so obvious. Jesus Christ was probably the world’s greatest mystic. And my following Him would then buy prada glasses make me what? You say you just can’t get there (accepting mysticism)? And you believe in a trinity:? Explain that one logically (The Apostles Creed bag louis vuitton 2010 notwithstanding).
Where would this now lead me? I was never religious, or at least I felt I wasn’t; however, maybe that buy prada glasses was in comparison to those I associated with in my earlier days. But if I was now adding mysticism to buy prada glasses my non-religious nature, was that good? I was pondering that buy prada glasses thought when I stumbled on to a line by Donald Miller, in his book, Blue Like Jazz, “I believe that buy prada glasses the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have buy prada glasses us wasting time. That is why the devil tries so hard to buy prada glasses get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.” There you go! Maybe I will be okay after all.
There are so many things that I’ve questioned about Christianity: and buy prada glasses probably rightly so. There are no questions about Jesus, so why do we spend so much time on doctrines and buy prada glasses so little on Him? Why do we beat each other up over this buy prada glasses or that when at the end of the day, it’s about loving Him- and them? And, when we love Him, we can’t help but love others: we’re compelled to buy prada glasses love others. Why do we go to such lengths to justify some miracle in the buy prada glasses Bible; particularly an Old Testament miracle. And then we try and buy prada glasses “use science” to verify it?
I’ve listened to people wax eloquently about how “scientifically” the buy prada glasses waters were parted; how scientifically, the sun stood still; and how scientifically, the buy prada glasses whole earth was flooded. Interesting that a Christian would have to buy prada glasses use science to make a point (not that it’s impossible). It smacks of a buy prada glasses Sunday School teacher using Noah and the flood as a children’s story, even building animals and buy prada glasses a huge boat to make the story more epic. And then buy prada glasses one day the child grows up and wonders about this God that buy prada glasses kept all but a handful of humans off the boat, while unmercifully drowning the buy prada glasses rest of the planet! Do we really need to go there?
I feel we’ve inadvertedly created a buy prada glasses religion for the intellectually naive instead of a spiritual way of life for buy prada glasses the hungry and needy. But in THIS YEAR (2005), I have been reconnected to my FIRST LOVE! It didn’t come without a price and it didn’t come cheaply. Who would think it could? Now, I look forward in 2006, in seeing some fruit from buy prada glasses the labors of working in His vineyard, and more importantly, from buy prada glasses sitting in His presence. The journey has only begun!
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