movie recommendation: the fall
it's really superb, lots of color. a story of pain, love, longing, and triumph.
day 1 on lent:
i deliberated greatly as to what i should give up (or as a friend of my eloquantly put it: trade) my cussing, since it is (apparently) so opposite my character, and take on a longer devotional time/ prayer journal (intraspective time).
initial thoughts:
it's more difficult then i expected it to be.
devotional: meditation--joyce huggett;
scripture: Psalms 103 (bless the Lord, oh my soul.)
psalm 103 made me think about something i was mulling over last night. we sang a song with lines like: "i want to be like my father," and "i desire to be like you," and "i'll risk it all if you make me like you," and "make me just like you," and I couldn't help but wonder if the loads of people surrounding me who were swaying; their mouths moving to the music, their eyes closed in reverance, and their hands lifted in surrender, if they (if i ) really understood the magnitude of what they/we were saying. in theory that is a wonderful idea, if we all acted and spoke with compassion and love the way God does, the world would be such a nice place to live. the thing is... it's not, we're not. a verse (8) in chapter 103 says: "the Lord shows mercy and is kind. He does not become angry quickly, anmd he has great love." those two things are so converse to humanity, to the majority of modern day christians (to myself) that if we spent all of our time simply attempting to accomplish one of them, it would take a life time to master. i kept asking myself: "is that what we really want?" or are we simply trying to be "cute," because it makes us feel like we are better believers.
