Friday, April 22, 2005

a little something from The Ragamuffin Gospel

today at work i was in the one walk in fridge and jamed my finger between two carts and then later on i opened the door to go outside to the dumpster and my one finger gets caught at some part of the other door and rips some skin off and it started to bleed, so i go ahead and got a bandaid and under my finger is like a purple color and the tip of my finger is swallen and still is....it definitly not very nice to look at and it hurts so bad.....then also i dropped a glass right after Dan dropped one, lol....that was great....

i got to meet Jon yesterday at church, he's a great guy, very fun to be around...he sees Dan and i and "he's like are you two sisters?" we're like, "no, we're twins!" he was shocked i guess....it was just the way he said all that, lol.....well heres something for you all to read........

These are from Chapter one of The Ragamuffin Gospel
Psalm 123 says, " As the eyes of the servant are on the hands of the master, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress," we experince a vague sense of existential guilt. Our eyes or not on God. We believe that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps-indeed, we can do it ourselves. Sooner or later we are confronted with the painful truth of our inadequacy and insufficiency. Our security is shattered and our bootstraps are cut. We discover our inability to add even a single inch to our spiritual stature. <-------As I read that over and over, it made so much sense to me. "Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace." "The word itself, grace, has become trite and debased through misuse and overuse."

"The word has lost its raw, imaginative power."

"God made the sinners righteous (that is, active righteousness) through the forgiveness of sins in justification."

"Justification by grace through faith" is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called "the furious love of God."

"He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us."<----I love hearing that!! He loves us no matter what we do; thats awesome.

I think that enough for now, i just remembered that one of my friends told me today that my fingernail might fall off cuz of where i hit it at....thats not gonna be very pleasant!! but it'll grow back...oh well.......leave me something to read such as comments!! lol.........talk to you all later

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