I watched Sophie Scholl again. I am again reminded what true faith looks like lived out.

And some days, no, most days; I need to be reminder; I need to remember what it looks like to live out your faith. It doesn’t look like what I see every day. It doesn’t look like youth, at the prime of their lives, hidden away in ivory towers studying what dead white men thought about God; faith looks like Sophie Scholl walking to the guillotine. Faith looks a heartbroken mother and father saying goodbye to their faithful children for the last time. Faith cries out, “There is a Higher Justice.” Faith doesn’t argue over proper eschatology.

We don’t live out our faith by getting A’s in Bible Classes; we live out our faith by standing up for what is right in the face of all opposition. "And what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"

I like thunder and lightning. They're bold and unapologetic. I like that in people. I think that if they were people I would want to be their friend.

I don't like rain as much. But I think it's weird when there is thunder and lightnign without rain. Maybe I need more rain friends. I'll work on that.

I'm on full smile patrol this weekend. It's campus preview.

I have a hard time encouraging kids to come here, knowing how much of a struggle I've had here, but I know that God has it in the works for a whole bunch of kids to end up here. I feel better knowing that I'm encouraging the cool ones.

I feel less bitter about a lot of things. One of my best friends, Ricky, (the one with a heart candy in his mouth in my friends' photos below) had a good chat over a movie. I don't think he realizes that he said anything of importance, but he did.

I've only cussed once since Easter. I'm thinking about taking the leap and stop cussing. IDK. I'll limit it anyway.

I'm having (I think) a pancake night on Sunday, which I'm pretty excited about.

Catharsis #6

Every time I go to log into my Facebook account I have a problem. I place the cursor in the password box and begin to type. But, when the page is finished loading, it automatically places the cursor in the "username" box. I end up writing half of my password in one box and the other half in a different box. Everyone now know the last 6 digits of my password.

The upsetting thing is that this has happened to me every time I have logged on to Facebook for months. Twice a day, 30 days a month, 3 months, 180 times! 180 times I've made the same stupid mistake. If I just waited two seconds for the page to finish loading before I began typing I would be fine.

I guess I'm just bad at learning from my mistakes. Maybe if I pretend they aren't real they will go away.

Spring break is almost over. I've had a good week and am almost ready to go back to class.

My friend Marty Spire's husband died yesterday. He was 94 and had cancer. I'll have a funeral in Elberton this weekend.

I feel really blessed by all of my friends, and not just the beautiful ones. The ugly ones too. <3

Catharsis #5

I always feel that Christmas and Easter should have a Celebrity Death Match.

I mean, they can't both be the premier Christian holiday. Can they?

I think it's strange that Easter is synonomous with Spring. The First Easter was 50 days before the Harvest Festival ... so ... some time during the summer?

I like Christmas because I get a lot of presents. I like Easter because I get a lot of presence. It's a trade off.

Catharsis #4

"Jesus is watching you!" - one of the teachers I work with to a student.

Yes, Jesus is watching you. He is watching every move you make. Because He loves you with all of his heart.

Jesus isn't waiting, on the prowl, for each of us to screw up. He is watching us in love.

So here's the message I want my kids to know. Jesus is watching you in love. Jesus loves you. I pray that some day you will hear this message.

Catharsis #3

We share a difficult Gospel. We share a good news that runs against everything we believe. We must constantly fight against the human impulse of inertia. We must fight against the lazy attitude of an easy gospel.

We cheapen the good news when we impose rules and regulations on to simple faith.
We cheapen the good news when we put study and discipline above simple faith.
We cheapen the good news when we deny the simplicity of the faith.

The Christian faith has fallen to the Biblical Literalists. The problem with this line of thought is that anything can be proven with the Bible. When we fail to take the Bible as a whole and choose to categorize every line we end up with as many faiths as people and the notion that only one person (usually said with a finger pointed in) has it right.

When we take the Bible as a whole and in context we see that there is only one faith ... with a whole lot of un-important fringe issues. The fringe issues are not part of the faith.

The difficult gospel teaches grace. It teaches that whores will get into Heaven before the religious establishment. It's hard to accept the grace of God. It's hard to give the grace of God. It's hard to offer the grace of God to people who don't look like us. It's hard to offer the grace of God to people who haven't followed the rules we have put in place.

Catharsis #2

I am in love with Family Guy. Hopefully we will start our Toccoa Falls Appropriate Courtship within the next few days, be engaged by the end of Spring Break, and be married in June. As long as she's a submissive Toccoa Falls Type.

I'm going in to work with my Kindergarten class today. I'm pretty excited about this week. I'm going to do pottery one day and develop film one day. Spring Break is relaxing.

I realized I never added a picture of my cat. So ... here he is.

Catharsis #1

"We are an Easter people and Halleluia is our song."- John Paul II

If our song is anything other than Halleluia we are doing something wrong.

If our song is "those damn kids and their skateboards," we've missed the boat.


I was allowed to be part of an awesome ministry this weekend. I sinned this weekend (like every other weekend) and God still found it in His heart to forgive me, embrace me, and use me in ministry.

"You should live your life with such freedom and joy that most uptight Christians will doubt your salvation." - Steve Brown

I'm allowed to be happy. I'm allowed to spend time with friends and enjoy myself.

I praise God for my beautiful friendships.

The last enemy to be defeated will be death. - 1 Corinthians 15

I wish their was a set of rules and regulations for funerals. I wish the word funeral didn't contain the word fun. I wish people knew whether to use past tense or present tense in reference to the recently deceased. I wish that death was a malady of the old. I wish we all grieved in the same way.

I have read of people groups that hire mourners for funerals. I think this is a good practice. At least they set the tone. Maybe, at my funeral they will hire laughers - to set the tone; that people may know it's okay to laugh.

Death is temporary; true life is eternal.