On stuff makes me mad and then it makes me think

As we grow older, do we become more moral, or just better at justifying ourselves?

On Yes.

Sitting on the hard bleachers
The children are so sweet as they sing
Songs about spring time
Happy child songs
Walking in quietly
Is the teenage girl
Late
In her sweatpants
She finds her mother
The mother looks up
Genuinely gladdened by the appearance of her daughter
Reaches across the seat
Embrace
She points out
The younger sibling
The teenager
Waving and smiling
A family
Sharing and enjoying
And my eyes begin to well
One of the more beautiful things
I've witnessed in awhile

On hearing thoughts

--You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.--

1 Thessalonians 5:5-11

"Don't waste your consciousness"

On I wonder wonder wonder wonder

I want to poll every "Christian" in the I don't know where--a lot of people. I want to ask them what they think faith is, who they think Jesus is, what they think having a relationship with Christ means, and what they feel that they are doing that makes them a Christian. Now, that probably sounded really cynical, but it's not meant that way. Truly, I just want to find out what the general consensus is. I want to know how many people think like I think and how many don't. This crazy wondering has come from months of being continually frustrated with "not being on the same page" as many Christians I'm encountering. Where is the disconnect between me and so many of those who have been brought up exactly the same way as me? It's utterly confounding sometimes. I make assumptions about what people believe and what people are really doing with what they believe--then all of a sudden, guess what! my assumptions are proven totally wrong and zing! I take it personally and feel lied to. The madness must end. I cannot blame others for not being the people I believe they are if I don't take the time to dig deep and get to know who they are and exactly exactly what they believe. I need to take my poll and find my answers before I wake up one morning and have relate-ability issues with the whole entire world.
So my first big question that I believe all Christians need to be upfront with each other about: Is your faith your identity or your activity? I think that there may lie part of the big disconnect.