Do you know that feeling you have when you get to that part in a movie where you feel like shutting it off because you want to control what happens at the end; you want to dictate how the story ends, who falls in love, who lives and who dies, who lives happily ever after.

For me that movie is Titanic.

I often get sucked into a song I'm listening to and know that when the song ends, so will the feeling I had when listening to it. I feel like we as humans treat life the same way. We act as moderators of our (own) lives, catering to the highs and drinking away our lows. We wake up each morning with backwards mentalities. We focus on the bad and overlook the good, we envy power and smirk at the weak, the humble, the homeless.

Fact: Houston is HUMID.

Matt

When you've made up your mind...

Sometimes I think the things I was taught as a kid weren't absolutes, merely solid guidelines that would save me trouble and heartache down the road. Other times I think my parents and peers had it right; that the bible is truth and the truth would set me free. But then I wonder how much we've tweaked and twisted what was meant to be into what felt good, sounded right, and looked appealing.

When I look back at the time's I've ran away, those moments that I do what I know I ought not to, I consistently come to the same conclusion. I follow my body, I follow my mind, I abandon my soul. Living life the way we were destined to looks much different then how it actually is all around us. Living life the way Jesus did is counter-intuitive to the way our bodies are built (at least since Adam and Eve). The reality of that is bigger than I'm able to grasp at the moment.

Matt

reading: Matthew (chapters 1-4)