tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post111976189355191127..comments2023-09-08T06:18:59.748-04:00Comments on Kat's blog: yeah, the 'c-word' again. . . last time i promise.kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05786278167953612058noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1121445344419188112005-07-15T12:35:00.000-04:002005-07-15T12:35:00.000-04:00youd love c. science. but i dont think youve the ...youd love c. science. but i dont think youve the grit to check it outal hakansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11496422923234250845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1120005820199702102005-06-28T20:43:00.000-04:002005-06-28T20:43:00.000-04:00you guys both have these caring, big hearts! i hop...you guys both have these caring, big hearts! i hope that you keep living your faith every day. . i will try to do the same<BR/><BR/>I've got an interview to volunteer at the local food bank!!! i'll let you know how that works out!kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786278167953612058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119997938976366072005-06-28T18:32:00.000-04:002005-06-28T18:32:00.000-04:00yea i sometimes think "church" cannot work in a "c...yea i sometimes think "church" cannot work in a "church" setting........example: take away the building and services and what is left? So i have to live it all day every day and the building on a sunday is just about organized pre-planned..........maybe fellowship with other christians is a part of it but thats it............its worthless otherwise!!supersimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13790586257042351885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119995434793294502005-06-28T17:50:00.000-04:002005-06-28T17:50:00.000-04:00it's not big enough well! too many times i just wa...it's not big enough well! too many times i just walk past people lying on the street, too many times i dont even notice...what happens to these guys? what kind of church do they fit into? what kind of church could they become? THATS the kind of church i want to be a part of!emmsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04817861053651755458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119913374138946252005-06-27T19:02:00.000-04:002005-06-27T19:02:00.000-04:00Emma i hope that you find what you're looking for ...Emma i hope that you find what you're looking for too! I hope that you and your parents will find this. . you sound like you have a big heart. .kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786278167953612058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119913179153769292005-06-27T18:59:00.000-04:002005-06-27T18:59:00.000-04:00ally. . i too am being blown away by that book "Bl...ally. . i too am being blown away by that book "Blue Like Jazz". . the guy is inside my head! he uses the same words even, the same concepts. . and it blows me away to see in print some of the exact things that i have thought, felt, said (or wrote) freaking me out!!<BR/><BR/>i know what you mean about not being able to catch a glimpse of God at church. . when we were on vacation recently i felt more affected by the beggars on the street *especially one* than i ever did in any boring, lifeless and hermetically sealed, freeze dried meetings that went on in my church and which somehow passed for 'worship'.. which when i think about that, makes me burn with anger. . <BR/><BR/>the one man i saw while we were at a public market, he had these desperate eyes and no legs and stumps for hands. . he kissed me and hugged me cuz i gave him some money and he had tears in his eyes and i was so affected by his need. .i kept worrying about him our whole vacation, did he have a place to go? did he eat, he didn't look like he did. .what happened to him why did he have no legs or fingers? i still think about him. .i can still see him in my mind. that was such a feeling like i've never had in any church meeting.kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786278167953612058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119908683417929532005-06-27T17:44:00.000-04:002005-06-27T17:44:00.000-04:00'afraid to encounter the raw, aching hearts and dy...'afraid to encounter the raw, aching hearts and dying spirits all around me'... thats something thats going on in my head at the minute too... posted about it the other day, about 'broken people' and how God calls us (me) to feel their pain and just help them where theire at.<BR/>And like both you and ally, i struggle in my own church, i only go now because i feel i have to. my parents are not christains and if i stopped going to our current church, they would too. which is a risk i cannot afford to take... they need Jesus. but someday i look forward to being part of a church that is real, a church that is vibrant and alive, longing and aching after God, to see Him touch our community. Someday!emmsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04817861053651755458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11927999.post-1119902810675964242005-06-27T16:06:00.000-04:002005-06-27T16:06:00.000-04:00kat! what a marvelous post.i have issues with simi...kat! what a marvelous post.<BR/>i have issues with similar things that you mention, how i maybe never have given God the worship and praise he deserves cuz i dont really "get it"<BR/>when we went to westport at easter i was so in awe of God's creation and often i see it in places i normally would not have before.............it is scary when i look at a sunset and see God but i go to church and i cant catch a glimpse. i wouldnt say that aboout my church though i notice it occassionally there and at the wb.........i often blame myself though as if i am far away.......i have been told not to! <BR/>i really have been blown away by a few things recently. in no order:<BR/>Blue like jazz:don miller<BR/>Bono.........he is "real"<BR/>and<BR/>my own desire to stop this "pre-planned" and "staged" religion............<BR/>where does that leave me?supersimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13790586257042351885noreply@blogger.com