if i plead with the air
if i cry to the night
if i hope against hope
if i burn at the slight

if i act very sad
if i mope all around
if i beg of the fates
if i wear only frowns

if i holler and yell
if i kick and i scream
if i shout all about it
if i get really mean

if i can not go on
if i lose all my tact
or
if i throw a tantrum
will it make you come back?

Possibly Related

• March 18, 2003 — mysterious powers
• October 19, 2006 — inevitable
• October 5, 2006 — dentist
• September 18, 2005 — somewhere in africa there’s a girl who’s parents have died of aids
• February 19, 2005 — you and i both

this is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you…

no, really… read it and try to finish it in yer head, knowing that this is the first half of a verse from john, how do you think he’s going to finish this sentence?

how would one of jesus’s best friends, one who wrote one of his gospels finish that sentence?

what is THE message that jesus taught his disciples?

what is THE message that they proclaim to us?

don’t be in a hurry, really think about it.

then, once you’ve arrived at your decision, click the link below, and see how it REALLY ends.

click here

Possibly Related

• November 2, 2004 — a thought on calvinism
• September 20, 2005 — test everything, hold fast to what is good
• May 2, 2005 — plankeye
• March 17, 2005 — your job, should you choose to accept it
• January 16, 2005 — patriotism

jesus said the entire law and the prophets comes down to love.

the “odds” (if you will) of you going door-to-door and finding the right person who’s all ready to “give thier life to christ” and you “leading them to the lord” are amazingly small.

i submit that you’d have more success winning people for the kingdom by working at starbucks, and loving the heck out of your co-workers and patrons.

basically, shining the light of the kingdom into a dark world is best done by “everyday” people, rather than “full time christian ministers”.

(like, i’m part-time?)

use your job as a context within which to engage in your purpose.

intentionally love your co-workers, being real with them, making friends with them, going to the movies, and the pub, and thier houses for parties, and the births of thier kids, and thier divorces, and funerals, and generally LOVE on them the way your parents love you (or should have, if they didn’t/don’t)…

…and, eventually, they give into the love that’s being shined thier way.

louis giglio says, “be the moon”.

that means, essentially, that you have no source of light on your own, but reflect only what the sun shins your way.

people think the moon is beautiful, and if you’re shining the love of christ, they will think YOU are, too.

but eventually they’ll start to realize that the light is reflected — and some of them will start looking for the sun itself.

it’s easy as can be — and the most natural thing in the world for a person who is really and truly following in christ’s steps.

Possibly Related

• March 3, 2005 — this is the message we heard from christ
• November 2, 2004 — a thought on calvinism
• September 20, 2005 — test everything, hold fast to what is good
• May 13, 2005 — on hurting a burgler
• May 2, 2005 — plankeye

Possibly Related

• October 19, 2006 — inevitable
• July 8, 2005 — if seething is believing
• February 14, 2004 — the greatest of these
• March 18, 2003 — mysterious powers
• December 14, 2008 — choosing whom to trust