Sant Romà de Sau

Sant Romà de Sau
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I really like the balance in this photo between the large blue wedge and the small tan wedge, as well as between the hill and shadow and the church. Very calming.

I guess I Do.

How could you like What She Said?

I think the General
Opinion of that
would be
"You What?"

Well,
Sorry to say
I think that
would be fine
with me.

How? How can I say that?
"You just shouldn't say what
you did!"

Maybe I don't know.
Maybe I don't.
Maybe you don't.

But, I did
kind of like that,
though,
I know I don't.

WHAT THE CRAP? IS THAT A POSTER OF A UNICORN RIDING A SNOWMOBILE?!!

Reasons

2 Peter 1:1
Ok, so I didn't make it into 2 Peter before I was struck by something. It opens with the words:

... to those who through the righteousness

of God and our Savior Jesus Christ have

received a faith as precious as ours.

Immediately it made me realize how sometimes I forget why our faith is precious, or that it even is. That sometimes I get to where I forget the value of what I have and what I have become a part of, the Mystery and Humility of the Incarnation, the Hope and Power of the Resurrection, the the very Goodness and Love of True Deity and the Grandness and Perseverance of the Tradition through which it has come to me. Simply I forget how important God and what He has done is. But here I am remind of the source and power of any and all things that are good. They come from the nature and actions of each figure of the Trinity, here particularly God the Father and Jesus Christ(just focusing on them here makes me wonder if more will be said about the Holy Spirit later, like Peter now talks to them about things they are very familiar with, and that are very important, but wants to tell them about something they are not so familiar with but is just as important).

Sin All Around

For my daily reading I have been doing Romans. Now the approach to reading I have been using as of late is a little different than the usual Baptist method of looking at like 3 verses at a time and going, ok what lesson can I learn from what the words that are written here. Not that I think that God doesn't communicate in that way, I think He does, but I also think that I have missed a lot by being that focused. Instead I have been reading(or atleast trying to read) everything that seems contiguous, everything that goes together. Which brings us to the reading in Romans that I have been doing.
And now I understand more what Paul was saying, not just what it looks like he was saying. I think before I had always picked up on the secondary meaning while missing the primary one. I think a lot of this comes from missing the "therefores" in it. As example always before I thought that what he was trying to say in the end of chapter 1 is that homosexuality is bad. Now, the thing is not that he isn't saying that. Infact that is why he brings it up, because it is so obiviously wrong to his readers that they find it revolting. That isn't the point though, his point is in chapter 2, the section in chapter 1 is just to set up what is going to happen. His real point is that we are all jacked up pretty bad, and you by saying how evil the they are for doing that are doing something just as bad, so stop thinking how great you are and be thankful that Christ has saved you from that. That is what the whole first part of the book is about, how Christ came to save us from the junk we have brought upon ourselves. I think that is why we often use the "Roman Road" to bring people to Christ, it lays out what Christ has done for us so simply with just a few verses. But now that we are grown up a bit in our faith shouldn't we read it more completely? Why don't you try doing the same thing and commenting what you think. You know, even though we use these passages to speak to unbelievers, Paul was writing this to a well established church, reminding them that everyone is a wreck, whether they look it or not.
I do a small group study on Monday nights with Bill, Luke, and Michael and right now we are going through Blue Like Jazz. In this past weeks reading there is this part where one of the girls talks about before she was a Christian and how she thought that if the church was a person, then it probably wouldn't like her. You know even though I am a Christian and am in a caring church sometimes I think that if everyone knew some of the things I have done, and the church was a person, it wouldn't like me either. Even now you are probably going, "oh my, I wonder what he has done". And do you want to know how I know that? Because if you had written the same thing, I would have thought just the same. But I think you probably have somethings in your life you could say the same about. But I think we are all scared about this because we don't follow what Paul says, we don't remember what Christ has done for us.
That sometimes makes me want to be a Catholic. I think there would be something wonderfully relieving about every week going in and telling the priest what you had done, so that he wouldn't think you were something that you weren't. But that isn't very practical right now, nor maybe the best reason for switching. I don't know, that was a bit of a rabbit trail.
So what do you think about that? If you are a Christian what do you think about how we handle our sin? If you aren't then how do you view the church? I also would love to hear about what anyone gets from Romans, or anyother place like that. I have some others that will come up.