Just some thoughts

Have you ever wondered why the "peace sign" (the circle one with the lines not the finger V) is so much of a fad right now? I thought about getting a peace sign for my back window of my car; two seconds later I realized that I had said some not so nice things to the guy who cut me off on the freeway and relinquished the idea of the peace sign. Mostly because I would feel hypocritical, and partly because I would feel like I was just another one of those people with the peace sign on the car. To me, "peace" is not just a little thing or a cool sticker to put on your car; it's a way of living. It's a time for one to deliberately live in a "peaceful" manner. It's deliberately altering every aspect of your life in order to live peacefully in the world.  So, I guess, yeah in a way I am what Todd Tolson calls, "a 21st-century hippie." I never wanted to admit that because I don't want to conform to the trends of America. Being a "hippie" is so "cool" right now, it's the "hip'' thing to do, and being "hip" is so not me. 

(P.S. I bet you haven't actually wondered that, honestly.. but oh well)

Buddha put it like this: "Better than a thousand hollow words is one that brings peace." Man. Talk about a loaded statement. He was wise.

A Psalmist put it like this (and I personally like this one better): Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it

So you can't just say "oh yeah, world peace, world peace" you have to pursue it and live it out. 

That's enough of that.  

So another tangent: 

My new favorite CS Lewis quote:

   If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy,

   I can only conclude that I was not made for here.

AGAIN! What a loaded statement! I can't even begin to imagine how to dissect that statement. God is good, that's all I can say. 

And I guess I'll end with that: God is good. 

 

Life As A Prince; Desperately seeking God in the busy life

The past few weeks have been sort of a haze; school, home, tennis, home, homework, work, sleep, repeat. There has been little "me" time, and that always makes the week seem longer.

Since receiving my drivers license, I have tried to spend 15-20 minutes in my car in silence, just "counting my blessings" if you will, just chattin' it up with God and trying to keep Him up to date with my life. I remember in middle school, someone was talking about something she called "text message prayers", short, sweet prayers said to God in order to keep Him in the loop. About a month ago, I started to think about the time I spend texting my friends or twittering in any given day, (the number is around 10,000 times a month, so around 333 times a day) so, I decided to actually text my prayers and concernes to God. It's kind of like an on-the-go journal time, and I keep them all in my phone and write them in my journal when I get a chance.

In the middle of Chemistry, Math, English, History, the movie, whatever, I pull out my phone and start to text. Not necessarily to my friends or to update my peeps on Twitter, but to God- the maker of the heavens and the Earth. The Alpha and the Omega, the Holy God. It's so mind blowing to me that I have an intimate relationship with the God who chiseled every nook and cranny of the Grand Canyon, every star in the sky, every flower in the field. It's a feeling that is so complex; it makes the unloved feel loved, the outcast feel included, the loner feel close to something that is so much bigger than anything they have ever imagined.

In this time of chaos in the World, God is always constant. He knows what's best for you better than anyone, He knows what tomorrow brings, and what your future holds. He wants so badly to have His people put their lives completely in His hands and relinquish control to Him. He wants so badly to show us His unfailing, everlasting, complete love.



Peace-

Samantha