Renewal

I am so excited, somethings have been going on at church that have been rocking my world.  I went to Lent this year, I had no idea it's not actually Catholic...did you know that?  Do some research you will learn a lot. 

Lent service was one of the most sobering, humbling things I have ever done.  It showed me just how selfish I really am and how self-centered my world is.  Even as I write this it is all, I, me, and my...I am focusing all my efforts on renewing my spirit and not being so selfish.  I am trying not to tell people I won't do things just because I am not in the mood or skipping out on things because I don't know people and feel uncomfortable...or even just going to the gym and forcing myself to say hello to people and take on the possibility of having a conversation I didn't plan on.

I have become very closed off, I only want to do what I desire and only with the people I desire to be with.  I never really go out of my way anymore and it makes me sad that I have become this way...so I change and grow.

We had three quotes in our bulletin this week that really hit me hard, I thought I would share:

"How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize (look it up, I sure had to!)?  How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?  If I believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that a truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I would tackle you, and this is more important than that."
                                     ~Penn Jillette, comedian and avid aethist  (Yes, Penn & Teller)

"The best argumentfor Christianity is Christians:  their joy, their certainty, their completeness.  But the strongest agument against Christianity is also Christians- when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths."
                                     ~Sheldon Vanauken

Oh yes, and very unimportantly but exciting for me....it's finally Spring Break!!!!  Thank goodness!