Have you ever heard the term "Walking Zombies"? It is used to describe people who are just going through the motions of life. This looks different for everyone. Cooking, cleaning, working, markets, hanging with the boys, working out and such- the life I always promised myself I would never live in…yet I think that I was sucked into that life.
God created us all special, unique. He created us with a calling that is pleasing to Him, but feeds to who God made us as a person. For some people that is food in the form of restaurants, cooking show and books. Others sports, kids books, teaching… and the list goes on and on and on. Question I have for you is what keeps you from being a walking Zombie? What keeps you from just going through the motions of life, not even thinking about what God made us uniquely passionate about?
Since my second year of high school I have known that my passion is people. I love people; I do not completely understand it sometimes. Over the years however, I have become used to situations like talking my ex-boyfriends through break ups with the girl after me! ha That passion for people has feed my desire to help with ending Modern Day Slavery in its many forms. One way that happen is because I want so badly for girls to know how special they are and they are worth being wait on that to hear about girls, and boys, that are forced to have sex and are taught that they deserve what they are going through is just heart breaking. Or people being forced to kill people until murder is a part of their life-style.
Since I have been home and got involved with this organization called Operation Broken Silence I remembered just how sold out I was for this cause and I am awakening from this horrible state of Zombieness (which I’m sure is not a word, but gets the point across!)
I am so blessed to have found something that is worth fighting for that get me out of bed in the morning!(this is one out of many for me) That’s my prayer for everyone…the millions that read my blog haha
If you have a passion, please share!
In Christ
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Lies
There are only a few people I let speak into my life. There are things on TV that I just don't watch. There are friends who I hang around all the time and do not take there advice, I love them, but that is not their role in my life. I had one friend I would tell my problems to and I would literally do the opposite of whatever she told me to do... and guess what, it always worked out. Always. Something as simply as a friend can be much more than that, that relationship can control the decisions you make, the people you talk to, the places you go...the people you listen to can almost determine your life without you even knowing what happen.
There is something that is even more dangerous than a friend...is a boy/girl friend. Yes, I meant dangerous. Someone that you trust more than anyone else in your life. The one that you talk to most and spend the most time with. What they say has more of an influence on you than anyone else in your life; your best friend, your family,...pastor,TV(and we know that tube speaks volumes).
I was talking to one of my campers not to long ago during the "great" campfire encounter and we talked about the whispers. She was telling me that she was a bad Christian.She said she was not trying hard enough and that she could always be doing better. She went on, and on and on about all the things she could do better. And I started telling her about the whispers of Satan. How he wants to get into her head and focus on the "to do's" of following Jesus and that is not what a relationship with the Father is.
Then I got home. I feel like that Lord is calling me back here. The one thing He has been repeating to me is Lies...Lies...Lies. It is so easy to believe lies. Especially when they are all you are listening to. I come back to find my friends and family stuck eyeball deep in lies and they don't want to listen to anything else. Nothing else can get to them.
Why? What is so appealing about the lie?
There is something that is even more dangerous than a friend...is a boy/girl friend. Yes, I meant dangerous. Someone that you trust more than anyone else in your life. The one that you talk to most and spend the most time with. What they say has more of an influence on you than anyone else in your life; your best friend, your family,...pastor,TV(and we know that tube speaks volumes).
I was talking to one of my campers not to long ago during the "great" campfire encounter and we talked about the whispers. She was telling me that she was a bad Christian.She said she was not trying hard enough and that she could always be doing better. She went on, and on and on about all the things she could do better. And I started telling her about the whispers of Satan. How he wants to get into her head and focus on the "to do's" of following Jesus and that is not what a relationship with the Father is.
Then I got home. I feel like that Lord is calling me back here. The one thing He has been repeating to me is Lies...Lies...Lies. It is so easy to believe lies. Especially when they are all you are listening to. I come back to find my friends and family stuck eyeball deep in lies and they don't want to listen to anything else. Nothing else can get to them.
Why? What is so appealing about the lie?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Hey I Found a Whistle that Hangs Like a Charm
Sean D Carasso: Thank you everyone for your contribution and thoughts! We live in a world of very real wars causing very real deaths. The men and women who create these wars have often used religion as their platform. I hope we'll continue to engage in a robust conversation as to why, and how we can stop this kind of manipulation and brutality.
It seems to me that the first step toward that conversation is a willingness to engage new ideas, new opinions and new perspectives. Openness is paramount. Without it, we remain stuck inside walls of our own creating.
I hope, if nothing else, this photo caused you to reconsider old assumptions and ask new questions. It certainly did that for me.
Lots of love my friends.
Sean
http://www.fallingwhistles.com/splash/index.php
This was posted on this guys facebook to make people stop and just have conversation... Yes, it is a little dramatic. So much happens that could be avoided and understood if we took time to stop...CARE and listen.
What do you think?
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