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Name: David
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Birthday: 12/10/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: JESUS.music.computers.hold'em.
dr.pepper.JESUS.cars.acting.
movies.osu.singing.JESUS.
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Member Since:
2/11/2004
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| "did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the ground?
we’re walking around in it. we’re in the sky. there is sky and there is ground and we’re somewhere in between. that is where we live. and sometimes some of us take wing and when they do, when their feet leave the ground, even for a second, they pull the rest of us with them. and then we rise, and then we rise, and then we notice that the sky has been around us all along.
we have been walking into it. it has been this constant collision. divinity and depravity.
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise..."
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| four years.
can it really be that long already?
i have to remember this day because of what it represents.
because of how it strengthens my resolve when i question God's promises.
because of how it proves that God will never give up on me
and because of how it reminds me to never give up on God.
and his faithfulness. and his mercy. and his love.
this day means more to me than anyone will ever know.
"thursday, january 27, 2005
i think today has been one of the most defining moments of my christian life."
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| something must change.
this is not who i am.
i must stand and renounce the lies of the devil.
i must resolve to change now.
for if not now, when?
i must choose to embrace the power of Christ.
i cannot stand on my own.
i cannot win by my own power.
i cannot compartmentalize my life.
i cannot live a life of integrity if i lie to myself. or to others. or to God.
i can embrace the accusations. but i must remember the refrain...
i can live a victorious life.
i am able to live with my mind on others instead of myself.
i can live with a transformed mind.
i can live for a hope greater than this world.
i can change.
surely, we can change.
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| i need to write. but i don't know how to write whats goin on in my head right now...
it gets hard to tell who i am sometimes. who have i really become?
i take a step outside of my life right now. what is driving me? why am i the way that i am? am i really stepping in Christ's footprints?
what is it about this mask. it feels like i always have it on. you know what i mean, the "everything's fine, i've got it all together" mask.
but its not. and i don't. and i would dare to bet that many if not most of my friends and people i see everyday do not either. so where does that put us? whose heart do i truly see? do i let anyone really see mine? am i willing to let the mask fall away if but for a minute?
tomorrow is new. tomorrow is constant. i need the new morning and the light it brings. i need the love thats more faithful than the morning. i can't move these walls.
but they're already broken. they're already down. i guess sometimes i forget.
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| sometimes i am so alive. i just breathe life it seems. little things catch my eye. or my ear.
and suddenly the minuscule has transformed into something grand.
what leads me to view my life and activities as so extravagant?
where does the flavor and freshness come from?
i like those times.
i think part of it comes when i see the entire world near my fingertips. i see the potential in my own life to be something terrific, someone different. someone who makes a difference in this messed up world.
what difference can i make?
i want to change things. i want to point toward hope - a hope that takes the shattered fragments of of humanity and begins to repair them. i want the world to see an alternative. i want to live, speak, give, and just drip with a new hope. not a selfish "look at me cause i know how to solve your problems" hope, but a glimpse of a Jesus that loves and cares and is real is spite of the brokenness and pain and hurt that plague every single one of us.
what difference can i make?
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