do you remember audio blogs? you could call on your cell phone? that was amazing.

and kind of weird.


floppy disks are becoming obsolete.

my teacher used the smart board for the first time today (finally)

I have 20 podcasts i need to listen to.

Something I read today and liked:

The Wild Pursuit
Relationships are the crux of life. They are what make us come alive, in fact. We only know ourselves in the context of relationships. Still, we tend to ignore the most important relationship we have: our relationship with God through Christ. Sure, we pray and read our Bible, we go to church and sing the songs—but do we connect with God? Do we even realize that relating to us is His desire? Or is He just a Mr. Fix-it to us? One of the most beautiful pictures in the Bible of God and His people is that of a husband and wife. We must embrace the fact that He is our Bridegroom and we are His bride. God pursues us as a man pursues a woman. He says, “‘Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her … In that day,’ declares the Lord, ‘you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master’” (Hosea 2:14-16, TNIV).

Thus begins the passionate pursuit of God after the one He loves. Jesus told Martha that the one needful thing was to sit at His feet (Luke 10:38-42). We must begin here. If we try to start with a formula or with service or with coming to God only to get something, we will find ourselves dry and thirsty. Why? Because we were made for fellowship with Him. We were not made to get what we want from Him and then go on with life while He waits for us to run out of steam.

C.S. Lewis says in Mere Christianity, “A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.”

Few of us have experienced God in the facets of His fullness. He’s Father, or He’s Sovereign God, or He’s Provider, or He’s Friend, or He’s Healer. But is He Father and Sovereign God and Provider and Friend and Healer? Yes, all this and more!

God is never only one thing. He is never just God. He is never just Lover. He is never just Judge or just Warrior. He is All. He is I AM, and He is calling us to embrace the reality of what that means for us. It is a wonderful thing to embark on a journey of discovering and receiving all of who God is and will be for you and in you. But it is also terrifying.