Hmm, well here I am.

I have been thinking on a "Christian-ese" phrase someone used recently in our conversation. I've heard it quite often even used it myself I'm sure, but in this instance it really made me think. I've been mulling over it a few days now. The phrase would go something like this, "Well, if that is where your convictions are..." or "That is how YOU feel convicted..." I'm afraid for Christianity in America. We've warped so much to make our faith into our own, like trying to put God in a box. We've made it all about me, my experience, my interpretation, me, my, I, etc... We've bought into relativism and tolerance, no stepping on toes. I hate seeing it seep so easily into my own life, my own mindset. Well as I looked to the Scripture to figure out if our making conviction something that is so unique to each person is as Biblical as we make it out to be. What I found makes me more fearful for the way we have warped or changed the meaning...

This was my location most of the day. I was alone at the Garden Center (imagine that;)) and not busy at all due to the rain, snow, rain, snow + much wind. I got a lot of knitting done on my shawl. I so thought I'd be done with it already:S Soon, very soon. I had some what of a blah day. I was reckless and let my imagination go wild while I sat and knitted. I came up with so many romantic, pitiful situations...all ending with a proposal from someone. I usually stop myself because I know they build up false hopes in me. Hopes simply springing from something I've dreamed up and thought enough to cause me to believe it is true. Not so good. I will say though that I didn't go so far as imagining things that would really happen. Well, that is unless I get ALS...:S Anywho... I was NOT taking captive every thought in Christ. Sometimes it is so hard. Sin...ugh...I hate sin. Alissa