Mid-October Chills and Thrills

Listening to:

Love Lockdown by Kanye West

Mr. Brightside by the Killers

These two songs are really amazing.  Our church did a killer rendition of Love Lockdown yesterday, which included a drumline and a soul singer.  That’s pretty wicked in my opinion.  Mr. Brightside recently became a favorite during a shuffle session on my iPod.  There are three killer melodies in that song, all of which have the potential to power a song on their own.  But, when combining the three into one super, mega-melodic song, you get an explosion of harmonious goodness.  I love songs like that.

After sitting in school for seven hours of the day, I decided to take a walk out in the cool, Autumn air.  Days like today are my favorite days of the year.  The colors have yet to change entirely, but the sky was blue and the breeze was nice.  I believe the first day of Fall should be a national holiday, so everyone can enjoy these wonderful days.  (And the joyous Christmas season isn’t very far away!)    ___

Just add on the fact that I get to see Relient K on Friday, and I felt confident after my highly-anticipated civics test, and this day pretty much felt like Christmas.  (…but not really as good as Christmas)  Happy Autumn everyone!

Here We Go.

Sometimes I have trouble coming up with titles of blogs, as well as information to blog about.  So, today I’m just going to share a bit of what’s on my mind.  Here We Go. 

Today, a teacher asked one of my friends “What is the most important thing in your life right now?”  This isn’t one of my closer friends, but I know him pretty well.  His answer was “Religion”.  Up until that point, I hadn’t really had a very high regard of this friend, but when he made this statement, I began to rethink my respect for him and admired his boldness.  But, at lunch I heard this same friend talking with some other friends about “the girls he was going to get” at a youth retreat coming up.  He was talking about sleeping with them in a very dishonoring and arrogant way.  So, I confronted this friend in front of everyone.  I asked him why he said the most important thing in his life was religion, when he talks about sleeping with girls after class.

He asked me, “Why can’t I focus on God and get girls at the same time?”  This really troubled me.  This friend told me another time that he couldn’t wait to go on his youth trip (because “it was so spiritual”).  I asked him about the party he held while his parents were out of town, and why he served alcohol.  He couldn’t give a reasonable explanation.

Sadly, this mindset represents so many teens today, who claim to love God in front of their friends, but commit inexcusable sins that poison their lives and their relationships with God.  It really makes my heart ache when I see friends make a commitment to God, and then throw it away when they can find some means of “justifying it.”

Churchgoers and “Christians” by our standards are the ones committing the sins they look down upon.  This is all true, and it seems highly hypocritical.

The Church needs to be the one standing behind its beliefs, rather than covering up its problems, and giving teens insufficient armor for the battles they face everyday.