Allison's comments...

Finally! Lisa saved me from my blogging ignorance, and I have been released to publish on my own accord ( I was listed under Peter for some weird reason). I actually have my own blog...just could not figure out for the life of me how to use this one! sheesh!

I have been struggling with a bad attitude the past couple of days. It must be a pretty penetrating bad attitude, because it is coloring my dreams and impacting the way I think about class work and the purpose of being in college. It has been hard to pray, and I feel a greater pull toward the world and its pleasures. So I have been listening to hymns, reflecting on the lyrics, being reminded that there is a world beyond our own, or as Marcus says, alongside our own, that is filled with spiritual significance. As I was listening to "As I survey the Wondrous Cross" tonight, I was filled with appreciation for a Christ who resonates beyond my perceived reality and "does battle" with the principalities and powers FOR ME. Our Christ is Life. Our Christ feeds us and animates us and encourages us in our weaknesses, even as HE DOES BATTLE FOR US against the spiritual forces that try to take our joy and beat us to the ground, even attack our basic belief in the Power of the Cross.

As a sociology major, I am constantly confronted with the ideas (some very valid) that "man makes society, man makes religion, man makes god." It is easy to justify the "man makes religion" part, because it is true to a very great extent...but it becomes easier to say, then, that we have created "god" as well. Oh Lord Jesus...please deliver me from forgetting the Reality of the Cross, the Reality of the Spirit, the Reality of the Eternal Grace and Eternal Salvation you have created us to enjoy...beginning now. Thank you for Your Blood; thank you for your Resurrection Life that we have the honor to partake in TODAY! Lord you are Good! Lord, we Love You!

Please pray for me...
and thank you to those who have.

Be encouraged. Christ is Life.

allison