Ugly Sweater

I love waking up late. It really sets my day off in the right way! So I woke up at 11:30 this morning. Awesome.

Today I hung out with a really good friend of mine. It was so awesome. I love having friends that are transparent and real Christians. It helps me be a real person. I love being able to discuss feelings on life without having to be super guarded and having someone tell you your going to hell because your a dirty rotten sinner. Its so refreshing and hard at the same time. It makes me want to take the things in my life and change them to be a better christian and that change is really really hard sometimes. So yeah--good hanging.

Tonight I am looking forward to the first annual ugly sweater party. It's going to be the last time everyone will be able to hang out before we leave to go back to college. Did you ever wonder what your parents were thinking when they dressed you? I do. While picking out my ugly sweater I realized why no one wanted to hang out in middle school. Are you kidding me...purple sweater with pink and yellow flowers. Come on.

The third chapter in "Searching for God Knows What?" was pretty good as well. He begins "Free Verses" by talking about how he likes Pauls and Johns writing styles in the Bible. He discusses how today people are just looking for formulas and quick fix guides and by reading the bible the same way we miss the major point of it. When we use Christian theology out of context to try and achieve the American Dream the entire meaning gets lost.

"Maybe if we stop reducing the text to formulas for personal growth we can read it as stories of imperfect humans having relations with a perfect God and come to understand the obvious message He is communication to mankind."

That quote was particularly interesting to me because I had just spent some time reading scripture and was trying to find a key verse to live by this week. Ha. Its really funny, throughout reading this book (the three chapters I have read) I have that day dealt with something Donald Miller addresses. Funny.