May 13, 2011
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Regarding: Platitudes in the mess of life..
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 8:11 PM
From: My Mom
Subject: Platitudes in the mess of life
To: MeAnswer
1. Hebrews Chapters 11 – 12. I have these memorized. May not help now.Hymn “Further along we’ll know all about it.
Jesus saying “In the world you will have trouble, but be not afraid, for I have overcome the world
Sometimes it’s harder to keep believing than not to
Steve Taylor has a song like that “It’s harder to believe than not to.”
From:Me
Subject: Regarding: Platitudes in the mess of life..
To: My Mom
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 11:52 PMLol, Mom, you couldn’t deliver a platitude if your life depended on it. But I really love that about you.
You know.. Thru all this, I have been formally introduced to apologetics. Which is the path the Good, Gracious, Endlessly PatienT Lord has mercifully lead me to. I realize I’ve been scratching at the wild side.. Just one foot.. “But LOOK, Dad! I just really don’t know why You think it’ll be dangerous over there. I mean, why would You move us to a home right By the over there?” said as I clutch at His robe, painfully aware of my lukewarmness.
So I’ve been fasting – inspired by my friend at work.. She’s really cool, Yolanda. Very down to Earth. Black and proud, and desperately wishes she had a ghetto booty. We have that in common. Lookin’ like we got hit upside the a-with-two-s’s wid a fryin’ pan. Lol. Anywho, I’d asked her if she wanted one of my Life Savers Wint-o-green’s.. And she sucked in a breath and resisted. And explained that she was fasting.
And it struck me like a lightbulb (See? Now that’s a platitude
), so I started fasting sweets, fried foods, and media.I told her the next day. And we went out and talked, while I smoked. And she told me she didn’t know what to tell me about all my questions that receive platitudes. And she could feel me, on that. But that I did need to forgive God. And that He was still (obviously) workin’ with me. I replied, saying something similar to the note of, “Even though I’m acting like my own children..”
She laughed. Yeah..
And today I heard a radio program on 88.3, the station Leslie listens to Joyce Meyers on, every morning. The “Point of View” talk show had a guest speaker, Paul Copan – Who, I’m sure you’ve heard of, and read 5 of his books already, lol.
So Dr. Copan has a new book out, “Is God a Moral Monster?”
And here He’s brought me. Here I am. I mean, just the Title, lol. I feel like He’s answered me already. So I’ve sent that book, and “Holman QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics” to our Kindle’s. (My way of telling you, you can download them on your end, when you get a chance
) And I bought the Apologetics Study Bible, and Apologetics Study Bible for Students, for Doodle and myself.. And perhaps shopped compulsively, even though I sought after the best reviewed, and cheapest version of my purchases.. *Sucks at teeth.. But I really started feeling that memory of when He swept me off my feet to the AjaLand He’d created for me.*exhale.
Thank you, Mom. For your wise wannabe platitudes, lol. Perfectly timed and delivered.
Thank GOD it doesn’t take me too long nowadays, to let Him lead me back to the path, lol.
I love you, Mom.. And thank you for the beautiful card. It is incredibly lovely.
I love you. Everything about you. Thank you for easing me back in.
~ Your Aja Bree
These all died in faith
without having received the promises,
but they saw them from a distance,
greeted them, and confessed
that they were foreigners
and temporary residents on the earth.Now those who say such things
make it clear that they are seeking
a homeland.
If they had been remembering
that land they came from,
they would have had opportunity
to return.But they now aspire to a better land –
a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed
to be called their God,
for He has prepared a city for them.
(Heb. 11:13-16)
