(1) Many Christians now have the theory that romance novels are considered porn for women. Just as men develop this unmatchable image for women to live up to when they look at porn, 'they' believe that women read romance novels with the theory that there may actually be a wonderful fairytale somewhere out there for them too. What the heck is that about? Nobody ever has a fairytale ending, right? I completely disagree. Call me naive, but I'm all about some fairytale-age in my life. I read these Christian romance novels located in the genre of 'Chick Lit'. They're amazing! My favorite author is Kristin Billerbeck - I have this circle of friends who have all read her series of romance novels, it's great! Actually, it's porn for me because I've developed in my mind that I may possibly live to be 32 years old - never had sex and (that's right) never had been married. 'They' is right - that's definitely porn for my mind! This girl in the series gets married finally by the third book and her husband is a great guy - their relationship is completely pure and founded on the rock of Christ. Call me crazy, but I believe in that. I know that God has someone prepared for me that will rock my world and it will be good - because God is good and He has nothing less than a great, solid marriage waiting for me... in His time... and you know what? I'm okay with that. I'm okay with being single for this season of my life. But I'm not giving up. I believe God has at least one fairytale for everyone: an everlasting, never failing romance with Him. It's their choice to accept it. However, he also has a fairytale for many others (like Paul, I believe God has chosen some to be single... and that's cool too). It's our choice to be patient for that romance as well. No, it won't be as beautiful as the romance with our Father, but it can still be beautiful and God will definitely bless it if we allow Him to.
(2) My dad took me to the CNN center yesterday which was absolutely amazing! We got to see all the work that is put behind the broadcasting and stories. From the repetitive work of switching screens from
headline story to the anchor, to the anchor simply reading the story from the teleprompter, I watched in bewilderment, wondering if I would ever be able to reach my dreams of being in the communications field. (Coming into Auburn, I wanted to be a news anchor... no longer the case.) However, the idea that baffled me the most was the fact that a news anchor has an 8 hour workday. We only see them, at max, 4 hours... if that. So what do they do for the rest of the time? They gather news stories, edit, answer phone calls... any dirty work that needs to be done... they do it. I once believed that an anchor was some ditsy person who just knew how to read and looked good on the screen (I was stereotyping, judgmental... I know), but they truly serve their station. I guess that made me start thinking about leaders in the faith - what do they do? Sometimes all you see is a guy on stage who just wants the spotlight, but how often do you see them working for the true glory of the Lord where the light is dim or even absent - to serve Him by serving others? Maybe you don't see the guy serving at all, which could be a good thing if he does it so selflessly that he doesn't want anyone to see him - but how sad is it that there are some people who sing on stage or speak in front of groups of people but aren't great enough to serve God in the small ways. I started thinking about this because of a college ministry I went to and that's what the guy spoke about - being humble enough to bow down and serve God in the most minor ways possible, by setting up chairs before church or by getting water bottles for the guys in the band... but what he said made me think about how similar we are to news anchors as believers. Yeah, we should disciple, whether in big groups or small groups or whatever, but to be a disciple, you must also serve - not just talk. What are we doing with the other 23 hours of our days that we are not 'evangelizing'? What does our dirty work look like? What kind of stories do we gather to prepare us for the discipleship God has called us to?
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