Stolen Thoughts--like all the thoughts.

Favorite Things This Instant:

• Keychain Kyle
• Ridiculous phone conversations about the same three topics
• Velvet Elvis, by Rob Bell
• Toph
• Eco-Christianity being on the Rise (ABC is going Green!)
• Hermiander and Pigwidgeon, my fish, NOT being dead.

I read something recently to the effect of: if people were taught more about who they are, they wouldnt have to be taught how to act.

If a person embraces who they are made to be, their fate, their destiny, whathaveyou, then they wont have to be told how to act appropriately, what to do and what not to do. It will come naturally. Hm.

Who are you made to be? Who am I made to be? Who are we all made to be?

God, made us all in His image. We are like Him. We share basic similarities. We are not God, but we have some sort of resemblance to Him. We all have the life, the spirit that He breathed into us. Rob Bell talks about how there is this person that God has created us to be, this destiny if you will, that he has made us to fulfill. He says that anything we do apart from that is sin. He says that God has an incredibly high view of His people, noting that we are refered to as righteous, and holy--that now that we have wrestled with the idea of believing in God, its time to wrestle with the idea that God believes in us. That He loves us just as we are. Right. Now. Like I am. Like You Are. Nothing I have done will change that. Nothing I will do can change that. The question is not whether or not God loves us, but whether or not we accept His love, and chose to love Him in return.

I dont know who I am supposed to be yet. I think its a process. Here's what I do know about myself:

• I know that most of the decisions I make on my own are awful and ruin everything despite my best intentions. Consequently I know that things will work out in the end, and that God takes care of the things that I waste so much time worrying about.
• I know that I love my friends and would do anything for them if they needed, and just because most of them live more than two states away and none of them live within almost an hour from me doesnt mean that I'm alone.
• I know that when I love someone, I love them with everything, and that that love never really leaves.
• I know that when I am married, I will be the best nymphomaniac wife ever, second only perhaps to Jaymin.
• I know that life is in the little things, and not the big events. Its in spaghetti fights, and movie nights, and phone calls, and running like squirrels and letters and road trips.
• I know that I dont know much, and thats a good place to start.

I also know that I like lists. Yay!

As an aside, no Hermiander and Pigwidgeon are not dead, I know you were just as worried as I was about me forgetting to feed them both for the last several days, but they are fine. Thin...but fine. So, yes. No need to worry. I was in a bit of a panic there for a second.