Interesting Thoughts from Jesus Wants to Save Christians

A couple of awesome quotes from the introduction of Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell and Don Golden:

"A Christian should get very nervous when the flag and the Bible start holding hands. This is not a romance we want to encourage."

"For a growing number of people in our worlds, it appears that many Christians support some of the very things Jesus came to set people free from."

The introduction also referenced a cool Colin Powell quote from this interview:

"You can drive up the road from here and come to a spot where there is a megachurch over here, a little Episcopal church over there, a Catholic church around the corner that’s almost cathedral-size, and between them is a huge Hindu temple. There are no police needed to guard any of this. There are not many places in the world where you would see that. Yes, there are a few dangerous nuts in Brooklyn and New Jersey who want to blow up Kennedy Airport and Fort Dix. These are dangerous criminals, and we must deal with them. But come on, this is not a threat to our survival! The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex."

Tired

I'm tired, mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

Lately, life has been getting to me. I'm currently at a place where I'm set to graduate in December, but I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for my final semester of college. I've also got a class to retake this Summer.

Last semester was not kind to me. I was overstressed and overworked and I didn't pass most of my classes. So I did a lot of work for nothing, which does not help my attitude towards school, life, or...well, anything in general.

On top of this, my car is dying. Just in the last month, it lost power steering and it has had a lot of small problems. But now I'm losing my transmission and can no longer drive in reverse. This makes a stressful life even worse.

Right now, I'm scraping to make rent for a couple more months, let alone pay for a Summer class and another Semester of school, and certainly cannot afford a new car.

Maybe this is a spiritual attack. I don't know. If it isn't, I'm not sure what is. I'm starting to lose hope that I'll graduate, that I'll get through this. I don't feel like God's listening to me when I pray anymore. I'm wondering why He has put me in these circumstances, but He's not talking.

Pray for me.