Fall's Frailty

It's Fall again;
The earth's season suits my life's.
Things are dying, falling apart.
There's a 'hunkering-down' occurring,
But not without hope of eventual re-emergence.
 There's a 'going inside myself';
A searching of my own depths-
An acceptance of what is there
And of what I want to be there.
 God is trying to grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change...
 Like the yellow Maple leaves
 Fluttering outside my window,
Who fall without their choosing.

 We fear our own beautiful frailty.

Propoganda of Satan (reap what you sow)

this makes me so angry and sad.

look at lesson 11 small group application:

http://www.childrendesiringgod.org/documents/samples/rggd_journal_sample.pdf

The KCB

How do you get through the day when the Kingdom of Corporate Business pays your salary?
...When this kingdom appears to be trampling the Kingdom of God?
'The Man' has set itself up in my chair, as king of 40+ hours of my week.
Oops, I don't mean 'my' week.
This is God's week.

See.
I'm starting to think things are MINE.

The weight is so heavy.
I keep forgetting the world is not black and white.

New Good Music of 2011

Paper Route -- especially their song "second chances"
Azure Ray
Bon Iver
Arcade Fire
Rosie Thomas
Motopony
Allen Stone
Beach House
Gregory Alan Isakov
The song "Laughing with" by Regina Spektor
The song "Lights" by Rihanna and Kanye West

Albums of the last year (last July - July '11):
--"Age of Ads", Sufjan Stevens
--"The Suburbs", Arcade Fire
--"King of Diamonds", Motopony
--The National
--"The Valley", Eisley
--"Recovery", Eminem
--"Neon Bible", Arcade Fire; particularly the song, "My Body is a Cage"

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's

"Frequently as Christians, we want to jump in with answers to questions without really thinking about the assumptions in people’s minds concerning the issue at hand. In Matthew 22, Jesus is asked whether it is right to pay taxes to Caesar or not. Jesus knows that the question is a trap.

Israel was under occupation by the Romans, who were regarded by the Jews as the evil oppressors. To pay taxes, and certainly to collect them, was seen to be strengthening the hand of the enemy. Was not Israel God’s chosen people? Was this not their land? Surely to help the Romans was to go against God himself? In the minds of the listeners, if Jesus is going to be on God’s side, he is expected to say no. If he says no, it will get back to the authorities, and he will be arrested - which is what the questioners want. If he says yes then he will loose the respect of the people. As far as the questioners are concerned, it is a win / win situation."
[http://www.bethinking.org/what-is-apologetics/intermediate/the-biblical-mandate-for-apologetics.htm]
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So was Jesus actually telling them to pay their taxes?
Is the interpretation really that obvious?

Given the context, it seems just as likely (if not more likely), that if this weren't a trap, and there were no consequences to how he answered, he would have said 'No' to paying taxes. He says, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And doesn't Jesus, more often than not, always say that EVERYTHING is God's? So would not all money be God's money as well?

--> Look into the possibility that "High Priest" was written on the back of the coin; the blasphemy of this.

...Shane Claiborne on this at http://www.redletterchristians.org/give-to-uncle-sam-what-is-uncle-sams-tax-season-war-resistance/