Nobody puts Blankie in a corner. (or box)

I'm going to try to start writing a blog every day or at least a couple times a week. I get on these writing binges- usually it's in the form of a new journal or a new theme or I write poetry or songs or stories... you get the point.

I have about 10 different journals all for different things. I have an entire journal set apart for "definitions of words I don't know." And another is for "spanish words I learn". I like writing but it usually only lasts for short amounts of time. So get it while it's hot.

I went to that new church today. Didn't like it. Bummer. :/ The two churches I've been to in the last 3 weeks have been sad for me, honestly. One of them talked about Jesus' second coming like it was an unavoidable fate that we just have to suck up and deal with. It was like, "Jesus is coming back. So get ready." (It made me think of the song that goes 'One day, I'll see you coming back for me, and all together we'll flyyyy awaaaayyy...' Yeah? Anyone?) Trying to candy coat the second coming like Jesus is going to come and snatch up some people and then, well, the rest of them we'll just not think about. So just save err'ybody out there.

Today at this other church I was amazed when I walked in. The building was spectacular. The worship room was top-notch. They had a different color for each song. One of their main core values was to "attract people to Christ" and that was obvious. The pastor boasted of how the attendence had gone up 35% in the last year. It was nice, it was cozy, it was distracting me from actually worshipping.

Am I really being that picky? Or is the Body of Christ called to be more than making people feel comfortable? All I saw in those two churches were comfort. And if there's anything in the New Testament I learned about Christianity, it's that being the Body of Christ is NOT always comfortable. I'm not saying, "Well, in order for a church to be a good church, at least half of the congregation needs to be beheaded." But it's got to be more than lights and coffee and attendence numbers and comfortable topics. Comfort is what I believe will kill God's original design for the church.

Anyway, the reason I'm looking around for another church is for the sole purpose of finding an accountability group or somewhere I can plug in. I feel very disconnected and want some godly people to help me through life. Trying to take the proactive route as opposed to the "woe is me" route. Anyone know some good churches in the Springs?

The best part of today: I got my blankie back. :) :) :)

I had this pink blankie that I took with me everywhere. There is one day that is still vivid in my mind: when my mom took my blankie away. I cried and begged for my blankie but I was a "big girl" and I needed a "big girl toy". But today, I was looking through my momentos box, and found my blankie.

I HAVE IT. HA, MOM. HA.
Can't take a girl's love for her blankie away from her for long.

I may have posted this quote before, but I like it. So here it is again. It's from C.S. Lewis' Four Loves:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."


I'm going to call it a day.

NOBODY PUTS BLANKIE IN A CORNER.