dear complacent christians

complacent Christians are the type of people who upset me the most in this world. seeing complacent Christians throw me off. complacent Christians who don't vote or care about politics because "it's irrelevant" to their spiritual lives. complacent Christians who don't bother listening to the outcries from outside the US, nevertheless the ones even in the US. complacent Christians who are only concerned about having "fellowship," which basically seems equivalent to excessive eating, money spending, and time wasting. they make me question whether i want to have any affiliation with them. sometimes they make me question myself. and every time this happens, i feel like i have to start all over in understanding my faith. from square one.

"To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely--to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.  This is the kind of vision and courage required to enable the renewal of prophetic, democratic Christian identity in the age of the American empire."

--Cornel West, Democracy Matters

senior year

conclusion: the only thing that will keep me going for the rest of the semester is knowing that everyone else here is suffering as much as i am, if not more. so...i find strength in knowing that others are suffering...that's messed up...

but otherwise, i love this year. so much. if i had time, i would ramble on about how great life is. how much i love it here. how amazed i am to have such overambitious, talented friends. how my classes rock. how i think i've found my calling. how i want to tell my parents that i don't like the idea of being in north america next year. how my faith is being challenged. how beautiful my campus is. even suffering with my thesis is actually...awesome.

these are all topics i want to share with you. but i have to get back to work.

the colors are making me feel a little more hopeful :)