Feeling Alive

So it's been a while since I've added anything here, not because I haven't thought about it, moreso because I've been living with my head down, nose to the grindstone. Much the way I believe most of our American culture lives. I've been reflecting lately on the ancient words of a wise man who said, "the unexamined life is not a life worth living."

Maybe more of the reason I haven't added anything here is because I have been letting life lead me. Now, that's not to say that I haven't been pursuing various things (too many things, some say), in fact many would say "he's taking the bull by the horns and making life what he wants." But honestly, of all the taking the bull by the horns I've done the last few months, I don't know that I can say I truly felt more alive than I did tonight.

I spent the evening with two friends, a relatively quiet evening, but a philosophically intense one nonetheless. I honestly don't think it gets better than when two or three friends can get together to discuss matters of life, with different perspectives to boot, while sitting on a rock formation overlooking a twinkling city below. In terms of my faith, it is nights like tonight that completely rejuvenate my desire and passion to serve the God I so often claim to know and love, but who also I second to my schedule, pursuits et al. That is to say, discussing matters of faith with a man who understands the basics tenets of Christianity but subscribes to no particular set of beliefs is quite the insightful challenge to a man (me) who operates from a Christian paradigm most of the time. But what was discussed tonight were matters of the heart. All religious terminology extracted, the matters were of those relating to the heart. Compassion, goodness, desire for faith in a higher being, the nature of man, the list goes on. Regardless revealing my heart in regards to such issues brought a feeling of living that I have not yet found to be substantiated by our current culture of Wednesday night cell group meetings. They seem a little too "churchy" for me. Which may not be bad, but I feel that if we are really here to engage the culture of boulder with the person of Jesus Christ, then why the heck do we always meet together in our living rooms?! Let's engage the Boulder community as a whole, lets get outside of our comfortable culture of a box that we have created and really get to know hearts of people in Boulder.

I must retire to a soft bed, as an early morning at the Boulder Shelter awaits.
Lastly, I don't quite know what the hyper-links buried in the text are, they just showed up...it turns out, they're advertising for various websites. This is your warning, and heed your warning, there's no need to click on them, I did it--yippee.