The Line of Promise

I've been at it again. Reading. Music. Movies. Thinking.

Recent reading has been largely focused on Donald Miller's book Searching For God Knows What. It's not his best work (coming from the guy who's only read one other of Miller's books...), but it's very intriguing. He likes to ramble a bit on personal stories and then correlate them to his ideas of how Scripture really talks.

My most recent read, literally not even 30 minutes ago, has been about the social stratum - more specifically how we as humans are prone and doomed to comparison amongst one another. Taking real-life examples from his days in middle school, Miller begins to show just how ugly this comparing has become - he even likens it to lining up students from best to worst, with a punishment to be enacted against those in the "worst" portion, and how the kids in line would treat each other just to get ahead. It's just plain selfish.

But he finishes off that particular section with a sliver of hope. He talks about a girl he knew who once did the inevitable. Here's the line that really stood out to me: "A valuable person had crossed the line to kiss a person of no value." You see, this girl (a higher-up-on-the-stratum girl) had accepted a dare to kiss a geeky boy, notorious for a lunchtime romp of DnD.

I haven't quite gotten to his Scriptural comparison yet, but I started thinking (dangerous, I know) how that quote fits. Jesus did exactly that all the time. Obviously, it wasn't on a dare - it was sincere. And it wasn't necessarily a kiss. No, it was a proposal. You see, Christ is a groom, and we are His bride. He came down, crossed the line of humanity and gave us hope with a kiss - er, proposal. Quite a stunning revelation, in my opinion.

Of course, thinking of kisses, I move on to thinking about girls, but that's a whole 'nother story. You can ask me, though, if you'd like. It's always fun to hear people's opinions of me and my ways when it comes to the ladies. It's like I'm a rare find or something (sarcasm included).

Anyway, there's just a taste of my thought processes. In other news, I recently found this video on youtube, and am now an avid fan of Jared Leto's music.



I know he's an actor, but damn. That's one hell of a voice. One hell of a show, too. I'd pay good money to see a show if all that were included. It was like a musical number from a broadway show, only with better music ;P I even enjoyed that video enough to finally get their album (and consequently discover they have a new one on the way). I had always liked "The Kill", and had heard a couple other songs from this album, but never really wanted to get it.

But yeah. Oh, right. Movies.

Well, I guess the video kinda plays for both music AND movies, but just for customer satisfaction (ha) I'll actually give movies it's own paragraph. There are three movies I'd like to briefly mention. The first is the latest movie I've seen, House Bunny. It sucked. Okay, it was decently funny, but DEFINITELY not a keeper. Moving on, we have my recent re-discovery of one of my all-time favorite children's movies Little Nemo. This movie is OFF THE HOOK. Seriously. I watched this movie like a million times when I was little, and recently found it again. It's on my desktop right now. Okay, last movie: Slumdog Millionaire. I was skeptical at first. I was pissed mainly because it beat out Benjamin Button in the AA's. I loved Benjamin Button a LOT. But I figured "hey, best movie of the year. Might as well watch it and review it." It's now one of my favorite movies ever. It's right next to Benjamin Button, with the exception that I think BB should've won the best cinematography, but I digress. At heart, Slumdog Millionaire is a great love story. 'Nuff said.

Okay, I'm gonna go do other non-productive things now. Enjoy your life! And as always, talk to me! I'm not a hermit, even though I act like it.

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