Megan's prayer: Plus One's "My Life"

Just let him take
All your troubles away.

Giving myself up to God... allowing him to help me through the rough times... finally realizing that I'm not alone... I constantly struggle with these things. I can't seem to give up the control that I think that I have. Lord, help me give it all up to you.

My life?
Yeah...
It's your life!

Chris' Prayer: Plus One's "My Life"

It's your life
Don't want to get it wrong
It's time to get it right

To pass the down time at work, I sometimes like to browse a couple of different forums and read the few religion threads that are there. Religion and spirituality is something that interests me on an intellectual level, so these threads tend to draw me in. In fact, perhaps I spend too much time there. A lot of what I read in the debate between Christians and non-Christians is like the lyrics above. The Christians are often telling the non-Christians about how they should live their lives, or where they are going to end up when their life ends. Too much reading and I can get a false sense that this is how most Christians act.

But whether it is most, or some, or even just a few, I always feel like it is too many. We should never be so quick to point out others' flaws, and so slow to recognize our own. We should never be so quick to evangelize the judgment, and so slow to evangelize the Love that God has for each one of us, the love that is unconditional, limitless, unending. For it is the Love of God that has the power to change hearts.



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Jen's prayer: Plus One's "My Life"

First of all, I started to laugh when I saw I got to listen to a Plus One song. My friend Emma and I used to be obsessed with Plus One back in the day. Plus One was our Jonas Brothers if you catch my drift. It's kind of difficult for me to hear this song without feeling like I'm back in 8th grade, but that doesn't mean these lyrics are only for young ones. When I think about it, some people in their 20s I know that could benefit from sitting down and listening to what this song is all about. I kind of feel like the message Plus One was singing and dancing about in "My Life" is that it's okay to party every now and then and have a fun time, as long as we realize this isn't our life, it's God's.

My friend Megan and I often struggled with attending UD - a school which basically partied all the time. We just couldn't get into the drinking and craziness that went on there. I don't care if you have fun every now and then, but there's a limit. And as Plus One puts it...

If you've been set
On partying 'til
your head is
numb
Betta not forget
That the party
is when the
Kingdom comes!

As cheesy as that can sound, I just wish people understood that sometimes there is more to life than partying. We should focus more on getting ready for the big party in Heaven.

Catie's prayer: Plus One's "My Life"

Need to make a change

I need to make a change. I can't keep on going on the way that I am. My suitemate came into my room yesterday and saw a quote on my wall. She freaked out and wondered why she had never noticed it before. The quote read, "How did we end up so comfortable with God? How did our awe of God get reduced to a lukewarm appreciation of God? How did God become a pal instead of heart-stopping presence? How can we think of Jesus without remembering His groundshaking, thunder-crashing, stormy exit on the cross? Why aren't we continually catching our breath and saying, 'This is no ordinary God!'?" This quote is why I need to change. I have gotten way too comfortable with God. I've gotten way to lax on my prayer and lately have made steps backwards instead of forwards in my faith. I need to change. I need to be in awe of God, so much so that it makes me want to live differently, live better, live holier. But the problem is, I'm not quite sure where to start.

Katie's prayer: Plus One's "My Life"

First my apologies because this post might be a tad confusing, cause the thoughts I'm going to be blogging about confuse me even. (:

So last night at mass, I was kneeling down praying. Well, less like praying, and more like telling God all the things that are not quite right with my life right now, and how I think He should fix those. Telling God what I want to happen. Then the choir, who was practicing for mass, began to sing, "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want." God had me! Here I was telling Him what I wanted, even though I should not want, I should only care about God. But then I started thinking more, these things I want will still be there, and still require attention even if I don't actively want them. Just because I'm not thinking about that job I want doesn't remove the fact that I need to find a job! So that's a "want" that's ok then, right? Maybe?

I was reminded of this conversation when I heard these lines in today's song...

Come on and dance
All your troubles away
And look through the
Windows of heaven

The solution to all my worries, all my wants, all my troubles can be found by looking through the windows of heaven.