Peace

GREAT point! Hope doesn’t ignore the reality of life. It doesn’t insist on a stupid grin or the pretense that everything is peachy. But hope is what keeps us truckin’ when life’s got us down. Life sometimes sucks, but God’s bigger than the suck and will see us through one way or another.

Internet Monk is NOT one of them.

If you want to wallow in Wretched Urgency, there are also a lot of churches who’ll be glad to provide you the hair shirt and spiked whip.

Internet Monk is NOT one of them.

A writer contact of mine in Louisville originally OD’d on Stimpy Happy Clappy Helmet Christianity. What turned him around was a comment by a travelling evangelist: “Have you ever considered that depression might be your spiritual gift?” Often it’s the strong and dark emotions that put power behind writing and art; Happy Clappy Joy Joy is as out-of-balance as Nihilistic Depression, resulting in subcreations of cotton-candy fluff instead of the other out-of-balance’s depressing despair.

And I have seen both directions of out-of-balance in Christian art & fiction.

As for God’s Word itself, I think that we should have more praise and worship songs based on Ecclesiastes. Or maybe we should just sing more Psalms in church.

Awesome picture of you, it was so real without the gliter. It was cool without you having to have a soul patch. My question…. How did you make it?

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I surely did not mean to offend you. And I did not mean to say that you WERE a man without hope, only that that was how you seemed *to me*. It was a subjective impression, not a judgment. It made me wonder, I guess, what you see in that picture to make you pick that one instead of any other – as in, whether you picked it to make a point about not having to smile, or if there was something else going on there. But I apologize if I made you feel criticized; I did not mean to. Peace!