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Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:59:27 -0000

Wow, thanks for the kind words, Jesse. Your blog makes me want to explore WoW, but I know I would be lost forever if I did. (I just don't have the self-discipline for it...)

I look forward to Chicago too!

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Jesse Petersen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:46:44 -0000

Absolutely phenomenal post. Creative and a great way to tie in the story of ages into today's medium. As with any body of believers, even in the same church, you will have people with different views, but your post is an excellent way to get the juices flowing and the duscussion rolling.

I can't wait to meet you in Chicago.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

craver-vii — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:22:59 -0000

Eve, the original picture is normal. The green will eventually wear off. It's kryptonite. That's one of the side-effects. I don't know how he got a hold of it, but Mark thinks it's real funny to play with kryptonite. He just doesn't know when to stop, you know what I'm saying? Shhh; don't tell him I said that.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Eve Nielsen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:23:50 -0000

Craver,
Are you feeling ok? You look a little green, man.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Eve Nielsen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:23:02 -0000

Marcus and Craver,
I really am blessed to have "real" friends like the both of you and LL and another blogger Deb. I don't have many firends (oops-I means friends-lol) close by (they've all moved away-is it me???).

I also find that the mentality around here (Moncton) is that no one has the time to be a friend-which really sucks if that friend happens to be you.

I really appreciate seeing Christ eminate from all of you and the humor and just how accepted I feel for being me. Thanks (ok, here's a kleenex-sop up!)

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:50:55 -0000

Hey, Craver and Lisa. I responded more to you all on a new post.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Lisa Gates — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:53:15 -0000

Hi Craver,
Thank you for your generosity, and Mark for allowing the conversation.

Stepping on your belief in God would be like stepping on myself. I think at the core of this conversation lies a love of humanity, a love of expression, and a humility that is terribly beautiful. This is why I think you are a "piece" of God.

With great respect,
Lisa

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Craver-VII — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:29:21 -0000

(Mark, feel free to delete any of my comments if they go against what you wish to do with your blog.)

Linda, thatâ€™s a different perspective, for sure. I gather from your tone that you do not intend to offend, you thoughtfully prefaced your comment as â€œpersonal opinion,â€ but may I address something?

People from my religious background, as well as a few other of the worldâ€™s major belief systems, would consider it a very bad thing to say that any person is â€œindeed God.â€ Therefore, I would quickly have to deny any connection with deity, except that I strive to live as He taught, and having been born again by the grace of God, I am now a new creation, and my body has become a temple with God residing within me. Still, I am not God any more than the Craver familyâ€™s house is a person.

We (Bible Christians) teach that everyone who hears the message of Jesus Christ, turns from their sin, and fully trusts in Godâ€™s provision for reconciliation is also a temple (but not a god). I hope that makes sense to you.

One more thing, I am not a professional writer, but I look forward to learning from you as I read your comments, and as time permits, visit your blog.
:-)

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Lisa Gates — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:00:39 -0000

Hi Mark,

I too am not what I would call a Bible Christian, but God is listening and, looking at the number of posts here, responding. God in and with and through all of us is having a conversation, right here, right now.

My personal spin is that I AM, the eternal I AM (also known as AUM or OM) holds that you, Marcus and Karin and Craver et al, are indeed God.

And when you pose a question to God, the answer is in you, from the IAM.

So thank you for talking to yourself, and sharing your conversation with all of us. It's quite remarkable.

Lisa

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:53:53 -0000

Eve and Craver, I agree completely. Although it makes me feel white and nerdy to admit it, the friends with whom I have the best conversations are now online.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Craver-VII — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:40:40 -0000

Thanks for saying that, Eve. Blogging can be criticized as impersonal, but to me, these friendships are very real.

I'm not saying that I believe everyone who blogs is completely transparent, and that we know all about one another, but I like to think that we can discern through some of the facades, and basically see who is true and to what extent someone is just painting a pretty picture.

I wonder whether the perception of "real" relationships in the blogosphere affects how careful one might be to express truth with GRACE. I have had to rewrite many things that were said in a straightforward manner, because it did not pass the test of "love your neighbor as yourself," and "love one another as I have loved you."

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Eve Nielsen — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:41:46 -0000

"Iâ€™m not God (far from it!) but Iâ€™ll try to keep in touch too."

Thanks, Mark. You, Craver and LL are great friends to have!

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

m chesnut — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:38:05 -0000

My new digs are here, but most of the entires are friends-protected, so you needs to get on that if you wants to reads it.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:48:07 -0000

Oh goody! I look forward to editing some poetry.

Your comment here, while so poetic, is part of my continual frustration with prayer. Imagine the only comments I left on your blog were the sound of wind, the touch of some other blogger, the memory of a post I wrote here.

You might wonder if I was commenting at all...

Imagine that my avatar and name never directly appeared anywhere on your blog. You never had direct assurance that I was paying attention to you, but everyone told you that I was.

I guess that's where the faith part comes in. I think I must not be very good at that.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

L.L. Barkat — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:56:08 -0000

Ah, the blog in the brain... I think He must comment there...through the sound of the wind, the touch of our beloved, the memory of his word.

Thanks for your thoughts over on Seedlings. You have permission. :)

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:54:35 -0000

Matt, are you going to give us a link? Or did you log the run down in your Mead Notebook?

L.L., I hope I'm not incompatible! Because that's the technology I'm using--bio data storage and input processing. (Better known as my brain.)

Maybe I should be using my spirit? Or my soul? The only way I know to think about those things though is with my brain.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

L.L. Barkat — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:02:27 -0000

Maybe your technology is just incompatible?

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

m chesnut — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:45:08 -0000

No limericks, but I have done a complete rundown of this year's American Idol.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Karin H. — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:12:36 -0000

You're welcome Marcus.

Already send the link to a very good friend of mine to make him ponder also.

Like I said in my earlier comment: your 'comment' touched a nerve and made me quiet for a while, wondering about my own 'point in time-life'. Felt like I was a bit in 'emotional turmoil' for various - not serious - reasons (mid-life crisis?) and your post (which I read on Sunday afternoon, just after I wrote my "gotta get goals" meme post, also a bit emotional filled) gave me - as Eve would say - : a kick in the pants.

Am clear in the head again, grateful for your post and your 'daring' to post it.

Bless you my friend

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:09:44 -0000

That's a good question, Matt. I'm not sure if I expect an answer or not. I'm not really very good at praying--which seems like a bad thing since it is sort of central to my faith. Part of my penance is that I try to be pretty open about my complete failure as a "praying person."

In fact, this blog is really the best kind of praying I do--and most of that has ulterior motives. But then I suspect a lot of people's prayers are corrupted by ulterior motives.

It's always good to hear from you, Matt! Have you written any limerics lately?

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

m chesnut — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:52:07 -0000

Does this doubter expect an answer? If so, is he disappointed when there isn't one?

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:42:42 -0000

Perhaps. And perhaps we should share our prayer journals more often? Or perhaps doing so would be a bizzare kind of spiritual exhibitionism?

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Craver-VII — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:55:15 -0000

Interesting thoughts. I feel like I just peeked inside somebody's private prayer journal.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:42:35 -0000

Eve, I love your post-script comment to God: "Please keep in touch." My feelings exactly.

I'm not God (far from it!) but I'll try to keep in touch too.

Re: A Christian Comments on Godâ€™s Blog

Marcus — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:40:39 -0000

Shep, you know my philosophy of writing--unflinching honesty. Since I'm a doubtful person, it means I present my doubt without apology.

(Though I don't want to give people the impression that the voice here is me. It's just a piece of me.)