Once again, I have lost all faith in humanity from reading youtube comments. I know, I know. It's just that the videos I usually watch have people who comment nice, constructive things in polite ways. I forgot how most youtube video comments actually showcase the stupid in humanity.

Hey You!

Yeah you. Guess what?

Chances are, if you are reading this, I love you :)

So much goodness in the past week. God is so good and amazing and loving and everything that is good. Also, I have a lot more scripture memorized than I thought I did. But I want to memorize more. I am insatiable.

Spiritual Check-in, part 2

Mkay. So this is later in the week than I would have liked, but I'm doing it, and that's the important thing. I've fallen behind in my summer Bible reading plan, but that's okay. I'll just catch up in the nest few days. What I wanted to write about was a reminder I had during Church on Sunday. I do a lot of thinking during worship every week, sometimes about God and spiritual stuff, but as often as not my mind just wanders. I was thinking about how I had fallen behind in my reading plan, and I was feeling bad about it, when I just kind of remembered/realized that God is going to love me the same amount if I read the Bible for ten hours every day, or if I don't read it at all. His love for me is not dependent on some arbitrary spiritual marker I set myself. That isn't to say that there is no consequence to failing to achieve those spiritual markers, as they are often ways to get to know God better, and to have a deeper relationship with him, but they don't change his love for me.

It never rains but it pours.

So yeah, part five

I've just had a thought. In the interest of keeping youth group as united and fantastic as it's been the past several years, I propose a little pow-wow, a la Lindsay and Tori, the next time all the youth group meets. At this pow-wow, a few guidelines will be discussed for the continued pleasantness of the group.

Proposed Guideline #1: Speak the truth in love

Proposed Guideline #2: If you have a problem with someone else in youth group, talk to them first, in a polite and friendly way in an attempt to work it out. If this fails, talk to them with a few people in whom you trust and are outside of the drama. Do not spread drama to other people who cannot help in the reconciliation. (i.e. Gossip hurts)

Proposed Guideline #3: Youth group is a safe zone, and is a place for honesty to be put into practice. Please, just be yourself. We'll like you better that way, even if you don't like the things we like.

Proposed Guideline #4: Try to build others up, not tear them down.

So yeah, part four

And thus we come to the point where it is reaffirmed that I don't like drama and that I wish people would take the time to imagine others complexly. I'm okay now, I think. The whole thing no longer makes me any kind of angry. Just sad. Sad that people felt the need to point fingers and heavily imply that some people were being out of line. And double standards. Those annoy me, but right now they just make me sad, that the people holding them don't realize it. I just want everything to be over, and for everyone to just agree to forget and forgive about the whole thing. It never happened.

On a slightly different note, "holy dirty word!" is my new favorite exclamation.