“Let me go ahead and get things straight . . .”

The following is from the Live Journal of Kevo, my good friend, former band-mate, and all around great guy. He's away at College now and he's learned a few things. If you're in College please read this – there is wisdom here and I couldn't have said it any better myself:

one thing i discovered about being away at college is how easy it is to get away with stuff. or to think youre getting away with stuff. towards the beginning i was starting to get really lazy w/ reading my bible just turning to some random chapter out in netherworld and reading it before going to bed without really caring to even make sense of it. but thankfully i was able to realize i was being an idiot so i made a calendar to where i'll read all of the bible in 6 months. at the rate im going itll probably be more like 8 months but the purpose is being served…to have a plan where i am intentional about reading my bible in a meaningful way and keeping up with it. i now know why it seems like so many people fall off the face of the planet as soon as they go to college when they were so passionate about God in high school…its so easy. you just want to "be your own person" and "live your own life" because youre away now and nothing is really holding you back. well let me go ahead and get things straight because thats a load of crap. the truth is God bought you at a price. of all the away at college lessons to be learned, that by far is the most important one. [Emphasis mine]

I just had to post this excerpt. I wish more students would "get" this early on in their post-high school lives.

And the rest of Kevin's post is great (and hilarious!). He's an awesome guy.

Too close for comfort . . .

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.

Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets."

Luke 6:24-26 (ESV)

[To be discomfited further, read iMonk's "Don't Skip the Hard Parts"]