Fun House of Mazes and Mirrors

I'm a youth minister, living on the Earth--more specifically, Staten Island, NY. I love ideas. I love to think about things that I've never thought about before. I like to think of the world as a giant kaleidescope that can be turned a couple of times, and all of a sudden, there is something new and beautiful.

I also love Jesus. I love helping people, and I love living a life of love.

I think the most beautiful thing about life is our imagination--our ability to dream. We all have dreams, and it's such a shame to give up on them. If anything, I think that's what God loves to do most of all--allow us to dream BIG, and then show us that it's not too BIG.

I want to leave the world a better place than I found it. Is that too much to ask for? I want to belong. Isn't that what we all want? I want to throw around ideas about anything and everything, because at the end of the day we are not THAT different--and yet, we are completely unique.
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Changing

I’ve heard it said that you should change for no one…. that if you have to change because of another person, that you aren’t staying true to yourself. 

But I don’t believe love is an ethereal thing—that it is some foreign thing from whence we draw emotion, something intangible that simply “occurs” when we find someone who simply fits into our molds, and we fit into theirs. 

No, for God’s sake, change. Change into something beautiful for the people around you. Change into the embodiment of love and selflessness, and charity. Change into something loveable. Change into what is lovely, and pure, and whole. 

If you refuse to change for a person, how could you ever be vulnerable enough to love them? Doesn’t that simply mean that you are stubborn  and proud enough to believe they must change to fit you?

Life is all about change. The question is—are you changing to the shape of the wrong person? Are you changing into the depths of darkness in your own soul? Or are you being changed into the beautiful and glorious image of our Lord Jesus?

For God’s sake—change. But do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but instead, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Peace and love, friends. 

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