"with me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. this second is life. and when it is gone it is dead. but you can’t start over with each new second. you have to judge by what is dead. it’s like quicksand … hopeless from the start. a story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. nothing is real except the present, and already, i feel the weight of centuries smothering me. some girl a hundred years ago once lived as i do. and she is dead. i am the present, but i know i, too, will pass. the high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. and i don’t want to die." (-the journals of sylvia plath)

Wow, thank you uh, sylvia whoever you may be, for putting into words something I never could.

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I don't like superheros. Mostly because I don't like seeing man with that much power. I don't like to see a man "do" things that only God has the power to do. I just don't like it. It's putting man next to God. Were pretending that were as great and powerful as He is. And when we have a man that is as powerful as God, then we don't need God anymore. Something in me just doesn't like it. And apparently I never have, because ever since I was real little, in my mind, satan looks like spiderman. :)

Heaven is not just the happy place that we go to when this long and wonderful life is over. Life here on earth is the battlefield, and the beginning to an eternity. Let's win all those that we possibly can for Christ during the time that we have, before it's too late. Maybe you still haven't gotten to travel to Europe? I want to go to Europe too but once you reach Heaven that's not going to matter. Your not going to be thinking about that. If you got a scale and put "getting to visit Europe" on one side and "won one person for Christ" on the other, which do you think is the heaviest?? Let's win people for Christ, let's build up the kingdom of God! Let's make satan mad!!! And let's honor the LORD!!

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