Sorry I annoyed you with my friendship!

One of my favorite quotes from The Office, right before Andy punches his fist into the wall in a furious rage... perfect.

Anyway, I love reading blogs, especially Christian ones - I find encouragement at the oddest/unexpected times and most awesomely, Godly perspective. It's always cool after reading a common passage in the Bible, listening to every sermon on the subject and then reading a random blog about it and being transformed by some new perspective. Speaking of... here's some of a blog I like from Stuff Christians Like about the prodigal son, from Luke 15.

I think that is something we Christians forget that we need to be found. We think it's already happened. We ascribe events to our faith and say things like, "I became a Christian in the fourth grade" or "I gave my life to Christ last year." I like the present tense better. I like how words like becoming and being and giving, capture that faith isn't so much an event as it is an experience. It isn't so much something you do once, but rather something you do. We need to be found. Not once in a single moment of salvation but daily. Hourly even, we need the God of the universe to come running. To find us. To know us and love us.

I don’t know where you are right now. Maybe you’re found, maybe you’re lost, but regardless, please know that there is a father watching your road. It is all he does. His beard is growing long, his stomach is going empty as he waits by the road for you. He won’t leave. He can’t leave as long as you’re still out there. You need only get up and go and wait for the sound of desperate feet in the distance.

I like envisioning God growing a beard, it getting longer and wispier as He waits for His children to turn the corner and embrace Him.

- Alicia