Late Nite with Brandon

It's about 1 in the morning over here in good ole England.

Some girls on the ground floor of my dormitory just got in verbal fight with the security guard. Yeah, that's a situation I really want to be around. Thankfully they weren't dumb enough to press the issue too far.

Josiah and Deidra and I leave tomorrow for Gloucestershire. Just for the day, but it should be sweet. The town has a good reputation for all forms of hanging out. I'll make sure to take some good pictures.

Isn't it funny how sometimes we can reduce our faith to how many things we're doing right or wrong, to worrying about how the people around us will perceive? It's like our fear of being labeled a hypocrite makes us overexamine our actions and we become so paranoid that anything we do is wrong that it makes us forget one of truly amazing facets of our Christian faith: God's love.

God's love is not based on whether we do everything right or not. It is there, unconditional and unchanging. It is what assures us of His forgiveness when we make a mistake and when we don't get it right. Romans 8:38-39 describes it: "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Actually that whole chapter is pretty good reading. So read it.

--Brandon

"Sleep with your head against the sky tonight."