Trying to follow

I don’t usually use my site as support raising (though I might do it more then most, who knows), but today I wanted to make a special request.

My good friends, Beth and Curt, are doing some awesome work in Haiti helping raise support to build wells for clean drinking water. It’s great stuff.

And today, in the next five hours, they are trying to get as many individual donors as they can through the Facebook Causes and thus win an extra $1000 for their cause.

So, be a pal and go to the Haiti Water Project and donate $10.

Connie sent me this great quote by G.K. Chesterton about Francis of Assisi. It says:

“it is utterly useless to study a great thing like the Franciscan movement while remaining in the modern mood that murmurs against gloomy asceticism. The whole point about St. Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy…there was nothing negative about it; it was not a regimen or a stoical simplicity of life. It was not self-denial merely in the sense of self-control. It was as positive as a passion; it had all the air of being as positive as a pleasure. He devoured fasting as a man devours food. He plunged after poverty as men have dug madly for gold. And it is precisely the positive and passionate quality of this part of his personality that is a challenge to the modern mind in the whole problem of the pursuit of pleasure.”

I’ve been trying to figure out this whole thing. Trying to explain to myself and to others why I would be choosing the type of lifestyle for myself and my family that I’m trying to choose.

I’m definitely far from the ascetic that Assisi was, but I do desire to have the same passionate pursuit for the things of God that he had.

Discovered this great satirical video about Supply Side Jesus.
5.5 minutes

Hat Tip: Gavin –> John –> Richard

Bonus!
What happens when you try to take just the “20% Free” out of a box of cereal?

ht. Keane