#jspark

I'm not sure what's worse.

The type of Wokester who smugly uses Christianity - which they don't even understand or believe in - to score points off stereotypical Conservatives...

...or the folks who call themselves Christian, but twist Christianity to fit their Woke ways.

I mean, J here isn't as bad as the black lady who proudly prayed for the strength to hate white people, but he's pretty close. Especially since he claims to be a hospital chaplain.

Amazing how someone can deal with dying patients, but has to block someone for polite disagreement on Tumblr.

PS: I happened to find his Twitter. He thinks there was a practical "deescalation option" in the Makhia Bryant situation, which he "knows" because he "used to run a dojo for a while".

https://mobile.twitter.com/jsparkblog/status/1385989938433253377 //screenshot

I'd love to know what sort of technique could've stopped an arm mid-stab, from 15 feet away.

Enlighten us, sensei.

But the thing is: We all go through crap.  We can let it hold us down, or not. The trauma and trials that we go through are NOT the worst things that can happen to us.  The worst is when we let it give us permission to define us by a toxic lie – that somehow the world owes you, that you never have to trust again, that you can retaliate first, that you’re entitled to bitterness and contempt.  The worst is when you rehearse your own sad story to the point where even the future is to blame, and every new face must pass an impossible test designed to fail. It is a harsh whisper in your heart that says, “Never again.  I’ll show them.”

All this self-pity and victimization is understandable.  I’m on your side about that.  But this constant sour whisper will slowly destroy you.  It will destroy everything you touch.

I know why you feel this way: But you cannot define your life by the losses you have incurred.  You may have been embarrassed, shamed, stabbed in the back, betrayed, and cheated – no one’s saying this isn’t wrong – but it’s even more reason to find healing and peace, or else you will not pass on wisdom, but pain.

“You’re going to have a mountaintop experience where you see God and you finally know Him for who He is. But what I think church tends to do is make you feel like you’re supposed to be on fire all the time and you should always feel that. It’s not true. When you suddenly get into that valley, that really dark discouraging place, God is saying, ‘In the valley, remember the mountains. Remember when you were there with me. Remember that time you experienced Me and I was so real to you.’

If just that little bit of your mountaintop experience can come into your valley period, that’s what’s going to help you to hold on. That’s what will get you through your very shakeable faith. No one ever told me this in church: but when I read the Bible, I know it’s not supposed to be an everyday rocked-out Christian life. There are days that will be rough, but just those few times in your life: remember how God spoke to you. ”