While You Were Sleeping

Sleepwalking. The official definition from Webster is:
1) to walk while or as if while asleep
2) to proceed in a passive often lethargic manner

Today we are sleepwalking, just as nations and cultures before us have. Our sleepwalking has produced a hostile environment for those who are living according to God's standards. Even within the Church true believers are mocked and put down for their beliefs. But as Solomon said centuries ago, "There is nothing new under the sun." Those who believed that the Savior of the world had come in the form of a baby and birthed in a barn were mocked also. Thousands of years ago the world which we live in today was described. Don't believe me? Read Romans 1. Sound familiar? If it doesn't then you are choosing to deny the obvious truth. We live in a depraved and evil world. And the more we remove God from the fabric of our lives the more we decline into depravity.

Casting Crowns does a masterful job at tying together two different periods of history with the same message and theme. We are sleeping while the Savior is here among us.

Shake off your lethargy and arise from your slumber!

While You Were Sleeping (Original Christmas Version)
While You Were Sleeping (The Original Un-Christmas Version :) )

P.S. Sheesh, I was so serious today! :) I'll lighten it up for tomorrow! Blessings!

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Butter someone up

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A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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