Not wanting to work for 'then' and the evils of 'now'

Sometimes when you start a project, have an idea for a ministry or a goal in mind we expect to see the results now. But the things that are worth working at in life don't appear overnight. They require us to work at. They require us not to give up. They demand persistance. Most of the time when we see someone who has achieved something that we admire all we see is the final result. A favourite band releasing an amazing album. A runner beating her marathon record. And for us that is all that exists. Someone achieving something that we wish we could have done or at least similar to what we wish we could do. That is our truth. But that is probably not the artist's truth. Their truth is probably a lot of sleepless nights, pages and pages of words written but then thrown out, arguments with...

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XXXchurch! Whaaa?

If you have had a conversation with me in the past five or six years you would probably have heard me go on and on about xxxchurch. You'll most likely have either looked at me blankly or been pretty interested and maybe even tentatively googled 'xxxchurch' afraid of just what you might find. But I started to realise that a lot of you probably see my status's on facebook or my tweets and really don't know what the heck I am talking about. So you might ask yourself questions like What is 'xxxchurch'? Is it an actual church? Why do I write about porn so much? What am I having for lunch? I automatically assume that everyone else knows...

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