LifeOfIcarus

Notes: 1 / 4 weeks ago

Wow.

Yeah, I know, second blog today. You’ll live.

I’ve been talking to a really good friend tonight on Facebook, and tonight in our conversations she directed me to a verse in Galations, to be precise, Galations 6:2:

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

I was stunned. I sat there in my seat, and tried to digest it a bit - as I realized that, unconciously, I’ve been living by this verse for the last three years of my walk with Christ.

It’s something to think about, right? Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Scary stuff, really. It means that we don’t get to ignore other peoples problems, that we don’t get to brush them away - that we do actually have to care, because it’s what Christ told us to do.

The question is, I suppose, do you actually care?

There’s a fairly famous saying, and it goes somewhat like this:

Never ask how someone is if you are not prepared to hear a bad answer.

I mean, fair enough, right?

You ask someone how they are, and you expect the default stock answer - ‘Yeah, I’m pretty good, what about you?’

But what happens if one day you ask that same question, and the person says something that’s more like this - ‘Not so great today… Having it really tough.’

What do you do then? Do you brush that off, and completely miss it and act as if they have parroted back the stock answer, or do you actually take the time to take stock, listen to them, give them some advice, pray for them if they want?

Because sometimes that can be the biggest thing that anyone can ever do for anyone else. Ever.

As Christians, followers of Jesus Christ, this is what we are called to do. So try it out one day - and remember, if someone doesn’t give you the stock answer… Listen to them. It’s all it takes.

I’ll leave you now with a quote from author Jodi Picoult. This quote has featured in another of my blogs , but I feel that it is perfect for this right now.

Heroes don’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don’t wear boots and capes.

They bleed, and they bruise, and their super powers are as simple as listening, and loving.

Heroes are ordinary people who know that even if their own lives were hopelessly knotted, they can untangle someone else’s.

And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue them right back.

We can all be heroes. All it takes is one little thing.

To sit, and to listen.

Whether you are in the same room on the other side of town or the other side of the world, all you need to do is to listen.

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Notes: 2 / 2 months ago

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Something I’ve been working on this morning…. I can’t decide if I like it or not, or what it needs. Ideas?

3 months ago

"It may well have you skipping about like a lamb on ketamine, trilling with joy."

- Someone who is awesome.

3 months ago

Televised?

I had one very random thought during communion today - if Christ was walking the earth today, what would it be like?

Would He have television camera’s recording His every move, be the top thing on YouTube and a trending topic on Twitter?

Would He be something that everyone on earth was talking about, that clogged up the internet with the sheer amount of people trying to work out who He is, what He was doing and how He did it?

Would you be sitting in your chair over dinner, watching TV and see someone stand up and walk, as your fork clatters to the floor? Would you watch on as a crane lowers someone through the roof of a church so someone can be healed by Him?

What would Satan try and tempt Him with after His baptism?

What about His crucifixion?

If any country tried to execute Him today, what would happen? Would it still be the crowds chanting ‘Crucify Him!’, or would there be an amazing protest? Would the world come to a standstill as millions of people stood and watched, as Times Square was packed out and the live feed of Him carrying the wooden cross on His bleeding, battered back, was forced to walk uphill as the military pushed Him forward?

Would everything erupt into an uprising as people protest the actions, would civil war break out? Would people finally realize who God is, who the person they are crucifying was?

Would He even be crucified anymore, or would we strap Him to a cross shaped table, set up chairs behind glass windows and execute him by lethal injection while the world watches the live stream on YouTube?

Would people let Him be executed?

I think they would - really, to fulfill God’s word, Christ had to be executed. He had to die for us, maybe not necessarily on the cross, but He had to be that sacrifice, that perfect sacrifice to save us.

So, in light of this.

Colossians 1:27
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

If Christ is in you, then why are you not out there doing it?

Icarus

3 months ago

Enough.

I’ve had it. Seriously. Enough is enough.

I’ve officially given up trying to care for a bloated, dying site. I’ve had enough of trying to stick up for it, for explaining to people who only want to have a go at anyone who works on the site. I really just don’t care anymore.

If, by some chance, senior members do read this, then please take it into consideration - it’s not too late, if you start now. But if you continue to sit on your butt and act like it’s all ok, then it will die. Period.

So this is me. You can fight your own battles now. Have fun doing it guys.

Icarus Forde.

3 months ago

New Home! :)

Yes, i have a new home.

This blog now lives at http://life.IcarusForde.com

Keep an eye out on IcarusForde.com for stuff coming soon… once i get some time on my hands. :)

4 months ago

Fireworks

Yes! It’s firework season here.

I got into the house tonight, and turned around, as the faint scent of explosions in the night sky caught my nostrils. I love fireworks.

It brought something to mind though - these fireworks are so amazing, so majestic, so powerful and beautiful - but they pale in comparison to what God is.

The biggest, brightest, best firework that we can make doesn’t even come close.

Wow.

God is awesome.

Icarus