I have been dwelling lately on the idea of sacrifice: how sacrifice seems fairly distant from what I know.

I'm reading the book, Walking the Bible and the author is literally walking through certain stories in the Bible to understand how the geography of land was important to the promises of God. And for some reason I cannot seem to separate my mind from the idea that Jesus once walked in this world, in this realm and it was in this world and this realm that He became sacrificed.

I have this massive heart that seems to swell up and love a little too much. And because my heart loves so much, it's always hard to let something go. So with this idea of love, I have been placing my mentality into Jewish tradition of slaughtering the lamb. And I try to imagine the love for an animal - raising it, knowing it's warmth and preciousness - and seeing it slaughtered to carry out the sacrifice. Maybe it's a little intense, and a little odd to be writing about on a blog, but I feel like Americans/people- place themselves far from the whole idea of sacrifice. Of course it's hard to understand Jesus dying for our sins, because when have we lost something to sacrifice? or atonement? It just seems to me that the phrase, "Jesus died for our sins" is thrown around just as much as the phony 'I'm good' phrase returned when you are passing by someone on the street.

I think too what is even more befuddling is that we are supposed to be able to explain this to people. Especially in such a liberal society.

hmmm

If there are any thoughts/comments I would be grateful to hear them.

You know... married life is pretty awesome. I recommend everyone try it... longterm.

I can't sleep, but of course I wouldn't be able to after taking a three hour nap today.

Anyway, I was thinking about how neat people are, and how much I think people are cool. Here's what reinforced my thoughts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm4AKCGrySk&feature=fvw

paste it into my youtube bar down below.