Joei Clark
Social
Relationship Status
Single
Highschool
Coffee County Central High School
College
MTSU
Interests
really outdoors is what I like: rock climbing, caving, hiking, skiing, and other stuff like that
Favorite Music
really into a lot of stuff, mostly it needs to have really good lyrics (the stuff that makes you think), which obviously excludes pop music and country
Favorite Movies
Charlie/ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Garden State, Boondock Saints, all the Harry Potter movies, Big Fish, Pirates of the Carribean...
Favorite Books
The Bible, anything by C.S. Lewis, Blood of Heaven, Threshold, Fire of Heaven (all Bill Myers stuff)
Revelation
February 19 2006
I think I'm starting to understand what Christ's love is truly like. I've always heard people say, "Jesus loves you" but never truly understood the depth of which He did.
Going through this break-up has helped me come to understand what Christ meant when He gave us His love. I love David. I truly believe that now. My love for him reminds me of Christ's love for all His children. When David and I broke up, I felt so much pain that I could not function for days. It physically hurt me not to be able to KNOW him or even just to HEAR HIS VOICE.
That's just an inkling of what Christ is going through for us. He loves each and every one of us ten times more than I could ever love David or anyone else. Jesus went thorugh torture (literally) and DEATH for us because He loves us so much.
I can barely comprehend the pain He goes through every day. Wanting to KNOW ever single human being intimately and to HEAR every voice crying out to Him. The closest I can come to understanding His pain is to take the pain I have felt these past few weeks from losing David and multiplying that by millions, or maybe even billions.
I wouldn't be able to physically handle that. I would probably lose my will to live by just multiplying the pain by ten.
The thing is... I couldn't wish that type of pain for anyone. Much less the Man who allows me eternal life and treasures beyond compare. But He DOES go through that incredibly gut-wrenching pain every day because of the world we live in. A world of self-love and personal gain. A world where people incessantly try to one-up each other just because they have the means. A world that focuses on thenegative of people with distrust permeating through every part of their bodies.
Can't people see that kind of world they live in? Do they really think that a little more money,or physical pleasure , or popularity will halp ease the aching hole that is swallowing them up? Or the gut-wrenching pain that has taken over? It won't.
Valetine's Day is about love. Whey do so many people look forward to this one day in a year that focuses on love? Because it THE MOST POWERFUL EMOTION! It's what started wars; influenced poetry, songs, and other literature; and what caused One Man to give up His Life. Because of His unconditional love...
for me.
Going through this break-up has helped me come to understand what Christ meant when He gave us His love. I love David. I truly believe that now. My love for him reminds me of Christ's love for all His children. When David and I broke up, I felt so much pain that I could not function for days. It physically hurt me not to be able to KNOW him or even just to HEAR HIS VOICE.
That's just an inkling of what Christ is going through for us. He loves each and every one of us ten times more than I could ever love David or anyone else. Jesus went thorugh torture (literally) and DEATH for us because He loves us so much.
I can barely comprehend the pain He goes through every day. Wanting to KNOW ever single human being intimately and to HEAR every voice crying out to Him. The closest I can come to understanding His pain is to take the pain I have felt these past few weeks from losing David and multiplying that by millions, or maybe even billions.
I wouldn't be able to physically handle that. I would probably lose my will to live by just multiplying the pain by ten.
The thing is... I couldn't wish that type of pain for anyone. Much less the Man who allows me eternal life and treasures beyond compare. But He DOES go through that incredibly gut-wrenching pain every day because of the world we live in. A world of self-love and personal gain. A world where people incessantly try to one-up each other just because they have the means. A world that focuses on thenegative of people with distrust permeating through every part of their bodies.
Can't people see that kind of world they live in? Do they really think that a little more money,or physical pleasure , or popularity will halp ease the aching hole that is swallowing them up? Or the gut-wrenching pain that has taken over? It won't.
Valetine's Day is about love. Whey do so many people look forward to this one day in a year that focuses on love? Because it THE MOST POWERFUL EMOTION! It's what started wars; influenced poetry, songs, and other literature; and what caused One Man to give up His Life. Because of His unconditional love...
for me.
