the weight of words

do we try to make ourselves bigger with our talk?
sometimes i feel like evry other word in a sentence is an adjective describing how big, bad, wonderful, horrible or fun something is. i love adjectives, but they should be the spice in a conversation, not the main point.
we try to make everything sound cool. we over exaggerate. or under exaggerate. anything for our benefit.
we promise, we swear and assure each other about stuff. and it's great. but what happened to just yes and no. i will or i won't.
what if you would use your words in a way so that when you use the words "Yes it was great" it carries the weight that great is supposed to carry and we wouldn't need ten other adjectives to prove the point. we wouldn't need to prove anything. we would just speak and mean what we say.
like i said, i love adjectives and by all means we should keep using them and keep inventing new ones. but we should mean what we say. and our words could carry more weight.
don't you have those people around you that just over exaggerates all the time? everything their doing is always awesome? but what does awesome mean to them? and what does awesome mean to you? you usually measure words on the same scale as those around you that you hang out with. and when you put another group of friends on the scale it says something completely different. maybe that's why there are so many missunderstandings in life? we speak the same language, but can the weight of the words be so different that the language is not the same anymore?

"It was said to the people long ago: "Do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made:" But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all..... All you need to say is simply yes or no, anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Matt 5:33-34, 37

the circles

Do you ever feel scattered? Wanting one thing but feeling differently? Feeling something that does not fit into your plan?
Our will/convictions, our emotions and our vision is one big mess in relation to each other sometimes.
I think of it as three different circles floating around.
One circle is everything that you are convicted about. Politics, faith or opinions.
Another circle represents all your emotions. This is (hopefully/normally) the one that changes and floats around the most.
The third one is your future. What you want in life and how you intend to get there. Your dreams and desires.
The three have different shades but the same colour, different moods but the same personality.
The circles always touch each other in at least one area. And this is where you are, the core you. The spot in the middle when they all aline and come together makes you into one person, you.
The closer these three circles are to each other the less scattered you'll feel. If they are so close together that they almost look like one circle you feel peace and harmony. You feel like you are in control. You know what you want, why you want it and your feeligns support and testify it.
But you can't ever lock the circles in one position when you feel like it's under control.
They are constantly flowing in the same speed that your life is passing by.
Your mood changes, your oppinions change and your plans change. And they are supposed too, because we are meant to be growing.
But the better you get at lining them up, the more at peace you will be.
The more room you get for the core you to relax and you don't feel pulled apart in different directions by the very base.
No wonder we have identidy crisis sometimes. Those are the times when the circles are pulling in different directions and there is only enough room for the core you in the middle to try and hold the three circles together.
Some people pick only one circle and tries to aline the other two to it. Most people nowdays pick their emotional circle. As soon as they feel a certain way their convistions and their future plans changes and tries to keep up. But why would you pick the circle that changes the most then?
I don't think we should choose one at all, however I believe we need to have one in majority over the other two. I believe the one in majority should be our convictions.
But like I said, we shouldn't pick unless we must. We should stay in the middle and try to listen to and bring them all together. Three combined into one is far better.

what is christianity?

söndag.
what is christianity?
i used to think it was easy to do but hard to explain.
but ive realized more and more that its the hardest thing to do but the easiest thing to explain.
i found a bible verse that just nailed it for me today.

The Message Bible says: (micah 6:8)
"It's quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor,
be compassionate and loyal in your love,
And don't take yourself too seriously—
take God seriously. "

other translations of the last sentence says "walk humbly with your God" or "faithful stand and hold fast to your God".

in my words:
1. follow your concience/the Holy Spirit/convictions in your everyday decisions/situations.
2. be generous/compassionate and not picky with your love.
3. never compromise God for anything but always put him first in love and life.
however I would put them in reverse order. start with number three, Jesus is what enables us to do this. and the other two will follow.

i believe that's it.
sometimes we make things complicated.
let the complicated things come when we are in control of the basics. cause it's not until then we are able to handle them.