Confusion and Fear

I go forward now on crutches

I cannot go where I will

Yet I dare not cast these crutches away

Lest I find I can’t walk and I fall

So I’m dragging slowly forward

On a road I don’t wish to follow

Yet on this road

I’m still upright

I’m surviving

But being here

Has taken its toll

Every step forward is revolting

Is it right to cast these crutches away?

Or is this the road I should be on?

For although I'm surviving

I'm not so sure I'm living

Oh wow... maybe that wasn't so complicated as it sounded

It says several times in the new testament that a big way we show our love for Jesus is by following His commands. Now, for whatever reason, I had in my mind a laundry list of minute commands. But, then I realized that there are only two commands: to love the Lord with all your heart and to love one another. All those other things are just ways to guard and grow that love. Now, following those two commands is a difficult undertaking to be sure, but we have a great Helper

Tom Bombadil

... is SO COOL!!!

Okay, I'm reading Lord of the Rings for the second time and I recently finished the Tom Bombadil part.

He is so awesome. He is the most unintimidating figures out there, and he wears yellow boots. He is incredibly wise and powerful and joyful. He goes around singing and looking for ways to save please his lady (Goldberry). And saving overcoming any evil in his part of the world (as well as understanding it). While he is very jolly and soft-spoken he is no doubt the master of the forest, and it's a rather scary forest. The way he overcomes enemies is with song. There's even a part of the book where he says that his song is stronger.

He's also one of the Eldest, yet he's the way he is

Yeah, Tom Bombadil = epic win