yes..im looking up at Copeland in awe.

alright...so i wasnt gonna do anything for my 16th..but a bunch of yall think i should...so ill prolly do the least creative thing which is like go out to eat somewhere (with everrryyoone in the world who wants to)..im not very creative..dont wanna spend money...and yeah...so any ideas of where to go? or if u have another cheap, easy, not-involving-my-house ideas..lemme know. maybe ill actually get a comment or two  love yall!

"(After the crucifixion) Seeking forgiveness (the disciples), but not knowing where to look for it, they came back.  They gravitated to that same upper room that contained the sweet memories of broken bread and symbolic wine.  The simple fact that they returned says something about their leader.  It says something about Jesus that those who knew him best could not stand to be in his disfavor.  For the original twelve there were only two options- surrender or suicide.  Yet, it also says something about Jesus that those who knew him best knew that although they had done exactly what they had promised they wouldn't, they could still find forgiveness...'How I'd give my immortal soul to see him one more time!'..a familiar face walks through the wall. My, what an ending. Or, better said, what a beginning! Don't miss the promise unveiled in this story.  For those of us who, like the apostles, have turned and run when we should have stood and fought, this passage is pregnant with hope.  A repentant heart is all he demands.  Come out of the shadows!  Be done with your hiding! A repentant heart is enough to summon the Son of God himself to walk through our walls of guilt and shame.  He who forgave his followers stands ready to forgive the rest of us.  All we have to do is come back....No wonder they call him the Savior." - Max Lucado

"I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance." Luke 5:32

"There was something about the crucifixion that made every witness either step toward it or away from it.  It simultaneously compelled and repelled...And today, two thousand years later, the same is true.  It's the watershed.  It's the Continental Divide.  It's Normandy.  And you are either on one side or the other.  A choice is demanded.  We can do what we want with the cross.  We can examine its history.  We can study its theology.  We can reflect upon its prophecies.  Yet the one thing we can't do is walk away in neutral.  No fence sitting is permitted.  The cross, in its absurd splendor, doesn't allow that.  That is one luxury that God, in his awful mercy, doesn't permit.  On which side are you?"

-Max Lucado (No Wonder They Call Him the Savior)

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