quote worth sharing

  Rich Mullins was a pretty radical guy.  Everyone should go to wikiquote and read the whole page of stuff by him.  I just did, and it was pretty cool :)   Here's one though.

I’m all the time being asked by people, ‘How do ya feel closer to God.’ And I kinda always want to say ‘I don’t know.’ When I read the lives of most of the great saints they didn’t necessarily feel very close to God. When I read the Psalms I get the feeling like David and the other Psalmists felt quite far away from God for most of the time. Closeness to God is not about feelings, closeness to God is about obedience… I don’t know how you feel close to God. And no one I know that seems to be close to God knows anything about those feelings either. I know if we obey occasionally the feeling follows, not always, but occasionally. I know that if we disobey we don’t have a shot at it.
                     - Rich Mullins.  (July 19, 1997)

  I just think there's a lot of truth in this.  It's real, and it speaks to me.  Life isn't feelings.  Following God absolutely cannot be based on your feelings.  I wish though haha