Freedom to Fail

The odd thing about grades is that they have never really been at the forefront of my mind.  I mean I've always tried to do well and acquire those good grades, but I've never had to sacrifice my own personal educational ambitions to get them.  I most often found myself learning what I've wanted to learn and working towards what I've wanted to work towards within the confines of class and what was being taught and always came away with high marks.  Last semester, however, was a different story...

from the bible to the counter culture

This is one of those thoughts that I thought a good while ago and then when I went to write it out I totally lost my train of thought.  So, it's sat as an idea for over 7 months.
Then I began to have a conversation with my brother about his disdain for the cult of personality around Mark Driscoll and the theology being taught in a local Acts29 church plant.  Maybe disdain is too strong a word, but he does have an aversion to it if only out of frustration.  I'll admit I agree with him on a lot of his frustrations, but that's not the point of this post.
The point is the "counter-cultureness" or "otherness" of Scripture.

here i am, i'd like to go there.

I find it odd that whenever I get the urge to post about how life is going in general all I can seem to discuss is how frustrated I am.
Why can't I just as easily recall that in my life which is going well?  Or that in my life that I am striving for outside of what frustrates me?

WELL NO MORE!!!  I actually intend to talk about something other than that which frustrates me!