Thursday, August 12, 2004
I survived lunch...
And it really wasn't so bad. I am thinking the Lord must have given me the grace to be able to put aside my pride (or at least want to) and be able to be with this woman. And I didn't feel so much animosity or ambivalence toward her. She DID do exactly what I predicted, just when I thought she wasn't going to do it. It was really clever too. She waited till I said something she could apply somehow to her spiritual "tidbit," then changed the subject and showed me the book she was reading. For a...
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Help...I'm someone's church project again!
(sigh.) I am dreading lunch today. It may seem a bit overreactionary. But here's why: An older woman from my church called me at my job this morning and wanted to have lunch with me. Now, this woman used to try to call me all the time. She would call me once a week. Even when I had stopped being involved with the church. It took her the longest to give up...and maybe she just got busy. I used to always feel uncomfortable with her...I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but I felt like she was...
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I'm tired of not knowing Latin.
So last night on a whim I started teaching myself again. I didn't realize how much I had actually retained from the last time I became obsessed with it. Whoohoo! (I am always becoming obsessed with something or other. But the rotation of obsessions is as unpredictable as earthquakes.) Anyway, it was very encouraging. I know, it is a dead language, so here are 7 reasons for learning Latin: 7 You have a smattering of other languages but don't actually know any, so knowledge of Latin could lead to...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Poetry Help!
Does anyone know a really good website for poetry forms? I have found many but most of them are very limited...I want to find a good site with a good list of forms and examples! Help is much appreciated. Thanks; I know there are many poets out there.
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Reminscing on blissful college memories...
What I wouldn't give today to not have to be at work, but instead sit around outside or somewhere in the sun or ANYwhere really, even indoors, and just socialize uselessly with friends with no goal in mind, no deadline or time constraints, just like in the last two years of college when we would hang out in the music or theatre lounge, or outside on the grass, procrastinating and ignoring finals, or basking in the end of the semester and year, and upcoming graduation. *longing sigh* Just one...
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Monday, August 9, 2004
Do you ever have days where you just feel like being mean and evil? Just out of boredom?! I am bored to DISTRACTION here! *pout*
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Finally, Full Circle
I think it's evidenced by my last post that I recently started thinking of myself as an "active" Christian again. *sigh* I don't know how to put into words all that has happened this past week. It's just too incredible and overwhelming. It's not that I feel on some kind of joy high or anything. I mean it's overwhelming that, in a matter of days and weeks, my entire lifeview has changed again. Literally it is like, for lack of a more original metaphor, the caterpillar turning into the butterfly....
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Friday, August 6, 2004
The greatest of these is love.
I guess it's silly to try to avoid writing about faith-related issues and opinions, in a journal which I've entitled "If I'm a Mouse, God Must Be the Cheese." So I give. I was just hoping to avoid negative attacks I guess. So I'm reading through The Purpose-Driven Life, which has been very good for me at the moment. The first part of the book dealt with the believer's relationship to God. I'm in the second part, which deals with the believers' relationships to each other. This is very impacting...
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comment on GomeDome's post on The Bible as The Word of God
I figured I've put as much into this as I would to one of my own, and GomeDome's the one who will be getting the extra pennies, not me! So I thought I might as well put it here as a post as well. It is certainly timely. *ponder* Once I was instructed on this matter through studying the difference between a couple of the words for "word" used in the Bible in Greek. The first is "logos," which literally means "word." The other is "rhema," which means, "word, saying, thing." The argument was that...
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Thursday, August 5, 2004
limerick for no good reason
When God loved Humanity frail, He knew just what this might entail. Unlike pleasant Hannah, although She'll have manna, She'd often much rather have quail. Copyright (c) 2004. All rights reserved.
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