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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at 4:23 pm
I started reading "The Case for Faith" yesterday. What a book. It is a journalist's investigation on whether having faith is possible in light of intellectualism. It starts out with two quotes that show that he is investigating both sides:
Christian theism must be rejected by any person with even a shred of respect for reason. - George H. Smith, atheist
Christian faith is not an irrational leap. Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence - Charles Colson, Christian
This will prove to be an interesting book. I read the "Case for Christ" by the same author a few years ago, and it undeniably proved to me that if Jesus lived, he could only be the son of God and if He wasn't the Messiah, you cannot look to Him as a great man in history.
New Years Part 2
Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 4:18 am
Some people are very hard to get to know well. Other people decide to publish very personal things for the whole world to see. I don't understand how people can just let the whole world know what's wrong with them - seems like a thing too involved in vulnerability - yet undeniably I am in that category...me and Blogdor. To make a long story short and to protect the names of the innocent, I'll keep my post vague, but concise. I have been through a lot in the last few weeks dealing with who I am and who God is and whether He has any relevance to my world. Also, I was dealing with other ways to view life in general. In the end, God broke through and showed me just the awesomeness of life and how life just isn't the same without Him. The other part of dealing with myself came to reconciling two people that belong to me. One of the people I am very familiar with while I like the other one quite a bit more. The first, is who I am, and the other man is the person whom I'd like to be. That isn't just an issue of perfection, it's also an issue of sitting on the couch when I could be accomplishing one of the too-many things I want to do. A lot of it came, interestingly enough, out of spending time with someone who was too busy while only focusing on a few things. I follow that up in my own life by trying to commit to more things. I ate at The Olive Garden for the first time yesterday. How long had I been wanting to do that? Why hadn't I? I sit around longing for things that are well within reach. Afraid of failure? I doubt it. It may just be 100% pure laziness - but am I really that lazy??? All I know is that life right now is better and more believeable than the razor commercial that says their razor is "like having an angel by your side." I have God Himself by my side and I wonder why I still hold back. Stay tuned to hear whenever I post again.
Time is relative to your sleep schedule
Friday, February 13, 2004 at 4:52 am
Yesterday morning seems so long ago - but I looked and that's when I posted last. This is my second day drinking more water and having no caffeinated drinks that I can remember. I even went to the sports annex and got my self more cardiovascularizitated. All that and I slept a full 8 hours last night. It is only 10:45 at night and I haven't wasted a moment of this day. I still have free time and I felt like I had plenty of relaxed-pace time throughout the day - but my day has been shortened by at least 3 hours because I am going to get regular sleep now. It's just amazing how stupid I am. Trying to figure out little problems like sorting out the hours of my day when the big problem was that my body was just not able to handle anything well. It's about time to go to sleep. What a good day.
Water We Waiting For?
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 5:29 pm
"For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." - those are the words of Jesus. Those words gained a whole new meaning today. That meaning came because I had an urge to post in here. Lately, I've only ended up saying something about once a month about one gleaming bit of life. Today is one of those days. I want to speak because my heart overflowed. See, I always thought that verse was simply about if a person's heart is bad, bad things will flow out and likewise if a person's heart is good, good things will flow out. I never gave any thought to what would happen if I didn't feel anything. That's sort of what life has been like lately. That isn't to say I was without emotion - it's just saying that deeper than that, I lacked a certain zeal for life that came when I first became a Christian about 6 years ago and started fading after high school. More recently, I've turned to neglecting my physical body in some basic ways. SLEEP. Yeah, SLEEP. I need that. I got 4 1/2 hours worth last night. Water. Yeah, water.... Several times this semester I've told myself - what I really need is water, but then I somehow don't make time for filling a cup with water - as if I thought I didn't have the time. Last night, an innocent bystander gave me a glass of water - two, in fact. I thought...."mmm...Greenville water...just the boring bad-tasting stuff that doesn't come close to distilled water that I don't have time or money to go buy." Then I drank it. My body cared so little how it tasted - I needed the stuff. I slept 4 1/2 hours last night. Learning my lesson, though, I cleaned and filled up an empty coke bottle with water and took it with me to my 8:30 class. I had 4 1/2 hours of sleep. By the end of class and even through chapel, I felt absolutely great - better than most 8-hour-sleep nights. I learned my lesson: 1) You forget you not only need water, but if it's been too long - you forget that you need it. 2) You feel better all-around when you drink water. I learned another lesson. Living water that makes your heart overflow - that is something that you don't care about or think you want until you try it again. Oh, sure, I *know* that it's good for me. I somehow didn't find time to drink it - oh these lazy, busy days... I read James 3 this morning just before chapel - it was quenching, but that doesn't mean that I'm revived or new or even certain of what I'm going to do next. I'm only awakened to life and the fact that being busy doesn't justify being too "busy" for the right things. I guess I should at least keep drinking water for now - until my body is in a better condition. Then comes the exercise.
A good day
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 8:20 am
Today is the day before classes begin for Spring 2003. I finally made it to the sports annex to start exercising. I got a good workout in for a beginner. It made me hyper for the rest of the day. At the end of the day, after my trip to Walmart, I came back to my room - only I wasn't sure if it was really my room. Half of it was empty. Completely to my surprise, everything had worked out and my roommate got to move in with who he wanted to. Now I'm gonna stay up late and move everything around...
