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You Foolish Galatians!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 2:34 am
Who has tricked me? Who has deceived me into following a gospel other than the one I had received? Am I trying to please men or God? If I really am trying to please man I would not be a servant of Christ! Why am I setting petty traditions and man-made rules in the way of Truth? Was Christ's crucifixion not enough? Why do I continue to follow rules, when what is demanded is my very life? Why have I let myself become dependent on other people for something that God alone has authority over?
Two weeks! And couldn't I have done something? Why would I let my own life rest in someone else's hands? Is it for my own gain? I would accept it if it were for my own loss, but no - I don't see how that can be. Instead of letting Jesus be the Cornerstone and allowing myself to be a security to others, I let my very foundations rattle to use someone else as a crutch. And for what?
Two months! And couldn't I have done something? What are special days? Festivals? Has the gospel been wasted on me, when I look back only to see that Cornerstone was a special time...I feel so stupid. Isn't every day just the same? What is opportunity? Is it what I want to do? Or is it sacrifice that yields to even those that hate me? Joy that comes not from what I can do, but what i can't. Purpose from weakness, not strength. What weakness is there in the proud? Those that "know" what they are going to do tomorrow?
I am back to the beginning again.
"So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law......But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other."
– Galatians 5:16-18, 22-26
Word Origins
Monday, August 22, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Interesting...
ram·ble
intr.v. ram·bled, ram·bling, ram·bles
- To move about aimlessly.
- To walk about casually or for pleasure.
- To follow an irregularly winding course of motion or growth.
- To speak or write at length and with many digressions.
[Probably from Middle Dutch *rammelen, to wander about in a state of sexual desire, from rammen, to copulate with.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Cheap Entertainment
Sunday, August 21, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Food, when prepared fresh (and at home), is one of the cheaper forms of entertainment, but it is so wonderful. I've been busy and gone so much, and my weekends were so full of Wendy's and McDonald's that I had forgotten how good a simple well-made dish can be. Oddly enough, I haven't cooked that much since I've been here in this apartment (8 months). It's mostly been pretty simple foods. A couple weeks ago, someone oddly suggested that I just start washing my dishes more often. Lo and behold, that suddenly made me start wanting to cook real food again. I guess it must be the fact that I had something clean to cook with. This week has had a rather colorful culinary spectrum. From the weird (see previous post) to the absolutley delicious - the shrimp alfredo I am eating now. Next time I eat shrimp alfredo I'd better get alfredo sauce in a jar or learn how to make it - a pouch of powder mix just doesn't cut it.
Ironic, almost, that now that I'm without Food Network, I'm finally spending more time creating. It's also much better for the body even to eat something with alfredo sauce. If it takes over a half hour to prepare lunch it's hardly likely that someone's going to accidentally have two lunches. Not that I have that habit so much as a portion control problem. I didn't even have time to make a side dish - I just wanted to eat. I like that better than the "throwing another one in the microwave for 30 seconds" approach to the unsatiated appetite.
Ketchup and Cake
Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 10:17 pm
I ate it. It was called Hot Chocolate Cake. And it had ketchup in it.
Also moist and fluffy.
These people support spammers
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 12:19 am
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There ya go. Copy and paste it into your To: box and send an e-mail. See how they like it. They are members of a group trying to convince Washington that "a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in.""...
They haven't opted out of the opinions of any one of hundreds of thousands of angry consumers yet. So let's go ahead and exercise the rights they want to grant everyone and SPAM them. Logic and childhood bantering at its finest.
