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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 05:42 pmEvery so often, I get an inkling, which progresses into a thought, which evolves into a magical little idea that starts floating around in my head. I often hope those ideas would just be content to swim, because I fear of what will happen if I should utter them. Unfortunately... If I decide to ignore them, they disappear.
Why, Lord--why?
Why put such clean, refreshing water into such a dirty vessel as me?
Those magical, sparkly, beautiful ideas... I taint them by my very presence. Yet I almost cannot resist. When such a thought enters into my mind, the sparks that it elicits, like electricity, light me up with inspiration until I'm like to burst!
It's never the same though. The product never does justice to the idea.
It must be...
It's starting to remind me a little of Creation, actually; how You made us and envisioned us as perfect beings with free wills... But we disappointed you, we disobeyed and tainted your creation with sin and shame.
Thus the perfect shall never be just that... as long as the human mind is still tainted.
Those perfect ideas... now I know why I have them. They remind me of You.
Why, Lord--why?
Why put such clean, refreshing water into such a dirty vessel as me?
Those magical, sparkly, beautiful ideas... I taint them by my very presence. Yet I almost cannot resist. When such a thought enters into my mind, the sparks that it elicits, like electricity, light me up with inspiration until I'm like to burst!
It's never the same though. The product never does justice to the idea.
It must be...
It's starting to remind me a little of Creation, actually; how You made us and envisioned us as perfect beings with free wills... But we disappointed you, we disobeyed and tainted your creation with sin and shame.
Thus the perfect shall never be just that... as long as the human mind is still tainted.
Those perfect ideas... now I know why I have them. They remind me of You.
...that done, now off for some sleep!
Monday, June 12th, 2006 02:36 am*about the quiz in the cut*
See, this is why i don't put much truck in quizzes... sure they're fun to take, but also easy to manipulate! How can someone comply 100 percent with two opposing points of view? I mean... well... okay, they can't be completely opposing... but still.... calvanist and non-calvanist. weeeeeird. Well, at least there's brethren in that part too... if it's related to The Brethren Church, it ain't all that bad. Now... i have no clue what traditions Anabaptists have... but i'm not sure if i should be enthused or disappointed: the Anabaptists were the earliest church, and Brethren came from that.... but... Quaker? Hmm.... gotta ask dad about that one.
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felis_stellaria, I seem to have traditions on the completely opposite end of the spectrum from yours. ;)
Ah well, we're all a part of the same body: the church. (though even that depends on what definition you are using)
( The mind boggles... )
See, this is why i don't put much truck in quizzes... sure they're fun to take, but also easy to manipulate! How can someone comply 100 percent with two opposing points of view? I mean... well... okay, they can't be completely opposing... but still.... calvanist and non-calvanist. weeeeeird. Well, at least there's brethren in that part too... if it's related to The Brethren Church, it ain't all that bad. Now... i have no clue what traditions Anabaptists have... but i'm not sure if i should be enthused or disappointed: the Anabaptists were the earliest church, and Brethren came from that.... but... Quaker? Hmm.... gotta ask dad about that one.
Sorry
felis_stellaria, I seem to have traditions on the completely opposite end of the spectrum from yours. ;) Ah well, we're all a part of the same body: the church. (though even that depends on what definition you are using)
( The mind boggles... )
Thanksgiving Eve
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004 10:50 amWoke up to see a sprinkling of snow outside.. not bad for only being November.
Wonder how cold it got when there was nobody living here but the Indians. They must've been used to it though.. Nowadays we're so spoiled, if we had to live the way they did, I think we'd just die like most of the pilgrims that first year... And that brings me to Thanksgiving.
What a weird holiday it is.. most Americans take it for granted as an extra day not to work- an extended weekend. Most actually know how the tradition started- but some... geesh.. some don't even know that it's only celebrated in the USA! ..and that's what scares me. I mean the whole celebration for it started because the people were so happy that They'd even survived! ..without the help, they might not have.. so they praised God for it, and thanked the Indians by learning how to live off the land so they wouldn't have to take the charity the next year.
Ironically, We've disabled American Indians to the point that now they have to take charity from us! I've seen it, in the missions trip we went to in SD, I saw what it's done to them.. They take the government charity (bribery!!) and use it to buy alchohol.. continuing a vicious cycle of apathy and not taking charge of their lives. They're no longer the 'noble Savages' that we think of when re-telling the thanksgiving story.
And how many people now even bother to pray at the table? Isn't that another offshoot of thanksgiving? (I'm not sure of this, it could be a chicken-before-the-egg thing) We are now so accustomed to the very presence of food, that we think it unnecessary to thank God each time because 'oh, well he already knows I'm thankful' (or if you're not a christian..), but that isn't the point! If you're really thankful, then Thank Him! Of course he knows, but the point is we need to show our thankfulness, show our respect for Him.
I hope I practice what I preach now... it seems like pretty good advice, lol.
oh and.. darn, too bad i didn't do a little 'I'm thankful for' thing at the end of my journal entries this month, it would have been kinda neat- except that it's already been done, and li'l ol' me doesn't like being a copycat... heh, must come from having been one all my life! I had no original ideas at all, everything came from my sisters.. I even believed everything they said! ..which led to many many misunderstandings and incorrect facts..
Thankfully, I'm on my own now. ;-)
But also thankful that I have sisters.. can't live without 'em!
Wonder how cold it got when there was nobody living here but the Indians. They must've been used to it though.. Nowadays we're so spoiled, if we had to live the way they did, I think we'd just die like most of the pilgrims that first year... And that brings me to Thanksgiving.
What a weird holiday it is.. most Americans take it for granted as an extra day not to work- an extended weekend. Most actually know how the tradition started- but some... geesh.. some don't even know that it's only celebrated in the USA! ..and that's what scares me. I mean the whole celebration for it started because the people were so happy that They'd even survived! ..without the help, they might not have.. so they praised God for it, and thanked the Indians by learning how to live off the land so they wouldn't have to take the charity the next year.
Ironically, We've disabled American Indians to the point that now they have to take charity from us! I've seen it, in the missions trip we went to in SD, I saw what it's done to them.. They take the government charity (bribery!!) and use it to buy alchohol.. continuing a vicious cycle of apathy and not taking charge of their lives. They're no longer the 'noble Savages' that we think of when re-telling the thanksgiving story.
And how many people now even bother to pray at the table? Isn't that another offshoot of thanksgiving? (I'm not sure of this, it could be a chicken-before-the-egg thing) We are now so accustomed to the very presence of food, that we think it unnecessary to thank God each time because 'oh, well he already knows I'm thankful' (or if you're not a christian..), but that isn't the point! If you're really thankful, then Thank Him! Of course he knows, but the point is we need to show our thankfulness, show our respect for Him.
I hope I practice what I preach now... it seems like pretty good advice, lol.
oh and.. darn, too bad i didn't do a little 'I'm thankful for' thing at the end of my journal entries this month, it would have been kinda neat- except that it's already been done, and li'l ol' me doesn't like being a copycat... heh, must come from having been one all my life! I had no original ideas at all, everything came from my sisters.. I even believed everything they said! ..which led to many many misunderstandings and incorrect facts..
Thankfully, I'm on my own now. ;-)
But also thankful that I have sisters.. can't live without 'em!
