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| Packing DayWow. We leave tomorrow morning! I am taking this day to pack(after I finish watching this really interesting show on robocars).
I am packing a good amount of things. My job this year on the mission trip is very different than I'm used to. This year I am going to be taking pictures at all the different ministries, updating the church in some way throughout the trip, and playing guitar during the VBS songs. I will definitely enjoy it, but it is very different. I am used to doing construction or playing with kids.
So I am not just taking clothes, but I'm taking a camera bag, tripod, laptop, and guitar! Hopefully I come back home without forgetting anything. Hopefully I LEAVE without forgetting anything!
I have a problem with forgetting SOMETHING every time go somewhere. I decided to do something different this year to try and be more organized. I made a list of everything I'm taking. I am going to have to do a check before leaving home tomorrow morning. Hopefully I will be very efficient.
So I guess I will need to get to packing. Hopefully I will be able to keep a blog during the trip since I'll be online every night to do some sort of communicating anyways. If not, then I guess I'll see everyone in a week!
And before I leave, I will leave you all with a word of advice:
In a world where cars are robots, make sure not to wear black or buy a car that is black. They might not see you.
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| BetterThanks for the advice Greggo. It was very similar to what I already knew... that was a slightly unfortunate part of the whole thing since I was hoping for a newer possibly easier idea. But life isn't always easy...
Bottom line... I didn't know of any way that I could take any of it into my own hands. So yea... I prayed a bit. Then I figured out what I could do. Now I am feeling better. I'm sure that I'll still be getting over this stomach ache for about a day or so though... I've had it on and off since Saturday so it's not gunna just up and go away. Thanks again for the advice and concern!
Feeling Better and Going to Bed,
Y.P.
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| Question:How do you get rid of worry to stop the belly aching?
Please share ideas.
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| "People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said,
but they will always remember how you made them feel."
-Maxine Schmidt
She didn't actually make it up. Or did she? I found it online and it says "-unknown"
Maxine Schmidt
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| Difficulty Letting GoI treasure the comments I got on my last post. They opened up so many insights for me to consider and contemplate. Though they obviously didn't solve the issue I previously blogged about, they DID make me think.
I do agree that I am young and these thoughts I am having will and can directly effect my life, but I have a bit of a problem. And this may truly be my naivety speaking, but I refuse to believe that the same thing couldn't happen for someone that was older.
What I have been rolling around in my thoughts may come out a bit arrogant, and I apologize for sounding redundant in this and my last post, but I can't help but feel that I am. I feel that there are two things that make us think that it is less possible when older, and I spoke of these two things briefly in the rhetoric of my last post.
The first would be fear. Fear that suddenly living simpler may not be as pleasing. Fear that giving up on what one thinks are life-long dreams may ruin their life. But I wonder. Will these "dreams" make for a happier life? A truly happier life? Will these dreams do anything but make one worry more about what could be taken away from them?
The second is lack of faith. This is a tougher one for me to speak of because I don't know that anyone has absolute faith. As we all go up and down on the roller coaster of life, our faith is tried and tried again. Since we are not perfect, we must always remind ourselves that we must keep the faith. And since faith cannot be absolute, I think that this can also get in the way of simplicity.
I hope I don't sound hypocritical, because I do not intend to.
But alas! In my typing and thinking, I believe I realized something of possible greatness. This may also bring the argument I have been having with myself almost to a complete circle, but a slightly revolutionized beginning.
Simplicity on this world is just as unimportant as the materialism on this world. The obvious importance (the "duh") is our devotion to God to please Him in all that we do. So whether it be you have nothing or everything and whether these things be by choice or chance, it really matters little as long as you please God. Not that your possessions please God, but that you do.
In all this, I believe that the greatest thing to consider is whether possessions are becoming an obstacle in the way of pleasing God. And in that, I would say that for me, they would be. Possessions make me worry. They make me want more. Possessions make me selfish. Possessions make me hate(not often but does). Possessions, in my life, seem to be evil. They were even obscuring my view of the true issue. They were allowing me to use them as blame. The things in this world can never truly be at fault, but it is the human. It is obvious, yes, but it feels great to see this in something that seems to be so complex.
However, I am not sure that everything has been considered yet, but I believe this is at least a step in the right direction.
I look forward to others thoughts, once again.
God bless!
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