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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
"As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."
-Proverbs 27:19
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| This looked interesting so I thought I'd try it. :] Make your own album cover!
1 - Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “Random Article”
or paste this in browser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to “Random quotations”
or paste this in browse: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or paste this in browse: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop/MS Paint or similar to put it all together.
Here's how mine turned out: | | |
| I have been going to Grad School since August, so I suppose I should update and let people who care know what has been consuming most of my life these past 6 months. Here are the classes I took last semester:
Introduction to Clinical Practice: Basic Skills
Psychopathology
Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy
Ethical Foundations of Psychotherapy
Here are the classes I have been taking this semester:
Family Therapy
Assessment
Theological Foundations, Spiritual Formation and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and Cultural Diversity
Pre-PsyD Clinical Practicum
Here are the classes I will be taking this summer:
Integrative Therapy, Clinical Process, and Moral Maturity
Human Sexuality and Sex Therapy
So that sums up my first year of Grad School in the PsyD program. All of these classes so far are the necessary classes; no electives yet.
I love the program and everyone else in my cohort (the people I'll be taking classes with over this and the next 3 years of my life). School has been busy, but good.
I hope everyone else is doing well!
In Christ,
-Cormack.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
"[Mankind] is summoned to share in God's suffering at the hands of a godless world."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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| (Thanks, barefootdixie, I copied and pasted this from your blog... I hope you don't mind. : )
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it
does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful
lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don't feel threatened. I
don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas
trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I
don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a
ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers
and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me
at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection
near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a crèche, it's just as
fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away..
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think
Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think
people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around,
period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an
explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I
don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we
should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we
understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But
there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came
from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is
a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny,
it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane
Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?'
(regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and
insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by
this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out
of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our
lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed
out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection
if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.
I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her
body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our
schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the
Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not
steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they
misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we
might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We
said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they
don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it
out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the
world's going to hell Funny how we believe what the news papers say,
but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes'
through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending
messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny
how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through
cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school
and workplace.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Are you laughing yet?
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein | | |
| I moved into my new condo a week ago here in Azusa, shared with 5 other guys (two per room), and they are surprisingly clean and are all around great guys. I've been blessed with good roommates. They're nice.
I had orientation this week, too, for my Psy.D. program, and my first two classes. They look like they will be a lot of effort, but they seem fun and rewarding. I'm really excited to learn.
Thank you, God. Without you I'd be a fool and in misery. But with you, and in your ways, I can have life more abundantly.
-Cormack.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (John 16:33b)
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