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| Rwanda is on the horizon... So...seems I will be leaving for Africa in a matter of days (4, but who's counting?). To read all about the adventure, thoughts, muses, and see a few (bunch) of pictures from the most non-american 2 1/2 months of my short life...head on over to rwandain08.blogspot.com. I went there instead of Xanga, as I can upload pictures from picassa really easily, and it is something different, much like this trip. So...see ya there?
Ben
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| It's 3 am and I wanna go to be-ed..Ok, it is actually only 2:30 Eastern, 1:30 central. But I still want to go to bed. I made the mistake, if you can call it that, of napping for two hours when I got home from work. Hence I am a little awake. Let's see...last post was about the profundity in Disney...hm....how can I follow up on that?
Well here is a question: Health is not contagious, but sickness is. Health is the natural state, and sickness invades. Sin is contagious, is righteousness? Putting aside the fact that we, in reality, have no righteousness of our own, are good works, done from a pure heart contagious? Sin can be, hence thousands of teenagers struggle with peer pressure. Peer pressure is always negative, at least the way I hear it. Never peer pressure to glorify God, always to glorify man, satisfy selfish desires. Why is there not positive peer pressure? ( I think there really is, it just isn't as prevelant or thought about.) Why not, as the writer of Hebrews says: consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds? (Hebrews 10:24 NASB)
A final thought. More of a verse actually. I am reading II Timothy, and I keep coming back to this verse(s):
2:21 Therefore, if
anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for
honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every
good work. 2:22 Flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith,
love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Goodnight all....
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| Disney got me thinking...Picture this...me, driving in my car, listening to a Disney song...yeah yeah, I know, big surprise, but seriously, I think Disney has a good place, but I shan't defend that habit at this point. I instead intend to share a thought that this particular song inspired.
The song was "Can you feel the love tonight", from Lion King. Here was the profound line:
Why won't he be the king I know he is, the king I see inside?
So, aside from the fact that I didn't have to look up the lyrics, cause I know them by heart, it is an interesting idea. I see this a lot here at Bryan, and even in myself at times, the struggle that men have with leading. Here was this guy (guy lion no less) that had a traumatic experience as a child, and threw off all responsibility as the future king, ran away, and embraced Hakuna Matata - no worries. He lived a life devoid of responsibilities and where nothing was expected and nothing had to be done. The girl saw that inside there was a leader, a king, but it refused to come out. He liked his life of ease too much, and he was afraid to tell her the truth about his past, afraid that she would reject him.
I see this as a result of the fall, part of the curse of sin. The woman desires to dominate (Gen 3:16) and the man shirks responsibility. Part of this comes from a laziness I think, men can be very lazy, and when they don't lead, women step up, though they often don't want to. If someone else is leading, why should the man take over? He instead is content to sit back and be compliant. There is also a scariness that goes along with leadership. Not only do you have to take responsibility for making a decision, but also for the decision and consequences. I don't know how to kick this tendency, but I think something has to be done to inspire the men of my generation, and the men of Bryan College to step up and lead, letting their inner king out.
See! Disney is full of profundity! :)
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| Words, Words, Words...So I realized that draugiem had a blog section, and I posted the following. Then I realized, since I already wrote it, why not put it here too...
What's in a word? What's in a letter? It is all just symbols that I
have been trained to recognize. That shows the amazing capacity God has
endowed our brains with. We can take any patterns of symbols and derive
a method of communication with them. Sure Latvian uses basically the
same latin alphabet, but what about russian, and hebrew, and arabic?
They all use a different, but equally 'random' set of symbols to denote
letters, words, sentences, and ideas. Crazy. Or, as they say in
Limbažī, traki. Ļoti traki
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| I forgot about Xanga! But, I now remember. My dear friend Anna has called this hallowed place to mind, and so I type. For the first time in 2007, I post to this blog. Oh happy day. So much has happened, so may thoughts have been...thought...hm. What to say, what to say...thousands of thought swirl over every neuron. (Much like cinnamon toast crunch). I am in advanced grammar, and that is a fun class, though the name does indeed sound depressing. I am in apologetics, which sounds fun, but is depressing. (Just kidding! The class will be amazing I think, while it is a crazy amount of reading, it is a great reading list, and I am sooo glad that we are required to read them. That is why I have not joined the ranks of my friends who are auditing that class. I fear that I would not read them, and then lose most of the value of the class.
The post ends...but for a time...
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