Couldn't resist...

1.29.2009

I keep up to date with TUAW, Switched, and Engadget, and every once in awhile up will come a video that is somehow related to something in the tech world. I have seen the jubilee on 50 kid's faces after unwrapping a Nintendo Wii, I have seen the consequences of being associated with a dancing, singing woman on a Segway, and I have seen various DIY videos on modding cases or building electronics. The video above below just hit me as so funny that I honestly couldn't resist putting it up myself...Bill Gates completely endorsing Apple...awesome. Let me know what you think in the comments :-D.

Life ahead...

1.11.2009

I was at the Verity Institute campus for Dual Enrollment Orientation Friday afternoon until Saturday evening. Being there, beginning classes, meeting people, seeing the students study...made me think about what I need to do over the next few years in order to accomplish God's goals for me.

As part of this semester with Verity I will be going through the Life Purpose Planning material. In the meantime, however, I have just been thinking about what the Lord wants me to do, what my options are. Right now I trust that He wants me to take courses from Verity. In the future I believe that He wants me to pursue a Criminal Justice degree with Verity, but what after that? I talked with one of the other student's dad while I was on campus. He had a Criminal Justice degree, and had spent 28 years in various aspects of Law enforcement. Much of that time was spent in Drugs and Narcotics; he also worked in the IRS and briefly in the Secret Service (or he "tried out" for the Secret Service and decided that it wasn't right for him...I'm not sure). He told me that their are many openings for someone after majoring in Criminal Justice, including the FBI, DoD, and Secret Service; local law enforcement as well as national.

While I don't know just what I will be doing in the near future, or just what the Lord will have me pursue, I know that His way is perfect, and as long as I follow His will, I will be taken care of.

What is Love?

1.04.2009

What is Love, according to the Bible? In other words, what is Biblical Love?

Love is a noun and a verb at the same time. It is a willful (of the will) action, yet an emotion also. A choice must be made to continue to love in order for Love to last, but the emotion of Love can come and go. Emotion is a part of Love, a valid part of Biblical Love, but it is not all of Love or even the main part. Biblical Love can be preceded by the emotion of love.

I took a selection of verses about Love that is by no means comprehensive; however, I believe that the following verses are sufficient.

Eccelesiastes 3:8 - 
"a time  to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace."

John 15:13 - 
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends."

Phillipians 1:9-11 - 
"And it is my prayer that you love may abound more and more, with knowledge and discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God."

I Corinthians 13:4-8a - 
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing,m but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

Love is shown to be an action in these verses. We choose to love. God commands us to love one another, not just our friends but our enemies too.

What are the aspects of Love? 

• There is a time to love, and there is a time that is not for loving. (Ecclesiastes)
• Love is sacrificial. (John)
• Love is shown by the lifestyle that I live. (I John)
• Love needs to be (and become) knowledgeable and discerning. (Phillipians) 
• Love has many characteristics. (I Corinthians)
• Love is:
• Patient
• Kind
• Does not envy -- Is content
  
• Does not boast -- Praises others and God for what they have done
  
• Is not arrogant -- Is meek/humble
• Is not rude -- Is polite
  
• Is not insistent on always being right -- Admits when wrong and when others are right
  
• Is not irritable -- Is easy to get along with
  
• Is not resentful -- Is forgiving
  
• Does not rejoice in wrongdoing -- Rejoices with truth
• Bears all things
• Believes all things
• Hopes all things
• Endures all things
• Is never-ending

This is in no way a comprehensive study on what Love is, but this is what I have come up with in my studies over the past few months.

My first post of 2009

1.02.2009

I must say...New Year's Eve didn't go exactly as I had planned...but as always, God works out everything "for the good of those that love Him." Out of all the people that I invited, only two came to my party. A family that I had not thought of inviting was invited by my younger brother and they came as well. We all had fun playing "Imaginiff" until almost 2 o'clock. It was fun.

Before that, I had to work from 3 to 8, which I had not been planning on; I was planning on being in Avon at 7 for another party that my sister was at. Instead, I got off work at about 8:25, changed, and got to Avon by 9. The party was over at 10, and then I brought my sister home.

After the guests left my house, except for the one who spent the night, I went to bed feeling sick to my stomach and rather disappointed at life in general. I had a fun time with the guests who came, but it was definitaly not the party that I had envisioned. I woke up at around 3am, and spent the rest of the morning puking my guts out again. I was rather under the weather for the rest of the day, but woke up this morning just fine. As I was feeling fine, I got to go to the oral surgeon after all and get my wisdom teeth yanked out! Oh joy! That went better than I feared, and due to good old Vicaden I feel just fine. I'm planning on getting to sleep sometime tonight, and am looking forward to a party at a friends house tomorrow.

My next post will be more of a summary of the past year (more or less...less being the more "sensitive" details ;-) and my hopes for this new year (more or less...less being the same as before ;-).