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Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Future Is Now

"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a humans mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do ; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them ."--The Screwtape Letters

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I'm sorry I don't post on this more.

Times are about to change (in terms of me updating this, anyway.)

Things I've been pondering lately...

1.How many people in Western culture are controlled by their emotions? Their passions? Their hungers? How much of us are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, food, pornography, even simple things like affirmation? I've been reading lately about the Eastern philosophy of being the master of your self. Controlling and channeling those emotions, passions and hungers so that they don't control you. What would Jesus have us do? Embrace emotion and passion, because they help make life vibrant? Or channel them so that we use our God given ability of self-control? Or have a balance? What about those who can't have "just one"?

2. Singleness. Celibacy. The point of marriage. I mean, I get the point and everything. I guess. But if what I've heard is true--that marriage is supposed to be a representation and symbolism of our union with Christ--would that be worth it? or just a distraction?

3. How do we train our minds to stop viewing common things like home, 9-5 shifts, simple conversation, daily deeds...as things that "don't really matter"? I can think of a lot of people who would be a lot more happy if we could all understand that there is no "tomorrow", no "later" and nothing is better on the other side. The most important decision we'll make in life is in the next five minutes...(thank you Troy Sherman)

4. I just don't get Twitter.


What are you pondering?