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Eve of eve
Is it a revolutionary idea to say that Christ came to give us eternal life now and to restore our original glory?
Satan does all he can to keep us from living in our restored glory.
read Genesis 1:28. Before the fall of man, God granted us the job of representing him on earth--- we were made in His image as bearers of His glory (and for all of you nerds like me who like this kinda stuff, "represent" means to To describe or put forward (a person or thing) as an embodiment of a specified quality). So by this "representing" we are bearing the image of God and his quality of glory. And what does He tell man and woman to do? Rule. That is glorious indeed.
read Revelation 20. What will we do with Christ after he returns? Reign. So yes, Christ came to forgive. Yes, He came to seek those who were lost. Yes, He died on the cross. But He also rose-- in order to bring life, *eternal life, starting
now, and one that brings fullness and glory (what did the apostles preach throughout the book of Acts? Christ's resurrection, not his death). Anything short of representing God in His glory as redeemed saints is, well, lacking of being His saint (in my opinion at least).
Satan has robbed this of believers for far too long.
I say stand up and fight for the glory that has been given back to you.
This is neat to me, as well as incredibly important and vital for believers to not only know, but to fully grasp. In celebration of the greatest birth ever on Saturday, remember why He really did come. And start living in a way that reflects this.
*the word eternal doesn't mean "afterlife," although we have come to define it this way. In true essence, eternal means perpetuation, or rather forever true or changeless, continuing without interruption. So eternal life simply means a redeemed life that is beyond the sources of time.
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i woke up this morning incredibly disappointed. it was
supposed to snow last night and we were
supposed to get a couple of inches, but we didn't. I can't even properly describe my feeling of disappointment. They are never right about the weather, it seems. Romans 3:4. never does it fail.
i was incredibly excited to get a comment from the lovely anne, thus disproving my belief that no one besides me reads this. i will always have anne! thank you annie, for brightening up my day a bit.
i am dying in rogers, arkansas. i wish terribly i was in little rock with my best friend for so many years. we would drive around hillcrest at night, maybe grab some coffee at the greatest coffee house in all the world, listen to old music that we loved when we were fifteen. we do that every year. i miss it. i need it. someone deliver me from this place!
writers block
erin informed me today that she is having a difficult time finding inspiration for our movie. truth be told, its better when we are together and can brainstorm. but despite the writer's block, we decided that our main conflict would be how we continually mess up in relationships, mostly in part to fear. We chose the relationship conflict out of the other potentials because 1) it is how we actually became close friends 2) screwy love stuff sells big in movies. (this is now my time to plug erin's xanga site:
www.xanga.com/erin_e_johnson)
today's random tid bit: I really like tuna. I think I could eat a tuna sandwitch every day and be okay with it. however, I'm thinking of decreasing my intake because the possibility of a high mercury level in tuna.
oh yeah
I meant to mention in the previous post that I have conceived a new idea for a scene in my movie. Due to today's unfortunate circumstances, I found myself wandering around wal-mart for a good two and a half hours (if you really wanna know, ask me later). ej came and kept me company and then we preceded to have wonderful and stimulating conversation while walking the aisles. We also saw about fifty bajillion people we knew. Thus, we concluded it would make a fabulous scene in our movie. About a ten minute segment or so of us at wal-mart while having a ridiculously profound conversation. Then we run into two of our awkward friends. They might be ex-boyfriends. I haven't decided yet.
i smell an oscar mr. cruise
I think tom cruise is an incredibly underrated actor.
Polly informed me that I have crappy scissors. Since I am now the official hair stylist of *insert anyone's name here*, i had to go out and buy actual hair cutting scissors. Well, since I'm cheap, I went for the $3.99 scissors. I mean, I have to watch what I spend. It's not like they're paying me for this crap! But anyway, the pair I bought are a piece of crap (sidenote: why does it feel so weird to say "pair" and to use "are" when referring to scissors? its a single object, yet we make it plural. like pants -single object, plural in grammatical style- pretty awkward if you ask me). I think I might go back to the large crappy kitchen scissors I used to use. they appear as though ineffective, but are actually nothing short of miraculous.
I also love appetizers specially served by adam argo.
man, i really love carrot cake.
I have now reclaimed my own time
So I decided no one reads this, which is fine. This is mostly for my benefit. And this statement is neither random or awkward. Thus I conclude that this post serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
This semester's awkward moment
I have to say that I have been blessed over the last years to have a roommate whom I love and adore. And I have always loved my neighbors. However, this semester back down in P-town has proved to be different than any other. Our neighbor to the left has sex all the time. I mean, not just at night but ALL the time. And every time she does, we can most certainly hear it. It has been so bad at times that I can't sleep because it is so freaking loud. And to make the situation even more awkward, she is an awkward girl herself. Really quiet and with purple hair... I pass her in the bathroom and have no idea what to say...
needless to say, it has been an awkward semester in this respect. Tonight Megan named her "sex-door neighbor." What a wonderfully appropriate play-on-words.
Glad you dropped by
man we need the urlet
awkward tuesdays
So me and polly have awkward tuesdays together now. We had the most amazing awkward discussion today with Ben Casey. the subject was whether or not guys wash their hands when exiting the restroom. According to Casey, only 50% of all males wash their hands after a urinal experience. I found this to be a horrifically sad and disturbing statistic. However, he also informed us that he washes at least 97% of the time when exiting. Way to go ben! we also discussed how to avoid incessant splashing of urine when a guy pees in a toilet. the consensus was to redesign the toilet to forgo the bowl-shaped base and add a new, more urine friendly design to prevent splashing. in order to do this, a greater slope is needed for the back of the toilet in order to slow down the urine and cause a "cascading" effect. Ben also suggested that ripples of some sort be added to the higher slant in order to provide more resistance to the urine. Also, the depth of the toilet would be deeper, allowing for the urine to travel further while slowing down the ripples before hitting the pool of water at the bottom. A diagram would help illustrate all of this; perhaps one will be provided later. We named this design the "urlet" as a combination of urinal and toilet. the product will be out for testing sometime in summer of 2005.
goulet
THAT picture was taken this summer at Kaleo during the infamous bathroom incident. (i added this picture to my profile on the facebook--what is currently taking over the universe). i wish i had the live video and could play it so it could be seen how absolutely terrible that incident was. if you will notice from the picture the careful placement of a bobby pin on my nose in order to prevent the life-taking odor that was protruding out of the bathroom. Hope Little was entirely to blame for this, considering she was the one that made the Taco-get-ready-for-death-Salad that we ate earlier. All i can say is that i had nothing to do with the overflow. the culprit will continue to remain nameless to all those outside of the Teen Girl Squad. I will say no more.
today's awkward moment
this picture is in all ways awkward
katie holmes at mcdonalds
i have a potential scene for the movie erin and i are making. in this scene, we're sitting in the drive-thru at mc donald's, except that it is taking forever for the person to come on the little speaker phone thing. ej and i precede to have a conversation about when we worked at mc donalds. then we talk about how when ashley simunic worked the fry bin she named the fries her "sheep" and continued on with this analogy that she was their shepherd blah blah blah.
cut to simunic making some fries while other employees are yelling out "supersize" and "dollar fry!" in spanish. Ashley ignores the shouts and continues to talk to her sheep while quoting scripture to them. cut back to ej and me. then erin and i pull around to see that every mcdonald's employee is outside smoking pot. "we're closed!" some girl yells. we drive off.
he's got the heart of a champion
three cheers for the new sb email, animal.
www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
I love sarah for taking me on a Christmas date
