This Semester

Well, this semester's been busy. It's not been impossible, yet, but still busy. I'm loving all of my classes (even my literature class... dude, what's gotten into me?). Mi favorito es probablemente... Practice of Counseling... o Experimental Psychology... o Life and Ministry of Paul... me gusta todos! Spanish is a little bit harder this semester, but I think that's mainly because I had years of it in high school, but not since the 10th grade, so last semester was Elementary Spanish 1 which covered pretty much everything I had learned in high school... it was a nice review. This semester, however, is a little harder because it's dealing with stuff I've never learned before. My hardest class is probably Philosophy of Education. First day, she tells us that 2/3 of the class are grad students... not a good thing to hear as a sophomore... I think I'll be ok in it, lots of prayer and lots of work, and I should be good.

Socially, life's going well. No girlfriend yet... we're staying friends for now, we have our reasons. I have lots of friends to hang out with, eat with, go to the games with, etc. I've been meeting new people in my classes, so yeah, not missing out on too much right now. Chapel's lately have been really good. We had Ran (Ron?) Hummel from the Wilds come down and preach a couple days. Before and after those messages, Dr. Steve preached, both of them spoke on Psalm 119, different exact passages, I think, but they talked about the Word and how important it should be to our daily lives, how much it affects us.

Anywho, I think I'm gonna head to bed, I just wanted to write a little while waiting for some CD's to finish importing into my computer. Adios, hasta luego!

Updates

Well, I'm again hoping to get back in the blogging scene. I've kinda split up my interests in writing here, the links are on the right. We've got "Life," "Christ," "Tech," and "Mobile." Life's for just every day stuff and goings on in my life. Christ is devotional thoughts and the like. Tech... I'm not a geek, I promise! I just have a... casual interest in technology. And Mobile is just if I want to post something random I see or something from the road, it goes there. We'll see if I keep up with this stuff this time, hopefully I will. Anywho, catch yall later.

Been a While

Been a while

Hey yall, it's been a while. This semester has been insanely busy, but good. I'm glad it's over with and I have this break, I've been like dead tired since summer, and I'm looking forward to next semester.... though I'm going to be taking 19 credits... that's going to be a blast, lol.

This semester's been incredible though. I've grown a lot. I guess the biggest lesson I learned this semester was that every dicision we make needs to be made for God. I mean, every decision we make we should be thinking "what decision here best glorifies God." Obviously, I don't think that way near as much as I should, but I'm trying to make it a habit.

Just so yall know, I'm going to try to start writing my... devotional thought in here again. (I don't think i like that word... devotions... i need to figure out what to call those) Let me just put this out there, if yall ever have any prayer requests or anything, let me know and I'll be sure to keep them in mind. Ok, catch yall later.

John 4

Hey yall, sorry it's been a while... honestly, i was just lazy... :-P Anywho, I'm reading through John, and today I read chapter 4. The first part is about the woman at the well. I love how Jesus in the conversation gets her curious to what on earth He's talking about, talking about living water and never thirsting again.. then reveals that He is the Christ. There's a lot of obvious application we can take from this passage, about how Christ is our water, how "the fields are white for harvest" as it says in verse 35, etc, but something a little different stuck out to me. When Jesus first spoke to the woman, she was surprised, because in verse 9 it says "for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans." Jesus didn't care about the prejudice of the day, He just witnessed to the woman because she was a human in need of Him. Not only that stood out, but the Samaritan's reaction to Him is interesting. The Samaritans, once they realized who He was, wanted Him to stay. Verse 40 says "So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days." They didn't even care that He was Jewish, they knew He was the savior, and just accepted Him.

I know that Christians often... label people as they're witnessing. They're like, "oh, he can't get saved, he's too far gone," or like Jonah, they rebel against God because they don't like the people God wants them to go to. Racism usually isn't a part of it anymore, but it can still be a problem. It's usually cutural, like, people on visitation will go to the richer or nicer communities, but not the ghettos, they visit marketplaces or places where the "nicer" people are, but won't go to the malls where the teens w/ piercings and tatoos go. When I went to california for a couple summers, the most common reaction i got was, "wow.... california.... good luck out there... with all the fruits and nuts." like they couldn't be saved or it was a lost cost or something. Don't be like that yall, people are people, they all have the same need.

Ecclesiastes 4

Verses 9-12

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

I really like this passage. It's so true, if you have good, strong friendships, you will be better off than others who don't. Both physically, when you fall, they'll lift you up, etc, but I think we can also take this passage spiritually too. If there's something you're struggling w/, tell one of your trusted friends, if you're confused about something in life, ask someone for advice, if you're at a low point, feeling beaten down w/ the things of life, go to a good friend, they'll encourage you. Now, there's a lot of rabbit trails we can go down here, like make sure your friends are good friends and will accually benefit you, make sure you're the type of person people can go to, etc, but I just want to leave it where it is right now... there's a lot of value in having good friends.