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Ephesians 1:3, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Galatians 5:22-24, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with it's passions and desires." In Christ, I am blessed with every spiritual blessing ever; stupendous. Wondrous. Awesome and mind-blowing. I've always told myself that this is what I believe, but I think as Christians far too much time is spent assuming our own realization of all we are blessed with is complete, or merely sufficient. That has been true for me, but that lifestyle is not "filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:19). Furthermore, not only are we blessed with so much that gives life, but our sinful nature has be...

I was going to title this "Memorization And Scripture Reading" but after typing it in.... well you get the idea. That wasn't sufficient for my mood today. Ask me to talk about games, movies, books, and I'd be set for hours recalling strategies, detailed information, scenes, points made, strengths and weaknesses. All of it. Ask me to recite scripture.... To be fair, that's not an equal example, as reciting scripture isn't equivalent or as easy as talking about a subject in general. I could go on a long time talking about God. The point still remains though, even in obscurity. I recently set a timer while reading through Ephesians and Romans, the results as follows. Ephesians took about 15 minutes, and Romans about 45. It was mildly unsurprising, (that doesn't make much sense) considering there seems to be some sort of hype about mass scripture reading. Or at least, I've experienced that. Hype that a chapter a day is a lot. Well, it's not. I ...

Subconsciously I know I'm an idiot, but sometimes it just becomes crystal clear.... Enjoy this story I ended up with today. I realized this works just fine for a post after updating facebook status. Yes, I'm an idiot, I know now. It was still awfully fun and I could care less... about something I don't what. Russian Circles - Schiphol Oh my word! Brainmelt. Thought I was just running to Walmart to get 20 pounds of ice for fourth of july homemade ice cream... Authors Note: For best results, following story must be accompanied by included music clip played at near ear-hurting volume preferably through headphones or some surround-sound equipped music system. On this fine sweltering summer day of July 4th, 2012, it came to a general consensus that homemade ice cream was needed in order to experience to the full extent, this holiday of our sweet nations independence. Having adjourned council after my own voluntary proposal that I would brave the heat and 20 minute excursion ...

Hook - Remembering Childhood (background music? Yes indeed!) I knew, last night, as soon as Casey called me and said camp started that night at eight pm instead of today, that camp had officially started. It is a crazy ride from beginning to end, and now it's here. I leave to join counselor training as soon as I pack and finish this entry. Consequently, despite 4 months between the last post and then this crazy Every Day In May deal, June will be conspicuously quiet. In all likelihood I'll not be posting again until mid-July. This year's theme is "The Spirit Of Adventure". Campers are divided into two teams, (though not extremely competitive based) the sailors and the aviators. Of course explaining everything here would probably be boring and take way more time than I have available, so I'll just skip the whole deal. I think I can safely say this month will be an adventure -as life with Christ always is- and leave it at that. I'm out of words. For n...

Procrastination is a terrible thing. One moment, your lounging in bliss, soaking up the sun, the next thing you know there's half an hour before some deadline that you never knew about before. Oh wait, procrastination means I did know about it. Well this time I didn't, though I don't that counts as an exemption. Now, it wouldn't be so bad if the lounging in the sun parts weren't so few and far between in the first place. Yes, I'm under pressure again, deadline looming. This time one that came out of nowhere and so things just might be kinda interesting. Gotta think positive! At least I can relate to the majority right? But shucks, jokes can only get you part way before the grinding wheel looms up and scrapes your face off. That's never a good thing. So, at this point, you can either leave for more healthy pursuits, or procrastinate and settle in for some scatterbrained, on-the-spot, half-cooked nonsense, most likely with some philosophically untested tho...

Books can be worth the time it takes to read them. And... yeah. Vocabulary building and all that. In straight terms, I've done a mixture of different things this afternoon and absolutely nothing has crossed my mind to write. So instead I'm going to *gasp* copy and paste two of my favorite excerpts from the Ender series by Orson Card. I've yet to read the entire series, but the first three are terrific. I praise them so highly as to say they've helped me live with more with an open mind than any other book beside the bible. Incomparably more than my current reading of The God Delusion by Dawkins, which has largely disappointed as of yet, despite giving a better understanding of the atheistic worldview. Anyway, before I derail into uninformed rants.... it bears waiting till I actually complete the book before making any remark. Though whether I will upon finishing is in question. Note, I don't condone what follows as absolute truth by any means.... they are only ext...

Wandering amongst tombstones can give one a feeling of morbid melancholy, but it seems appropriately alright given the day. Much as I admire and respect those participants of grim war, it's not so easy anymore to relate and understand what they did. Even the black and white documentaries filmed with over-eager cameramen causing comically quick scenes, fail to really sink in. These dudes really did that stuff. Pretty insane. I also couldn't contain the curiosity to ogle over different tombstones. Styles, shapes, stone types. Mostly granite, but some bronze hatch covers and marble as well. Mostly granite though. That stuff is spendy too. It's one thing to contemplate the excess of a granite kitchen counter when another type of tile or stone will suffice... it's something else entirely in a graveyard. I wouldn't rush to criticize the use of granite as too expensive for use as tombstone markers, the stuff lasts forever. But I did pause in my steps for considerable ti...