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I’m planning to write a million secret letters. And I’m planning to use the annagram method or the split alphabet method OR both. So when you actually find my letters, you’ll know how to decipher them. I don’t care. No one’s interested to decipher my secrets anyways. Who am I?
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She turned away from me and softly, maybe to herself, said, “Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
“Huh?” I asked.
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
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“Sometimes I don’t get you,” I said.
She didn’t even glance at me. She just smiled towards the television and said, “You never get me. That’s the whole point.
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Adam & Eve Revisited
I started realizing the Garden of Eden wasn’t anything like I’d imagined.
…I began to wonder about Eve, what the scene might have looked like when she and Adam first met. When I was reading the text…I noticed Adam and Eve didn’t meet right away. Moses said God knew Adam was lonely or incomplete or however you want to say it, but God did not create Eve directly after He stated Adam was lonely. This struck me as funny because a lot of times when I think about life before the Fall, I don’t think of people going around lonely. But here is Adam, the only perfect guy in the world, and he is going around wanting to be with somebody else, needing another person to fulfill a certain emptiness in his life. And as I said, when God saw this, He did not create Eve right away. He did not give Adam what he needed immediately. He waited. He told Adam to name the animals.
In my mind this had been such an effortless action; Adam sits on a log with his hand on his chin, God parades the animals by rather quickly, Adam calls out names under his breath. But could it really have been that effortless?
I wonder how long it must have taken Adam to journey to the ocean to name the sea life, and whether he had to make a boat and go out on a boat or whether God had them swim up close to the shore, so Adam only had to go in about waist-deep.
I looked at how many animals there are in the world, and it turns out there are between ten million and one hundred million different species. So even if you believe in evolution, that means there were between one million and fifty million species around in the time of the Garden, and Adam, apparently, had to name all of them. And the entire time he was lonely.
I never thought of Adam the same again. This was a man who, despite feeling a certain need for a companion, performed what must have been nearly one hundred years of work, naming and perhaps even categorizing the animals. It would have taken him nearly a year just to name the species of snakes alone. Moses said that Eve didn’t give birth to their third child til Adam was well into his hundreds, which means they would have had Cain and Abel some thirty or so years before, which also means either it took Adam more than a hundred years to name the animals, or he and Eve didn’t have sex for a good, long, boring century.The thing is, when Adam finished naming the animals, after all his work and effort, God put him to sleep, took a rib out of his side, and fashioned a woman. I had read that part a thousand times, too, but I don’t think I realized how beautiful this moment was. Moses said the whole time Adam was naming the animals, that entire hundred years, he couldn’t find a helpmate suitable for him…the entire time he could not imagine what a helpmate might look like, how a helpmate might talk, the ways in which a helpmate might think. The idea of another person had, perhaps, never entered Adam’s mind.
So here was this guy who was intensely relational, needing other people, and in order to cause him to appreciate the gift of companionship, God had him hang out with chimps for a hundred years. It’s quite beautiful, really. God directed Adam’s steps so that when He created Eve, Adam would have the utmost appreciation, respect, and gratitude.
I think it was smart of God because today, now that there are women all around and a guy can go on the Internet and see them naked anytime he wants, the whole species has been devalued. I read recently that one of every four women, by the time they reach thirty, are sexually harassed, molested, or raped. And then I thought how very beautiful it was that God made Adam work for so long because there is no way, after a hundred years of being alone, looking for somebody whom you could connect with in your soul, that you would take advantage of a woman once you met one. She would be the most precious creation in all the world, and you would probably wake up every morning and look at her and wonder at her beauty. You probably think I am being mushy and romantic, but the first time Moses breaks into poetry in the Bible is when Adam first meets Eve:
”Bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh”If you think about these ideas they are quite meaningful, and the bit of poetry Moses came up with truly summarizes the scene because for the first time in his life, Adam was seeing a person who was like him, only more beautiful, and smarter in the ways of love and encouragement,and more deliberate in the ways of relationships. He must have thought to himself that she was perfect, and after a few days of just talking and getting to know each other, they must have fallen deeply in love.
Considering the couple, and what Adam went through to appreciate Eve to the utmost, I wondered at how beautiful it is that you and I were created to need each other. The romantic need is just the beginning, because we need our families and we need our friends. In this way, we are made in God’s image.
Certainly God does not need people in the way you or I do, but He feels a joy at being loved, and He feels a joy at delivering love. It is a striking thought to realize that, in paradise, a human is incomplete without a host of other people. We are relational indeed. And this book, the Bible, with all its understanding of the relational needs of humans, was becoming more meaningful to me as I turned the pages. God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.-Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
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Internet Tethering
Woo. This internet tethering is awesome. I don’t have a wireless so I totally appreciate my 3G from my iPhone. I’m loving this. I’m soooo loving this.
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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I just happen to have such a busy busy life at the moment that I neglect all non-school related things - not that I’m complaining. I quite like it.
I’ll make time for you soon, I promise.
Today in Women Studies, we watched a documentary film called Vagina Monologues. I must say after the film, the class was just stunned in silence.
The Vagina Monologues film covers a variety of issues about women, whether it be sexual abuse, accustomed culture, or male-domination.
Did you know that in the Philippines, during the World War II, Japanese soldiers imprison women and rape them? It said that they were called “comfort women” by Japanese soldiers at the time.
Did you know that in Kenya, they circumcise women (cut their clitoris) in 3 different kinds of methods so they can loose the pleasure in sexual intercourse? And if you defy the practice of circumcision, you are prejudiced.
Did you know that somewhere in South Dakota (where Native Americans inhabit), husbands abuse their wives and consider it an honor because that’s how they were brought up in their Lakota culture?
It’s quite remarkable how these things exist in some different parts of the world while we just live our ordinary lives. I’ve known fragments about these issues but the film expounded it further. I think the awareness I’ve had after watching the film has long been overdue.
I want to care and make a difference and stand to what my heart believes whether accepted in the “hip” society or not.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
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So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings so that your love is sincere and intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover’s life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus will be proud of: bountiful in fruits from the soul, making Jesus Christ attractive to all, getting everyone involved in the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-11 (The Message)
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My spirituality, that is Christian spirituality, does not tell me to close my eyes and pretend life is beautiful and there are no problems to confront. I am told, instead, I am out of water, and finding water again will require a different kind of water. I am told something happened a long time ago and you and I and John and everybody else were washed up on the shore. We will have issues, we will have brokenness.
Tomorrow
I will have to start training for my Mt. Charleston hike on Friday with my Geography class. It will take 10 hours round trip and it’s not cool if I don’t train or else my legs will die. I should have started earlier than this week but… ugh.
Oh and yeah, Mt. Charleston is almost an hour away from Las Vegas so my classmates and I are doing a carpool. I’m excited. This should be fun (=
Oh and yeah, I will be back at the bank and see what’s up with my account. This is ridiculous. I can’t use my own debit card for my purchases?
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