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| I hope you enjoyed the panda picture. I just wanted to reach around and hug one of them! But as you probably know, they could most likely break my arms and rip my face off.
I had an interesting thought tonight as I was thinking about the conversation I had during lunchtime about acknowledging personal responsibility. I'd have to say that having absolutely no control over circumstances in our lives is extremely rare. Yes, things happen, but we also make decisions, just as Pastor James once preached on. Much of our lives are made up of the big and small choices we make on a daily level.
However, our willingness to admit responsibility over our actions and certain parts of our lives (especially mistakes) might have something to do with our needs. I think it is possible to have a hyperactive need for validation from others. I guess I could say that in another way: sometimes we can look so hard for approval from people to the point that our sense of fairness and healthy relationships gets clouded. We can overlook our wrongdoing, point out the faults of others, and give an account of the right things we've done. Our over-zealous sense of belonging and identity-seeking has actually contributed to the shielding from healthy self-humbling and quick-to-forgive attitudes. So in that paradigm, even when we subconsciously argue our sides on our own behalf, we may be acting out of our "need" to validate ourselves in our own eyes and in those around us. And when we lift ourselves up in this way, we essentially tear ourselves down from the very Godly people we had originally intended to become.
The fabric of our beings are grossly condemned. And in the light of Jesus who basically stood in our place and bought eternal life for us with his own blood, only do we have any confidence before God. However, when we assert ourselves and struggle to promote ourselves (either subconsiously or intentionally), we lay down the greater power and try to take down the world with our own strength. We try to understand and decipher that which God so easily reasons. After all, it is completely his creation. Which physical law is he bound to, being its ultimate author? He understands us; therefore, we should continue to learn to lay down our wills so that he can work in his own strong and tremendous way.
Sorry, that was verbose and riddled with grammatical errors and had a poor choice of words. I could have written that better. But it was off the BB and I just wanted to write it out before I forgot. | | |
| i love this pic so much i just have to post it, for those of you who dont subscribe to my reader.google.com articles
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| sorry for the crappy picture quality, but could this 2006 600rr be mine in a week? stay tuned!!!!
btw, check out my new fb profile pic. jt and i had fun making it last night. super bored, of course. | | |
| It's Monday and I haven't written in a good few days. I hope you haven't been wondering too much what's been happening, because you'd be disappointed! For the most part, I've been sick for the last few days (really starting Friday) so I decided to take a sick day today and rest. My definition of "rest" apparently meant staying in bed until 9:30am and then getting up to do projects and run errands. I'm actually sitting in the waiting room right now. Not for the doctor's office, but mechanic's. I was having all 4 struts and mounts swapped out but they could only do 3 of 4 yesterday since the fourth one they ordered was a wrong one.
Saturday's Christmas party went well. It was my first time "coordinating" one. All I really did was delegate the tasks of games, worship, food, white elephant/msg. Then I ended up helping with the game planning, which turned out to be a lot of fun. For white eleph, I got 20gb of storage on Picasa as my gift (courtesy of Ben). The white eleph this year, was a $1 min and $5 max on gifts. I think it needs to be more than $5 next year since there was very little stealing. But on the flip side, there were almost no dissatisfied people :). I think ppl's expextations were just lower. Understanding people is just so fascinating!
I didn't end up going to MP or climbing Saturday morning. Just decided to stay home and rest. But what we really ended up doing was JT and I went shopping for the WE gift while it was pouring outside. We hit a few stores and it was a lot of fun. But I think running around in the rain undid all of my efforts to prevent sickness because we ended up leaving the party early since I was not feeling too hot. My car was also boxed in so I ended up driving over plants and grass to get out.
Last night we had such a fun time hanging out and playing games. It was ansel, will, lilD, and I. I am trying to remember the funny conversation we had but I guess I'll have to post that later. And I'll also be posting pics from my DIY bathroom project that I'm doing on the house we are renting. JT and Alan, if you are reading this, please do not worry about what I have done!
Btw, Peter Wang came to visit us at LSCC yesterday at church! Haven't seen him in ages. :)
Edit 3:30pm: I had to come back to the mech shop to get an alignment done. If you ever change out the struts (approx every 50k miles), you need an alignment. I got there and one guy was asleep and the other was playing WOW. I guess business has been slow.
One thing I forgot to mention was this morning when I was cutting my hair, my cutters gave off this little puff and fireball as I was in between cuts. Two things went through my mind at that moment:
1. Did I just see what I thought I saw?
2. Is it still safe to cut my hair with this thing?
the fireball was around where your head would be if you're cutting hair. I started it back up and it sounded and looked normal... I was second-guessing what I saw. Anyway, I think I'll just end up replacing my old Oster for a Wahl or something. It's served me the longest out of all the cutters I've owned over my 11 years of self-hair cutting (only 2nd to JT).
Edit 6:25pm: for some odd reason, I can't stand hip-hop music. I'd rather listen to country music. It was much more tolerable listening to country with Cyrus in his truck on the way back from Buttonwillow.
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| you arent a real snow-sport enthusiast if you have no idea what the snow conditions right now are. with that being said, ive never made such a quick season-to-season transition within the same month! i dont think ive ever really ridden motos into december. it was a risk, but a worthy one. it's going to be great in tahoe this year. still icy and crappy compared to being spoiled in colorado, but it'll definitely be nicer than last year.
i have tons to write, but i gotta go down to milpitas and grab my bass amplifier and head back up to union city for practice. sucks, but somebody's gotta do it. christmas party this saturday. excited.... it'll be fun. looking forward to saturday morning. if there wont be a hike, maybe i should go running. ttyl. | | |
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