OK Go - Here It Goes Again
this clip is just so funny. i so wanna try it out! does anyone have 8 treadmills and a huge silver tarpoline handy???
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
challenges of life
Recently I've found it so amazing and so challenging and so comforting that God has a plan for my life and that he leads me in different directions.
All the talks I've been to this year and all the bible studies I've done just seem to be so relavant to me. At first I thought it was pure coincidence, but now I realise that God really has been speaking to me and trying to challenge me. I guess it also just goes to show that the Bible is living and active.
I think after high school... I was in this real crucial point in my life where I was thinking really deeply about all the relationships that I'm in. At the beginning of the year... I heard talks on matthew which made me rethink how I was going to relate to God this year. I also had talks from matthew at ISCF conference and apparently the talks for women's convention will be from matthew too. Then at MYC I was challenged about the purpose of marriage and contentment in being single (which has come up a lot for me this year).
For basically my whole high school years... I think I was very unhappy about being single and I think this is a problem with our adolescent (sp?) culture today that so much importance is placed on 'who you go out with.' Here were my mood changes:
- singleness is crap
- you can serve God better being single... so deal with it
- you can serve God better in a relationship
- singleness is mad... you get to hang out with your girl friends and chat more
- singleness sucks when you're the only one single
There is a really challenging passage in 1 Corinthians 7:25ff which basically says, if you're single... stay single because it's good and you can serve God better, and if you are married... keep at it and serve God in that way. I'm still not sure what I think about this passage... I think it's something I have to mull over for a bit.
So at the moment... I am quite happy with being single, and I'm trying to work out how I can be serving God in my singleness... because it's such a blessing that I don't have to worry about a guy and that I have so much time to do things that people in relationships probably would have less time to do.
One thing that confuses me are single Christians who say "I plan to get married and have kids etc" but they don't consider the fact that God may want them to be unmarried and that they may be able to glorify God better while being single. Like who are we to say "God... please get me into a relationship."
I dunno... thats my confusing (and slightly controversial) spiel. This basically came up because my bible study group seems to be overly preoccupied with relationships. I don't know if it's helpful.
but in all this... Yay for God! Because he loves me.
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p.s: I remember being given an article to read on the 'joys of being single' which said stuff like... "when you are single, you have more time to serve God" and "you wont get as tempted" and other random stuff which made me feel really angry because it said something that I didn't want to hear. The great faults in humans... is that they want to live their own way and not just follow God's perfect plan for them.
All the talks I've been to this year and all the bible studies I've done just seem to be so relavant to me. At first I thought it was pure coincidence, but now I realise that God really has been speaking to me and trying to challenge me. I guess it also just goes to show that the Bible is living and active.
I think after high school... I was in this real crucial point in my life where I was thinking really deeply about all the relationships that I'm in. At the beginning of the year... I heard talks on matthew which made me rethink how I was going to relate to God this year. I also had talks from matthew at ISCF conference and apparently the talks for women's convention will be from matthew too. Then at MYC I was challenged about the purpose of marriage and contentment in being single (which has come up a lot for me this year).
For basically my whole high school years... I think I was very unhappy about being single and I think this is a problem with our adolescent (sp?) culture today that so much importance is placed on 'who you go out with.' Here were my mood changes:
- singleness is crap
- you can serve God better being single... so deal with it
- you can serve God better in a relationship
- singleness is mad... you get to hang out with your girl friends and chat more
- singleness sucks when you're the only one single
There is a really challenging passage in 1 Corinthians 7:25ff which basically says, if you're single... stay single because it's good and you can serve God better, and if you are married... keep at it and serve God in that way. I'm still not sure what I think about this passage... I think it's something I have to mull over for a bit.
So at the moment... I am quite happy with being single, and I'm trying to work out how I can be serving God in my singleness... because it's such a blessing that I don't have to worry about a guy and that I have so much time to do things that people in relationships probably would have less time to do.
One thing that confuses me are single Christians who say "I plan to get married and have kids etc" but they don't consider the fact that God may want them to be unmarried and that they may be able to glorify God better while being single. Like who are we to say "God... please get me into a relationship."
I dunno... thats my confusing (and slightly controversial) spiel. This basically came up because my bible study group seems to be overly preoccupied with relationships. I don't know if it's helpful.
but in all this... Yay for God! Because he loves me.
From Car-O-Line
p.s: I remember being given an article to read on the 'joys of being single' which said stuff like... "when you are single, you have more time to serve God" and "you wont get as tempted" and other random stuff which made me feel really angry because it said something that I didn't want to hear. The great faults in humans... is that they want to live their own way and not just follow God's perfect plan for them.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Threadless!
You may have noticed me wearing some cool shirts all the time. Just click on the link to see the site... sign up and buy shirts... then you can be as groovy as me!
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Friday, August 25, 2006
few!!!
I checked the apple website and my laptop battery doesn't need to be replaced. What a relief...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
the future for a 19 year old...
28/8:
-Motivation Essay due
-Post-natal pregnancy exercise presentation
30/8:
-Motivation Presentation
1/9:
-Aural transcription due
-Harmony analysis due
-I turn 20
3/9:
-Creative thinking report due
4/9:
-Concepts of physical fitness and health exam
-Keyboard journal due
5/9:
-Orchestra concert
8/9-10/9:
-Katoomba Women's Convention
11/9:
-Keyboard test
my last days of being a teenager... and I can't enjoy them. being 20 sounds drab.
From Car-O-Line
-Motivation Essay due
-Post-natal pregnancy exercise presentation
30/8:
-Motivation Presentation
1/9:
-Aural transcription due
-Harmony analysis due
-I turn 20
3/9:
-Creative thinking report due
4/9:
-Concepts of physical fitness and health exam
-Keyboard journal due
5/9:
-Orchestra concert
8/9-10/9:
-Katoomba Women's Convention
11/9:
-Keyboard test
my last days of being a teenager... and I can't enjoy them. being 20 sounds drab.
From Car-O-Line
Friday, August 18, 2006
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