This weekend is going to be crazy.
1) Mollie is coming to visit. Ok, main purpose is to go to a wedding, but I'm stoked to see her again
2) Michelle is coming from Lynden! Yeah! SO EXCITED. This is the first time anyone in my family is going to visit me while I'm at school!
Also, today I've been working on a 'Vocational Portfolio' for one of my classes which involves me doing some research on grad schools and career options for sociology majors. I have definitely discovered how stinking excited I am about the possibilities of grad school now. Especially because I found absolutely the perfect program for me at the University of Glasgow: a Masters of Letters in Tourism, Heritage and Development. It covers so many areas that are incredibly interesting to me and I'm pretty sure people can't understand just how stinking excited I am. While I was looking at these programs my thoughts were along the lines of 'holy crap grad school is terrifying' and not exciting at all but now I've found one that isn't just interesting, but it is really, REALLY making me excited about learning!
YES. GOD IS GOOD.
14 Oct 2010
4 Oct 2010
oh to have your school picketed by radicals
So today's big news is this: a not to be named (I'd rather not have hateful comments posted on my blog) institution is going to picket Whitworth, along with Eastern, a Jewish synagogue, Rodgers High School, Gonzaga, Moody Bible Institute and a few other schools/churches in Spokane. I would like to talk about how incredibly ludicrous this is. Their reasoning for picketing Whitworth is this:
*** will picket the allegedly Christian Whitworth University to remind
them that this current generation of young adults were raised to serve
their lusts rather than their Lord.
These college students spend more time pursuing their drunken sins
than their academic studies. Their professors happily teach them the
ubiquitous lie that "it's OK to be gay" and its just fine to flip off
God and mock His servants. The full time occupation of both the
professors and students is to make provision for the flesh, all day,
everyday.
I would like those of you who just read that and got really pissed off to read it again, and then laugh. Because whoever wrote this really, really did not do their homework on Whitworth. Also, they have the vocabulary of a middle schooler "fine to flip off God". The also, in their descriptions of Rodgers, called the students there "brats". It just makes me laugh. And also very sad. I have read many peoples' comments about this and one person was writing (on a facebook group wall) to "remember that they are Christians". As I found out by doing a bit of research, they in fact are technically a cult. Those Christian groups that they like to affiliate themselves with, one being the Primitive Baptists have pretty much all but denounced the group that has broken off of them. You want to talk about extremists giving a bad rap for a religion? Islamists have their militants and Christianity has plenty of people who claim to be a part of the religion that are crazies too. And these people are what the world sees of the base religion - lets think this over and stop making stereotypical assumptions, por favor.
Also, for those people who are deciding to take this as a personal affront to Whitworth: please don't. If you go on their website (which is down right now - hopefully for longer than they would like) and read the reasons for picketing the other places that they will be picketing, it is pretty much the same as Whitworth. In some cases, directly copied and pasted. For this reason, it is obvious that they are saying, and their reasons for picketing Whitworth, they are picketing not because this is truly what Whitworth is supposed to be like, but rather a statement. They get their money off of suing the people that they picket if there is retaliation. So let us all sit and pray that somehow they get the sense knocked into them and their eyes are opened to the wonder that is 'loving your neighbor as you would be loved'.
Good solutions: I like John Stewart's approach. People have talked about how they might carry mirrors out and sit facing the people who are protesting (which is most likely under 10 people) without speaking. Any other ideas my friends?
*** will picket the allegedly Christian Whitworth University to remind
them that this current generation of young adults were raised to serve
their lusts rather than their Lord.
These college students spend more time pursuing their drunken sins
than their academic studies. Their professors happily teach them the
ubiquitous lie that "it's OK to be gay" and its just fine to flip off
God and mock His servants. The full time occupation of both the
professors and students is to make provision for the flesh, all day,
everyday.
I would like those of you who just read that and got really pissed off to read it again, and then laugh. Because whoever wrote this really, really did not do their homework on Whitworth. Also, they have the vocabulary of a middle schooler "fine to flip off God". The also, in their descriptions of Rodgers, called the students there "brats". It just makes me laugh. And also very sad. I have read many peoples' comments about this and one person was writing (on a facebook group wall) to "remember that they are Christians". As I found out by doing a bit of research, they in fact are technically a cult. Those Christian groups that they like to affiliate themselves with, one being the Primitive Baptists have pretty much all but denounced the group that has broken off of them. You want to talk about extremists giving a bad rap for a religion? Islamists have their militants and Christianity has plenty of people who claim to be a part of the religion that are crazies too. And these people are what the world sees of the base religion - lets think this over and stop making stereotypical assumptions, por favor.
Also, for those people who are deciding to take this as a personal affront to Whitworth: please don't. If you go on their website (which is down right now - hopefully for longer than they would like) and read the reasons for picketing the other places that they will be picketing, it is pretty much the same as Whitworth. In some cases, directly copied and pasted. For this reason, it is obvious that they are saying, and their reasons for picketing Whitworth, they are picketing not because this is truly what Whitworth is supposed to be like, but rather a statement. They get their money off of suing the people that they picket if there is retaliation. So let us all sit and pray that somehow they get the sense knocked into them and their eyes are opened to the wonder that is 'loving your neighbor as you would be loved'.
Good solutions: I like John Stewart's approach. People have talked about how they might carry mirrors out and sit facing the people who are protesting (which is most likely under 10 people) without speaking. Any other ideas my friends?
22 Sept 2010
some soft rock and triscuits
so I wrote a whole post and then it got deleted. slight frustration.
Highlights - church on Sunday was fantastic. I was reading Hebrews 11 beforehand (because my friend who I got a ride from was working with the kids) and came across this wonderful passage: "They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance" (Heb. 11:13) This was just one of those great reminders about not having expectations of God. He has a plan and we might not see a reward for our actions in this life, but we still need to live by faith. Chapter 11 is an entitled "by Faith" and is just a recounting of all the people who lived by faith and did not necessarily see the direct results of their faith. Also, it gives a definition of faith in the first verse: "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". That is food for thought.
Also from church - we're going through Genesis at Branches, a new church in north Spokane that i now go to. Pretty much, the gist of the sermon was to remember the beginning. The first command from mankind was "you are free to eat from any tree in the garden" (Gen. 2:16), we have free reign to eat from any tree, but instead we try and satisfy ourselves with one tree, one thing that the little sadistic voice in our head says can complete us instead of turning to God. Tagline: "it's easy to have sex, but hard to be naked" Meaning that we try and satisfy ourselves in human things rather than in being sure that we are accepted, loved, and can be comfortable in Christ - we have nothing to be ashamed of, but we still try and hide our nakedness, our faults, from others rather than put them out for everyone to see.
OK! Onward to now. I just feel like saying, I absolutely love my hall this year. All of the girls are making such an effort to hang out and do things with each other. For instance, Megan was in the hallway and said "Nanda. I want to have a scavenger hunt. Can we have a scavenger hunt?" So she and Olivia sat in the hallway and had a discussion about things to find for the scavenger hunt (two samples: jump picture with touchdown Jesus and a picture with five men not from our dorm). They are amazing.
Classes have been challenging and somehow I've been clinging to not being burned out. It's a good feeling, especially since in previous years I've been pretty well exhausted by now. Now that my schedule is all worked out and solid, I'm pretty excited about this year, not just the RAing part. I'm really letting myself be challenged by a couple classes and am excited for the outcome.
Prayer requests - to keep feeling well rested, to 'fill in the gaps with good' when making judgements or assumptions, and to be intentional about my friendships. Also for me not to feel too bad when people don't come by to visit terribly frequently.
Highlights - church on Sunday was fantastic. I was reading Hebrews 11 beforehand (because my friend who I got a ride from was working with the kids) and came across this wonderful passage: "They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance" (Heb. 11:13) This was just one of those great reminders about not having expectations of God. He has a plan and we might not see a reward for our actions in this life, but we still need to live by faith. Chapter 11 is an entitled "by Faith" and is just a recounting of all the people who lived by faith and did not necessarily see the direct results of their faith. Also, it gives a definition of faith in the first verse: "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". That is food for thought.
Also from church - we're going through Genesis at Branches, a new church in north Spokane that i now go to. Pretty much, the gist of the sermon was to remember the beginning. The first command from mankind was "you are free to eat from any tree in the garden" (Gen. 2:16), we have free reign to eat from any tree, but instead we try and satisfy ourselves with one tree, one thing that the little sadistic voice in our head says can complete us instead of turning to God. Tagline: "it's easy to have sex, but hard to be naked" Meaning that we try and satisfy ourselves in human things rather than in being sure that we are accepted, loved, and can be comfortable in Christ - we have nothing to be ashamed of, but we still try and hide our nakedness, our faults, from others rather than put them out for everyone to see.
OK! Onward to now. I just feel like saying, I absolutely love my hall this year. All of the girls are making such an effort to hang out and do things with each other. For instance, Megan was in the hallway and said "Nanda. I want to have a scavenger hunt. Can we have a scavenger hunt?" So she and Olivia sat in the hallway and had a discussion about things to find for the scavenger hunt (two samples: jump picture with touchdown Jesus and a picture with five men not from our dorm). They are amazing.
Classes have been challenging and somehow I've been clinging to not being burned out. It's a good feeling, especially since in previous years I've been pretty well exhausted by now. Now that my schedule is all worked out and solid, I'm pretty excited about this year, not just the RAing part. I'm really letting myself be challenged by a couple classes and am excited for the outcome.
Prayer requests - to keep feeling well rested, to 'fill in the gaps with good' when making judgements or assumptions, and to be intentional about my friendships. Also for me not to feel too bad when people don't come by to visit terribly frequently.
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