Let's talk about a video that just blows you away.
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Thanks to Rachel for sending this my way.
Some of my favourite quotes from it:
- "Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
- "Don't waste your time on jealousy."
- "Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, let me know how."
- "Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people i know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 years olds I know still don't."
- "Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever have."
"The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally and seriously is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.'Most of us want a balanced life that we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering."
- Francis Chan in Crazy Love p.68
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I've recently started following a travel blog called Almost Fearless. It's run by a woman named Christine Gilbert and it's just her life as she travels around the world with her husband and new born baby, Cole.
It gives me hope that maybe I don't need to choose between singleness and adventure. Maybe I don't need to settle down to, one day, have a family. Maybe I can have both.
I don't know how my life will work out, but I do like this blog.
Here's a short excerpt from her latest post titled "What the Fluff Are We Doing?":
"It’s one of the things that I love about us as a couple: we’re totally on crack. We will just try something. Then we’ll try to kill each other. Then we’ll laugh and he’ll make fun of me, and I’ll say, 'Hey, I don’t like to be teased' and then I’ll accidentally put salt in his coffee."
It gives me hope that maybe I don't need to choose between singleness and adventure. Maybe I don't need to settle down to, one day, have a family. Maybe I can have both.
I don't know how my life will work out, but I do like this blog.
Here's a short excerpt from her latest post titled "What the Fluff Are We Doing?":
"It’s one of the things that I love about us as a couple: we’re totally on crack. We will just try something. Then we’ll try to kill each other. Then we’ll laugh and he’ll make fun of me, and I’ll say, 'Hey, I don’t like to be teased' and then I’ll accidentally put salt in his coffee."
23.5.11
Crazy Love.
I'm 40 pages in and more impressed with that cover design than the book.
But I did find this:
"Intellectually we all know that we will die, but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as though it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever."
I'm 40 pages in and more impressed with that cover design than the book.
But I did find this:
"Intellectually we all know that we will die, but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as though it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever."
- Frederick Buechner
If I start posting Francis Chan quotes, you'll know that I've changed my mind and started to enjoy the book.
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17.5.11
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Sunday morning, 9am.
I'm still laying in bed when I get a text from my roommate that went something like this "Yo, our license plates were stolen ... lol." I get out of bed, go outside and sure enough my license plate was gone. Not sure what to do I went back inside and I did what any modern day American would do, I googled "what do I do if my license plate was stolen?" The common consensus was to report it to the police (didn't see that one coming). So I walked to the police sub-station near my house. It turns out that the sub-station isn't open on the weekends and I didn't feel that this was an emergency, just an inconvenience, so I didn't bother calling 911. I'd leave it til the station opened on Monday.
Monday morning, 9am.
My roommate and I leave the house to walk to the sub-station. I couldn't really remember what time it opened, so when I saw a patrol car rolling down our street I flagged him down. I explained that our plates were stolen and asked what time the station opened. He ignored my questions by immediately asking if one of the plates belonged to a Pennsylvania Honda. I fessed up that, yeah, I own a Honda with PA plates. He then tells us to hop in the back of his car because my plate is around the corner. We hop in the back and let me tell you the back seat of a cop car is not made for 6'5'' males and it's just hard plastic back there. Not comfortable in the least! We're in the car for literally a minute when the officer pulls up beside two other patrol cars and behind a brand new, silver 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee ... with my plate on it!
Turns out that there was a car heist in Greece, NY early morning Sunday in which the thieves stole five cars out of a dealership. And, of course, my plate was put on one of those cars and is now being held as evidence. I'll get it back, it's just going to be a few days. More incentive to ride my bike everywhere!
On a side note, everyone I dealt with on the RPD and Greece PD were super helpful and polite even with something as inconsequential as a stolen license plate.
I was impressed.
Sunday morning, 9am.
I'm still laying in bed when I get a text from my roommate that went something like this "Yo, our license plates were stolen ... lol." I get out of bed, go outside and sure enough my license plate was gone. Not sure what to do I went back inside and I did what any modern day American would do, I googled "what do I do if my license plate was stolen?" The common consensus was to report it to the police (didn't see that one coming). So I walked to the police sub-station near my house. It turns out that the sub-station isn't open on the weekends and I didn't feel that this was an emergency, just an inconvenience, so I didn't bother calling 911. I'd leave it til the station opened on Monday.
Monday morning, 9am.
My roommate and I leave the house to walk to the sub-station. I couldn't really remember what time it opened, so when I saw a patrol car rolling down our street I flagged him down. I explained that our plates were stolen and asked what time the station opened. He ignored my questions by immediately asking if one of the plates belonged to a Pennsylvania Honda. I fessed up that, yeah, I own a Honda with PA plates. He then tells us to hop in the back of his car because my plate is around the corner. We hop in the back and let me tell you the back seat of a cop car is not made for 6'5'' males and it's just hard plastic back there. Not comfortable in the least! We're in the car for literally a minute when the officer pulls up beside two other patrol cars and behind a brand new, silver 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee ... with my plate on it!
Turns out that there was a car heist in Greece, NY early morning Sunday in which the thieves stole five cars out of a dealership. And, of course, my plate was put on one of those cars and is now being held as evidence. I'll get it back, it's just going to be a few days. More incentive to ride my bike everywhere!
On a side note, everyone I dealt with on the RPD and Greece PD were super helpful and polite even with something as inconsequential as a stolen license plate.
I was impressed.
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2.5.11
A Collection of Thoughts on Osama Bin Laden's Assassination
" ... rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer."
- Romans 13:4
“Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles or is overthrown.”
- Proverbs 24:17
"Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?"
- Ezekiel 33:11
"I support our president and military and I recognize the immeasurable price they pay to protect the shores of the not-so-United States of America. Yet, I’m confused by our response. Has hate been buried? Has violence come to its end? As the theologian Brian McLaren says, “Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?” God have mercy."
- Shaun Whitehead
How can anyone who claims to know God as He is presented in the Bible celebrate at the death of anyone who does not?
- Meg Maxon
"I believe in justice, absolutely! God is a God of justice. But celebrating the death of someone in the form of saying we are glad he is dead, is NOT right, no matter who they are or what they did. Christ died so that all would be saved, not just some. We should be grieved as the Father would be by loosing yet another one of His creations for eternity."
- Chris Edwards
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