Some old dead white guy

What is your favorite and least favorite physical feature and why? (Linds)

My least favorite body part, currently, is the entire upper extremity and back, because I have a test on it on thursday. Aside from that I guess Id have to say butts, cos I cant exactly say that with a straight face. The more I learn about anatomy the less i like them as a general principle. Its like that whole Plato thing, if only idealism was practical.

Is sin a function of bondage, or the downfall of personal responsibility? (Stina)

Augustine (some dead white catholic guy) would say that evil isnt really its own entity that is at war with good. He says that that evil is a privation of something. I dunno what that has to do with this question, but its something to think about. If evil is a lack of something, namely with the case of sin, that something would be good, then really you are bound to it. If we go on the principle that you cant make something from nothing, than if you lack something, you cant really make it and thus are bound to your lack of something. Weird thoughts. (disclaimer: I dont know if i buy into Augustine, but some of his stuff makes sense.)

Sorry this is late. little busy this week.
Next week: What is something you want to accomplish in the next six months?

Freedom

What makes something worth doing? (Linds)

You know, I dont really know. I think at least one thing that makes something worth doing is deciding to do it. ...you're going to hate me for this, but even bad things are worth doing sometimes, because of the results they produce for that person and for other people. Deciding to do something is an exersize of the freedom we were made for. If you're not exersizing freedom in doing something, it might not be worth doing. We were'nt created to be robots. Im sure there is a downfall to this argument, feel free to refute. within limits this is an answer.

Post the lyrics to a song you really like and tell why you like it. (Stina)

I feel like the weight of the world is, Crashing down on me
& some how I just don’t believe, This how it is suppose to be
All this expectation on, the way I’m suppose to live
Becomes my minds distraction, with nothing left to give

You said your burden is light & Your load is no more
You said your ways are right & in you I will soar

I want to be free, Free to dance & free to sing
Free to live & learn & free oh, free to be me

I feel like my Heart is being Beat, down into the ground,
In you I’m longing for some peace, to be found
I know the heaviness that’s, making me cold
Is stealing my youthful soul & making me old

You said your burden is light & Your load is no more
You said your ways are right & in you I will soar

I want to be free, Free to dance & free to sing
Free to live & learn & free oh, free to be me
-"Free" by Shawn Mcdonald

This song just works for me right now. To think that His burden is light and His load is no more, gives me hope and encouragement. Also that He says His ways are right and in Him I will soar. This is peacefully exciting, and to some degree Ive seen it.

Next:
Kind of ties in with the worth doing thing. Is sin a function of bondage, or the downfall of personal responsibility?

Lyrical Worth

Post the lyrics to a song you really like and tell why you like it. (stina)

Presented with the opportunity to talk about Michael Card, I will do so freely *smile*
Perhaps this is breaking the rules, but I'm going to have to go with a whole album, I hope you don't mind. This particular album came at a crucial time in my life when everything around me was painful. My church was falling apart, I was working in a very difficult situation and I was at odds with my family and many of my friends. As my life was stripped away this music was ingrained so deeply in my heart that I have tears in my eyes thinking of it now. This is the album. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?p=1006648&item_no=CD6097#curr

What makes something worth doing? (lindsey)

Inundation with distractions and constrains of a time limit remind me why I asked this question. My gut response is that if we act out of faith and our motive is love, anything and everything is worth doing. But it gets more practical than that. Stephen Covey, author of the 7 habits of highly effective people, says there are four areas we can operate out of. 1) Urgent and necessary 2) Not urgent and necessary 3) Urgent and unnecessary 4) not urgent and not necessary. Ok, sure, I agree. The thing is that I can know what I should do, what is necessary to do and not do it because at the time, the amount of energy needed to accomplish the task is so great that it is not worth the doing. Until afterwards, that is, when the aforesaid item is still on my list. So perhaps my question is really what makes something worth doing if it is not enjoyable. Ah, the truth comes out- I am a wuss. I guess love is my answer. Is the motive love? Then do it. Is it not? Let it be. I am eager to hear your response.

Question for next week: What is your favorite and least favorite physical feature and why?

Significance

Name any significant experience you've had in the past three years and how it has changed you. (Stina)

I can't help but agree that everything in the past (two years for me) has changed me. You have certainly been one of them and a comrade-in-change as well. Two specifics stand out to me. The first is meeting Dean Graf. The moment I met him, I knew that the kind of teaching I wanted to do was possible when so many had told me it was impossible. He brought God to life for me and into his classroom too. The second is reading through the entire Bible cover to cover. I'd read the whole thing before, but wading through the enormity and depravity of the old testament saints set a scene for Jesus I'd never known before. Jesus is good and Jesus is needed. Simple you say. But of course the most profound things are. More floods to the brinks of my fingers, but you asked for one and I've already given you two.

What is your ideal home? (Lindsey)

In short, my ideal home would be where enough of God can be had. I love the times of familiar warmth and laughter within my parents house, I love the comfort of friend's company and the belonging that comes from years of living daily life with the same people. The world seemed to have more of God in it when I was younger and my family and friends were not leaving for foreign lands and the other side of ours. I want to rest in him and not feel like I am lying in the dirt. (Is this getting depressing or what.) God's promise: They shall dwell with me and be my people and I shall be their God. Sigh. I am so eager.



Next question: What makes something worth doing?

Home

What is your ideal home? (Lindsey)

If there is one thing Ive learned through this whole God and I seeing thing, it is that home isnt just my house, or my family, or my friends, or even (gasp) my cat. Really, even though my heart can't even begin to know this in any sense, because I doubt it without even knowing it. But home really is only everything God is and does for me. You used the analogy that God's will is like a playground, and I really think that that playground and everything He put on it is home. everything I'll ever need is there.

This is a tangent but this morning I went for a run to give your question a good think. It is gorgeous outside, but windy. very windy. The kind of wind you get wrapped up in. breathing is a spiritual thing. its nice. ;)

Name any significant experience youve had in the past three years and how it has changed you. (Stina)

Everything about the past three years has changed me. haha ive got about three minutes to talk about all that. But really, there's so much I dont need to say, because you have been there. It seems that our homes have overlapped in a rather big way. It's nice. So yeah I guess that if I can name anything I want to thats been significant and changed me, I'll say you, Lindsey, and say that you've changed the way I see God's faithfulness. mainly that He is.

and then I'll laugh and think "you are so good for me."

Thanks God, for always hooking me up with your best, even though I dont deserve it. Jesus is a sweet deal. in the most sincere non-kidding sense.

You are more beautiful than anyone ever
Everyday You're the same You never change no never
You are more beautiful than anyone ever
Everyday You're the same You never change no never
And how can I ever deny the love of my Savior
You are to me everything all I need forever
How could you be so good?
-Barlowgirl, "No One Like You"

oh man. that took like 17 minutes. I fail. Sorry ;)

Next: Post the lyrics to a song you really like and tell why you like it.

Monday I Guess

Certified or not, what is the most important thing you have to teach? (Stina)

Teaching in general is pretty thrilling to me. I love learning and sharing and experiencing new things, being able to apply them to what we know and use them to change things. The most important thing I have to teach as of now is simply to live life, or in other words, find something worth doing and do it. My job is to make sure kids have the basic tools, but what I hope every student walks away from my class knowing is that mistakes, successes, highs and lows,life is to be lived. So, let's find something and do it!


You have the best teacher in the world who can teach you anything you want to know. What do you most want to be taught? (lindsey)

Everything- Lol.

Seriously, what I want to learn is not actual subject matter, that is easy enough to come by, but how to continue when things lose their sparkle, how to finish things, how to share the process with others, how to use what I learn to love, and how to think of others before myself.

Next:
What is your ideal home?

Also: I'm confused too, just flow with it and nudge me if I need it. I hope you are having fun, I am *grin*

Week 2

You have the best teacher in the world who can teach you anything you want to know. What do you most want to be taught? (lindsey)

I want to be taught how light can be both particle and wave like in its properties, and what exactly a photon is. I seem to be better at chemistry than anything else as of late. It fasinates me that when we look up at the stars, we're really seeing thousands of years into the past. Just think of the things that were happening on earth when the light was emitted from its origin!


Certified or not, what is the most important thing you have to teach? (Stina)

I guess I dont really know yet...this is what college is for hey? I think something I have a lot of is perspective. I've seen life from two very different sides. There must be something to teach from this. Actually I probably havent seen much of life at all. *shrug* its all so relative.

EDIT:
Next Question: Name any significant experience you have had in the past 3 years and tell how it has changed you. (sorry i guess I forgot to pot the question last time.)

Also: Im a little confused, are we still posting on fridays or is it mondays now?