Stocking The Bank

Structure Forming Structure

Will It Become Mass?

As this year starts and this new semester is underway, there is this discombobulated foundation being laid where all of our heavily loaded classes don't have very solid deadlines. I am eager and excited for all of my classes and projects, many of them seem intriguingly haptic. Some seem innovative, and others educational, which are still vital to our learning, and equally exciting. The instructors seem really involved this year as well. I have this goal this year to be really on top of all my projects and deadlines... which is not starting well because the hazy deadlines that are more void than mass. 

For They Become...

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. 

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become your character.

And Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

-Margaret Thatcher

Not Religion

What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion, what if I told you voting Republican was not His mission. What if I told you republican does not automatically mean your a Christian. Just because you call others bind does not automatically give you vision. If religion is so great  then why has it started so many wars. Why does it build huge churches but fails to feed the poor, tell single moms that God does not love them if they have had a divorce. But in the old testament calls religious people hores. Religion might preach grace, but its another thing they practice. To ridicule God's people but they did it to John the Baptist. They cant fix their propbles so they just mask it, not realizing religion is like spraying perfume on a casket. See the promblem with religion is that it never gets to the core. Its just behavior modification like a long list of chores. lets dress up the outside and make it look nice and neat, it's funny thats what they did with mummies while the corps rots underneath. Quit putting on a fakebook because there is a propblem if people only know your a christian by your Facebook. Because in every other aspect of life you know that logic is unworthy. Its like saying you play for the Lakers just beacuse you bought a jersey. Because this was me too. But no one seemed to be on to me, acting like a church kid while being addicted to pornography. On Sunday go to church but saturday getting faded. Spend my whole life building this facade of neatness, but now that I know Jesus I boast in my weakness. Because if grace is water then the church should be an ocean. It is not a museum for good people it is a hospital for the broken. Which means I don't have to hide my failure and hide my sin. Because it does not depend on me, it depends on Him. Because when I was Gods enemy and certainly not a fan, He looked down and said 'I want that man'. Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it He called them fools. Don't you see its so much better than following rules. Now let me clarify, I love the Church, love the Bible and yes I believe in sin. But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let Him in? Remember He was called a glutton and drunkard bu religion men but the Son of God never supports self-righteous, now now, not then. One thing is vital to mention, how Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums. One is the work of God and one is a man made invention. See one is the cure and the other is the infection. Becasue religion says do, Jesus says Done. Religion says slave, Jesus says son. Religion puts you in bondage and Jesus sets you free. Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see. Thats why Jesus and religion are two different clans. Religion is man searching for God, Christianity is God searching for man. Thats why salvation is freely mine and forgiveness is my own. Not based on my merits but Jesus's obediance alone. Because He took the crown of thorns and the blood dripped down His face, He took what we all deserve. I guess thats why they call it grace. And while being murderer He yelled 'Father forgive them they know not what they do'.  Because when Jesus was dangling on that cross He was thinking of you. And Jesus absorbed all your sin and berried it in the tomb, which is why kneeling at the cross saying come on there's room.  So for religion I dislike it, because when Jesus says 'it is finished' I believe He meant it.- Poem by Jefferson Bethke

It's All New

It is that time of year again, a new semester, New Year's resolutions that may not last, new assignments that take all night, new great books to read..etc. It seems to be that annual cycle that happened this time each year where some will win and others loose, why is this? What's with new semesters and calendar dates that make us set new goals for ourselves? Could it be to improve on old ways? Maybe try harder, or work less and live more? To travel and see more? Or learn to play the guitar?  Its kind of like a race, we as humans like starting lines and finishing lines. Otherwise we would be running around aimlessly like chickens.

One New Year's resolution I set was cut down on coffee, and by that I mean completely-unrestrained stop drinking it. With two to three cups of purchased brand-name coffee bought each day last year.. its about time I break the addiction and put the money elsewhere. After all a grande hazelnut latte with whip is almost five dollars. With each new year and new semester I try and challenge myself with setting goals. I have a passion in seeing and being apart of change, and change happens when new things are introduced into our bubbles. It's a good thing! Not easy but often exciting and always an adventure. I believe goals are things that one can reach... but not without work and perseverance, if it's too easy; it's a 'to do list' not a list of goals.

Hopefully this year is a race that I am well prepared to run, both academically, socially and with new beverages to try... Good luck running the race!! Enjoy the moments along the way, because after all is said and done, battles won and lost, those moments are the ones that matter the most, not just finish line.