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1 Peter 1:1-3

"Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want." (The Message)

One of those days...

Do you have days where you feel you are totally inept and you have to keep telling yourself you aren't? Ugh...

Oh well... praise God for new days. :)

Oh God

July 13: A wounded Palestinian boy is carried into a hospital after an Israeli airstrike at the Foreign Ministry building.

Just look at those eyes. War hurts so many. There is no good in humanity... only depravity. Christ is the only one to redeem us and let us do good. So many questions. Answers later. So much pain now.

Pocket Guide to the Bible

I recently finished reading Jason Boyett’s Pocket Guide to the Bible. I almost feel I should put a disclaimer at the beginning of this review about how my life has been, which has probably affected some of my opinions. All I have to say is that life has been frustrating. Other than that, here’s my review. I was excited to read the book because I had heard how great the other two are. Overall, it’s a fun book that gives you what you’ll find in the Bible at “breakneck speed”. The chapter of definitions is great because, if you haven’t grown up in the church, it’s hard to understand the language we, Christians, use sometimes. I learned the most from chapters six and seven. Six describes how the Bible we know came to be, and seven goes through a bunch of the different English versions we have and the differences in how they were translated.

I really only have two criticisms of the book that will probably make me sound high and mighty, but that’s really not my intention. Lately I’ve been frustrated with how ‘ok’ coarse language and joking has become in some Christian circles. Some of the jokes in the book made me laugh, roll my eyes or just groan. (Going back to my disclaimer: Some jokes just hit me the wrong way.) Also, I know that the King James Version used that word for donkey, but when I read it, it registers as an inappropriate word (It’s kinda like being at a dog show and hearing them talk about a female dog. My brain only registers the negative meaning. Sorry!) The second thing is in the Cast of Characters chapter on pages 33-34. He describes Abimelech (all three of them) and the description of the first one is misleading in my mind (However, my mind could be reading into what you wrote the wrong way.) “Abimelech I is a king who gets it on with Abraham’s wife Sarah.” In the reference of Genesis 20:3-6 it says, “But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.” Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.” Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.”

If you want to read a book that helps you understand more of the Bible, read this one. It’s a good little book on the big Good Book. I encourage you to go back the the Bible and read the references that he gives you so you get the full story. Unfortunately, reading this one hasn’t encouraged me to read either of the other Pocket Guides. I almost want to apologize for not loving it because I love what you guys are doing at Relevant Media Group!

MySpace

check out mySpace @ www.myspace.com/erinoneday

I'm going to start writing on there too.

Here's my latest:
 
How am I feeling? I'll need to look at my mood ring.
Current mood: contemplative

mood ring oh mood ring
oh tell me will you bring
the key to unlock this mystery
of girls and their emotions
play it back in slow motion
so i may understand the complex infrastructure known as the female mind

Relient K's got it right - sorry guys - we girls don't understand the complex infrastructure of the female mind either.
This past month has just been weird. I hate wanting to be able to change emotions and not being able. "Praise the Lord, Oh my soul!" I thing that sometimes we have to will ourselves to praise God. I think David was telling himself, "Praise the Lord, Oh my soul."

I look at my life and it's good. I truly have everything I need (not neccessarily everything I want). Does anybody know how to live life now while having desires for more? I think I already wrote something about how I'm feeling (below is just one verse of it)- Life just seems to cycle.

"I don't get it sometimes
when You will put out the sun
and let Your glory fill the sky
When will You take me into your presence
When will You answer all the whys

What is missing?
What is my heart wanting
that I don't already have?"