I have a new favorite hobby -- driving in heavy rain! It was raining so hard yesterday morning that the snow seemed to be flying up in a fog. That made quite it hard to drive, of course, but it was SO BEAUTIFUL!!! *cries*
Anywaye... yeh. I've been thinking... how did I agree to this insane schedule? On Wednesdays alone, I have to leave work early to get to COD right on time or late, depending on when I can get out of work, only to have to leave class early to get to church orchestra late, depending on when I can get out of class. It's in these 4PM to 9:30PM cycles that I start to wonder about myself.
Well, I guess I'm holding up so far. The main thing that bothers me is the extra-curricular stuff that I'm always fretting about in my margins, whenever those are. Like the youth orchestra I'm to be heading up this year. Once upon a time, I had enough free time to be able to write and arrange music for these kids! Now, I can barely type out an email to them, and I find myself a bit nervous about everything. I have to keep reminding myself that indeed, it is God's children, and God's music, and God's people in the church and nursing homes, not mine; and that the whole point is that I need to believe that I can't do it myself, I need God to be in charge. Breathe, Vic, breathe...
I haven't given up on the resolution yet, but I have had to make up some 20 chapters in the afternoons already. It's just as difficult as I'd imagined; still, I think this is the way to go, since I ought to have something forcing me onward into getting to know this letter of God to us all. I'll have to say that the book of Genesis is pretty interesting so far, and I'm noticing quite a few things that I don't remember from the last times I've been through it (probably because my brain can only hold so much). I have SO MANY questions, more than ever; some of which I'll be taking over to studybibleforum.com (not really a forum, just an awesome, happy place where people come to answer your questions ^_^), some of which I might try to look into myself. The Bible -- it sure doesn't gloss over the stories of the good guys, does it? I think what Genesis has taught me so far is that humans, for all their rotten ways, can still be used by God to do amazing things.
This brings me to another thing I've been pondering: last week, Weien and I were hanging in one of the COD cafeterias, when we realized that the group next to us was, in fact, engaging in theological debate, with Bibles opened. As it happened, it was two Church of God-ists who believed in absolute interpretation, and two of more liberal faiths. One side held all kinds of uncommon beliefs that stemmed from taking the Bible word-for-word; the other was certain that this holy text was not to be soaked in so exactly, but studied and thought over, being possibly different for each individual. After we had joined them, and the former two had left, and we had had a few words with the remaining, we finally came to the conclusion that, what is the point of such quibbles? It's mainly about obeying God and doing the right thing!
And we will do the right thing, like go to class now, we cried, as we separated into different hallways.
=D Thanks to Wongeth, Ka-Chan, and Es, and Sparkie too, for your comments.
So if it’s all about doing the right thing then the ones who thought it should be studied and interpreted would in fact be correct, right? Because that’s their main focus … the others, the word-for-word ones, would tend to stir up dissension over menial things and in the end become rule and ritual oriented, falling away from the main point of doing what’s right…
How did you agree to this insane schedule? Because you, you know, lost the bet. My raindrop hit the ground before your raindrop? But perhaps the future 8AM to 9PM cycle (much of it stuck in a car with me) will contribute to some character building as well.
Onto other things. The kids orchestra—the highly venerated PSO? Yes, sorting music today was a blast (heh). But at any rate, one way to make yourself feel warmer is to imagine how much colder it’ll be when we get further up north.
"I think what Genesis has taught me so far is that humans, for all their rotten ways, can still be used by God to do amazing things."
What!? You need GENESIS to tell you that when you have dear old Wongeth right within arm’s reach? His rotten ways aren’t telling enough? ‘Which brings me to another thing I’ve been pondering.’ But yes, it was fun debating imaginary opponents, since we, the remaining four (Craig, us, that one guy) were mostly agreed on everything (well, the one guy thought that the Bible is just loaded with contradictions, but meh).
Ahhh and it looks like Unfair has some quibbles and conclusions to conjure, himself—is this comment box destined to be a soupbowl of theology?
sigh Chigaru iro…
Driving in heavy rain, huh? Sounds like fun, except for the actually "attempting to drive" part.
Hope you survive your psychotic schedule. I love your site design, by the way. It’s always exciting to stop by here occasionally to see what new design you have.
Violas rule. grins
By the way, I love your "Brass trio 1" piece. I’d love to hear it played with real instruments, though, since MIDI never does music justice. sighs
Oh, and I typed "actually" instead of "actual" in my last entry. Oy.