Tomorrow is the Praxis 2 test for Elementary Education, Content Knowledge. I have to go to beeeed! But I don't want to!
This is what Praxis 2 is: I have to pass it . . . so I can get hired into the internship my senior year (next fall and spring) . . . so I can graduate with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education . . . So I can go do stuff in the real world besides being a college student. Yay!
So I should probably pass this test.
I should probably go to bed.
THE END
Friday, November 14, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
How I Wish I Were Born (a scary story)
This is a scary story about something scary that happened to me today.
So, last week I had to fill out an application to do an extra thing at my job, and this required having a birth certificate or social security card with me when I turn it in. I didn't get to turn it in last week, though, because I didn't complete it. So for the last five days I have been carrying my birth certificate around in my pocket.
This bothered my mom, but I was sure I would finish the application soon and I would rather carry it around than put it back and then forget it when I actually needed it. I always unzip my pockets when I'm walking around and put my hands in, and sometimes I would freak out and then find it and say, "It's OK! I'm still born!"
Tonight I was at my friend TJ's house because she is leaving in about five hours to go out of state for a year. When I was getting ready to go, I put my hands in my pocket, and . . . no birth certificate! For a minute there I was afraid I had never been born.
Then, I realized I left it on my desk at home because I had finally decided to put it in a safe place. Ha. Born after all.
This would be the end of my tale, except it reminds me of two summers ago when I decided to apply for a job at FedEx.
I went to the application session, taking my original high school diploma. Well, I was very pleased with how prepared I was and how I was one of the first ones done filling out my application. Good impression, right?
Wrong.
As soon as I stepped out of my car into my driveway, I realized what was missing. My diploma. My original high school diploma was at the FedEx building.
So I drove back and thankfully they had apprehended it in the application room and were holding it in custody at security. The facilitators told me where to go and I got it back.
End of story? You'd think so, wouldn't you? But you would be wrong.
As I was going back to my car, I noticed that when they had first noticed it was missing they tried to call my cell phone. Since it was still on silent I didn't answer and they left a message . . . to this:
"HI, this is Asha! You know you're a REDNECK if you mow your LAWN and find a CAR! Leave a message after the beep!"
Funny thing is, they still tried to hire me. But it conflicted with my school schedule so I just said no.
Moral of stories:
It's good to graduate high school.
It's good to be born.
The end!
So, last week I had to fill out an application to do an extra thing at my job, and this required having a birth certificate or social security card with me when I turn it in. I didn't get to turn it in last week, though, because I didn't complete it. So for the last five days I have been carrying my birth certificate around in my pocket.
This bothered my mom, but I was sure I would finish the application soon and I would rather carry it around than put it back and then forget it when I actually needed it. I always unzip my pockets when I'm walking around and put my hands in, and sometimes I would freak out and then find it and say, "It's OK! I'm still born!"
Tonight I was at my friend TJ's house because she is leaving in about five hours to go out of state for a year. When I was getting ready to go, I put my hands in my pocket, and . . . no birth certificate! For a minute there I was afraid I had never been born.
Then, I realized I left it on my desk at home because I had finally decided to put it in a safe place. Ha. Born after all.
This would be the end of my tale, except it reminds me of two summers ago when I decided to apply for a job at FedEx.
I went to the application session, taking my original high school diploma. Well, I was very pleased with how prepared I was and how I was one of the first ones done filling out my application. Good impression, right?
Wrong.
As soon as I stepped out of my car into my driveway, I realized what was missing. My diploma. My original high school diploma was at the FedEx building.
So I drove back and thankfully they had apprehended it in the application room and were holding it in custody at security. The facilitators told me where to go and I got it back.
End of story? You'd think so, wouldn't you? But you would be wrong.
As I was going back to my car, I noticed that when they had first noticed it was missing they tried to call my cell phone. Since it was still on silent I didn't answer and they left a message . . . to this:
"HI, this is Asha! You know you're a REDNECK if you mow your LAWN and find a CAR! Leave a message after the beep!"
Funny thing is, they still tried to hire me. But it conflicted with my school schedule so I just said no.
Moral of stories:
It's good to graduate high school.
It's good to be born.
The end!
On a Lighter Note . . .
Hamster on a Piano video!!! :D Maybe I can teach my hamster to do this . . .
smashy smashy smashy :D
smashy smashy smashy :D
Encouragement
Long, random, true story:
I was just doing my thing looking for random blogs to read, and I came across a Christian blogger who has subscribed to a blog about atheism. Hmm, I thought. That's weird.
But as I thought about it, I realized it was not so weird after all. For some Christians it may be wise, and for some foolish (depending on levels of maturity) . . . but not necessarily weird. If you're going to try and counter the lies of a popular culture driven by atheism, it makes sense that you would know the arguments and complaints of the debater you are facing.
So I started to look at the atheist blogs. The ones I saw at first made me very sad. Not because they were destroying my faith (they were not) but because they were destroying their lives. So fearful of the idea of an all-knowing God, so upset at the concept of heaven and hell, and focusing on "Christian extremists" who, many times, act against the Bible (i.e. those who bomb abortion clinics) and shouldn't be used as the poster child for Christianity.
That was a piece of cake.
Everything they said I could follow, and I disagreed with it, and I understood why I disagreed with it.
But then, I came upon a much harder website.
This was written by a man who had preached in a church for thirty years before finding too many "inaccuracies" and "contradictions" in the Bible and as a result became a hard core Atheist advocate and author. In all honesty, I was a little scared to read his stuff.
I know God, and I know the Bible is true . . . but I don't know Hebrew or Greek, or extensive theology or apologetics. It is scary to confront myself with the anti-God writings of someone who has probably "studied" God longer than I have been alive.
But I am just too curious to not read something.
So I read some of his stuff. I'll admit I didn't read every word, but the general concepts . . . he was pretty puffed up with pride at the idea that he could prove the Bible wrong with a couple of paragraphs of "information."
What's the point, you may ask, of me blogging this? The point isn't the easy-to-prove-wrong atheist bloggers or even the hard-to-prove-wrong atheist blogger. The point is that a Christian responded to him.
Someone who believes the Bible had typed up a complete response to the skeptic's post and linked to it. I looked over that as well, and I agreed with it. It agreed with the Bible. He did things such as go back and look at word meanings in the original language the text was written in to decide what it really meant, instead of jumping to conclusions.
Of course the atheist didn't give it much credit, saying the Christian should just read his new book because it would "do him good."
The atheist claimed he wasn't impressed, but I was. Speaking truth always makes a difference. Sometimes it speaks to atheists, and sometimes to the average Internet wanderer like me, who needs to be encouraged after visiting an antagonistic and challenging website.
So I emailed the Christian and hoped to encourage him by letting him know that his writing had encouraged me. Because when I do something that helps another person, I appreciate when they tell me. Otherwise, after a while, I get discouraged and wonder if I make a difference. One word of thanks can do more for a person's ministry energy than you can imagine.
So, thanks to all the people who fight for Truth with keyboards, comments, user names and blogs: You are appreciated :)
For anyone else who takes the occasional journey into the camp of online skepticism, I came up with a couple things to remember for keeping a godly attitude and not being swayed by any intimidation:
* The Bible has something to say about them as well.
You may know them as "false prophets," "mockers," or in other unflattering categories.
* Just because they use big words doesn't mean they're smarter than you.
They just have more education in something that is less true.
* You can fight the lies without fighting the blogger.
"The battle is not against flesh and blood . . . "
* God can stick up for Himself.
He's the one that saves us, remember? Not the other way around.
Take some time to thank a person who has encouraged you in the faith. Thank God for being the One we can put our faith in. Thank God for putting that person in your life.
We have a lot to be thankful for :)
I was just doing my thing looking for random blogs to read, and I came across a Christian blogger who has subscribed to a blog about atheism. Hmm, I thought. That's weird.
But as I thought about it, I realized it was not so weird after all. For some Christians it may be wise, and for some foolish (depending on levels of maturity) . . . but not necessarily weird. If you're going to try and counter the lies of a popular culture driven by atheism, it makes sense that you would know the arguments and complaints of the debater you are facing.
So I started to look at the atheist blogs. The ones I saw at first made me very sad. Not because they were destroying my faith (they were not) but because they were destroying their lives. So fearful of the idea of an all-knowing God, so upset at the concept of heaven and hell, and focusing on "Christian extremists" who, many times, act against the Bible (i.e. those who bomb abortion clinics) and shouldn't be used as the poster child for Christianity.
That was a piece of cake.
Everything they said I could follow, and I disagreed with it, and I understood why I disagreed with it.
But then, I came upon a much harder website.
This was written by a man who had preached in a church for thirty years before finding too many "inaccuracies" and "contradictions" in the Bible and as a result became a hard core Atheist advocate and author. In all honesty, I was a little scared to read his stuff.
I know God, and I know the Bible is true . . . but I don't know Hebrew or Greek, or extensive theology or apologetics. It is scary to confront myself with the anti-God writings of someone who has probably "studied" God longer than I have been alive.
But I am just too curious to not read something.
So I read some of his stuff. I'll admit I didn't read every word, but the general concepts . . . he was pretty puffed up with pride at the idea that he could prove the Bible wrong with a couple of paragraphs of "information."
What's the point, you may ask, of me blogging this? The point isn't the easy-to-prove-wrong atheist bloggers or even the hard-to-prove-wrong atheist blogger. The point is that a Christian responded to him.
Someone who believes the Bible had typed up a complete response to the skeptic's post and linked to it. I looked over that as well, and I agreed with it. It agreed with the Bible. He did things such as go back and look at word meanings in the original language the text was written in to decide what it really meant, instead of jumping to conclusions.
Of course the atheist didn't give it much credit, saying the Christian should just read his new book because it would "do him good."
The atheist claimed he wasn't impressed, but I was. Speaking truth always makes a difference. Sometimes it speaks to atheists, and sometimes to the average Internet wanderer like me, who needs to be encouraged after visiting an antagonistic and challenging website.
So I emailed the Christian and hoped to encourage him by letting him know that his writing had encouraged me. Because when I do something that helps another person, I appreciate when they tell me. Otherwise, after a while, I get discouraged and wonder if I make a difference. One word of thanks can do more for a person's ministry energy than you can imagine.
So, thanks to all the people who fight for Truth with keyboards, comments, user names and blogs: You are appreciated :)
For anyone else who takes the occasional journey into the camp of online skepticism, I came up with a couple things to remember for keeping a godly attitude and not being swayed by any intimidation:
* The Bible has something to say about them as well.
You may know them as "false prophets," "mockers," or in other unflattering categories.
* Just because they use big words doesn't mean they're smarter than you.
They just have more education in something that is less true.
* You can fight the lies without fighting the blogger.
"The battle is not against flesh and blood . . . "
* God can stick up for Himself.
He's the one that saves us, remember? Not the other way around.
Take some time to thank a person who has encouraged you in the faith. Thank God for being the One we can put our faith in. Thank God for putting that person in your life.
We have a lot to be thankful for :)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Random Philosophical Thought of the Day
"There are people who hold to the existentialism of beauty, contending vaguely that it is all 'in the eye of the beholder.' It may be questioned whether these people believe in the existentialism of beauty or the beauty of existentialism."
- Me, writing a paper for "Truth, Beauty and Goodness" class . . . enough said :P
- Me, writing a paper for "Truth, Beauty and Goodness" class . . . enough said :P
Election Day
Well, I guess TECHNICALLY it's wednesday, but I haven't gone to sleep yet so it's still Tuesday . . .
America voted today.
It would appear we have a new president.
I am disappointed.
I don't love the guy we have right now, and I don't love either guy who was running to replace him.
My policy, though, is to vote for the lesser of many evils.
Perhaps "evil" is the wrong word.
Let's call it instead . . . the path of least destruction.
And, unfortunately, the beliefs and policies of the elected candidate foreshadow more destruction than those of his opponent, which weren't extremely great either.
It's kind of depressing to think about.
So I won't.
Politics is important, but it can't be all consuming to the average person. Work hard, do your research, be honest, cast your vote, and pray for your country. That's all you have to do, and if I go beyond this I only get stressed out and cynical.
Sorry for bringing up politics. I know it makes people uncomfortable and start arguing about hot topics and trivialities. Also, just because I don't respect the elected candidate as someone I want running my country doesn't mean that I am angry at anyone who voted for him. There are many people I love who have different political opinions than mine. There are important reasons why I vote the way I do, though. Maybe I will talk about this another time . . . but probably not.
Regardless of feelings or opinions, we have a new president. I was reminded tonight that it is important to pray for those in leadership positions over us, even if we don't agree with them. Perhaps "please bless all they do" is not an appropriate prayer . . . but "please teach them Your ways and give them wisdom" is.
Whatever happens, God is still bigger.
"Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king." - 1 Peter 2:13-17
America voted today.
It would appear we have a new president.
I am disappointed.
I don't love the guy we have right now, and I don't love either guy who was running to replace him.
My policy, though, is to vote for the lesser of many evils.
Perhaps "evil" is the wrong word.
Let's call it instead . . . the path of least destruction.
And, unfortunately, the beliefs and policies of the elected candidate foreshadow more destruction than those of his opponent, which weren't extremely great either.
It's kind of depressing to think about.
So I won't.
Politics is important, but it can't be all consuming to the average person. Work hard, do your research, be honest, cast your vote, and pray for your country. That's all you have to do, and if I go beyond this I only get stressed out and cynical.
Sorry for bringing up politics. I know it makes people uncomfortable and start arguing about hot topics and trivialities. Also, just because I don't respect the elected candidate as someone I want running my country doesn't mean that I am angry at anyone who voted for him. There are many people I love who have different political opinions than mine. There are important reasons why I vote the way I do, though. Maybe I will talk about this another time . . . but probably not.
Regardless of feelings or opinions, we have a new president. I was reminded tonight that it is important to pray for those in leadership positions over us, even if we don't agree with them. Perhaps "please bless all they do" is not an appropriate prayer . . . but "please teach them Your ways and give them wisdom" is.
Whatever happens, God is still bigger.
"Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king." - 1 Peter 2:13-17
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Stuff and Things
Just a quick blog to clarify :)
I have a myspace blog which I update pretty frequently, as well as a blog I had for a trip I took over the summer. I started this one because, for one thing, not everyone has myspace, and the summer trip is over.
Another reason is that I feel like I am entering into a very transitory, important, and sometimes confusing time in my life as I near the end of my degree (graduating in Spring 2010). When I feel that I have undergone significant personal change and am starting new chapters in my life I like to make a new blog. Simple as that :)
The reason I named this blog the way I did was described in my first post. There's nothing magical about the words "more than the journey" but the more I think about them the more I find they apply to how I want to live my life:
Life is more than the journey from birth to death.
Serving God is more than the journey of finding what job or path to take.
An adventure is more than the journey one has already traversed.
A memory is more than the journey of time from then until now.
Basically, it's a fancy pants way of saying that I want to live a life of love in every moment. In reality, loving God and being loved by Him really is the Journey. If we're always looking behind us or in front of us, we might miss a lot of what He wants to do IN us right now.
I generally write about stuff and things, mainly thoughts like the ones I have been writing, sometimes random things, or stories about what sorts of mayhem I cause :D (just kidding, but not really).
Thanks for reading!
I have a myspace blog which I update pretty frequently, as well as a blog I had for a trip I took over the summer. I started this one because, for one thing, not everyone has myspace, and the summer trip is over.
Another reason is that I feel like I am entering into a very transitory, important, and sometimes confusing time in my life as I near the end of my degree (graduating in Spring 2010). When I feel that I have undergone significant personal change and am starting new chapters in my life I like to make a new blog. Simple as that :)
The reason I named this blog the way I did was described in my first post. There's nothing magical about the words "more than the journey" but the more I think about them the more I find they apply to how I want to live my life:
Life is more than the journey from birth to death.
Serving God is more than the journey of finding what job or path to take.
An adventure is more than the journey one has already traversed.
A memory is more than the journey of time from then until now.
Basically, it's a fancy pants way of saying that I want to live a life of love in every moment. In reality, loving God and being loved by Him really is the Journey. If we're always looking behind us or in front of us, we might miss a lot of what He wants to do IN us right now.
I generally write about stuff and things, mainly thoughts like the ones I have been writing, sometimes random things, or stories about what sorts of mayhem I cause :D (just kidding, but not really).
Thanks for reading!
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