March 29, 2011
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
–Heraclitus
I’ve been blogging for the past six year (on this site for about three and a half). One of my favorite things about blogging is being able to look back at my life and see where I was. Even if the post doesn’t explicitly say what was happening it’s often the jog I need remember.
I find it’s easy for me to think that my life is stagnate. I find myself wanting change to come, now. It’s only after I think back about my life I see that things have change, some good, some bad. I am able to see that life is a process. The hard part for me is balancing patients with lack of motivation.
Do my goals just need more time or do I need more motivation, or both?
John Reuben said this so gracefully in his song Boy vs The Cynic:
“…yes your heart will break and go numb lots of times before this life is done
You’ll look for answers but there’s just one
Patience one day it will make sense
But waiting is a pinch waking you up from the worlds you’ve made up
The one where you dream and the one where you gave up time
To create a new atmosphere where the boy and the cynic can both play fair”
I think it’s time to set my fear of failure aside and just dive in just go for it. But how? Hopefully I can find that place where the kid and the cynic can both play fair.
P.S. Poem on this topic possibly to come shortly.
Posted in Life |
February 3, 2011
“The problem’s not Hollywood, the problem’s not Washington
The problem’s a weak divided church of schizmed Christians.”
- The OC Supertones, Unite, Supertones Strike Back
If you’ve been spent amount of time around Conservative Christianity you may have heard the idea that every human has a “God-shaped hole,” a void in our soul that can only be filled by God. Oftened followed by stories of people who trying to fill this metaphorical hole with drugs, sex, music, earthly desires. These “fillers” tend have negative societal references. However, debating the existence of a God-shaped hole is not what this post is about. Let’s instead explore a new idea, the idea of a Box-shaped God.
Another popular theme of Conservative Christianity is the notion that we have actions that glorify God and ones that dishonor God. Although Biblically it’s true there are actions that honor God and ones that don’t our society seems to place value, weight and judgment to variety of actions. If you ask an individual which of these actions are more and which are less honoring to God each list will be different depending on their belief system.
What then is the “right way” to honor Christ? It seems that we tend to limit these glorifying actions to what fits inside of our God box. The box that holds our perceptions, our ideas of what God is and what God expects from us. We are quick to limit our own responsibilities shaping our views of God to what we are, or aren’t. It’s easy to judge others and tell them that they aren’t honoring God. Next time think “Am I putting God in a box? Should I expand my view of God?” By focusing on the good qualities of people, by getting to know their hearts and passion, though showing unconditional love, this is what God is. God is not (and cannot be) confined, to be held in a box.
Posted in Uncategorized |
December 31, 2010
Here we are about to start another year, another start, a new beginning
Here I am not feeling any different, all the same
Here we are longing for change, striving to make a difference
Here I stand not knowing where to start, how to begin
Here we go, let’s embark , start again
Here’s to new adventures, new journeys, new lessons
Here’s to the new year.
Posted in Attempted Poetry, Life |
November 20, 2010
You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.
Judith Light
This is my third year writing about Transgender Day of Remembrance. I feel that each year it’s important that we take some time to reflect on those who lost their lives over the past year for being different; not fitting the cookie cutter mold the world tries to force upon them . This year is a big year in particular for the LGBTQ community as so many people have lost their lives due to suicide and murder based on sexual orientation, gender identity or their perceived orientation or identity.
I would like to encourage each one you reading this to think about how this year you can take a stand and do something to help stop the deaths, hate, injustice of people just for being different. What can you do on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis to change the lives of others around you?
Posted in Charity, Life, Political |
October 15, 2010
Recently I had a unique experience. I woke up, used restroom, turned on the water to wash my hands the only problem, no water. It turned out they were just doing some work in my building and the water was only out for about 30 min. I will say trying to get ready for work in the morning without water is not an easy task and really got me thinking about those less fortunate than me.
Today marks the 4th Annual Blog Action Day (and my third participating in.) Blog Action Day is a day where a theme is chosen and the blogosphere is encouraged to reflect, write, and educate others about what we can do to change the world. This year that theme is water.
So what can we do as a community to help the almost 1 billion people without clean water?
The simplest thing we can do is give. After my experience without water I donated $20 to Charity: Water. According to the organization $20 is enough money to provide one person clean water for 20 years. A small donation can make a huge difference. If you’re low on dough you could fundraise or get friends/family together to each pitch in a few dollars to make a difference. Perhaps give up drinking bottled water and use the money to provide others with water.
Don’t want to give, then conserve. A recent TriplePundit report states Americans drink on average of 200 bottles of water each, per year. That’s a lot of water! It takes over 17 million barrels of oil are needed to manufacture those water bottles, 80 percent of which will never be recycled. By giving up bottled for the tap water you’d be doing something good for the environment as well as saving money.
I encourage you to think about water today. What would you do if you didn’t have clean water? What other things can you do to help those without it? Leave your ideas and suggestions in the comments.
Posted in Charity | Tagged BAD, BAD10, Bad2010 |
