Sunny

This time tomorrow, I'll be on the sunny beaches of the Dominican Republic. See you in a week.

Employment!

So apparently, I'll be working in North York...which makes no sense...as I asked to be placed in Etobicoke or Downtown Toronto. Life got more complicated. Options are to live with my cousin or take the deadly commute, possibly work hours that are off the normal time frame...we'll see. I'll put it up to prayer... I was pretty sure I was supposed to spend time with family, and resolve our multi-faith home.

We'll see.

Satisfaction

The Ryerson CCF will not have an office for next year. I visited it today, it was cleaned up. There was a Biblical History timeline book left, a graphical representation of events that occurred in the Bible. I took it home. Awesome!

Biblical Christianity and More!

I think today marks the most stressful day of summer. I have no real reason why, I am not really doing anything. So here's the recap:

I went downtown (again) to Ryerson (again)...despite graduating, I end up going there often. I have been there six times or so SINCE I finished my last exam in late April. I was meeting up with Victor who will be a Campus for Christ staff worker in Toronto next year. I will partner with him in this ministry. I think God is prompting me to give more than I wanted to, that's okay. God has blessed me tons lately so it's only fair I spread the wealth.

While waiting for my meeting with Victor, I purchased a book. Books are good. Lunch with Victor was good, too.

After the meeting, I went back to Mississauga to purchase contact lenses for my grad trip to the Dominican. The nice lady gave me a trial pair for free, so I wouldn't have to purchase six months worth.

I came home, watched some TV with my brother. He was playing dota all day (again). About here is where it went downhill. While flipping channels, stopped on a misandric television show: you know you're typical wife is brilliant authoritarian beautiful woman and the man is some dumb fat slob who was lucky to have met her. ... I decided to watch tennis instead.

Parents called me out to go shopping. That was mistake number two. I forgot how uncomfortable it is shopping with them. They mean the world to me, but I was reminded why I stopped shopping with them... hahaha

On the way home, I was listening to 99.5 Life FM... and there was a sermon on Ephesians 5. The preacher was talking about the standards of which a husband is called.

Ephesians 5:25-27:

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

This is an INCREDIBLY high calling. But, it is the STANDARD. The preacher brought up 1 Cor 13, the various aspects of the action verb "love". Pretty tough stuff. He also calls the husband to lead in servant leadership, submitting out of love. This is ideal, because it creates a loving environment that a woman wants in marriage (Last I checked, we should be doing all things for Christ, not for wife.) He also alluded to an event in which a distraught husband had come to him. The man was frantic, his wife was cheating on him. The preacher turned it back to the husband... (paraphrased) "Well, what did you do to remove the temptation of adultery?".

Excuse me? WHERE does it say that men are responsible for REMOVING the temptations that their wives face?

Sigh, I had a lot of problems with this sermon. There is a lot of double speak: treat the woman like a child...create an environment which protects her from all the bad stuff, and pushes her towards God. Yet, you are not to dominate her. You are to servant lead, submitting out of love. We need to all take ownership of our own spiritual lives. This message made it seem like the husband is responsible for the wife's salvation.

EDIT:

After calming down a bit, it is the maligning the Word of God that annoys me the most. The end on that topic.

Weddings Galore

^_^ All the best to them.

Brainnnnnss

If you know me at all, I have probably brought up the likely possibility of a zombie apocalypse and asked your opinion on how you would survive it. I have a keen interest in that genre of horror.

Anyways, I watched George Romero's "Diary of the Dead" last night with my brother. Think: Camera angles of Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project + zombies. It was realistic, yet not. People acted like they would during a panic that turns out to be a zombie epidemic, but really... what kind of cameraman films a woman being chased by a slow lumbering zombie and doesn't bother to help her for a good 15 minutes?

The movie ends on an incredibly abrupt note, we don't know what happens to the characters at the end. I guess since we're "watching" a video that records the zombie infestation as it occurs, so we cannot be picky. Oh and I forgot, there are spoilers in the above post. :P

Lines

Something more and more that I see and observe in my Christian walk are the distinct lines in what I will do for God and what I will not. It is something to work on. What I dislike is when people feel it is their right to question those lines. Of course, there is a difference between encouraging a brother or sister, and bringing attention to their faults with no reason other than bringing these flaws to light.

So we come to a conundrum. Very rarely do I bring a person's faults to the forefront as I find it extremely difficult to set an encouraging, motivational tone unless they bring it up themselves. Do I do them good, though? On the other hand, there are people that feel it is their obligation to make "call outs" on everyone and you know cause self-examination. (I used to do this -- granted, it was for horrible reasons.) Is that doing good?

For now, I will trust in the Holy Spirit. I have at least learned enough to discern when the Spirit impresses something on me to act and not question. And I will trust that the Holy Spirit is guiding the actions of my fellow brethren who are trying to correct me. :)

Posts

I keep meaning to post things, but I forget about what when I get home. The tag for this should be "excuse". Hope all your summers are going well!

Haircut

A conversation with my hairdresser:

Hairdresser: So where do you live?
Me: Oh, I live by Square One.
Hairdresser: Around Mavis?
Me: Yeah, been there for a while...twenty years now.
Hairdresser: Wow, so you must have moved in there when you were in high school?
Me: .... no...more like when I was a toddler.

Strike

Jeff Chan, if you are reading this...your wii ruined me. Mario Strikers has taken over as the dominant thought in my brain.

EDIT:

We finally won the Crystal Cup!