Hi.
So I like taking pictures. For a while my lifelong dream was to own a digital camera. One Christmas, my parents bought me a digital camera. My reaction went a little something like this: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That camera got broken. Fast forward some amount of years and I buy myself another digital camera...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get picture taking friends with their snazzy cameras called DSLRs, and I find out mine is called a Point and Shoot (P&S). No big.
Anyhow, my uncle asked me what I want for graduation. After some thought, I realized that I want to take my picture-taking to the next level, so I considered asking for a DSLR. I decided tonight to look and see what kind of price range that would be getting into. Don't want to be that psycho niece who takes advantage of gift opportunities. Anyway, I looked. My reaction was such:
o.O (Canon website)
o.O (Nikon website)
o.O (Sony website)
o.O (Ebay-I got desperate)
How the Heck does anything cost so much?
Needless to say, a DSLR will remain on my list of future things to get when I get a job. A really really good job...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Consider your thoughts
What do you think about? How many thoughts wander away from you?
Do you fantasize? What about?
Consider the idea that fantasies reveal what causes us dissatisfaction. We think things should be different, and in our minds conjure what would be ideal.
I dare to say that fantasies are not biblical. Follow what I'm saying. I'm talking about the self-satisfying, I would be so much better off if this were that, why can't this happen to me kind of fantasies. Why? Because we don't see, or refuse to see the beauty of God in every circumstance and instead pine after greener grass. Does not Romans 8:28 say that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose? It does. And in Isaiah 55 God tells of His higher thoughts and ways. Just because we don't understand or even like the way things are going for us doesn't mean that it's bad, or not of God.
Now, that is not to say that as a Christian we should just accept everything thrown at us, that's ridiculous. What I'm saying is that in less than 'ideal' circumstance instead of retreating into the fantasy world of our selfish minds we should be seeking God. Learning about Him, asking for guidance in the tough time, and diligently seeking to learn whatever He's teaching. Life to be lived well does not involve satisfying every desire of our heart. It's knowing God through His Son Jesus Christ and finding out that true satisfaction does not come from things that we can see that perish under the sun. True satisfaction comes from God.
Do you fantasize? What about?
Consider the idea that fantasies reveal what causes us dissatisfaction. We think things should be different, and in our minds conjure what would be ideal.
I dare to say that fantasies are not biblical. Follow what I'm saying. I'm talking about the self-satisfying, I would be so much better off if this were that, why can't this happen to me kind of fantasies. Why? Because we don't see, or refuse to see the beauty of God in every circumstance and instead pine after greener grass. Does not Romans 8:28 say that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose? It does. And in Isaiah 55 God tells of His higher thoughts and ways. Just because we don't understand or even like the way things are going for us doesn't mean that it's bad, or not of God.
Now, that is not to say that as a Christian we should just accept everything thrown at us, that's ridiculous. What I'm saying is that in less than 'ideal' circumstance instead of retreating into the fantasy world of our selfish minds we should be seeking God. Learning about Him, asking for guidance in the tough time, and diligently seeking to learn whatever He's teaching. Life to be lived well does not involve satisfying every desire of our heart. It's knowing God through His Son Jesus Christ and finding out that true satisfaction does not come from things that we can see that perish under the sun. True satisfaction comes from God.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
'Worship' music
Maybe I'm the only one with this problem, but do you ever find that when listening to a song that used to move your heart when it declared how awesome God is...just doesn't do it for you anymore?
And rather than being okay with that, you try to manufacture this emotional response, because if you get all emotional then you really mean it...
That's what I'm struggling with. What really bugs me, though, is that I know that approach to worship music (or anything God-related in general) is in fact not God worship, but self worship. I get so caught in how I feel, and what I'm doing, and if I do this what does it mean about me, when the whole time God is demanding that I forsake myself and get lost in His awesomeness. A particular song may speak very specifically about my life for a time, but Jesus is forever speaking.
And rather than being okay with that, you try to manufacture this emotional response, because if you get all emotional then you really mean it...
That's what I'm struggling with. What really bugs me, though, is that I know that approach to worship music (or anything God-related in general) is in fact not God worship, but self worship. I get so caught in how I feel, and what I'm doing, and if I do this what does it mean about me, when the whole time God is demanding that I forsake myself and get lost in His awesomeness. A particular song may speak very specifically about my life for a time, but Jesus is forever speaking.
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