Tonight was awesome. super duper.

During his sermon, Matt mentioned a recent survey of Christian men that asked what things that women wear that are distracting to them.
spaghetti straps.
and wearing the freaking purse across your chest so that the purse straps make your hoo-has pop out.

i love that they included that second one. i thought i was the only one who found that suggestion.
i know i'm a bit touchy when it comes to modesty, so it's good to know i'm not THAT out-of-touch.

Matt is gonna post the complete survey results on the blog in a couple weeks. you can bet your bippy that i'll gonna post a link to that!

In conclusion, thank GOD that it's winter. The only thing to guard your eyes from is tight sweaters. that ain't bad compared to summer. Yet another reason that i loooove winter clothes!
thems da bomb!

Ignorant

It's amazing the incredible amount of ignorance that we unwittingly live in.<--preposition.

I've been reading through this old journal that I recently found (which I'll probably post some of those old entries on here at some point), and it blows my mind how just plain dumb I was. And I was so unaware! I thought I was right.
I can read journals from 10 years ago and be shocked at the amount of self-centered idiocy, but I can also read things I wrote 6 months ago and think the same thing. Scary.
Not to say I'm the same person as I was back then, but the things I incorrectly believed have shifted into something else. You kill one fallacy and it simply morphs into something new.
It's weird the different forms that pride can take. Looking back it seems so obvious, yet if I look back six months ago, I still walked in a certain amount of pride, only it was in a different form that it was back then so once again I didn't realize it.

The things I thought were just so ignorant. Not just in relation to pride, but pretty much everything. Haha! It's truly incredible. Hard to believe that I was once so dumb.

The scary thing is that I'm walking in some type of ignorance right now too. But I'm obviously blind to it, so who knows what it is that I'll look back on in a year and laugh at how immature and dumb I was? I try to live with my eyes open, and I feel like I live a well-examined life, yet there will always be things that be believe incorrectly. We're always seeing something incorrectly.

The good thing about old journals is that you actually can see how much you have grown. For instance, I think I've finally grown enough to accept rebuke, and perhaps even grown to love being rebuked. As weird as that sounds. I don't want to live in ignorance and immaturity, so rebuke is welcome. Which, I guess that's just a result of my depleted pride. That's something that the Lord has slowly transformed. it's beautiful.

I'm not sure what the actually purpose of this post is.<--preposition
I suppose I just wanted to praise the Lord for all that He's done in me and ask that I be able to live with my eyes wide open so that I'm blissfully walking in ignorance.

I seriously need to type of some of those old entries. Its entirely laughable.
I can't believe who I used to be...ten years ago, or even last year! Shocking.

i probably need to start working on apologies.

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Glee.

Glee makes me feel stupid.
I know I'm supposed to like it, but I don't. what's wrong with me? Am I broken? I seem to be the only human on planet Earth that really doesn't like this show at all.
I'm not being facetious when i ask: what am i missing? What am I obviously not understanding?
Look, I love the music, it's awesome! Though, out of the 4 episodes i've watched, i haven't seen one performance that looks believable and not horribly lip-synced. Is it the shtick factor that people enjoy so much? Is is supposed to be funny bad?
I tried. I tried SO hard to like it. But i can't seem to make that happen. In all honesty, I really can't stand that show. that makes me feel stupid.
Jane Lynch bothers me. I don't know why, but she sends chills of creepiness down my spine. I wish i could explain why. She just makes me feel dirty. and her character is so completely over-the-top. i guess they all kind are, aren't they? is that why people like it so much?
Ugh. If you love the show, I consider you more intelligent than me.

I even toured the Glee set last summer when I was in LA. It was fun, but when i went home and watched the pilot again, i still didn't like it.
It's actually pretty raunchy, isn't it? That's something that leaves me feeling unsettled and gross too. Maybe I've transformed into a prude. eh.

So for the last two months, every time i log into Facebook, it suggests that i be friends with this guy:
Of course I remember him from church and school, but i don't want to be "friends" with him. He was never very nice to me, and i doubt he'd remember me anyway. Besides, he's my age and he's still wearing his letterman jacket in his profile picture...creepy, weird and lame.
Reaffirming my unbridled stupidity, I found out today that he stars on Glee. yeah, I've watched 4 episodes and I never recognized him, even though I'd been staring at his picture every time I log into fb for the last three months!
I still don't care to "friend" him and I still find the show to be life-draining (though call me if Marky-Mark is ever on!). But i find it incredibly ironic that the show I hate the most is the one show on tv with someone i once knew, the one set we happened to walk through this summer, and it's the one show that friggin' everyone is talking about. *sigh*
I couldn't find my old yearbooks and I'm not about to waste more than 5 minutes looking for them, but I easily found this old church photo. Please to enjoy all you crazy Glee fans.



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So i fell in love with this today....

Disturb us, Lord, when

We are too well pleased with ourselves,

When our dreams have come true

Because we have dreamed too little,

When we arrived safely

Because we sailed too close to the shore.



Disturb us, Lord, when

With the abundance of things we possess

We have lost our thirst

For the waters of life;

Having fallen in love with life,

We have ceased to dream of eternity

And in our efforts to build a new earth,

We have allowed our vision

Of the new Heaven to dim.



Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,

To venture on wider seas

Where storms will show your mastery;

Where losing sight of land,

We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back

The horizons of our hopes;

And to push into the future

In strength, courage, hope, and love.

[Sir Francis Drake]

Raditude

i LOVE the new Weezer album!!






















Does it really matter that i haven't even heard a second of it?
I'd buy the LP just to hang this on my wall.
The album cover brings a freakish amount of joy to my life!

In other news...the new Relient K single is out. Gonna buy it on my phone riiiiiiight NOW!