Thursday, 5 July 2007
Thursday, 19 April 2007
todays randomness
This blog hasn't turned out to be as regular as I may once have hoped... but there you go, things don't always turn out how you expect.
Today was a mix of lazy and busy... I slept in, quite late (I'm NOT going to say how late...) and woke up to the prospect of finishing the work on the leaflet to advertise Queens CU preterm. In all honest, I've kinda enjoyed the project... AND it's been easier than I had thought... thank you, Macromedia Fireworks...
That was followed by a quick run up to the printers near the seamus heaney library to get a quote on a price of 1000 leaflets... £15 turns out, not bad...
Was at a quiz tonight as well, with a friend of mine. Man, was it difficult... although I have been assured that the one I wrote on our smallgroup weekend was harder... personally, I don't think it was... darn you Ali!!
Today was a mix of lazy and busy... I slept in, quite late (I'm NOT going to say how late...) and woke up to the prospect of finishing the work on the leaflet to advertise Queens CU preterm. In all honest, I've kinda enjoyed the project... AND it's been easier than I had thought... thank you, Macromedia Fireworks...
That was followed by a quick run up to the printers near the seamus heaney library to get a quote on a price of 1000 leaflets... £15 turns out, not bad...
Was at a quiz tonight as well, with a friend of mine. Man, was it difficult... although I have been assured that the one I wrote on our smallgroup weekend was harder... personally, I don't think it was... darn you Ali!!
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
recent thoughts
Choices are hard. I face them every day, I can't escape them. Big choices, little choices. And all choices affect my direction in life, whether they are big or small.
Will I go here, will I go there? Going here will bring about a chance encounter with person x, going there, with person y. Taking path of action 1 will bring about a certain result, whereas another course of action has a completely different result.
How do all these choices work together? A friend and I were discussing earlier how many things in history are just too convenient to be random occurences. Of course, I knew this already to an extent. My faith in God leads me to believe that there are no accidents. But then, how does this tie in with free will? How is free will linked into the swirling mess of events that all seem to fit so well together into God's plan?
I believe I have free will. I believe I am in control of my own choices. I am convinced of it. but I also believe God has tied in predestination in an intimite and totally inunderstandable way... God's clever like that...
So yes, back to choices. They are hard.
Every day, I face trials, trials in the form of choices. Do I do this, do I do that...? Do I do what I know to be right, though it may be hard? Do I take the easy road out? Do I do what is right because it is easy, or because it is right? What is my motivation?
Too many questions... but then, I must find the answers. I need to know why I choose things, not just what I choose. Surely the intention is as important as the action, right? I know that argument probably wouldnt hold up in a court of law, but ethically speaking?
Too many questions, and I'm tired, and I have a Bible study to finish drafting... a study on choices, funnily enough...
Will I go here, will I go there? Going here will bring about a chance encounter with person x, going there, with person y. Taking path of action 1 will bring about a certain result, whereas another course of action has a completely different result.
How do all these choices work together? A friend and I were discussing earlier how many things in history are just too convenient to be random occurences. Of course, I knew this already to an extent. My faith in God leads me to believe that there are no accidents. But then, how does this tie in with free will? How is free will linked into the swirling mess of events that all seem to fit so well together into God's plan?
I believe I have free will. I believe I am in control of my own choices. I am convinced of it. but I also believe God has tied in predestination in an intimite and totally inunderstandable way... God's clever like that...
So yes, back to choices. They are hard.
Every day, I face trials, trials in the form of choices. Do I do this, do I do that...? Do I do what I know to be right, though it may be hard? Do I take the easy road out? Do I do what is right because it is easy, or because it is right? What is my motivation?
Too many questions... but then, I must find the answers. I need to know why I choose things, not just what I choose. Surely the intention is as important as the action, right? I know that argument probably wouldnt hold up in a court of law, but ethically speaking?
Too many questions, and I'm tired, and I have a Bible study to finish drafting... a study on choices, funnily enough...
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