It is the end of life as we know it, tinatapos na lang ang exams...
raksha_05
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Adult-type Me
The point is, adults don't write things down to score against when the changes come, improvement or otherwise. Ginger and I do.I guess it's getting to a peak and going down from there. The peak has to be high enough, that you won't end up a boor in the end, when you're seventy.
I'm starting down because my coping mechanisms are no longer effective. Adult things are happening around me and writing everything down, thinking everything through, doing fad clothes, drugs, and alcohol will only slow me down. I wonder if I can pull it off? Being an adult-type me?
I'm going to try, but don't judge me if I "revert to saved".
Sunday, March 07, 2004
Clerkship: be Monty in the movie, BFL ("Big Fat Liar"). It is taking care of your superiors first, their clients second.
from www.briomag.com Dear Susie: I can feel my faith falling apart already! My boyfriend does say and do some things that aren’t representative of good behavior. But I still really love him. And it feels so right!
What should I do?
Confused in Connecticut
From our e-mail bag
Dear Confused:
I appreciate your honesty. Let me repeat some of your own words back to you: “I can feel my faith falling apart!” “I don’t want my relationship with Christ to unravel over someone who doesn’t love Christ as much as I do.” And (paraphrased) “My boyfriend says and does things that aren’t good.”
Hmmm.
Sounds as though you’ve answered your own question, doesn’t it? If you truly don’t want to damage your relationship with Christ, and you’re already seeing it begin to unravel, and you’re bonding closely with someone who’s doing and saying things that go against your value system, the answer is to break things off.
You say you’re in love with him and it feels so right. Isn’t that a contradiction to “my faith is falling apart”? If you’re with someone who’s instrumental in damaging your faith, how can it feel right?
It may feel good, but it can’t feel right. There’s a difference. Sure, it feels good to be cared for by someone, but just because it’s nice to be the apple of someone’s eye doesn’t mean it’s right. You can actually be in love with the wrong person!
Bottom line: Do you trust God enough to give Him control of your dating life? If so, surrender this relationship to Christ. If you do, one of three things will happen: (1) God will bring someone into your guy’s life to lead him into a personal relationship with Christ, and the two of you may or may not get back together. (2) God will bring a Christian guy into your life. (3) God will keep you single for a while to grow closer to Him.
Can you accept those possibilities? If so, Jesus is Lord of your dating life.
I have a great boyfriend. He treats me very well and respects my boundaries, but he’s not a Christian. I don’t want my relationship with God to unravel over someone who doesn’t love Christ as much as I do.
Friday, March 05, 2004
He has no capacity for happiness. Restriction is the ulimate end of each person, each tangible good that makes him happy. His first love is intelligence, knowledge of facts.
I had thought it was unfair to Creator God to have made such an observation regarding one of His, who is, after all, created in His Own Image, therefore must possess God's character in every way.
He has no capacity for happiness. Mostly, but being created in the image of God, he is supposed to have it, and he does. He has a capacity for happiness. In only himself. I think it's sad that every happiness ends up in restriction. How will you ever be happy, dear?
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Sheila's Piano Recital at 3pm today. Todo para la familia. I was in surgery class this morning, and Lily-4ko texts me a reminder. Dad, too. I'll attend the first lecture this afternoon, and beg off the others. I hope I still have my musculo notes (for orthopedic surgery), but I don't have notes for neurologic. =(
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
www.pluggedinonline.com
“Indirectly, Lost in Translation illustrates several valuable lessons, among them that marriage is a big commitment and it takes a lot of work to keep it on the straight and narrow. It also shows how fickle our hearts can be when emotions cloud clear thinking. (That can serve as a warning for us not to put ourselves in the way of temptation, though the film certainly doesn't try to explore that territory.)…
‘A movie that is capable of reaching down inside the most gregarious, convivial person in the world and drawing to the surface a kernel of desperate detachment...
‘Moviegoers will find themselves relishing the connection and bond they see "innocently" forming between Bob and Charlotte. You're compelled to desire their happiness, and the only way they'll ever be happy, you become convinced, is for them to be together. Never mind that that would mean the destruction of two separate families. Sucked in to the moment, it's easy not to care.”
