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Bienvenidos. salud. Check out Proverbs 8 . Go ahead, read it. Like the book of Proverbs, it's about Wisdom. Wisdom is something to seek after I've been finding my way through the wisdom of Proverbs this past week...and it's been interesting. There's this lie that I have believed for some time. It sounds like "faith is faith...spirituality is more important than wisdom and knowledge," or, "you don't need wisdom or knowledge, you just need to sit there and wait for it to come to you." (Spritually, this would sound like: wait for God to give it to you.) So...I found out why this is a lie. Wisdom is referred to as a 'she' in this chapter and other times in Proverbs. Wisdom's monologue in this chapter gives great insight to my persuit of her. "The LORD formed me from the beginning, before he created anything else. I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began. I was born before the oceans were created, before...

Buenas Dias. I just returned from a [cru] meeting and a beer with my friend Tim. It was great. All three parts. [cru], Tim, and, the beer. Before I even got out of [cru], however, I found myself wrestling with the topic of tonight's talk. My friend Amy Seiffert talked about love in its truest form. To be honest, the first thought that went through my mind when I heard she was giving the talk again was that 'oh, i'm going to hear that talk again.' Seriously. I expected monotony. What I got a nice kick in the arse. Love. Oh, Love . As Amy said tonight...the word 'love' is so widely used in our American culture. When it comes down to the real deal about love I think we are all students. Love in it's truest form ('agape') is not selfish. It looks past ugliness and imperfection. It embraces people where they are at. .:/// Kick in the arse: Love is a choice. So often, I forget that. I don't have to love my friends. I don't have to lo...

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Friends, It's been all summer since i've posted. I apologize if you have been reading and missed new additions to my blog. I enjoy letting you in. Some things have really been challenging me lately about my desires. Priorities. What do I really want to do? Before last semester ended, Steve Rieske reminded me that what I want to do is what I will do. My heart reflects off the mirror of my life and the time I spend with people. What I really want in my heart is what will take priority in my life. It seems easy, so literal. Facilisimo. Not true, at least not in my life. There's something deeper. Something I don't understand. Why when I try so hard to schedule my days does a meeting come up, or something conflict with every single thing I try to do? Scheduling isn't soley it. I must understand the real priorities in my life. My focus begins reflecting on the things that I really want. That means, not the things other people think I should do. It also means find...

Well, There's a few things I have learned from my experience of trying to set up meetings with Huizhen. One: All people have busy schedules, culture aside. It was hard to finally decide on a time to meet with Huizhen, and when we finally did find a time, we had things come up at night like exams, meetings, etc. It was frustrating some weeks to try and meet, but we are both students and both have schedules and tests that come up. Two: People can really enjoy a person just by learning about their culture. I found that talking with Huizhen about Chinese culture and everything she understood about China to be really interesting. For example, I never knew that there was a distinction between the east and west sides of China. According to Huizhen, the eastern Chinese and western Chinese are very different. There is a difference mostly because of agriculture and development in technologies. What was most interesting, as I alluded to before, was how Huizhen understood her country. ...

Hey Friends, Welcome Back. I was surfing through the wonderful world of thefacebook.com and dropped in on my friend Josiah's profile. I have never seen such a huge quote wall. Glancing through the gi-normous amount quotes, I noticed that Josiah had some questions written in there for people to repsond to on his wall. Being interested, I decided to voice myself. Listen in: I couldn't help but see your awesome questions. I have some thoughts about Question 1: Why do we say the word "should"? When I think about the word 'should' , I think of a person using it as a synonym for 'ought' . "I should study" "I should get going." "I should stop smoking" "I should go to church more." I believe 'should' is used mostly for things that we think we'd like to do, but really don't. I've learned something as I grow: You will do what you want . If you want to go get a slice of pizza: you'll get ...

'el musico.' Un hombre tocaba la guitarra en la playa en Xalapa. (Mi, amigo Joe, y hombre de la playa)