Life moves along at the speed of light as procrastination rules and varsity drags on. Things outside varsity seem not even to show signs of slowing. Seeing friends, Church, Srizzil, Guitar, work, and homework fly around in a disorderly fashion – each begging for more attention.
Of course the usual issues rage on as I continue through my last year as a teenager. One would think these things would slow down at the age of 19 but they seem only to get more intense and more confusing. Trying to find who you are in a world riddled with lies and deception is probably the greatest difficulty in life. I guess that’s why many adults are so lost, they’ve never found themselves.
I will eventually be adding my biography/testimony/life story up on the site for the world to poke through. This will help new Srizzil readers to better understand the context of my writing. However I’m currently moving the enormous amount of articles across from the old website and making a few cosmetic changes to each one. This will hopefully make it easier for Google to find our articles and attract more Srizzilers from across the world.
On the video front I have started a couple of projects, none of which are near completion. It’s great to make videos but I don’t want to upload any old rubbish. There should be a certain element of quality to all the Srizzil videos so rushing out new videos is not my highest priority.
Before I sign off it must be noted that the new Black Eyed Peas album is surprisingly amazing. Make sure you get it. I’m not into club, electronic music at all but the ‘Peas’ are amazingly talented and never seem to stagnate.
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I’m finding it more and more difficult to not be ‘deep’ about everything lately. I think I’m just realising how the consequences of our actions, no matter how small, are huge. I was chatting to some classmates in a lecture recently and the subject of ‘religion’ came up. I mentally rolled my eyes, if that makes sense, as the very mention of the word irritates me. The word religion has come to mean some section of your life that you devote to a god or cult or something similar. What I believe is so much more than that.
Tonight I went to home cell, that’s basically a meeting of people from the church who get together in their homes to talk about God. One of the guys had just gotten back from a trip to Mozambique and he was telling us some amazing stories he had heard. As I listened I felt so disconnected, like I was living such a different life. I wanted to jump into the next car and go wherever and tell people about God. Yet, in my own lectures there are people who are so dead inside. They have the world but no soul.
Why do people want to grow up? Once you’ve grown up all the fun is gone, everybody worries and gets all serious when there’s so much more to life. I don’t think God ever intended for us to loose that spirit and life. We are even required to have a child like faith, believing in things that no ‘respectable adult’ would believe in. At the same time we should be growing as people, getting wiser and knowing how to deal with certain situations. To be wise and yet have that kid inside always ready for anything and excited about life, that seems to be the formulae that we should grow with.
So what do you do? I’m talking to myself as much as anybody else, but I think the key is spending more time meditating on the word of God – who he is. Through real people’s stories God has shown us himself. So we read them, again and again. As we read God reveals himself in different ways. You stop and think, hey why did he do that? As Rob Bell puts it, you ask questions which lead to more questions, those lead to more answers with more questions. It goes on forever because God is infinite. But as you learn more, you love God more. You understand things more. You try harder to do or not do certain things. You appreciate life more and you’ll find that you just don’t get it. So you carry on, and eventually what seemed like work becomes pleasure. You can’t wait to get home and read God’s word. You want to talk and discuss God more and more. You find other conversation lifeless without God being the centre of it all. You fall in love with Him again every day.
Apple launched the Windows version of their web browser, Safari, to the public just a few months ago. After all this hands on time with the program I think, pro Apple bias aside, that Safari blows Internet Explorer out of the water.
