Imago Dei

Well I moved this weekend. The move itself was relatively easy - we were done by 2 on Saturday! Of course, I still have a few things left to pick up and cleaning to do, but that’s the easiest part.

The hard part is getting acclimated to living in someone else’s house. Even though I’ve lived with them before, it somehow seems different now. Especially since the total population of the house has increased to 5 people AND 5 pets (4 adults, 1 baby, 2 cats, 2 dogs, and a fish).

See what I mean?

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Well I’ve officially let my boss know that I’m planning to move back to NC, so they know it’s a matter of when, not if. And I’ve got resumes out to a few places. Hopefully one of them will work out. I’d like to move this summer!

Speaking of moving, I’ll be moving this weekend. Out of this apartment and in with some friends until I move back home.

I’m tired of moving.

One of these days, I’ll be able to stop.

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April 25th is the National Day of Silence to help end GLBT harassment.

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I’m still around, even though I’m not posting right now.

I’m okay, even. Happy.

I just haven’t felt the need or desire to post about a lot of the stuff I previously would have posted about.

I’m not retiring this blog - yet.

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Catchy title, eh?

So that song I posted about the other day? By David Cook? I’ve decided that it’s either the most romantic song ever or the creepiest song ever. I mean, have you ever actually listened to the lyrics?

You’ll always be a part of me
I’m part of you indefinitely
Girl don’t you know  you can’t escape me
Darlin’ cuz you’ll always be my baby
I will linger on
Time can’t erase a feeling this strong
No way you’re never gonna shake me
Cuz you’ll always be my baby

So yeah… stalkerish. But it’s still my #1 swoon song right now (#2 is So Close by Jon McLaughlin from Enchanted).

I read this article today, and it makes me so unbelievably angry.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

I’ve said it a million times, and I’ll say it again. My anti-abortion stance doesn’t come from religious beliefs. My religious beliefs are pretty much gone, but I still hate abortion. I hate abortion.

I can have compassion and sympathy for a woman who wrestled with the decision and chose this path.

But I find myself filled with absolute disgust and contempt for this woman. Yale is now insisting that it isn’t true, that her art was “creative fiction.” Shvarts, however, still insists that it’s true.

The odd thing is that she states that she doesn’t know if she was ever actually pregnant.

I’m just at a loss of words. Honestly. What kind of person would inseminate themselves just so they could intentionally abort? Whether any babies were actually aborted or not… this is disgusting.

This whole polygamy case is breaking my heart. Quite honestly, I don’t care about the polygamy part. Whatever floats your boat. It’s the children. Young children being forced to marry and have children. Children should be children, not have children.

This is most definitely child abuse. Ordinarily I would advocate for parent rehabilitation and then for placing the child back in parental custody, but not in this case. I hope those people never see any of these children again. This is one case where I’m all for the marking or labeling of people as sex offenders - and ordinarily, I’m not. These people are just so wrong.

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Before I write anything else, I have to say that I am absolutely enamored with David Cook. If you don’t get it, listen to this song! Unfortunately, it cuts out early at the 3 minute mark even though the song is 3:54. Sorry about that, it couldn’t be helped.

Now. I think I’m schizo. I don’t mean to make light of people who truly have the disease, but I swear that something is wrong with me.

I had coffee (well I watched her drink coffee) with a good friend of mine tonight. It’s so easy to talk to her. And she’s convinced that most of my problems in life stem from self-hatred. Even my faith wishy-washiness.

And my faith is… wishy-washy. I vocalized something this week at Common Ground that I’ve been afraid to say, especially here.

My faith isn’t real. My faith is a series of actions that I do because people are watching me.

I know what you’re thinking. Not again! And no, not again. Still.

One thing my friend said to me tonight was that I shouldn’t disregard God and Jesus just because of all the things “God’s people” do. My response to her was that I’m not trying to disregard them, I finally trying to not disregard all of the stuff I’ve been taught to disregard.

When I made my choice for faith, I began going through the motions. I’ve walked the walk and talked the talk. But God, to me, is a giant void. I don’t feel God. I haven’t in a very long time. And that makes me ask if He’s there.

I know He’s there for some people. It’s evident that He’s all over my friend. But what if it’s okay that He’s not there for me? What if it doesn’t matter? What if her God is her God, and my God is… nothing?

Can I live with that? Yes, I think I can. The question is, can my friends and family live with that?

And… am I ever going to stop this going back and forth between faith and no faith?

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Grace and peace be to all of you! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Christian carnival. There is no overarching theme this week, so I hope that’s not too disappointing. The entries are simply in the order in which I received them.

FMF presents How to Make Sure Your Church is Handling Money Correctly posted at Free Money Finance.

Ariah Fine presents Isn’t It The Churches Job? So, Why Do We Ask The Government? posted at Trying to follow.

Allen Scott presents Can You Hear Me Now? posted at Journey Across the Sky.

Curtis Suuppi presents The Institution of Marriage posted at Midnight Soup.

Doug asks Does the Church have a role in our confession of sins? at Bounded Irrationality.

Annette presents Being a Pastor posted at Fish and Cans.

Chasing the Wind presents God’s Dysfunctional Children posted at Chasing the Wind.

Theresa L. Twogood presents Coming To A School Near You Soon posted at OLIN e-Book e-Publishing.

Dan Seely presents Seeing myself in the Pharisees - Part 1 posted at Whirled Views.

Chad Dalton presents Sharing the gospel - #5 posted at Living Stone Bible Church Blog.

This week at Light Along the Journey, John looks at how focusing on God helps us overcome temptation in this post.

Ali presents Trusting God’s motives. posted at Kiwi and an Emu..

Bruce Alderman presents the church of america posted at it seems to me….

Allen Scott presents Can You Hear Me Now? posted at Journey Across the Sky.

Considering that Proverbs says Wisdom is a Tree of Life, the Weekend Fisher takes a look at how that could shape our understanding of Genesis’ Tree of Life.

Henry Imler presents New Poll: Women in the early Church. posted at Theology for the Masses.

John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry takes positive note of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s visit to Messiah College.

Donald S. Crankshaw presents The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil posted at Back of the Envelope.

Casey Petersen presents Extreme Measures posted at The Limitless.

Andrew Tatusko presents Why Would God Let This Happen? posted at Notes From Off Center.

James DeLelys presents Articles posted at WORDS.

Tom Gilson presents The Church of Oprah? posted at Thinking Christian.

Jeremy Pierce presents Open Theism and the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart posted at Parableman.

Henry Neufeld presents More on the Original Text posted at Participatory Bible Study Blog.

Paul presents Christian Integrity posted at Life is for Living.

Thom presents Finally, Prayer Beads! posted at Everyday Liturgy.

I have to include Thom’s narrative for that last link, because it made me laugh out loud!

Thomas narrates his adventure into making prayer beads, which is a bit scary for a guy.

Now, if I’ve forgotten someone or messed up a link, please let me know!

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As I write this, my Medievia character (Maranwe) is on a ship killing fae crabs.

Don’t ask.

I’m completely addicted to this game again. Part of it is the game. It’s genuinely fun to run around and kill things and run quests, etc. But the other part of it is the community.

Medievia is just a game. I know that. But it’s more than a game.

It’s my way of finding the community that I desperately want that I’m not getting anywhere else. As much as I love my friends, they all lead pretty busy lives. They’ve got their own crap to manage. So I turn to online communities to find the relationships that I’m craving.

And for me, it works.

Most people think I’m insane and that you can’t find real community online, but it simply isn’t true. And the friends I make online are friends that will follow me wherever I go.

So this is one form of escapism for me.

What about you guys? Do any of you have things you do to “escape” from reality?

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“Today, the complacency of ignorance gives way to the responsibility of knowledge.”

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Oh Barack Obama… I’ve thought you were eloquent. Intelligent. Compassionate.

But then you say something like “punished with a baby” and I want to hit you.

Don’t say stupid things like that anymore, ok?

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