“But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
-1 Timothy 6:9-11
Life rarely comes with T-intersection type decisions. They're more like very, very narrow Y-intersections - subtle forks in the road that don't look like they're much different at first glance (maybe the roads intersect up at that next bend?) but that, in reality, can mean the difference between life and death. And I'm not talking about physical, literal life and death. Every so often, one of those subtle forks in the road emerges on your metaphorical walk through life's metaphorical forest. You know that feeling?
That's about how I feel these days.
Monday, July 9, 2007
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i was feeling the same way, progressively worse since school ended and a lot of you guys left the state. I felt so purposeless and stuck in a rut, and wondered if I had made some sort of bad decision (not applying to other schools, taking the summer conference job, etc, etc). very much a blah, negative, melancholy feeling. but now that summer scholars has started I am seeing that the decision i made was actually the right one, and it was all worth it...sometimes it's hard to see the positive in the beginning..when you first choose the direction of the intersection that you want to take.
omg, i love my new macbook!! although i have to admit that i absolutely hate the safari thing, and could not see my lj page, as you observed on your mac. although that is easily remedied, since we can download firefox! it is so much better, and you can tab windows and stuff! if you download this browser, you can read my lj page the right way! http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.4&os=osx&lang=en-US
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