So I was sitting in class last night texting and listening to the lecture, when I noticed that one of my classmates had an awesome beard growing. After I complemented him on it, he mentioned that he was growing it out as part of a challenge. After talking to him at length, I found out that this challenge is none other than the 'Warrior Dash' challenge which takes place once a year throughout the country and which was coming to our town next month. Well, I could not possibly resist such a challenge and so teamed up with him to take on the dangerous 'Warrior Dash'. In the back of my mind it all seemed to be a bit silly, until I took a look at the video of the obstacle course.
www.warriordash.com
Oh yeah!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
City of God
I was reading "City of God" by Saint Agustin of Hippo and was struck by a bit of his writing. In it, he writes on the concept of good things and bad befalling all. He proceeds to state that although there is no difference in what both good and bad men must suffer, there is a difference in the men themselves.
"For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor."
To my horror and shame I have not been a good steward of my faith. Too long have I been despairing at my situation. It is time for me to turn around, cleanse my mind, and truly press into the presence of God for all of my needs, letting him remove the blemish upon my soul.
Hopefully my next post will be one of praise and glory for God, instead of my usual vitriol towards which I lean.
"For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor."
To my horror and shame I have not been a good steward of my faith. Too long have I been despairing at my situation. It is time for me to turn around, cleanse my mind, and truly press into the presence of God for all of my needs, letting him remove the blemish upon my soul.
Hopefully my next post will be one of praise and glory for God, instead of my usual vitriol towards which I lean.
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