20 June 2009

Long time no post, but I've been trying to figure out how to change or delete this blog because I'm not using the email address anymore. I know how to delete this blog, but I can't change it even though I delete the blog.
So, I've decided to create a new blog.
Its url: http://juiceboxesandsandwiches.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!

09 June 2009

I will probably elaborate more later so, don't be so impatient.
I've noticed two things about me these past few weeks.
Two things that I felt could be over-looked or worked out or..whatever, you know?
It doesn't seem to be the case.
I've always said that I'm not one for "fun" relationships, that God has, in His divine providence given me some sort of ability to stop liking a person when I feel they are not the "one."
I have some serious trust issues.
I guess I could thank God for that, for keeping me relationally pure through all these years. So, I am.
The other thing is I'm driven by guilt.
I'm constantly trying to rid myself of it by doing things.
And I know..I know..that I am guilt-free, but I can't help it..you know..its hard.
Life is hard.
Good thing we aren't alone.

01 June 2009

The first day of a month has always made me smile.
It's probably because I like to smile and I like new months. So, they go together nicely.

I went camping over the weekend.
It was fun and I have decided to remember it as being fun.
I think I ate too much, but whatever.

Yesterday was really eye-opening.
I was caught up in a whole lot of emotions.
I am still organizing, still thinking.

I'm starting House again.
It is a great show and I feel the second time around will cause me to appreciate it even more and I think it's working. Sweet!

Today in class we're talking about moral responsibility of dreams.
It's an interesting topic, but just not now.
I'm really tired and I don't really want to pay attention more than I have to.
I'm just trying to stay awake...Don't judge me.

I remember in junior high I was really inattentive.
I could not (or was it would not) pay attention in class. (Like right now...hmm..interesting)
I would always get kicked out of class and most of the time it was my fault.
Almost everyday I would get kicked out of class and I would just sit in the hallway. It was interesting when I look back on it.

Today is going to be alright.

-Johny (:

27 May 2009

I've always wondered and I continue to wonder if one changed decision in the past can dramatically effect my present. I think if it were at all possible I would love to see, if I could, the differences in my life if I chose different choices. I have a couple in mind that I wouldn't mind re-doing, but I'm not regretting. I think I turned out alright...hopefully. I think some would disagree with me, but who cares about them..unless I care about them then I don't know what I would do. Oh no, now I'm thinking about that...

If I were to fly anywhere....I would fly home. Hmm..wherever home is...

I want to go/live/spend my time in a cottage on the outskirts of a nice township. It would be nice to live in a small community where lives are shared, but nowadays it seems almost impossible.

Methuselah.
His name means, "when he dies; it shall be sent." He died at the age of 969. And when he died the flood was sent. So for 969 years God was patient and did not unleash His wrath upon the earth.....

-Johny (:

25 May 2009

I spent a minute trying to find the date for my title.
That's pretty pathetic. ( -_-) (-_- )

Well, today is Monday and I'm at home because it is Memorial Day.
First, I would like to thank the many soldier, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters for their sacrifice.
No matter what a person thinks about war and the behemoth that is the military industrial complex, there should be and ought to be a appreciation for the sacrifice that people have made for this country.
Thank you.

I will continue to NOT watch the Lakers games because my uninvolved involvement seems to be working. Everytime I have watched a game the Lakers have lost and every time I have ignored not watched a game they have done well.
Which leads me to my next point:
How do sporting events and just sports in general lead some people to go off on the deep end? It seems that people, mainly men, for one reason or another always put off responsibilities in the name of sports. I find it weird.
That's all.

I don't think I can sleep in unfamiliar environments...Actually, I can sleep well anywhere, that is, I can fall asleep anywhere, but I think the problem comes when I try to stay asleep. For instance, yesterday I fell asleep at Doojin's house while watching T.V. and I woke up 3-4 times. I finally woke up at 10, but that's after waking up at 1, 4, 5, 7:30.
I don't like it.

There comes a point in any person's life where they need to learn how to cook. Well, at least boil water. Nevermind...the microwave has almost completely erased any need for someone to learn how to cook. I think a lot of things which fall out of fashion for the sake of modernity come back because they are so rare and antique.
Okay for now.

My plans for today:
1. Take a shower.
2. Go to the gym.
3. Take a shower?
4. Go to Doojin's for some B.B.Q...PWN!!!
5. Get home and finish some homework.
6. Pick up parents from the airport at 8:30.
7. Get home and try to finish some more homework.
8. Try to sleep before 12 while chatting and playing blockes.

-Johny (:

22 May 2009

Well, today I've decided to write about life.
What about life?
Well, there are things people call life and then there the mundane existences that people like to label life because they don't want to say, "I don't have a life" and then there are the lives of people that are so vibrant and dynamic that I just have to sit and wonder, "what makes them tick?"
Those lives are the ones that I want to write about.
I've always noticed that no matter how much junk a person fills his life with; there are always going to be those times when he doesn't feel like living on a particular day. I've also notice and noted that people, no matter how many "things" they have to do, feel like they're wasting their lives at one point or another. Now, why is that the people with the most successful "lives" always find a way to be sad? (When I say sad I don't mean the once in awhile, "I've got the blues..." sad. I mean the deep deep depression that people feel when they lead meaningless lives) Their lives can't be meaningless..I mean, they're so successful. What happened?
Finding meaning in anything outside of Christ is meaningless.

-Johny (:

21 May 2009

It is nice know that life is held in God's hands.
I don't understand people that believe in Arminianism. I realize that people might not want to believe in a God that chooses people to go to Heaven and thus they think that God sends people to Hell, but we know from Paul's letter to the Romans that "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God." We see here that there is no one who can seek or find God. I know that this might seem scary or hopeless or whatever other adjective that speaks of uncertainty, but this is most assuredly the way that I would choose to obtain my salvation. There is no one that I would rather lean my salvation on than God. He holds me and He sustains me and that is how I would like to keep. I've always heard that God saves and I don't know if it can be the other way. Philippians 2:8-9 says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so no one can boast." This verse clearly stats that it is grace that saves and nothing else can save. No, not even our faith saves us and people don't realize this, but again the verse says, "For it is by GRACE."
Is it the view of God being loving that forces people to believe that God does not choose people? Is it their incomplete knowledge of God's redemptive plan? Or is it people not realizing what the Word of God says? Whatever it is...God chooses those He saves and is just in doing so.
Now, let's just assume the opposite and say that God does not save but man can choose God and in doing so lose God. What happens then? Is it even possible for man to achieve the righteousness required to enter Heaven? I don't know. And let's just assume for an instance that man can gain entrance into Heaven with his own righteousness isn't it equally possible for man to lose his ticket into Heaven.
I've never understood how someone could be so prideful that he would actually think that salvation came from none other than himself.
The Gospel that I believe in says that God knowing that man was depraved sent His own Son, Jesus, to come and be the gap, to bridge God's righteousness to man's fallen-ness. It says that God knowing that man could never get to Him gave His Son, the only sacrifice sufficient enough to cleanse man's sin, so that He can give man entrance into Heaven.
That is the Gospel I believe in.
"...not by works, so no one can boast."

-Johny (: