God's Will, Pipes, and More about Jobs

To start off a quote:
'Thy will be done' My festoonings on this have been added gradually. At first I took it exclusively as an act of submission, attempting to do what our Lord did in Gethsemane. I thought of God's will purely as something that would come upon me, something of which I should be the patient. And I also thought of it as a will that would be embodied in pains and disappointments. Not, to be sure, that I supposed God's will for me to consist entirely of disagreeables. But I thought it was only the disagreeables that called for this preliminary submission -- the agreeables could look after themsleves for the present.
This interpretation is, I expect, the commonest. And so it must be. And such are the miseries of human life that it must fill our whole mind. But at others times other meanings can be added. So I added one more.
The peg for it is, I admit, much more obvious in the English verison than the Greek or Latin. No matter: this is where the liberty of festooning comes in. ' Thy will be done.' But a great deal of it is done by God's creatures; including me. This petition, then, is not merely that I may patiently suffer God's will but also that I may vigorously do it. I must be an agent as well as a patient. I am asking that I may enabled to do it. In the long run I am asking to be given 'the same mind which was also in Christ.'
Taken this way, I find the words have a more regular daily application. For there isn't always -- or we don't always have a reason to suspect there is -- some great affliction looming in the near future, but there are always duties to be done; usually, for me, neglected duties to be caught up with. 'Thy will be done--by me--now' brings one back to brass tracks.
~C. S. Lewis Letters To Malcolm pp. 25-26
So know the question I pose is "How do we know what the will of God id for our lives?" or on a more basic level "Does God have an individual will for our lives?" How we answer the second question determines the answer to the first. Now aaron sould say that us letting Christ live through us is God's will for our lives and the eveything else does not matter if we are dying to self and letting Christ live through us so that we are becoming more Christ-like. Others would disagree with this interpretation of God's will and believe that there is a specific plan that God has for each of us including but not limited to who we will marry, what job we will have, and what college we will attend. I do believe that Aaron would say that if someone feels that God is telling them that they should do something specifically then they probably should but I hope Aaron will read this and let me know if I am wrong in this. all that being said. i have taken the job at Calltech and given my notice to Chick-Fil-A. It actually really irritated Breck (gernaly manager) because he likes me so much and really respects my work ethic. i know that if the Calltech thing doesn't work I could easily go back to Chick-Fil-A. I am looking forward to quiting balloons. I still have to call Calltech and see if I can change my training time and my hours of availabilty. I hope that I can, though if I can't God is still good and faithful. He will see me through. On a more exciting note: Pipes Are Cool! Mine comes in on Monday! Hooray! NEW PIPE! MEERSCHAUM! CUSTOM-MADE FOR HAPPYHEAD! WORTH $800 - $1000 Ok I'm done. I saw Cry_Wolf tonight. Jon Bon Jovi was in it and he's hot (wait no...he cool but hot is how my sister would describe him. Actually she would probably use the word sexy). Decent slasher flick. Moving on. I need start saving for a new watch, a Stryper ticket, and a Priest shirt for the Serenity premere. Well, I'm needing to go to bed which is at least 7 minutes away and Ben still wants to use me comupter which is cool. God willing, more tomorrow.
~DVM

Jobs and Jealousy

Well the Calltech interview was today. It was kinda weird. Most interviews are longer that this. I mean two questions: "What skills do you think that you have that will enable you do the job?" and "How would you deal with a really mad customer?' Oh yeah and there was the Do you have any customer service experience?" question. No question an answer time about benefits, what's expected of me, etc. It's kinda scary excepting a new job because I'm comfortable at Chick-Fil-A. I hope this is God's will (although I know what Aaron would say). I'm jealous of Matt again. First, he won an Xbox 360 and now he is having to think about going back to school because Andre Rogers looked him straight in the face and told him to stop looking for work and go to seminary. I wish I had an idea of what I was suppose to do with my life. I kinda do. I want to go back to school but as Andre said there are guys who graduate college go get a job saying "I wanna go back to school" A year or two later they've got a wife and are still saying "I wanna go back to school" And again two years later with a kid and one on the way, "I wanna go back to school." I still feel that I need to regain or readjust my focus on Chirst. Lately I've been selfish and been giving into temptations that I know I shouldn't. I know God is good and that I have already been forgiven; I just wish following Christ and dying to self was easier. Oh well, back to the narrow road. I'm looking at possibly trying to keep my job at Chick-Fil-A while going through the training classes at Calltech but I don't know if that is the thing to do. I would mean not going to Bible study for three weeks and getting little sleep. Well, it's about time to depart for Bible study, and I'm spent. May Christ live and may I die.
~DVM

Laziness Reigns Supreme (My Latest Xanga Post Pasted)

So finally a new update...
A lot of things can happen in a month. God has been doing a lot of cool things in my life. I've started to read through the book of John. Jesus is an interesting guy. One minute he says that he didn't come into the world to judge the world (John 3:17) and on the other he says he came to the world for the purpose of judgement (John 9:39). Of couse if we understand the context of both statements we will realize that they are not contradictory but complimentary. I'm sitting here with Ben who is filling out an application for CIU. He got to the "On what do you base your claim of salvation?" question, and after thinking a while, asked if it would be ok if he just pust "my faith in Jesus Christ." Of course I said, "Yes." It makes happy that he's beginning to get the whole Christ-follower thing. I'm also slowly working my way through C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. I have made some new friends/aquaintances lately. Well it's kinda that. I met Tami Pagano in the Student Center a week or so ago. She seems like an cool person. Genevive offered to cook Ben and me dinner sometime which is just cool. Food is good and good food is better (especially when I don't have to cook it). I want to buy several CD's right now. The new Whitecross, Baumer, and Bon Jovi albums are either available now or release tomorrow. Ok so the Whitecross album is a rerecording of the first whitecross album but hey that's what makes it so desirable. I have now officially stopped teaching small group at East Lake, but have now been roped into helping coordinate an event Oct. 1st. I've finally started to go to small group (people wouldn't like me if I called it church but for all intents and purposes it is) on Tuesday nights. Luther Lown was there for the first time in a while which is really cool. I like Luther He's unpredictable and a bit psycho which just makes him fun to be around if you learn to expect that at any second a spoon could be flying towards your head. I love Stryper. I'm looking forward to going to the show on Oct. 30 in Charlotte. Back to the bible study thing. I felt kinda bad 'cuz I totally zoned out for most of it Tuesday, but am really looking forward to this Tuesday and getting back into Galatians. I have an interview at Calltech tomorrow morning so I am hoping that it goes well. I have entered two more codes into every10minutes.com. It's not like I will actually win an xbox 360 but whatever. I need to take Leela to the vet (they are expensive but a necessary evil). I'm glad I don't have to go into Chick-Fil-A tomorrow. I hope I can find a new job soon. But, I was affirmed by a Chick-Fil-A employee today who said I would make good manager. I'm possibly going to see Cry_Wolf tonight. I did go see Just Like Heaven and Red Eye both OK movies (Just Like Heaven was the better of the two Sure it was a chick flick but...). I need to get my CV joint on my car replaced soon, but that's gonna be expensive. I'm about done. I still need to work on my Shepard costume for the Serenity Shindig that gonna happen. Back to God. I do need to possibly readjust my focus on Christ in relationship to other people. I don't know if i'm treating others as Christ would, but I do want others to see Christ in me. May God change me making me more like Christ every day. I need to work on dying.
~DVM