December 2011
8 posts
swimming in peanut butter is hard.
Swimming in peanut butter is hard. Maybe with your Sherlock Holmes-esque deduction skills you could imagine it’s an extremely slow process. And really most of all, it raises the chances for getting leg cramps by 4,000%. Okay. This is ridiculous, I know. The real truth is I’ve never swam in peanut butter, nor do I have the desire to unless there is 1 BEELYON dollars at stake. It’s...
A SMALL, POINTLESS STORY FROM MY LIFE
“Woes of Jet-lag” Part One
Because my house feels as if polar bears and penguins could live comfortably here, my adaptive instincts led me to make a small, temporary cocoon in my bed to prevent hypothermia from kicking in. Of course, that proceeded to become a four hour hibernation lasting from 5:20 to 9:20PM which means I am successfully making strides in my effort to actually become...
post-India
Welp. My post-India blog is coming sooner than I thought due to the paper I have to write for my school credit. This is the shorter, way more relaxed, blog version of my paper for my internship in India.
Words could never describe what I learned and how I grew over the last three months. I am honestly not even to a point where my thoughts are clear enough to write about the experience as a whole,...
1 tag
no if's, and's, or but's.
For a long time I struggled to understand this passage, and I always wanted to know its significance. Some people give it a socio-economical slant. At times, I have resonated with that. But today while reading it, I heard a new, simple understanding. It is nothing profound, but just a simplistic, face-value view of the temptation of Jesus.
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was...