Authority

I got it.
The Maker of all lives in me, so I have the authority to bring heaven to earth. I also have the authority to bring hell on earth.
Scary, yea?

-Jesus, help me represent Your authority the way You intended. Not my way, but Yours. I am Yours.-

//Show me how to love like You have loved me//

Hillsong last night rocked my world.
I need more training in leadership. Or at least more fellowship with other believers.
I want to go deeper.
I want to go higher.

Not spiritual goo.
Just Jesus. And what we COULD be.

I need to get on Re::wind.

Lets set a goal, how 'bout it? Umm by the end of July, I want to have the first Re::wind Forum.
I want to people to experience thought and mind transformation.

Grace and Peace.

Thought for the day::

Its one thing to join a movement;
its another to adopt a lifestyle.

so close, yet....

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies: Biology

REQUIRED CORE COURSES:
BISC 120L General Biology: Organismal Biology and Evolution 4
BISC 220L General Biology: Cell Biology and Physiology 4
BISC 300L Introduction to Microbiology 4
BISC 315L Introduction to Ecology 4
BISC 320L Molecular Biology 4
BISC 330L Biochemistry 4
CHEM 105aLbL General Chemistry 4-4
CHEM 322abL Organic Chemistry 4-4
ENST 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies 4
ENST 495 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies 4
MATH 125 Calculus I 4
MATH 126 Calculus II, or
MATH 208x Elementary Probability and Statistics 4
PHYS 135abL Physics for the Life Sciences 4-4

ONE COURSE FROM:
BISC 325 Genetics 4
ENE 400 Environmental Engineering Principles 3
GEOL 105L Planet Earth 4
GEOL 412 Oceans, Climate, and the Environment 4
GEOL 460L Geochemistry and Hydrogeology 4

FOUR ELECTIVE COURSES CHOSEN FROM (NO MORE THAN TWO IN A SINGLE DEPARTMENT):
ECON 487 Resource and Environmental Economics 4
ENST 420 Water Quality Policy and Regulation 4
ENST 430 Air Quality Policy and Health 4
ENST 440 Environmental Risk Assessment 4
GEOG 255 American Environmentalism 4
GEOG 345 Conservation of Natural Resources 4
GEOG 350 Race and Environmentalism 4
GEOG 360 Environmental Disasters 4
GEOG 370 Marine and Coastal Zone Geography 4
GEOG 477 Water Resources 4
IR 323 Politics of Global Environment 4
IR 422 Ecological Security and Global Politics 4
POSC 347 Environmental Law 4
POSC 436 Environmental Politics 4
SWMS 415 Ecofeminism 4
SWMS 420 Woman, Nature, Culture: The Behavioral Ecology of Women 4

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MAY BE INCLUDED AMONG THE FOUR COURSES BY STUDENTS WHO DO NOT SELECT MATH 208X:
ECON 317 Introduction to Statistics for Economists 4
PSYC 274 Statistics I 4
SOCI 314 Sociological Statistics 4


i'm nowhere close...

i woke up from dreaming about school and what i could be learning.
i need to take online classes. stat.

Art.

Emotions run high.
Tempers flare.
You know happiness is just around the corner, but right now, it just seems so unobtainable.

Loneliness.
Confusion.
Pain.
Happiness.
Love.

We all are a whirlwind of feelings and gut wrenching passions and instincts that burn inside.

And everyone needs an avenue. An escape. A way out.

Music
Painting
Sculpting
Photography
Writing
Film

All of them; ART.

So wouldn't it be safe to assume that art is a necessary part of life?
Because where would we be, without it?

How do you feel?
Tell me without words.

Run faster.

Its always good to reconnect with old friends. Sometimes when they resurface, it brings a little bit of happy goo in your life. Or is it you that resurfaces for them??

This week I am fasting solid food. Thats right. Liquids only. If I can't drink it through a straw, I'm not ingesting it.
This is part of an ongoing process of getting my body back in check. Healthifying me. Controlling the part of my mind that has given in to the 21st century mindset of instant gratification for everything and anything. So far, so good. Soups, smoothies, and juice.

Also, I bought an external HDD last night and successfully eliminated about 60 GB of junk off my computer. SO much better. So thats sort of what I hope to do with my diet this week; eliminate a lot of junk so I can run faster.

and we're back

remember how i said that my blogs might get political?
well here goes.

i've been thinking (*lifeguard*) and i've decided that i believe that Jesus and Obama should remain separate. they should be friends, but they need to let each other do their thing. Jesus saves souls, and Obama saves butts.

but seriously though. Jesus had a lot to say about leaving Ceasar to his own ways and following The Way. Jesus set up a new kingdom when He was here. Not just in heaven, but a kingdom we could bring to earth. how? through us. through you and me. we have to do it. and its not going to happen by forcing our "religious, christian" views on people who don't believe the same way we do! guess what? paul wasn't talking to those people in the book acts or ephesians or any of the epistles. Jesus was talking to everyone. so eye for an eye? boom! Jesus took that and threw it out with the temple tables.

all that said. yes. acting on homosexuality and making into a habitual lifestyle is wrong according to scripture. but how can people say that there is no redemption for that? how can they belittle my Jesus and say that His blood isn't enough for that? what is our job as 21st century Christians? is it to vote to make everyone act (not think) the same as us? because if you vote to do what is moral in your opinion, then you're essentially saying "i don't care what you think, this is the way i want everyone to live regardless of what they think." but is it even our job to say "its ok. its your choice; marry who you want to marry, abort the baby if you want, have a few more kids out of wedlock if you want."

i'm to the point, right now, where i want to talk about it. as christians, and then also as humans, and then lastly as an american (is it bad i'm ashamed [glad] sometimes to say that?).

i think we should let humanity choose its own morality, while we as christians already have ours laid out for us.

Too much

Right now, I'm at a place where I need to stop, check the map, and maybe go back to that last intersection. It officially at the "reevaluate my life" part of this year. Hopefully this will be the only one. But one of the things I've realized (among many others) is that there hasn't been any part of my life where I've "died to myself." I've pretty much done what I want when I want. That has to stop. Its a self destructive pattern that only leads nowhere fast. I want to live different. Not just different than life for me now; but different than everyone else in this town who thinks that they're different. And I have to figure out what that looks like.

I haven't finished some things that I've stared. I've let friendships slip away. I've been unproductive. And I've hurt people.

I'm sorry.

It's spring.
And it's time for a breath of fresh air and a burst of life.

eyes.

eyes tell a lot about a person;
one shouldn't make assumtions, but nevertheless, eyes give you away.

"You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us."


"Happiness only real when shared."


contradicting thoughts, eh?
both from the same man.

we were made for each other.
people.

it bothers me how competitive we have become. its a "me" race; everyone is vying for a piece of the pie.

but what would happen if those who attained some pie or have been given pie; what if those people were to share theirs.

what if we were to join together and do life together
and LOVE.

::oh shoot, here i go again with the love thing::

but isn't that what it all boils down to, really??
i feel like its so simple, like i should be thinking more.
its as if i should be analyzing action after action to take to make my world a better place for me and those who live in it.
i feel like there's got to be more underneath; that this whole love thing is just scratching the surface.

but it really is that simple.
and there's lots more, but its made of the same stuff as the surface.

maybe thats where, in the sub-compartments of my sub-conscience, the eyes come into play...

your eyes are a portal into your mind.
you read with your eyes.
you behold the beauty that is our world with our eyes.
you communicate with your eyes.

and your eyes are two-way:
things can come out of your eyes.
they can tell truth and lies.
they can exude love or hate.
and they can reveal honesty or deceit (not so different from truth and lies, but different still)


do you want to win at life??
share it.
love it.
share each other.
love each other.

and let it come from within; because your soul, your integrity and your love.
all of it...


...your eyes will tell.