The World of Blogging Begins Anew from my Room.

Ahhh. Yes. I am now blogging again. Maybe not quite as regularly as when I was in Costa Rica, but perhaps you might like to hear my thoughts every now and again…or maybe I am just going to keep writing them. Hopefully both happen.

I have been discovering things in life. Many things. Firstly lets talk about prayer. It rocks. I am finding this oddly unexpected (or perhaps just surprisingly accurate) thing happening. Lately, when I pray, things happen. I pray for something and God does stuff. I guess it helps that I am not praying for mountains of chocolate or things like that, but nonetheless I had not really explored prayer as a big time option for life until recently. The fool that I was now becomes increasingly obvious as my time with the Lord has the by-product of making me more of who He wants me to be (especially when I ask for it). If I could talk to Chauncey of the past…He would probably be stubborn and do everything the same.

The other thing that I am discovering is that I really like (LOTS) reading my bible and thinking about nerdy grammar things in the greek. In bible study today I asked Dr.Neinhuis about how the tense of the Greek that Paul was using in Romans interacted with the idea of justification as a participatory reality….I actually wanted to know and was fully engaged in the answer. You may think that sounds gross, perhaps, but HEY! I really love reading the word. I sound completely cliche. But what are we to do when cliche becomes reality? When in Rome…

Seriously though. Super cool. Bible = Neato. I gave the idea of being Dr.Handy professor of Theology a bit of thought the other day. It was a fun thought. Years down the road, God willing you could probably send you kids to a Christian University (SPU?) and have them take classes from me. Again, not set in stone, but that’d be neat huh? Better than me being president. Maybe not though. I could be president someday…Nahh.

Another cool thing: I lived my dream from Freshman year. I MCed the school’s talent show this past Friday. It really was the dream and has been for a long time. It went incredibly well! I have heard nothing but good things from people ranging from the President of the University to random people’s parents. I don’t mean that in the sense of “hey everyone! Come see how good I look!” but more in the sense of “I am glad that people liked it.” I really am. It is nice to know that when your dream is made reality that…SURPRISE! It goes well and people are pumped about it. I have to give credit to the judges. They were good. They really helped me be funny. Also, I didn’t have to make any dirty jokes. None. Edification of the Lord and comedy can exist side-by-side. Sweet.

I have recently got to this point where the barren wasteland that is my love life is actually something I don’t mind. It’s like when I got home from Latin America and Bellingham was an Icy wasteland. When that happened I put on a jacket, a scarf, and kept rocking life. Similarly now that there really aren’t any girls I am serious about pursuing on the radar (girl deserve more than half-assed pursuit) I have pitched a nice beach chair in the middle of the desert that is no-girl zone and made myself a cool beverage. Still, usually I hear that this point in life is when things (girls) jump out at you and then you fall deeply in love. At least that is how I understand it is supposed to go. My experience is that they jump out, break your heart and leave you unexpectedly bitter. I will be on my guard to avoid that as much as is possible without being a cold-hearted scrooge of a human being.

I had this fun conversation with my friend Sean the other day about women’s roles in the church. Some people (like Sean) feel that women should not be in the church as pastors (people who teach and are in head pastorship roles). I go to a church where we have a female head pastor. It’s wonderful. Obviously I am not one of the Sean-like people. The question I have is regarding biblical context. Do most of our doctrines based on women’s roles as Sean and others (Sean I am not meaning to single you out, you’re just my example) conceive of them come from a 1st century patriarchial society (via the apostle Paul in the book of Timothy and other places) or from God Himself? Some people might say both. I would tend to disagree with that because it strikes me that the Lord is constantly making statements (as far as I know, which is limited) about that same society in a “they’re missing the point” way throughout the biblical witness. Furthermore, why is it that we allow women to teach Sunday school and give our children what is hopefully the essentials of discipleship at an early age, but won’t allow them to interact with adults? Aren’t children more formable by the people who teach them? Shouldn’t some people be more up in arms about women teaching children who most likely actually listen to them? Hmmmm…..Feel free to react via comments. It may be awhile before I get to them, but I’d like your thoughts.

I’ve got me a job at camp this summer. I won’t tell you what it is until its official, but whatever the case I might do waterfront director again on top of it. That would mean lifeguarding, being a man who maintains a semi-iron fist of authority, and someone who goes kayaking whenever the mood strikes him…I’d like that. MAYBE. Don’t get any ideas Rob Lee.

Well, that’s enough for now. It’s time for bed. Midterm tomorrow. I studied for several hours…Not too worried. I probably should be more worried or something, but I’m a senior…the commitment to caring about how I do (rather than what I learn) is waning…