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Corey

Finals

This Transition final is going to kick my butt. I can already see it coming. Can't wait.

Calculus will probably be pretty hard, too. We'll see. Those are both Monday. History and New Testament are Wednesday so I'll have all day Tuesday to study for those. Woohoo.

Corey

WOW

Wow.

It has been forever. Sorry, readers. Kind of unacceptable for a blogger to go a long time without blogging. Doesn't that kind of take away from the point of it? I think so. I'll work on that.

I'm definitely ready for this school year to be over. It has been a pretty long one. We've got about 2 weeks, and then finals will conclude the year. Can't wait.

I've been doing some good reading lately. I'll post more about that later. Got 2 math tests this week so I'll be busy with that. What up procrastination.

Corey

iPad Has Arrived

Woohoo the iPad is here!!

We we we so excited. We so excited! We're gonna have a ball today.

Les Mis Quotes, Through Page 250

This book is WAY too long. It's ridiculous. I'm too tired to post all my thoughts about it so far, so I'll just put up some of my favorite quotes from the first part of the book.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live entirely without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything on this earth is subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Why worry about what threatens our heads and our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man? Can the soul be completely changed by its destiny, and turn evil when its fate is evil?

Do not forget, ever, that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.

We should take time to reflect, if we want to be brilliant.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Providence has done it all... Have I the right to change what He arranges?

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore.

April 5

It's Tuesday. This week has gone by pretty slowly.

I went to Abraham's Altar tonight, it was really good. Followed that up by talking with some friends for a while, and just been chillin in the room the rest of the night.

Les Mis is going to take me even longer to read now, because I picked up another book on Sunday that I'm reading right now. It's called A Praying Life by Paul Miller, and I've really enjoyed it so far. He has a lot of great things to say, and I'm looking forward to what I can learn from the rest of the book as well. Prayer is definitely an area of my life that I need to grow in; it has always seemed ritualistic and impersonal to me. In only the first few chapters that I've read, I've seen applications to my own life and thoughts in the text, so that's been really cool. A few times, it felt as if he was speaking directly to me, which I suppose is a good thing in a book like that. It definitely has lessons that I need to learn. A book I read last year introduced the Jesus Prayer to me, which I had never heard before:

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

This prayer, while simple and short, really strikes a chord with me. I like the simplicity of it, yet the implications of it are far from simple. It is a constant reminder of our helplessness and our need for Christ. As this book pointed out, it is important for me to realize my helplessness, because that in turn leads to a life more reliant on prayer and communication with God. If we realize and truly believe that we cannot do anything in our own power, why would we not constantly be petitioning at the throne for power and strength to carry out God's will in our lives? That's just something that I need to think strongly about, and hopefully some readers will take a minute to consider it as well.

I'll post some more thoughts as I continue reading this wonderful book.

My mama went and pre-ordered my iPad today, and I'm pretty excited about getting it. Hopefully either this weekend or next weekend I'll be in Chatt. and they will have the one I ordered. We'll see. It's no big rush, I guess.

Not much else is new; I've got small groups tomorrow, so I'm pretty excited about those. I have a Transition test Friday that is gonna be a killer, so that'll be where my time goes in the next two days. We'll talk soon. By that I mean I'll talk, and you'll read.

Please do leave a comment in the new box on the left! I found it and thought it was so cool, but no one has put a comment yet and now I kinda feel like a loser. So I guess we'll see if that changes.

Corey

April 3

I have had so much that I've wanted to write about in the last three weeks that I really have no idea where to begin. Hopefully this week will be completely filled with studying for my Transition test Friday and writing on Straight Talk. I'll start with some recent stuff then later on I will go back with some more in depth stuff, particularly about the Tampa trip (which was amazing, by the way).

Church was really good today. We had a guest speaker, and he started by reading the text, which came from a very interesting part of Genesis. Chapter 19 gives the story of Lot and his two daughters, and speaks of how they both became pregnant by Lot after getting him to drink. It put everyone on their heels as to how the speaker was going to handle the text, and I thought he did an amazing job. The applications became real to all of us, and he was very good at getting his points across. I enjoyed some great buffet lunch with the Castles, Pop, the Robersons, and Dr. and Mrs. Lawless. Great conversations were had as always. Tonight I went and listened to Dr. Lawless speak on Mark 4, which includes the Parable of the Sower. He shed some new light onto that passage and its application to teaching. I found it very helpful, and was glad I decided to go hear it.

Many more posts to come soon, I promise. Hang in there, readers.

Corey