More musings...
Spiritual musings from the past month…
A thriving social life has often been elusive in my life. For so long, SO LONG, I have felt when God constructed my mind and heart, He did not install some key software. This is not some introverted excuse thing. Even other intros seem to make friends and keep them easier than I do. And can put themselves into someone else’s shoes. I wondered for a long time if something in my heart was broken and kept causing problems. Big reason I was/am heavily interested in studying psychology and personality studies. I felt like I had to make an ‘artificial’ replacement.
Then I read a discussion about Paul and the mystery over what his ‘thorn in the flesh’ was. And it hit me…HARD. What if God made me weak in this area ON PURPOSE??? All my attempts to fix and enhance my warmth to others kept failing and stalling… God is made perfect in our weakness. So what if God does have a plan for me to lead and teach, but the only way I can GET there with my lacking heart is with His help?? Think about it…in your own life, your own ongoing struggles, what if you are weak there INTENTIONALLY?? God DESIGNED you that way. God took me from disinterest in other people to now a co-leader among my rather large ‘small group’ of college peers. And it happened when I asked God to fix my attitude toward other people. And do with my social life what He wanted. He took a 10% heart and took it up to 110%. Like…like…like He said, “You have a lame leg…yet I still want you to run this race. RUN, and trust in Me that I can and WILL empower you to finish.”
Thought of an interesting theory regarding purity and strength. Jesus said to flee from temptation. But I have come across fellow brothers (and sisters), who want to look sin straight in the eye and say, “NO!” But that is trying to be strong, not pure. Can you have lasting victory by being strong?
Quotes from Essential Iron Man #2:
-Iron Man: (The blast-it knocked the WIND out of me--! But my ARMOR stood the test again! This will prove, once and for all, that it isn’t the THICKNESS of armor-but the skill with which it’s TEMPERED-that makes the difference!)
-Iron Man: Don’t get the idea I’m trying to DOWNGRADE karate… But NOTHING’LL ever replace the sheer POETRY of a good ol’ American ONE-TWO to the kisser!
-Police Officer: We’ve radioed your REQUEST-everything you NEED is on the way-- But even for an ORIGINAL AVENGER I’d still say it was too big a RISK!
-Iron Man: Could BE-- But if lines were drawn at taking RISKS, there wouldn’t BE any Avengers-original or NOT!
Graphic novel - Ultimate Fantastic Four #7: God War by Mike Carey
COSMIC CRISIS!
Seed Nineteen - a bizarre name for the most bizarre characters ever to enter the lives of the Fantastic Four: Threshold, Fountain, Magnificent Brute, Dreamcatcher. These incredible entities hold the key to a cosmic conflict that has raged for untold millennia and now involves our quarrelsome quartet.
Stranded in another dimension, the FF find themselves hunted by the warriors from the dread world of Acheron - and its ruler, Thanos, won’t rest until he possess the one weapon which will give him dominion over the entire cosmos: the mind of young Reed Richards!
Arjayen
A thriving social life has often been elusive in my life. For so long, SO LONG, I have felt when God constructed my mind and heart, He did not install some key software. This is not some introverted excuse thing. Even other intros seem to make friends and keep them easier than I do. And can put themselves into someone else’s shoes. I wondered for a long time if something in my heart was broken and kept causing problems. Big reason I was/am heavily interested in studying psychology and personality studies. I felt like I had to make an ‘artificial’ replacement.
Then I read a discussion about Paul and the mystery over what his ‘thorn in the flesh’ was. And it hit me…HARD. What if God made me weak in this area ON PURPOSE??? All my attempts to fix and enhance my warmth to others kept failing and stalling… God is made perfect in our weakness. So what if God does have a plan for me to lead and teach, but the only way I can GET there with my lacking heart is with His help?? Think about it…in your own life, your own ongoing struggles, what if you are weak there INTENTIONALLY?? God DESIGNED you that way. God took me from disinterest in other people to now a co-leader among my rather large ‘small group’ of college peers. And it happened when I asked God to fix my attitude toward other people. And do with my social life what He wanted. He took a 10% heart and took it up to 110%. Like…like…like He said, “You have a lame leg…yet I still want you to run this race. RUN, and trust in Me that I can and WILL empower you to finish.”
Thought of an interesting theory regarding purity and strength. Jesus said to flee from temptation. But I have come across fellow brothers (and sisters), who want to look sin straight in the eye and say, “NO!” But that is trying to be strong, not pure. Can you have lasting victory by being strong?
Quotes from Essential Iron Man #2:
-Iron Man: (The blast-it knocked the WIND out of me--! But my ARMOR stood the test again! This will prove, once and for all, that it isn’t the THICKNESS of armor-but the skill with which it’s TEMPERED-that makes the difference!)
-Iron Man: Don’t get the idea I’m trying to DOWNGRADE karate… But NOTHING’LL ever replace the sheer POETRY of a good ol’ American ONE-TWO to the kisser!
-Police Officer: We’ve radioed your REQUEST-everything you NEED is on the way-- But even for an ORIGINAL AVENGER I’d still say it was too big a RISK!
-Iron Man: Could BE-- But if lines were drawn at taking RISKS, there wouldn’t BE any Avengers-original or NOT!
Graphic novel - Ultimate Fantastic Four #7: God War by Mike Carey
COSMIC CRISIS!
Seed Nineteen - a bizarre name for the most bizarre characters ever to enter the lives of the Fantastic Four: Threshold, Fountain, Magnificent Brute, Dreamcatcher. These incredible entities hold the key to a cosmic conflict that has raged for untold millennia and now involves our quarrelsome quartet.
Stranded in another dimension, the FF find themselves hunted by the warriors from the dread world of Acheron - and its ruler, Thanos, won’t rest until he possess the one weapon which will give him dominion over the entire cosmos: the mind of young Reed Richards!
Arjayen