The Fools Will Be Out Tomorrow
Reason #17 to love the wind: I love how the wind makes my hair tickle my cheeks. :)
At work today, my ID finally broke after three and a half years. Mine was the last old-style ID that anybody actually used.
I went to deepforestowl's presentation on Japanese and Gender today. It was very good.
Yey for Neil Gaiman. Once I finish Dylan's Sandman, I'm going to have to pick up some of his novels. I hear they are also good.
Prism dance tomorrow. Still no outfit. Still have hope to go shopping. Am prepared to work with what I have. Stephanie has a pretty dress she wore tonight, but it's probably far too low-cut and pink for me.
Bible verse of the day:
1 Corinthians 8:4-13 (NIV translation--emphasis mine)
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.
At work today, my ID finally broke after three and a half years. Mine was the last old-style ID that anybody actually used.
I went to deepforestowl's presentation on Japanese and Gender today. It was very good.
Yey for Neil Gaiman. Once I finish Dylan's Sandman, I'm going to have to pick up some of his novels. I hear they are also good.
Prism dance tomorrow. Still no outfit. Still have hope to go shopping. Am prepared to work with what I have. Stephanie has a pretty dress she wore tonight, but it's probably far too low-cut and pink for me.
Bible verse of the day:
1 Corinthians 8:4-13 (NIV translation--emphasis mine)
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.