Holding onto the Past

Every Tuesday Night, there's a Bible Study / Discussion time at our house. We watch a Brad Bell film, about 10 minutes long, and then talk about how it hit us, or what we can take away from it. This last week's was titled "Today." It talked about embracing the future and letting go of the past.

There was a quote that I really liked. It went something like: 'if you're too busy holding onto the past, then you're arms aren't free to embrace today.'

I thought, "man, how much did I miss today because I was thinking about something that I did yesterday or last week?" I could have enjoyed the moment that I was in instead of worrying about something I couldn't change.

The other point that he made was that if you're one of those who says "I can do that tomorrow." "I'll get around to them tomorrow." One day, you're going to wake up and tomorrow hasn't come, it's now yesterday, and you missed it.

Now I take one of those phrases that people have quoted for years. "Live today like it's your last." A lot of people can take this as do something crazy. Don't do something TOO crazy, you'll probably regret it later. I'm more talking about living and enjoying life NOW instead of waiting until tomorrow and possibly being too late.

I'm going back to what my great grandfather said: "I enjoyed my life. I did what I could and enjoyed it." He had no regrets, because he didn't make any. If you live in the moment instead of someone else's moment, then you will have no regrets.

You're going to be able to look back on your life and say:

That's MY life.

Most needed update

Well I have again neglected my blog, every time I sit down to write on it something seems to get in the way.

School started already, we're just about two weeks into classes.

I've been excited about this year for a long time already. Since the day I realized that campus was very very lame without all the awesome people (say...the third week of summer), I have been awaiting the start of the school year.

It seems as though there are going to be many amazing things happening this year. It's one of those weird feelings you get, like knowing there's going to be a storm. I can just sense that lives are going to change in amazing and spectacular ways. I'm letting God take the whole year and just mess with it, see where He takes us.

I have my coffee and my music, so work should go by pretty quick. I'm hoping that this year I've balanced everything pretty well so as to not get too busy and stressed out. We'll see. Cross my fingers.

In the World recently:

Senator Kennedy died. A heartbreak for the family indeed, and as well for America. The conservatives might not think that way, however. I'm indifferent. He did a lot of questionable things, but he was a good leader and believer in the things that he lived for

Burkina Faso now has 150,000 more homeless people because of a recent flood. I stand back and ask God how he lets such an already impoverished country take blows like that. Then I remember that there is a purpose for everything. Since this just happened within the last two days, there hasn't been near enough time to see God's plan in work.

Japan had it's most recent election, making this the first in many year that the democratic party has won the vote. They plan on trying to be more independent of the United States. They can at least try, yes?

The United States is becoming more and more dependent in China now. We are billions of dollars in debt with that county, and they are making some changes that, I believe, will make them the next World Super Power. My history professor is so serious about this, that he is starting to tell us the Chinese names for certain events in history. He also gives the the old Chinese and new Chinese name for everything, just so we will be educated. Not that I'm going to be able to remember these, but at least I'm writing them down.

That should be all for now. I'm going to get back to work (aka, check my Facebook again).