April 14, 2013
I fully intend to be puking up cookie dough in the back of the room in approximately one hour.

I fully intend to be puking up cookie dough in the back of the room in approximately one hour.

3:20pm
April 13, 2013

So excited to watch the Boston Marathon tomorrow morning. If my legs weren’t so sore already, I would go for a second run. Maybe later.

T. Meier even made an article on Runner’s World (#6). Half of my motivation comes from that guy.

7:32pm
April 10, 2013
Looking for something

specific in my Paris journal and I came across a funny incident (well, actually, I’m finding there are a lot of them): I went up and before I could explain my situation she snobbishly pointed up at the sign above the window and said, “This is information. I cannot help you.”

11:44pm
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April 10, 2013

Job transitions are awkward.

4:00pm
April 10, 2013
Hemmed bottom and using the scraps to make cap sleeves.

Hemmed bottom and using the scraps to make cap sleeves.

1:37pm
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April 9, 2013

I haven’t had fun since Friday. I consider that a problem.

I also said every #cuss at least once today.

10:38pm
April 8, 2013
"Christ is a stumbling block and an offense to Emerson and to all the Terry Cole-Whittaker’s of our day—yes, and even to us—because it takes the disease that we hate most, namely, helplessness, and instead of curing it, makes it the doorway to heaven."

— John Piper

5:41pm
April 8, 2013
"

He said, “Isn’t Christianity a crutch for people who can’t make it on their own?”

My answer was very simple. I said, “Yes.” Period.

People don’t in general think that crutches are bad things. Why does a crutch become a bad thing when it’s Christianity?

I think the answer that most critics would give is this: if Christianity is a crutch, then it’s only good for cripples. But we don’t like to see ourselves as cripples. And so it is offensive to our self-sufficiency to label Christianity as a crutch.

"

— John Piper

5:36pm
April 8, 2013
Sometimes

I read blogs and listen to radio shows produced by my peers (and even elders) and I’m just heartbroken over how stupid they are. Truth has become what ever I think. What ever happened to scholarship?

Today’s topics were female catholic priests with marriage (“The Bible just teaches that women need to stay out of leadership to take care of other things. I think it’s time we drop that. It’s dated.”) And emotional, but well-written, responses to the church’s stance on homosexuality after attending a Mackelmore concert.

I want to smash my head up against the wall every time I read things about pro-homexualilty “Christianity.” One of my favorite friends is openly gay, but I strongly believe he will continue to struggle in his relationship with God until he knows the truth (Proverbs 13:21). You can’t hold onto [any] sin and expect roses.

4:30pm
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April 7, 2013
"You did not choose him first; he chose you (John 15:16). You did not come to him first; he drew you (John 6:44). You did not recognize Christ first; God opened your eyes (Matthew 6:17). And all this is mercy, mercy, mercy! “It is not of him who wills or runs but of God who has MERCY” (Romans 9:16)."

— John Piper

10:52pm
April 7, 2013
"The poor in spirit know that they need God. They do not imagine that they are doing God any favors by serving him. It is the humble, the dependent, who will be given the kingdom of heaven."

— Michael Morrison

10:07pm
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April 6, 2013
Half

a bag of Reese’s later and I never want to eat again.

And I just wish the wind would slow down for an hour, because if I went to the gym I’d be blowing snot everywhere…and I don’t think people would like that.

Friday was a chatty-cathy, party, run (or perhaps “walk”) around day. Tonight is a try-to-not-rub-anymore-skin-off-my-nostrils kind of night.

I have an interview on Tuesday—in this town—at a place I believe to be disgustingly desperate, soul-sucking, and populated with the most unintelligent human beings I’ve ever met.

Do I do something for the title? For the money? For an escape? Even if I’ll hate it, be intentionally friendless, and working past prime sunning hours?

9:44pm
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April 4, 2013

This girl. Definitely watched her play two years ago at a cafe in Paris. She seemed a lot cooler when she was indie. I wanted to be her friend.

11:56pm
April 4, 2013
I do not not not want to do this.

I do not not not want to do this.

11:18pm
April 4, 2013
"We no longer really believe that God could send us all to hell without giving us time to think about it, and that this would be perfectly just. If we did believe that people were saved in spite of the fact that they really do deserve the opposite, election would appear to us to be a very logical as well as biblical conclusion."

— Michael Horton

7:22pm
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