Relative Revivification

Last week I felt down. I hadn't been home in a month and I was missing everyone back home so much. It just seemed like I went to class, practiced, and facebooked into the wee hours of the night, that was it. Don't get me wrong, I can live with that and can find joy in it, but you get bored and homesick after a while. If it wasn't for Zac, I would be borderline psych ward. The fact that my Bible was at home didn't help either.

I went home. I played in a parade and field show with the marching band and left around 11 o'clock with Zac. We stopped in Lincoln to see my grandparents at Bryan LGH and that was refreshing. My parents were coming but Zac and I beat them there. After passing by my grandpa's hospital room and realized how dumb we were I knocked on the door to see both of grandparents snoozing. My grandma had a somewhat delayed reaction. "Oh well hi Key...KEYGAN!" Hi Grandma. I came in and gave her a hug as my grandpa saw me. I shook his hand. I hadn't seen them in a month so it was nice to see their familiar faces and to see Grandpa up and alert like I've known him. He was watching college football.

We talked a while about school and college life in general. Soon after, my family showed up. Always nice to see them too. I gave everyone a hug and sat back down. We talked in the hospital room for about an hour. Wouldn't you know it 2 of my cousins and aunt walked in. Delighted, I jumped up and into Ben's arms. We're weird, we know. We hugged and went way overboard telling each other how much we had missed the other as he swung me around. Hi Carey. Hi Alyssa.

We left after a little while longer as Zac had his father turning 40 something. I had forgotten he had a family too. So we left and I took him to his grandparents. That night I was planning on going to the Norris high school musical "Beauty and the Beast." I met up with some old friends and hate dinner and we went. It was amazing! Not only the performance, but it was so incredibly nice and cooling to see all of them.

The next day I went to church, more familiar faces. I spent the day with some guys from the drumline and it was great. I feel so much better now. I also got my Bible back! I thank God every day for my awesome family and friends.

Delayed Gratification? We'll see...

In the past couple years there's been one thing it seems God has been keeping back from me. Something that I assumed was my fault, something I was doing wrong. I knew what it was and felt like as a consequence of something I was doing, He was holding it from me. A conversation with my youth pastor and his wife about it one night made it all clear though. It wasn't me, it's all in God's timing. For some reason, He hasn't revealed what he wants for me. They said to hang in there, when the time is right, He'll let you know.

Recently, it seems He may be doing just that. Some of you know what I'm talking about because I have told you. If you don't know feel free to ask. I don't want to get too ahead of myself but it just seems like God has been pointing a certain way; nudging me closer. Even so, I'm being cautious. Last time I rushed into it and it didn't turn out all that well. So some prayer on my part and yours would be awesome. I really hope God says yes on this.

Man vs. Wild (or something like that)

"Do people possess some inherent qualities that might make their lives have greater moral significance than the lives of other animals?"

My English professor wrote this on the board today in class. It was over some of the reading we were supposed to do but me being without a book to read it from, didn't complete the assignment. We were instructed to journal about it, once again, no book so no homework was done. The professor wanted us to break down the question to something simpler; to her it was too wordy. People interjected thoughts and she crossed stuff off and we eventually came to this question:

"Do people possess qualities that give them greater moral significance than animals?"

I sat and thought about and had wondered why I was thinking about it because the answer was so simple. "We're God's children; animals are not." After this the professor broke us into groups. In my group were 3 guys and me. I enjoyed the group. They were pretty cool guys. One of them had shot an arrow through his arm (yes through, he said he had to pull it out on his own) so we had talked about that for a little bit. Then we got down to what we actually were supposed to be doing.

Everyone in the group agreed that there is no way animals and humans are on the same scale. We said that their world and our world are 2 totally different things. Animals have no technology, no set of rules, and no morals. As humans we have everything they don't. However, if we were forced to live in their world; we wouldn't last very long. Our species has made the most adaptations out of any other because we have the intelligence to do so. We KNOW what is right and wrong.

Getting a little off subject, one of the guys said something about Adam and Eve. We talked about how we're all related somehow. Everyone in the world has descended from them. One guy said he thought we came from fish and was shot down abruptly. Another guy started talking, "See thats one thing I don't get," he looked up and lowered his voice, "where did black people come from?" A good question. One I can't answer.

Back to the animals against people discussion, something was said about death. Humans know what death is, animals don't. We know. They don't have the emotional feelings we do. If their parents die how do they react? Oh well. If our parents die we're upset, we're sad, well most of us, and much more emotional than animals are.

Also, sex was brought up. Animals just do it to reproduce. This is true for humans as well. However, sex is much more intimate for the married human couple. Well, should be married couple. Animals do not get married; cannot get married. They lack the understanding that we don't.

Overall good discussion. I enjoyed it and led me to think about things and dig a little deeper to things I just take for granted. Now all I need is a book...