It's crazy how great God is. Sitting in church on Sunday Feb. 17th, the sermon was about how God loves us unconditionally. That there's no if to His love. This very concept is what God led me to teach the High School Sunday School class not three weeks earlier! I am constantly humbled and just awestruck at how He works in our lives, connecting all of us.
I was talking to a friend of mine that I hadn't seen for a long time. She told me she had met a new friend from one of her long-time friends. The odd thing? We both went to High School with this new friend of hers and neither of us knew him until later! Likewise, the interim youth director at my church was my friend's youth director while she was in High School. It's incredible just how small the world really is! It's crazy to think that somehow, through someone, we all know everyone else on this planet. Think about it. That's knowing 7,068,868,358 (according to the U.S. Census Bureau website's current population clock on Feb. 27 around 10:19pm CT) people. Those of you who don't think you're popular, look at that number again. That's A LOT of people. Since we all know each other through someone down the line eventually, you can consider yourself popular if you wish to.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Quick Ponderings
So, I find myself thinking the most random things sometimes. More honestly, I find myself pondering random things most of the time. Today is such a day.
Valentine's Day is getting to be more and more controversial. Growing up, I remember loving this day for the simple fact that I usually got candy and sometimes neat Disney tattoos from valentine cards. As I grew up, it became more about the "love" which surrounds this day. Today (and yesterday even!) I find Facebook posts positively celebrating this day or negatively bashing the holiday. I, myself, go back and forth between loving it and hating it, and all for different reasons. Love it because it focuses on loving each other. Hate it because of the commerciality of the day.
However, this is not the randomness I was originally pondering. What I am pondering most about is what if Valentine's Day never existed to begin with? What happened/exactly when did it become so commercialized? Would it be totally different if media and culture commercialized it in a way to celebrate loving between friends and neighbors vs. couples-focused?
Then, I thought about it being lent already (gosh this year is going so quickly!). Is lent affecting Valentine's Day for any of you? Have you given up chocolate for lent and your significant other (or family, friends, teachers, neighbors) has given you a gift with chocolate in it? By chocolate I mean anything you might have personally chosen to give up. So does Valentine's Day make lent harder? All the temptations surrounding us....
See, odd pondering indeed.
Valentine's Day is getting to be more and more controversial. Growing up, I remember loving this day for the simple fact that I usually got candy and sometimes neat Disney tattoos from valentine cards. As I grew up, it became more about the "love" which surrounds this day. Today (and yesterday even!) I find Facebook posts positively celebrating this day or negatively bashing the holiday. I, myself, go back and forth between loving it and hating it, and all for different reasons. Love it because it focuses on loving each other. Hate it because of the commerciality of the day.
However, this is not the randomness I was originally pondering. What I am pondering most about is what if Valentine's Day never existed to begin with? What happened/exactly when did it become so commercialized? Would it be totally different if media and culture commercialized it in a way to celebrate loving between friends and neighbors vs. couples-focused?
Then, I thought about it being lent already (gosh this year is going so quickly!). Is lent affecting Valentine's Day for any of you? Have you given up chocolate for lent and your significant other (or family, friends, teachers, neighbors) has given you a gift with chocolate in it? By chocolate I mean anything you might have personally chosen to give up. So does Valentine's Day make lent harder? All the temptations surrounding us....
See, odd pondering indeed.
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