LOVE

My life (and also some random stuff that I read in school that may or may not interest you as well)

What I learned in Canadian Lit today: back in the ol' days, PDA was so unacceptable that if you were caught kissing your WIFE in public, you'd be put in stalks for a few days. Sounds fine right? Yo have to wear socks for a few days? Yeah, no. These are stocks. http://clio.missouristate.edu/chuchiak/New%20Webpage%20Images/Stocks.JPG The worst part is, this wasn't just a stupid law that no one followed. Guys actually got caught on charges of PDA and put in these things for days. If your legs were too big to fit in them, they didn't care, you'd just have to deal with it and hope your legs didn't fall off. 

So my conclusion is: The 1500-1600's sucked. 

This was just one of the Levitical laws that they completely over-interpreted. They took many other laws from that book and over exaggerated them in a similar stupid with similar stupid punishments. They lived by this deal called "theocracy". Basically, they pretend their government was ruled by God himself, which would have been a good idea if their theology of God himself wasn't so screwed up. *sigh* Oh people of England in the 1600's, you were so dumb...

My spiritual life (CORY ASBURY IS DA BOMB)

Just a few days ago, I got back from FreshWind youth conference in Toronto. It was amazing (Cory Asbury was there! HECK YEAHZ!). It was kind of that “spiritual energy drink” that I needed.

But the question I ask myself now is this: How long with this “spiritual high” last? I’ve been inspired, and have worked hard on my spiritual life before, but I never seem to stay in that exact state where it’s just easy to spend time in God’s presents. Somehow, I don’t think it’ll be any different this time.

Man, I must sound like such a downer right now, just talking about how even though I was just inspired I’m already preparing for that inspiration to leave. But I don’t look at this as a negative thing. Sure, inspiration is awesome, and it’s definitely a necessary part of the Christian walk, but I’m actually really happy that being a Christian isn’t easy. Let me explain with an example.

Let’s say there were two people: Henry and Bob. Ok sorry, those are awful names. How about “Hercules” and “Everett”? Better? Great.

Both of our two friends reached a point in their lives where they began looking for companionship. On one hand, we’ve got Everett. He was a fairly nice person, but his real strength was computers. One day Everett decided to begin a project to create a robotic companion; someone with whom he could share his ideas, or play mini-put. He worked on it hard for over a year, but finally it was done. He had a friend to call his own. A friend he could control and make love him. He decided to test out his new artificial friend by going on a trip to Jamaica. They had fun, surfing and bungee jumping and whatnot. Anyway, let’s move on to the more important guy in this story.

So Hercules was a really great guy, also looking for a partner to live his life with. One day met a really nice girl. They got married and went on a honeymoon to Jamaica. It was great, they spent all day hanging out at the beach and stuff. All in all, a really healthy relationship.

One morning while in Jamaica, both Hercules and Everett had a similar idea. They both decided to go out and purchase a gift for their corresponding partners. They both got up early in the morning, and got into a taxi. The same taxi actually (Yes, they get around via taxi in this part on Jamaica. Shut up).

While being driven to the local market they ended up in a horrible accident, and both of their faces were mutilated being recognition. When they woke up from their comas, they were so beastly ugly, the hospital staff wouldn’t let in their companions at first, but both Hercules’s wife, and Everett’s Robot argued so hard and passionately that they finally let them come into the rooms where they were being treated.

The two bodies were completely and totally covered in bandages. Fortunately too, since underneath, they were broken bloodied messes. Both destined to be paraplegic “beasts” for the rest of their days.

When Hercules’s wife first saw him, she couldn’t even bring herself to fully believe

who it was. But when he opened his mouth and began to speak, she knew it was him.

“You don’t really want me anymore. I’m disgusting. I’m totally broken. I’m not the man you married”. In disregard of his totally dis-figured face, she embraced him and told him

“No! That’s not true! I love you more than anything! I’ll never let you go!” (yada yada yada, more mushy crap.. So basically, she still loves him even though it’s going to be really hard, and she’s going to have to take care of him like a baby for the rest of her life).

On the other side of the room, our buddy Everett was hanging out with his pet robot. He quickly did some minor adjustments to his robot’s personality, and his partner once again accepted him.
          “I love you. I will take care of all your needs. I will never let you go” (in generic monotone robot speak, obviously).

THE END

Wasn’t that touching? Ok no. Kind of weird probably. But look at both of those relationships. The bond between a healthy relationship of a man and his bride is beautiful because she chooses to accept him (hard as it may be). The bond between the man and his robot is flat, and boring since his robot has no choice, and it is not difficult for it to accept him since it has no preference.

If your relationship with God were the same as one of these two, which would you prefer? Would you rather have no choice, and no difficulty accepting your partner (like the robot)? Or would you rather choose your companion out of love (like the woman). Even if it was hard, Even though she wouldn’t be as successful in life, Even though she’d have to spend the rest of her life working to support her husband, she chose to accept him out of love.

God chose the second option. He didn’t want his creation to simply love him because they had to. He wanted to make it difficult, so it MEANT something. And it does! I’m glad God makes it difficult to love and trust him, because then he knows so much more how much I really DO love him when I put my trust him.


[EDIT]

I feel like I need to explain myself, and slightly change my "view" on this subject. But.... i'm really lazy and it's 1:41 AM... So I'll just write a super long blog post again soon and you can all hear about how much God's love is awesome, and how I'm trying to understand it better.

My stuff (that I record and produce... for other people usually)

So I'm finally trying to start this space show that I've been wanting to do since early 2011/late2010. If it all works out the way I want it to, we'll start airing episodes this summer (on the internet) and will hopefully air on some radio stations too. Again, if it all works out the way I want, the first season will be around 11 episodes long (including a shortish pilot episode to introduce the show and the characters). Almost all of the scripts are written, and just need some polishing up, but most of them need some finishing up. Some of them are just outlines or even ideas that haven't been turned into scripts yet. I hope this all works out, because the scripts we do have are pretty awesome. Don't get too worked up about how awesome it's going to be, because I'm still not sure of details and how everything's going to work out, but I really hope it does so everything can be awesome and stuff. It'll be awesome. Hopefully.

Also I'm done AE’s new demo that I was working on for the last ever. You can download a free single from it here : http://tinyurl.com/cxco7q9