Recently it was pointed out to me that I am mean to girls. I don't say that in a sense that I was rude I was just down mean to girls. I have been so focused on not falling in Love again, as that was a huge distraction from Christ for me, not to mention that I am only 18 years old and don't need to be in love in the first place, that i went to far in the other direction. I generally treat girls as unimportant parts of my life, which may or may not be true, but that gives me no right to treat them as if they don't exist. A while ago I read "Wild at Heart" by John Eldridge and he talks of how a man of christ is called to live and part of that is their relationship with women. Not only are we as men called to have upstanding sexual boundaries in the sight of God and man, but we are called to be soldiers and even knights fighting for women. I don't mean that in the sense that we should fight every fight for every girl, but I do mean that we should be chivalrous. As I grow older and am placed in a mentor's role in front of people younger than me particularly boys it is critical that I learn to respect and honor women. I need to set a positive example for the people that look up to me so that they too know how to act around girls. Hopefully one day I'll marry one, and I'll need all the training I can get as far as how to build them up. Encourage one another in brotherly love also applies to sisters. So I guess this is an apology of sorts for the way I have disrespected a gender. Hopefully I will make good progress toward becoming a better man of Christ. I guess this means its back to walkings on my tip toes around girls like i am in the 7th grade all over.
In other news, today was my first day of Intoductory to Logic. It is the most rediculus thing i have ever heard in my life. to start with my proffessor os the mad scientist. he comes into class today with a checkered sports coat on fromt he late 70s and a pink collared shirt with a red tie tied with the skinny part to long. he proceeds to rant for an hour and 15 minutes about how red roses are red by accident but that they intentionally transfer that redness through the air to our hearts where all our thinking processes are caried out. furthuremore when we see and interpret the rose as red we are assuming the form of the rose, it seems we have to or we wouldnt be able to interpret it at all. ----am i starting to sound mad scientisty yet--- so anyways this clown goes on and on and i dont think anyone there got a single thing out of it except happier that they are who they are and not this guy. it was all i could do to keep a straight face. oh well i think that is enough for tonight surely no one canmake it through all of this anyways. Have a wonderful evening and god bless.
in Him
matt
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Heh, you've pretty much found a constant commenter here. Anyway, it's good that you are making an effort to change. I know that sometimes it's hard not to blame the opposite sex for things that have gone badly in your life, but I admire that you are making the effort. And heh, logic. I was in a philosophy class last quarter, and the teacher one day had a breakdown in the class before mine, and started swearing and yelling at the entire class that we were all going to die, and didn't they know that, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. It was....interesting. We had a new teacher from then on. I hope yours turns out to be slightly more of sound mind. :)
I'm so thankful I didn't go to college. Have to deal with nonsense professors like that! Hehe. We have that book Wild at Heart Matt. It's good, from what little I've read. I have a hard time getting into nonfiction books. But there are so many that would be good reads, I'm sure. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog, just returning the favor. oh and I went to Young Life when I was in 10th & 11th grade, if you ever get the chance to go to Malibu Camp up near Vancouver, do it! It's the most awesome trip I've ever been on in my life. Well, before I was married anyway. ;)
Hi Matt...thanks for posting on my blog. It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders and that you have a wonderful relationship with God. Always keep him close to your heart and he will take care of you! I have read Wild at Heart....very good book. Good luck in school; God Bless!
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