this is old school switchfoot

Chris

life over death

Chris

i want to live

"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David."
- Isaiah 55:1-3

Chris

homework was fun today

I got to read an interesting little book with a lot of little nuggets:

"Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward?

First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and snowflake."

"Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination."

"Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men."

"Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program."

"The dependence upon others has a particular case that is especially painful for the system programmer. He depends upon other people's programs. These are often maldesigned, poorly implemented, incompletely delivered (no source code or test cases), and poorly documented. So he must spend hours studying and fixing things that in an ideal world would be complete, available, and usable."

- The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Chris

this song makes me smile

Chris

one-liner

Man, I really liked this statement someone made at LIFE group today.

I felt like... it was the essence of Christian community:

Enjoying others enjoying God.

Chris

true joy

I love studying; I love being in class. I love Michigan football. I love video games. I love competition. I love sports. It's stuff I'm wired to do. I came in freshman year, wide-eyed, longing to explore these things and make the most of the opportunities at this school.

What ended up happening as I started gradually getting more and more "religious," though, was that I ended up suppressing my passions. As twisted as I think, I say... if my love for God is a 4/10, and my love for football is a 7/10, something must be wrong.

But instead of depending on God and trusting in the victory of Christ, I depended on myself. Do you know what I did? I knocked down my passion for football to a 3, instead of praying for God's grace to love Him more.

It's funny, how religious people are. I went Colossians 2:23:
Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Which reminds me that I really want to study Colossians this year. But in any case, I'm having a buttload of fun in my classes this year because I don't have to be someone else to receive God's approval. God made me who I am and God will work in me to know Him more in spite of who I am.

Chris

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