Ever have a really friggin post going and then the network goes down, and for some reason Explorer feels like it needs to F*** up and close on you right in mid post?!?!...
well, guess that's my fault for blogging during office hourse huh...had a little moment ya know how it is.
So, Betha-boo (whoever be you... :P) if i wanted people to read my blog i'd right stuff that might interest them lol....and advertise it, but the general public doesn't need to know about this little place i call blog. i don't even really know why people link it from their blogs...
i starts a new job next week, pretty excited about it... (takes care of the "New Job" part of the title)
I get a new laptop for my job, pretty psyched about that (takes care of the "New Computer" part of the title)
One of my friends bought the "My Chemical Romance" album (entitled "Three cheers for sweet revenge")...it kicks ass...but he didn't like it. so i got it off of him for a meer 10.00...good music for a good price. i'm lovin' it.. Then i'm in sunrise records one day, and they have this rack of 2/18.00. so i'm like "WHOA, new music day for sure" so i bought 4 more CD's lol. impulsive much, i think so, but that's a whole nother topic for an entirely different day.
more on the music front, went to a show last night. Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World. Sweet ass show. Both bands were super tight and played so damn well, and they had amazing stage presence. Ontop of all of that during the show God kept giving me all this crazy stuff for worship, like, the style of music, the passion in the music etc... as well as just some 'art' type stuff that the church is totally not tapping into. We want God to show up at church, and we don't make it fun. Im' standing in the Concert thinking "GOD WOULD LOVE THIS", and in fact He would. So i'm in this place of thinking "how to i please God, what can i do, that's just so out of my heart that will make God smile." God wouldn't give people the passion to be a rock star (bad name for it, but you know what i mean) if he didn't take pleasure in seeing His children just blow apart a concert hall of 7,000. I think even using our gifts that He's given us brings pleasure to Him. Of course there's the whole 'motive' thing are you wanting to be bigger than God and all that stuff... But that's a matter of the heart, and not about just getting out and doing it. imho
ok, so i've been thinking alot about why people are upset, frustrated, bored with there jobs, life, families etc... Ya hear it all the time "oh i hate my job, it's so boring...mundaine...pathetic...insert dirty comment about job here" and people get upset with a whole world of things and wonder why they are living, why they are doing things etc.
well i've realized, specially at this point of my life where i've just accepted a 2 year working contract, that people need very specific things in their lives.
Two of the most important are these: hope, and living to the fullest
living to the fullest: best way i could easily sum up "doing what you know in your heart you should be doing". Basically this means doing what you enjoy. I believe that God created us in His image, through and through. Not just looking like Him (cause appearance is so basic). If i grow up, and i don't like history so much, i shouldn't be a history professor, but i LOVE math, and i'm good at it, and when it's tough i enjoy working through it, numbers to me are like candies (exageration to prove a point). And ontop of that i enjoy show people how to get the things i allready understand, and i like helping people (ie. teaching). i've just effectively described a math teacher/professor. so why on earth would someone that should be a math teacher be in a factory pushing sheets of metal?!?! Of course there is job market, etc. But everytime this person has something 'mathmatical' he jumps at it, don't even get started on when someone needs help with something, especially if there are numbers involved.
You get what i'm saying, people need to be doing the thing they love. This could be multiple things, which is grand, and at certain points of your life the things you enjoy most might change. For instance, you have someone that completely enjoys their job, and at some point they realize that they've come with a new passion. That's because the things that drive our life change.
You have a man, no religion, no desire for it and he's a mechanic, loves it, loves cars etc... one day he finds himself in a church and God totally changes His perspective on life. Fixing cars might not be His number one passion. Or the capacity of what he does might change, who he does it for, why he does it. Take God out of the picture. He tries something new, gets totally hooked on it, loves it, realizes that he's been missing something in His life, or maybe just this new passion comes up. So he switches careers.
The other sad one is people in a job that they don't like for years and then realize they are doing the wrong thing and they switch careers. If only people could find that part inside of them that's crying out for more.
The next part to this has nothing to do with work. I went camping 2 years ago. haven't been since. That camping experience made me come alive, i love it, but haven't had the chance much in the last couple years. you NEED to get out and get involved with the things you love. i went out on a 4wheeler a couple summers ago. that was one of the funnest things. Living to the fullest means everyday, every moment. Crash when you need to Crash, take ur kids outside when you need to take your kids outside, get out camping or riding or surfing or snowboarding or whatever it is you feel free doing. That will make your life more enjoyable.
Hope: Proverbs 13:12 says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick...". I believe that this is crutial to all lives. When we loose hope for something we get sick. A girl poors her heart out to a boy and he turns her down, her heart falls to the ground for a time because that hope, all the things she thought could/would be there aren't anymore. Same for the opposite.
A father tells his son that he's going to take him to the upcoming game (whatever game) and the boy is so excited, he's looking foward to this so much, and then the father has to cancel. The boys heart sinks...
Proverbs 13:12 continues and says, "...but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. " We need our longings fulfilled.
Most importantly, imho, our longing for love is the most important longing we have. And the truest form of love is from God. Takes a good while to figure that out sometimes. But He's got a world of love just for me, and just for you and just for everyone. That's the biggest part of fullfilled hope we need. Then the people around us, we need to support and be supported by.
Then the things we do. We need to have hope for today, for tomorrow, or else we start to wonder why we're doing anything at all...
That's all for now, cause i got work to do..you know, work...i'm enjoying it too...
may all your days be filled with the fulfillment of the longings in your heart...
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Wise words, but entirely too optimistic. You see as life progresses we find ourselves in a position where gainful employment is priority 1 regardless of our feelings about what we do.
Sure it can be miserable at times, but our's is a spoiled generation. Can you ever imagine our parents generation sitting around talking about whether or not their factory job is fulfilling? Imagine our grandparents generation doing that, I think not...
Work is a requirement, we're evolving into a society that works to live, not lives to work, which is good and healthy but at the end of the day the bills need paying, the table needs food, and the bread winner does whatever they need to make sure these things happen.
I agree God wants us to be happy, fulfilled, etc.. However, and this is important, work is just work. Life starts at quitting time. Which is why if there's one thing I'd like my kids to learn it's to set yourself up in the career of your choice before committing to anything or anyone.
So yeah, it's all about balance.
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