Well hello there. I figure you are one of 3 people: 1. you don't know me. 2. you know me, but want to know more about me. 3. you know me and want to see if I'm a liar. I accept all 3 of you 🙂
- Christian (see why after this list).
- Southern California native currently living in Orange County, Ca, but doesn't enjoy the vanity and materialism so prevalent around me.
- Thinker and likes to reason.
- Interested in photography, photoshop, dark art, street art, and obscure imagery.
- Hiker and fitness enthusiast that enjoys setting challenging goals.
- Listen to music ranging from classical and jazz to electronic to metal/hardcore (rawr).
- Can cook, bake, clean, and be handy, but haven't washed my car in 4 years.
- Have a degree in Marketing, but haven't actually used it and currently work for the county as a dog catcher.
- Left handed (we shall prevail).
- Once ate 10 pancakes and a cheese burger in a sitting (man vs food experiment).
- Once went 10 days eating 1/3 less than I normally do without meat (vegetarian experiment)
- Sub list of likes:
- Experiments
- Observing and analyzing
- lemon Funfetti with rainbow chip frosting
- Facial expressions
- Accents
- Sound effects
- Nighttime
- Clouds
- Teeth and claws
- Squirrels
- Cyborgs
- Ninjas
How did I end up the way I am? I was raised by parents who brought me to a Christian church, but I never liked going and don't remember learning much while I was there. My parents stopped going to church when I was around the age of 12. While in high school I started to question my existence and the meaning of life. I remembered my parents telling me that the Bible had all the answers to life, so I found one and started reading it.
I started reading at the beginning just like any other book and some of the stories were familiar to me, but when I got to the book of Leviticus I started to get very confused. If you don't know, Leviticus has all kinds of rules and regulations that the people of God were supposed to follow. For example, Leviticus 19:19 says don't wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. After reading that verse I went to my dresser and pulled out a shirt and looked at the tag…OH NO! 50% cotton, 50% polyester! I pull out another shirt…same thing! I pull out another and that shirt was 100% cotton. Ok, I'm not fully doomed, but does that mean I must get rid of all the clothes not made of one fabric? I was very confused because I didn't know anyone who followed these rules, but at the same time I felt that I was supposed to because God said to.
What was I to do? Well, the Bible says what to do – sacrifice animals! So I thought for a bit and then went to the phone book (yeah, this was pre internet) to look up a place that did this "sacrifice" thing. I didn't find anything! I started to think…nobody does this! I've never even heard of this! What in the world…
My confusion needed to be solved, so I wondered where Jesus was in all this. I remembered hearing about Jesus, but I hadn't seen his name in what I had been reading. I started flipping forward in the Bible and came across the New Testament. Hmmm, what's this? I started reading the book of Matthew and my confusion started to clear up 🙂
I read in Matthew that Jesus came to earth, died on a cross, and was resurrected from the dead. Jesus was the final sacrifice! I no longer needed to find an animal to sacrifice for all the rules that I had broken to get right with God. I thought to myself, duh! No wonder the phone book didn't have any animal sacrifice listings! By putting faith in Jesus dying on the cross in my place my relationship with God was restored 😀
After God showing me how He did it all for me I kept reading through the New Testament. One passage really stood out to me:
1 John 2:15-17, Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world – the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions – is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
That passage has shaped me ever since I read it. I desire to focus on the things that are above and not on earth. Storing up treasure in Heaven where moth and rust do not destroy. This life on earth is just a breath and only what is done for Christ will last. Everything we work for, own, desire, pursue, think of…if it's not from above it won't matter in the end.
Embrace the Eternal.
