A Time to Love and a Time to Hate

Ecclesiastes 3:8 A time to love and a time to hate…

Now I am not claiming that I understand what this verse means in its context but I been reading over it a lot and it got me thinking…

What the relationship between Love and Hate? I know they are supposedly polar opposites but exactly how far apart are these two emotions?

Throughout my life I have had much experience with these two emotions (or so I believed) and I found them to be quite similar. Both Love and Hate for me were extremely passionate and all consuming. I found myself thinking about the people I hated just as much as the people I loved. More interestingly I found how easy it was for indivisuals to bounce back and forth between my “love” and “hatred”

Love and Hate; the two most powerful motivations in the world. People have killed, died, and did everything in-between because of love and hate. Its seems that almost everything important that we do is either out of love or because of hate. Who’s to say which is greater? Christians say God is love but in Proverbs 6:16 it is clear that God does in fact hate.

Becoming a Christian has made it even harder to understand Love and Hate and their relationship. Apparently (according to some) I was incapable of experience true love is my unsaved state, since I have not fully experienced (or responded to) God’s love at that time. Nor are we allowed to hate since we are now commanded to even love our enemies. But of course since none of us are perfect, we still of course are quite capable of hate we just are not that comfortable with talking about it openly, unless of course it’s about how much we hate sin … which we still love at times………….

Whoops

I kinda forgot I had this…

Well according to my friend Jason I haven’t posted anything in 8 days, and He IM’ed me at 3:12 am encouraging me to do so.

I am awfully tired and the only thing on my mind at this time of night is that annoying Facebook photo that MarkR posted with the Mr. Men and all of the dumb tags. I mean it was cool at first but seeing 80 notifications everytime you log is sucks. At first you think you are all popular and stuff but nope you been tricked!

Decisions…

I have a general theory that all people know exactly what to do for any given situation.

We all have 2 very important pieces of knowledge that can guide us in all decision making processes:

What we want to do.

What we need to do.

Unfortunately what gets in our way most of the time is what we want to do is usually in direct conflict with what we need to do.

On the off chance that what we need/want actually do line up there: Fear and Self Deceptions may still get in the way…

I’m so Pro

So today I learned how to crack backs.

So now between the apparently good back massages I give and this I am a total pro. I wish there was a way to cash in on this but everyone around me is poor. On the ironic side my back is always killing me and there is no one around to help.

An eventful but unmemorable day

Today was quite the day …

Woke up in Aaron’s house after spending the night there with roughly 8 other people

Went to Trinity Community Church

Went to Hope to You Community Church

Then from there we all went our separate ways only to reunite at Yami Yami’s for some bubble tea and sushi and a good game of cards

Back to home

The problem with blogging towards the end of your day is that your brain is way too tired to write anything relevant or interesting (well at least mine is) I am sure plenty of interesting things and conversations happened during the day but I just do not have any access to them right now in my current state L

Valentine’s Day

Well, whenever you make any kind of resolution you find it somewhat easy to stick with it at first. Whether its studying more, working out, or in this cases blogging … either way it seems like I am going to have 2 days in a row of posting.

So interesting enough today is Saint Valentine’s Day (or singles awareness day) and sure being surrounded by either gushingly affectionate friends in relationships or extremely bitter and jaded lonely friends (you know who you are!) it would but quite easy to post yet another cliché blog post about the social and corporate evils of this holiday … but I feel like going a different route

I belong to a different group of people. I am single and don’t care one way or another about today. I am not anymore aware of my single status today than I was yesterday or will be tomorrow. I am happy being single and am content enough in that fact to wish everyone out there in relationships a Happy Valentine’s Day, this day is for you so enjoy yourselves

(you don’t see me getting mad during father’s day cause I am not a dad)

2 IN A ROW!

I guess I’m back

Since My friend Edd sent me like 50 links to his new blog (see the top of my blogroll) I was reminded that I myself have a blog. It’s been well over a year since I last updated and man did a lot happen since then. A few highs but mainly lows. I am pretty disappointed that I didn’t chronicle my life in year of 08, I learned a lot about life and myself due to my massive failures and ultimately became stronger for it.

I am not entirely sure I will be able to keep this blog up since I am already kinda behind in my school work, but who knows anything is possible. Maybe since Edd is doing it and my friend Aaron seems interested in it, it just might become one of our “things”

P.S. Reading a book on Biblical Poetry is quite boring, Yeah I said it!