#2

I just started a new job this week. I am working as a sales representative with Vector Marketing. My job is to show CUTCO kitchen cutlery and tools to customers. I am really excited about this job. It has flexible hours, which will be good for me because I can set my own hours and work around classes. The job is also very well paying with plenty of opportunities for promotions. I hope this job will really help me with my communication skills, so this should be good job experience for me.

            On to other things. Today I went to see my granddad up in Yazoo City. I had a lot of fun visiting with him.  I enjoy talking with him when I go up there. He always tells me the most interesting stories about his life. Most of them are about growing up in the depression and working in the farm equipment business. Once we were talking and the story started with him getting on a bus headed for Mississippi State to go to school and the story ended three hours later with him retiring from Mississippi Chemical Corporation. Most people would get bored after a story that long, but I rarely do. I love these visits and think my granddad really enjoys me coming to, because I think he gets lonely some time.

            Tomorrow I am going to the farm. I am going to try to do some appointments for my job while I am there. But I am going to be able to see a lot of my family while I am there. I really enjoy our farm. It is one of my favorite places to go. Everytime I am there I think about how much I wish I could live and work on a farm. Everything seems so much simpler when you are in the country or in a small town. I love working hard outside so I would really enjoy to work on a farm.  

Well that’s it for this week. 

#1

Over the past year, God has really opened my eyes to some very new ways of thinking. I have always been a very traditional person, ascribing myself to very conservative points of view, and always being very apprehensive about the acceptance of new ideas. At first I was very skeptical of such ideas because at first glance many of them appeared to be contradictory to everything I had been taught with up to that point.

Once such concept was that truth can be found in other places besides the bible. I first came across this idea while reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell for a discipleship group at my home church. Upon first reading this I was taken aback by the preposterous idea that some one would suggest that truth could be found in other places besides the Holy, infallible, Word of God. However, after really examining what the author intended by this idea, I began to see his point. What Bell was trying to convey is that everything has been created by God and that we can find truth in God’s creation. An example that was suggested by one of our group members was that there may be a message in certain music that may not necessarily be “Christian Music” but the message may be non the less something true, such as “love your neighbor” or “help your brother in need” etc. (Let me interject here that I believe we still need to really examine whether or not the idea we are looking at really is truth by comparing it with the teachings of Scripture.)

This idea that truth can be found elsewhere than scripture is also found in Holmes “The Idea of a Christian College”, where he states that “All truth is God’s truth.” Holmes is pointing at this same idea that truth, wherever it be found, can point to God.

Again, in all this we still must be very careful that the idea’s we examine are TRUE, meaning they line up with the teachings of Jesus Christ and are devoted to the Glory of His name.