Just realised i didn't answer the question

if that was an essay, I would have failed.
But don't get me started.

I'm not too sure it's a THIN line between judgment and discernment.

can we judge actions and not people?

uh...

maybe judgment is the wrong word

mocho-chino-emo-po-pomos might say what's right for you is right for you... and what's ice-cream for me is lactose-intolerant-torture for you...

I'm not all about that. I think there's a bit of black and white in this grey, grey world. But hey, that's just what *I* think... aw carp

Let's get hypothetical on this...
If I do something that someone else thinks and feels and knows is wrong (and they've got scripture on their side)... I would hope that they wouldn't just say 'your wrong, you loser'... Ideally, God would tell me himself... but maybe we've got a time constraint going on here and I'm speaking to a full auditorium of people (hey, I can dream - but in this hypothetical I've got all my clothes on - whoah, this is going nowhere good fast)..
a-hem... So I'm saying wrong stuff
Moch knows it...
I'm still talking so there's no time for discussion...
So, does Moch...
a) pray his little heart out that God will give me sudden discernment and that the ears of the people will be deaf to anything that's not from God???
or b) grab some organisee person, scrounge up some spiritual leaders in 17 seconds and ask for me to be kindly escorted from the platform as Guy Sebastian takes his place to sing 'What a wonderful world'?

Meh, I dunno

Should I 'wrong' and 'right' the actions of others... or pray... or both?
I felt really, really, really, really, really (you get the point) convicted about having nasty judgment in my heart about a situation i was in within a group of friends in high school... it was ridiculously clear to me what was 'right' and what was 'wrong' and I lessened my love accordingly.
I caught myself in a moment a couple of years ago where it hit me
"do you realise how easily you could be in the same *afformentioned situation*?"
holy carp!
I'm human!

and i need love and those high school humans all need love and we all need love

call me trite or whatever... (I will answer to both)
but this is all i can think right now

blessings on yer hearts!
-rach

Judgment vs discernment

oooooo
tweedle-dee (whoever you are)
that's a toughie

The answer is this...





yep, there it is. Hope you enjoyed that.

I really don't know. I think you make a good point, but for me where I am right now and what I'm in and who I'm with and what flavour ice-cream I want to paint my walls with... judgment needs the kick more that discernment needs the push.

I'm all for discernment.
I hope I marry someone with a lot of it
ha ha ha ha - funny on so many different levels!

I know there's a need to discern alongside a need to recognise Christ as the only one qualified to judge.
(I still hold by my argument that I speak the wrong language - issues with 'words' would be easier in German... maybe, I don't really know)
I reckon if i listen to God and do what He says life will be okay

Right now He's saying, 'rach, stop being judgmental'

hoo roo
-rach
*moch actually agrees with me on this*

crusty bits of jelly-dust

is probably what you'd get ifn you made jelly (or jell-o) and then tried to reduce it back down into solid form via a bunsen burner.

I miss the Bunsens. I used to torture and disfigure my biros with that crew. Fun times. Would you believe i was in advanced science in high school? nah, I don't buy it for a second.

My brain hurts. Blogging is what I do when my brain hurts. The lately frequent posting on this site is not a good sign.

So... how is everyone???

I hate wasting time. And I do far too much of it on study days. I made a lot of head-way on my New Testament assignment today, but I still felt like I was wasting the day. I probably could've finished it if i didn't fiss-part around so much. I should stop fiss-parting around.

Meh... should is not good. should is a very, very, very, very, very bad man

Should Bunsen is the Bunsen's nephew. He's a bad sort. No friends. Zero social skills. Not much hope, really. Poor ol' Should.

I'd feel a little sorrier for him if he stopped burning kittens.


sooooo... Jesus n stuff. Jesus and Should
Jesus loves Should
No one else does.

What's up with judgment? I want to stop judging people. It's not good. I will make an effort to stop. I will pray. It 's a struggle and I know God's with me because i think that's why it keeps coming up. I will change. God will change me

whew! a whole min-paragraph without Should in it.
I hope to keep this up! It's very freeing!
Give it a burl!
It's good!

C-Detty supa Rach (Im das Hause!)

Blogger is telling me to 'manage my blog'

maybe blogger wants to show me how...
dag man, I can't even manage my hair, let alone my money, let alone a blog

and we all know that I blog because i'm a loser with no friends... (moch).

So... post-modernism (or 'pomo') ... what do we think?
Do you think it's as vomiterrific as I do?

maybe I'm over it 'cause I'm po-pomo
the generation following me are emo-po-pomos

the new breed of mobile-toting infants will be
mocho-chino-emo-po-pomos

I'm done

moch reckons he's a genexxer.
whatever, gramps!

blessings!
-rach

p.s. can multi-generational church actually work? or do we need to split people into congregations? is humanity really THAT limited??!?!?!?!?!?

stupid, stupid question...

it's raining

Praise the LORD,
all ye nations,
praise the LORD with xylophone and song

a-people

bless youz all
-rach

Words beginning with the letter 'R'

which is 'Ar-eh' to our North American friends, and
'ah' or 'arghhh' to everyone else.
(except moch, who calls is 'grrrh')

Here are a few suggestions
Rambunctious (prizes to whoever knows the proper spelling or meaning)
Ridiculous
Resplendent
Reliable (boring)
Radical
Rascal
Ready

...
uh...
Retina
and
Really, really, really ridiculously good-looking
(yes, that begins with 'R')

So, here I am with a quarter of an ounce of spare time and I'm writing to y'all. (You better appreciate this!)
passed the room inspection
moch cleaned up his act.
I sacrificed precious study time... to deal with the consequences of my own sloth
... his name is Joe

Everyone at the collagio is sickios. cept me! will not get sick, REFUSE to get sick.
brill plan, that!
prac's going well. have two sermons coming up... 3rd and 17th of june. so far, I've spent about 15 seconds on each, asking God to tell me what to preach about.
Have one word for one, and four words for the other.
will go into that a little deeper this coming week.
Am starting to hang out for july holidays - will have all assignments well finished by then and will have chilly-chillax time with the familios!
(hopefully my own, not that I don't ADORE all the campus families...)
need to pick up the slack a bit on these last two major essays (yes, they've done 15yrs each in the salvos) this coming week. have been getting a tiny bit behind - well, not as far in front as i would like.
i KNOW how cocky that sounds, but it's 'cause i'm single and have no life outside of college. It would be strange and unecessary to be BEHIND in these circumstances.
gee, hope i don't get LEFT BEHIND
ba ha ha
pre-millenialists? what's up with that?
carp, hope i used the right word. something-millenia-watty (and yes, yes carp is the new crap). and I don't really have anything against Kirk Cameron personally, I'm sure he's lovely and I just looked at his site. positively brill, has the theme song from growing pains playing. made me laugh with joy out loud in the library. thankfully (as usual) i am all alone here
cadettees, does this say something about our work ethic? or something about out laptops... and children... and priorities... and timing.
oo, just hurt my knee jumping off my high horse.

moch is still on his. but it's not a high horse, it's Joe the sloth.
moch says I'm splitting hairs
and that I'm talking carp.

just a thought...
right now, my life is pretty self-centered *moch is nodding... so I'm gonna kick him off Joe*. but with the whole 'setting aside two years' thing for college - you know, the learning and the UNlearning and the craziness and the spiritual growth and personal brokenness... *blah, blah, bla- ow!*
but thing is, I'm really enjoying this.
I'm not going to feel guilty 'cause I know that i need this time to get a bit more grounded... a LOT more grounded... before I take on the responsibility of an officer. now I'm not saying that people NEED college to be able to ministry effectively - stacks of people with no formal training are absolutely brill in ministry, but work with me here (not you moch)... I'm giving this time for personal growth and it's hard and it's sticky and my brain wants to explode often (cognitive dissonance - ba-BANG). but it's GOOD and I LIKE IT
so...
will i be a carp officer?
if I'm getting into this self-focussed thing so well, will i explode to pieces when it's not all about me anymore?

trust me, I know how i sound, and i'm sorry if you hate me. -moch, on the other hand, can hate me all he wants - I don't care.
*today he called me a dog, so I told him that he was birthed out of stone in the seventeenth century and that his lack of human qualities is an embarassment. He wasn't convinced*

so officership, here i come.
God bless whoever receives me!
Bless you all
-rach
(God bless Cameron Diaz)