Excuses and Fruit

Hmm...

Hold on a minute while I search for an excuse as to why I haven't posted since Tuesday.

Nope. No excuse. Honestly, I just didn't feel like it. The past week wasn't necessarily a bad week, per se, but it was kind of one of those weeks where nothing happened. Nothing. And when nothing happens, there's nothing to talk about. Plus, I personally have felt a bit blegh lately. Not in the sense that I'm getting sick again, but I've just been in one of those moods where I really don't feel like doing anything. Even the sorts of things that I can usually guarantee to positively alter my mood haven't been working as they should. One of the reasons I started this blog was so I could sit down every day and write about things like this; I find that it's rather therapeutic. I had to force myself to get on here this evening and write something, and it turns out that as soon as I started writing, I started feeling a bit better. Go figure. So, yeah: no excuse.

Quick updates:

Work sucks and I wish I was back on my old team.

Ohio State beat Michigan on Saturday!!!

And...you know, like I said, pretty much nothing else has happened since last I wrote.

I was thinking today about a bit of a pet peeve of mine. It irritates me to no end to see deep and meaningful thoughts and ideas become so free-and-easy due to familiarity. Specifically, I was thinking of how we tend to, even in adulthood, view certain Biblical passages as sort of "children's stories," because we learned them in Sunday School as youngsters (and it doesn't help that there are associated silly little songs and such to go with these stories). More specifically, and the thing that prompted this thought in the first place, is not so much a story, but it is one of those Sunday School things that we get drilled into our heads as kids, and that, I feel, for that reason, we tend to not take as seriously as adults: the "fruits of the Spirit." Pastor Bob has been preaching on these for the last few months, and I'm glad for that. That passage in Galatians is good to look at as an indicator as to how spiritually healthy one is. It's more than a list of happy qualities to recite. As a Christian, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control all become inherent traits, but we don't always bear them as we should. These are the not-so-obvious but ever-present (almost sub-conscious) things that the world sees in Christians and knows that we are set apart. Take some time to really think about what each of these attributes really means, and ask yourself if you are exhibiting each of them to the fullest. And stay away from the "anti fruits of the Spirit" that Paul mentions in Galatians 5:19-21 (but that's rather obvious, yes?) Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

And on a much less serious note, and because I would be remiss without doing it, I have to mention that today is Captain's birthday ^__^