Well, I got a job, and with it came a lot of perks. A lot of perks. I get a special desk, a new computer to use (2 actually), a steady pay check, school mostly paid for, really good insurance, a wonderful work place, practical work experience, a constantly challenging work flow, and even some free food. This, for me, is all I really need to be happy (barring my desire for adventure). But after getting it, I am reminded of King Solomon in Ecclesiastes. Nothing in this can truly make me happy at all, all it can do is leave me with a desire for things to gratify myself with. This all brings me back again to how really pointless life really is in comparison to Christ, times like this remind me again how you can gain the entire world and yet not be "happy", the true happiness, more appropriately joy, can only come through knowing and treasuring Christ. I guess you could say that it is freshly reminding me how much greater than life Jesus Christ is, and how through Him I can be made right with God and have a relationship with Him. I am so thankful for all of the opportunities that I have now to learn this.
Well, in lieu of that rant, I want to now conform to my peers and make a list of 10 things, with no actual category for what they entail. Just ten things.
1) You can really meet the most fun (and odd) people by fixing their computers. Its really interesting how much a person's life is invested in their computer, and how when fixing it you have to watch exactly what you say. I guess for a person who goes through computers faster than a cat through a dog pound, it never really hit me how much people's lives (especially students) are dependent on a functional one.
2) I am so missing chapel, not being able to go because of work and school is really hard. The encouraging music with everyone, the solid teaching, the discussions about it.
3) Computers have lost their attraction. When I first came to school, I loved computers, and always wanted to have the newest one, or at least dream of it, and to work on them. After a year here though, God has really reset my view of them, they are expendable and will burn in the end, with something better always on the horizon. Why have the best or obsess over them?
4) We have plans of starting an archery club :) We need to talk with the school administration, they probably won't let a bunch of kids play with bows and arrows (even Eagle Scouts). But it will be fun to pursue, if anyone wants to help us, please do!!!
5) The broken clock in Waldock is so much fun, watching people freak out when they find out what time it really is. "Nah, I got a few hou...wait....AHHHHH!!!!!".
6) Rhi is still obsessing over Del Taco, Jack In The Box, pink, shoes, pickles, pepperoni, pink (did I mention that?), JAG, pizza delivery.
7) Dallas is laughing over fun yet very nerdy jokes, which is always enjoyable (as long as you can understand them!)
8) Did I mention that God is awesome?
9) Living off campus is weird, but not too weird. Its just like being on campus, I spend most of my time in Waldock, the library, the computer services building, class, and the lower caf. Only go home to sleep...and eat cold pizza.
10) I still seem to be spending a lot of time in Dixon...its really weird...but I have found that all of them are from when people drag me there...so totally not my fault! I am not a creeper, I swear!!!
Sounds like your busy Weston. Maybe you can do chapel next semester? It's such an amazing thing to be able to take part in. I'm not sure if I would appreciate Masters half so much if I couldn't attend at least some of the chapels. . . How far off of campus do you live? That's creepy that you're in Dixon a lot. . . you don't even have the excuse of Joseph being in there to get me or coffee . . . Eternal perspectives are always better than temporal ones, so fix your computers to the Glory of God! (Col. 3:17) There's a way to do it :) I'll look forward to seeing how your archery club is progressing when I get back. That's a new one for Masters I bet.
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