Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Chrysalids

I finished reading The Chrysalids a little while ago, and I just have to say, it's really strange. John Wyndham must have had a really strange mind. Or else he was just super creative, in a weird kind of way.

Anyway, I guess it just got me thinking: we are all mutants in this world. Especially as Christians. This is not my true home...it's like I'm David and living in Waknuk or travelling through the Fringes, and am always being chased down or having to always be on my guard. And then some day I'll get to the Sealand and I'll finally be home.

I can't wait for that, because I don't fit in that well in this world. And I can't wait to see Jesus! I think that when I first see him it will be like David and Rosalind and Petra staring in awe at that big blue bay...so unfamiliar [but they already know it], yet so wonderful and beautiful and magnificent. And amazing, like nothing else. I can't wait!

LISTENING TO: Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape; Underoath

Labels: School, Spiritual Life

Monday, September 04, 2006
I Hate Feeling Like This

So yeah. School didn't start out that well, but I'm trying to change my attitude about it. I'm praying about it every day. But right now I'm just really mad/upset/confused...so it can get hard to see things clearly.

So yesterday at the cabin [I was staying at the Wall cabin and the rest of my family was at the Boymook cabin] my parents and Michael and Haley's parents decided that it would be a pretty sweet idea to take my mp3 player and listen to it via their portable dvd player. Bad deal for me, because they saw the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" and were all like, "that's such a nice song, let's listen to it." And they happened to find out, just as I did, that James Blunt has an unedited version of his song. Oops. So guess who got in trouble? Me. Sweet deal.

And mostly this upset me because I didn't know it had a swear in it. Not until I put it on mp3 did I discover it. And I was planning to take it off, but we were at the cabin, and it's not like they have computers out there.

So I apologized, but I haven't gotten any response back. None of the adults even bothered to talk to me yesterday so I'm assuming they don't really plan on forgiving me. And that's retarded, because I told them the truth and didn't tell them how much it bothered me that they just took my stuff.

So here's the question for today: why do people have to be so stupid and wreck music and movies with their stupid profanity???

Labels: Erika's Life Updates