Chrisficient?

Hahaha Werrolyn commenting that my blog was up-to-date and for some reason the same week I collect dust on it for an entire week. Famous last words? :P

Anyways, yea uni been really busy. I try hard to be more efficient but its not easy. I was so dead by the end of the week. I have this theory, however, that if you keep doing it for a long time, it will eventually become habit and you get used to being so efficient.

My friend came up with this new word: chrisficient. It means christians who are super-efficient. You may know some of them. They serve at church, are close to God, have a job, maintain a social life, have really neat/organised rooms and have distinctions at uni. Sounds like the perfect person, but believe, they exist. They are the Chrisficient. I want to be more chrisficient. I want to do my job well, do my honours well, keep my house tidy, have time for friends (and tet) and of course, keep serving at church. I neglect my QT alot but hopefully that will change as I learn to be more chrisficient.

Yum cha today at Chatswood. Took the opportunity to grab some beads (ahaha obsession). I'm excited :D Will post up the pics when they're done cos Jacky practically designed it for me XD (cos im like crap at designing things. ho ho). Hopefully I'll be able to slot in Capoeira this week. We'll see what happens. :)

Mousies

This is the second mouse litter we got. Aren't they adorable? We checked on them today and their eyes were open and they were sauntering hesitantly around the cage. They're so cute!! They just get cuter and cuter and cuter and then one day they just...grow up and arent as cute anymore.... and then they start eating a 45% fat diet and get really obese and then they become really cute again. Must take more pics! ^^

Had a great night with friends. Gotta thank God for them ♥

FREE PANCAKES!!

I've always had this impression that I would never get anything from Honi Soit except a fistful of curse words.

I picked one up today because I couldnt bear the thought of riding down George Street at peak hour with nothing to read. Guess what I found....? Yes....

FREE PANCAKES!!!! ?@#$%^&*()^%$*&^$#@!!!!!!!!!!!

Mondays and Thursdays
8-11 am
Eastern Avenue

Be prepared for propoganda. But they have maple syrup..... *drOoL*

Busy busy...

God has been teaching me to let go of my dreams and plans. Indeed, man plans but God decides and I guess I get so caught up in how things could potentially turn out that I begin to "love" the world and make some really bad choices.

Anyway, lesson once learnt, God was really gracious in granting me some things that I had really wanted. Nothing like a little nudge by Him to keep you walking in the right direction.

Thank You that you discipline those that You love, and thank that You're always so patient with me. Thank you for Your faithfulness and wisdom to work around everything to always come up with the ultimate answer.

The next two months will be testing. Lets see how well I cope.

In a nutshell

1. I attended a 2-day animal handling course this week. It contained legalities and philosophy, justification and propoganda, paradoxes and controversy. The only thing that suprised me was the delicious morning tea. The only thing that will stick with me for life is the fact that every issue always has two sides to the coin.

2. We recieved 2 litters of mouse pups this week. 8 in one litter and 11 in the other. They're adorable! They have the cutest tiniest tails and have white bellies from the milk they suckle. So proud of the mothers <3

3. Cake day today! Got to meet somemore ppl from the MMB department. Now we officially have 2 cake days a week: Monday and Friday. Gonna get fat man...

4. O-Week this week. Got so much free stuff! USU was giving away these bags which had Red Rock Deli chips in them. Twice I went to get my free chips and Coke zero, twice I walked away with original flavoured chips. argh! T_T

5. SOTE today about BGR, lust and masturbation. I learnt two things today:

(a) It is okay to look at a guy/girl and be sexually aroused because thats just the way God made us but its not okay to look again with the intention of engaging in a fantasy/sexual thought. This is a new concept and quite different from people drilling it in that even a thought is sin. I think its more the fact that you're entertaining that thought that is sinful rather than the split second emotion. And of course, I would take the word of an academic theologian the same way I would trust a professor's word over a high school teacher's.

(b) Masturbation is not wrong if it is a means to release you sexual frustration, as long as it does not engage in sexual fantasies (especially with ppl that you know because they are not yours to covet/desire). Its also a big no-no if masturbation becomes an addiction, a hindrance to your marriage (because you're meant to be serving your spouse sexually as well) and becomes an activity that consumes your thoughts day and night. It is hard to keep a pure mind and if masturbation does not help you do that, then it is to be avoided.

This is because the Bible does not say anything about masturbation and therefore it must not be a big issue i.e. it is not right or wrong to do it. Its neutral the same way dating is not mentioned in the Bible and so it doesn't matter if you decide to court someone before you marry them or just propose (after careful and sober consideration, of course) without dating. Sexual desire is after all a gift for God with a goal in mind, which is to serve as a bond for your spouse/marriage and so just like eating is glorifying to God because its doing what He made you to do, so masturbation can sort of be seen to be glorifying to God as well. Especially if it means it'll stop all that porn and sexual fantasy business!

okay im sleepy now. Gosh im really getting old... -_-