My Reflection Walk

I took a forty-five minute walk around my neighborhood and the neighborhoods around it the tuesday after Christmas and after my basketball practice that day.

The first thing that came to my mind was my team. In our coaches eyes we arent giving 100 percent in our practices and are on the verge of being great but havent been able to get past starting and coming to practices slow. As I thought over the potential of our team all my frustrations with our coach dissapeared. As i looked over our season and whats to come, I can tell you one thing. I WANT TO WIN STATE. There is so much talent in our program and as college approaches I feel it would be a shame to waste the talent that was granted to our team. I am not saying it will be easy we definatly may be outmatched in size and maybe even by talent by some teams but even the greatest teams fall. All I am saying is that I dont want to look back on my senior year feeling regret that our team could have had something great and knowing that just a little more effort in certain areas could have gotten us there.

This whole idea got me thinking about college. I honestly don't feel ready for the idea of graduation and advancing onto college. I have wanted to get out of highschool for as long as I can remember but as I draw closer the idea of responsiblity makes me nervous. I feel that my job at Fairwood Golf and Country Club has made me realize that life as an adult is not like my childhood in which i had no worries and life was always one big happy moment accept when I did not get the right toy for Christmas. I am going to meet plent of people that don't approve of me or what I do. The problem with me is I can't accept when someone else does not like me or has an issue with me and I tend to attempt to fix it and as of late I have just given characteristic up completely and have begun to not care what people think of me. As I look into my future I know there is one thing that can help me with all my troubles and that is Christ. In order to make it through the future years of my life I feel I need to strengthen my relationship with Christ and become the man of God that my dad and my oldest brother have become.

Sorry I didn't relate my life to the pictures but they weren't what really got me thinking.

Naturalism and its Problamatic Ideas

Naturalists believe in the idea of the natural or nature. They believe that nature is responsible for life through evolution and natural selection. An example of this is in nature two animals with the genes or body style etc needed for survival breed. When the offspring are produced the ones aloud to produce are only those who have a similar ability to survive. So if a two tigers who are stronger and faster are breaded and the offspring are not at a similar status they are not allowed to reproduce. In other words these adaptations which are in reality mutations are responsible for the progress and process of life. But how does something like this explain the vast architecture throughout the human body that could not have happened on chance or through natural selection. How could naturalism account for the complexity of the heart and the brain and all other organisms within the human body that scream creation? They are so complex that they could not happen by chance!

Naturalists also believe in spontaneous generation in which they claim we evolved from pond scum or nothing. How is this possible? How can something evolve from nothing. Everything we make or have today has a base or foundation on which it has been created. A building needs steel and structure, a math problem comes from a cause or something that needs to be solved, baked goods need bakers and ingredients they don't just appear! Naturalism cannot account for the complexities within the human body and the world! The chance that humans came from nothing is about the same chance as if one was to put the number 1-10 in a hat and attempt to draw out the numbers in sequential order in a row. The probability of this is around one in a billion.

Naturalism just does not have the answer for the complexity of human organisms in the body such as DNA and other architectural creations. The only answer is intelligent design.

My Plan

I plan to go to the southcenter area and find a homeless man or woman and ask if there is anythning they need whether its a jacket of a meal.

*PS sorry i posted this after midnight. I have been working all night on college apps.

The Epic Challenge of Compromise

I have been sitting here in class pondering the question what epic challenges do I face? I practically waisted thirty minutes trying to write a creative response through poetry. I realized that one cannot define creativity through poetry stories, or songs. Those are all good things, but one can display creativity through simple journal entries.

As I began to think harder about the epic challenges I face I realized there is one aspect of life I struggle with quite a bit, which is simply being myself. I realized that many times the world continually tries to define what right and wrong are and in this case what reativity is. I feel that every person has their strengths and weaknesses and although many can develop talents in certain areas they should not let others define or detirmine who they should be.

Next year I will be thrown into a whole new world and situation whether I decide to go to Greece or to stay around Washington, I will be faced with decisions and challenges everyday that involve being true to myself. I feel that the biggest challenge i face will be sticking by my ideals, beliefs, and staying passionate about my faith in a realm of Non-Christians. I hope with all my heart that i obtain the ability to be myself and refrain from trying to be a constant people pleaser.

ESFP

I am an Extrovert (56%), Sensing (12%), Feeling (38%), and Percieving (22%) person. An extrovert is someone whos energy and personality is mainly fuled by the external. I agree with this because i enjoy being around people and i usually tend to feed of them and their energy quite a bit. I tend to let others moods dictate mine. A sensing person is one who believes mainly in the information presented or recieved. I would also agree with this because I tend to believe what others tell me even if it seems contradictary to what i believe. The only thing i do not waver in would be my faith in Jesus Christ no matter what facts people present to me. Thirdly i am one who makes decisions based on feeling according to the survey. I agree to an extent because many times i have made decisions based of feeling or what i have heard and I end up regreting my decision. Other times i tend to not make the smart decision because i am to worried about the result and so i make my decision based of logic. Lastly, the survey states I am percieving which means i tend to improvise and seek an alternative solution. Many times I would agree with this assesment of me because i tend to not like the options given to me and try to improvise for a different outcome because my lack of satisfaction with the alternative. Based on my personality i took an entrepreneur test that stated I would be good as an Analyst. This type of career usually centers around jobs such as Tax Specialists, Accountants, Computer consultants, Translators, and Web Programmers. None of these jobs seem to fit the career I had in mind for my life mainly because I tend to see myself in more of a legal enviornment working as a lawyer. Although that is where i see myself in my future i am open to anything as long as I feel God is leading me to it.

Middle Ground Ideals

The argument over predestination and free will and its relevance to the Christian faith has been heightened over the last few decades. John Calvin the founder and strong advocate of predestination, created strong ideals, which center around the idea that Christ has already chosen those who will join him in eternity; these chosen are referred to as “The Elect”. Advocates of free will view life as a series of paths given to man who in turn must choose the path to take. They also believe that a divine being or events of the past do not determine the choices they make, but rather that God allows events to take place, which are dictated by ones ideals and beliefs.

As Christians debate and discuss the topic they begin to create their own ideals and beliefs in turn creating a separation among the church. This has resulted in many different denominations within the Christian church. Many question if the subject is even worth all the distress caused by these two differing opinions. Questions start to arise as you take an in-depth look at both perspectives. For example if man is Predestined what is the point of carrying out the “Great Commission” given to believers in the book of Matthew? In addition, if man has complete free will, is God all knowing and does he really have a “sovereign will” for mankind? In reality, the question that many Christians wonder is if it is possible for there to be a middle ground or borderline between predestination and free will?

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My name is Brandon. I love Basketball and I am a redhead. :0