Wrestling, Bible Study, Rearragement of room, hw

I signed up for Intramural Wrestling this year. My first match is on Tuesday @ 5:oo PM. It's going to be really fun, I haven't wrestled in three years, and I miss it. It was my favorite sport, the only sport that I could completely zone everything else out and concentrate on just that. And I like not having to depend on your teammates to do well in order for you to succeed. Don't get me wrong, when I was in high school, I loved it when my whole team won a dual, but was still glad that I could be the decider of my own record. The other thing is that I like is that you get direct feedback for every move you make, and you can put your whole self into it. To elaborate on that, let me compare for you my football experience. I was the wide receiver, and on our team, the only way you were going to that feeling was if you were the full back about every three out of four plays... while on offense. As the wide receivers, we took in plays and therefore you only got to play once every three or four plays... while on offense, on top of the fact that they rarely ever threw the ball. Not a lot of involvement in football compared to wrestling. Plus I like the satisfaction of knowing that you really worked your tail off, and you can feel the exhaustion in almost every single muscle in your body at the end of a good hard match. I'll definitely be back to tell you how the match was.

On the other end of the spectrum, We're starting up Bible Study again, and I'm totally super excited for that. I don't like going to church very much but I feel like I need to have God remind me that he's there through something like a bible study or... church (if I have to, I guess). I especially don't like Catholic services because they are too strict and traditional. My room mate has a good point in that those new churches seem like a sort of marketing type of scheme in which the church has changed it's look and feel but "same great product." And while I agree that that seems a little manipulative after considering it, it doesn't make much of a difference to me, I still like those new churches, because of a few other factors that seem to outweigh that point of view.

First: Catholic services are so boringly traditional that I find it hard to concentrate on the Word, let alone to pull anything useful from it. Second: All of the propperness, tradition and ritual that have been built up seem like a bunch of bologna, because I'm pretty sure God doesn't give a flying horse $#!+ (excuse my language) about how expensive your "Sunday Best" outfit was. I think he'd really be just as happy if not more happy if people stop trying to be so proper and respectful with traditions, rituals, nice clothing, and (extremely) appropriate small talk before and after service. Don't get caught up in all that bologna people. "Come as you are" and JUST praise him. Third: All of those carefully carried out traditions that take place during mass, only leave about 10 or 15 minutes of true learning and taking in the Word of God. Considering how many people only ever think about God, when they grudgingly go to church on Sunday morning, 10-15 minutes is a horrible and disgraceful amount of time to be taking in that goodness and knowledge.

I don't even usually go to church because of all these things. If I wanted to go more regularly I'd have to find one of those new churches with a more upbeat atmosphere that was a little more concentrated on learning the Word of God than trying to be respectful to him. You can be friendly to somebody and appear to respect them, but until you stop putting up that front, pull down that wall of (almost fake) kindess, and get to know that person you can't truly call them your friend and you can't truly respect them. I see it the same way with God. I know it seems contradictory of me not to go to Church when I'm complaining about barely getting any time to spend on getting to know God, well it is contradictory. But believe me, I think that the 10-15 minutes are worth the hour per week, but all those things I mentioned make me so mad that it becomes very un-enjoyable for me to go at all. And my one last thought on the subject is that the new Christian music is not a marketing ploy to get young adults to come to their new style of church. Think about it, if Christian musicians singing Christian songs were in music for gain they probably wouldn't be singing Christian music. It would seem more logical if those musicians were simply musicians who are really passionate about their beliefs and therefore they make music about it.

Also I rearranged my room yesterday. When the fall semester started I tried 4 or 5 different arrangements until I found one that was not only highly functional and compartmentalized, but also made for a small and cozy atmosphere. Over the semester though, that small and cozy feeling became small and crammed and I was just feeling a bit stuffy from it being the same ol' same ol' set up for so long. So now I rearranged it, and managed to make it even more functional than before (because I can reach almost everything from my bed), and it is still well organized/compartmentalized, just less aesthetically pleasing and less cozy. On the other hand, considering the incredibly small size of the room in the first place, it's hard for it not to have some amount of coziness. And it being less cozy is a good thing since I was feeling a bit stuffy about the old set up. And why did I just write a whole paragraph about rearranging my room? Well, spacial organization is something that I think highly of as a wanna be architect. Function, (versatility, efficiency, organization) aesthetics, structure= Architecture.

So I should probably do some homework now. I'll be back in couple days.