COFFEE! Biblical Counseling! MatSoD!

Alrighty, here is a brief run down of todays events:

Body:
I had a shake an energy drink for breakfast, and Chinese food for lunch/dinner.
I went to my yoga class for today's work out.
Overall I think I could have done without the Chinese food, tomorrow will be better!

Mind: I didn't do too much reading today. No interesting blogs to report or anything really. We are discussing Heidegger in my Roots of Existentialism Class. His thoughts are pretty interesting...his Nazism, not so much. Basically today we talked about the struggle between inauthenticity and authenticity. The closer one gets to becoming authentic the more anxious one becomes, and the more difficult it is not to slip back into the inauthentic. The Professor drew a diagram on the board showing that we can never really reach true authenticity, but that we can become approximate. In my copy of the chart I wrote God underneath the term authenticity because God is really the only authentic being (in the sense that he knows himself and is not capable of losing this knowledge, or being anything except himself).

I also had a healthy discussion about the place of politics (or lack thereof) in a Christian's life. What are your thoughts on this? I'm of the opinion that politics don't really matter too much.

Listened to III by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster today while I was at work.

"Mama said I was a no good son
I think it's time for me to make my mark
Headlines and police cars...
A tragedy from the start"

Soul: I finished reading Ezra today. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of this short book. My favorite part is when it was talking about the old men weeping over the old temple while the young men praised the foundation of the new temple. It's a very powerful image and I think there is a lot of depth to that passage that I need to unearth and explore. Thank God that Jesus is our temple that shall never be destroyed!

I had a lot of interesting conversations today. I talked with Lisa, my fiancee, about the vision we have for our future family and different sins or issues that might prevent that from coming to fruition. I had a talk with Miles and Doug about things that are going on in their lives. That was a lot of fun. God gives us a lot of tough decisions to make, but he gives us the wisdom to make them too. I had some great discussion about Biblical Counseling too. I think it's really clarifying to talk with people you might not necessarily see eye to eye with. Doug made an interesting point about how Christian Counselors should approach the unsaved that I think I need to chew on for a while.