Ah, music

So I've decided that music is pretty awesome. There are just so many different types and all of them affect us in a different way. Some things can pump us up while others can quiet us down and even others that do everything in between. (I don't normally cry when I hear music, unless, of course it is REALLY bad). With that aside though, I can't really think of anything else that can change our emotions as quickly as music. I also like it because of how different it can be. We aren't stuck listening to all this stuff that sounds the same. One moment I can be listening to some light rock and the next bobbing my head to Beethoven and even move on to some hard core metal. I have no idea under what circumstances I would listen to that last one, but it is possible, and it is because of that flexibility and change that I enjoy music as well. The last point I wanted to make was that music is so extremely logical. If you really understand music and what sounds good and what doesn't, you can see that there is so much order in the rhythm and pitch and chord progressions and whatever else is involved. It just amazes me sometimes. It is because of this that just playing a simple progression of four chords over and over can sound just as good as the most technical pieces of music requiring tremendous amounts of skill. But it is the order and seeing how logical music is that has made me appreciate it so much more. So yeah, pretty awesome.

A childlike faith

So, I've always been fascinated by the concept of faith. I don't know, I've just always liked it and liked thinking about it. For some reason, it seems so easy though. I mean, all I have to do is just believe? Believing something to be true is just so simple. It is pretty much just a matter of trust. I've found that I tend to trust just about everybody, which may be a bad thing. But if someone says that they will do something, I assume that they will do it. Children will trust whatever is told to them by their parents and will not only believe them, but do what they say. That is how we should trust in God. Now faith is trust in God, and if I find it easy to trust other sinners, it should be amazingly easy to trust in a perfect God. So faith in God is pretty easy if you think about it. It is the living out of that faith that is the hard part. Faith without works is dead, so true faith makes us live our lives a certain way, and that is where it can get tough. In the midst of persecution and trials we must respond always looking to the promises that God has given us, because it is the faith and hope of those promises coming to be true that gets us through. Speaking of hope, it goes along with faith very well. Hope is the joyous expectation and anticipation that what we believe will come true. It is like a child who can't sleep on Christmas Eve because he knows that there will be presents galore under the tree on Christmas morning. So hope is how we react to what we believe to be true.

Trust, hope and works are all elements of faith. Trust is the belief, hope is how we react and works are faith in action. True faith requires all three. I guess the best example really is that of a child.

Oh those days of my childhood

So, it has been a while since I last posted on here and I've actually been reprimanded for it by several people, so here we are. The main reason that I've not been on here in so long was because I've been on Christmas break and have therefore not been in situations where I have massive blocks of free time, but now that I'm back at school, I have so much more free time to work with (kind of weird how that works). This break has actually been kind of weird in that I've been reliving my past so to speak. I've just done and seen so many things that I haven't done or seen since I was a lot younger, but it was kind of fun to do some of those things again.

One of the major things that I did was play lots of piano. I don't know why I wanted to because I hated playing the piano when I was younger, but I wanted to and did nonetheless. I guess it is a lot more enjoyable when I get to choose how much I play rather than be forced to practice. Plus I got to pick which songs I played, so that helped out a lot. I feel that way on a lot of things in that I don't like things when I'm forced to do them, but if I get to choose when I do them and in what capacity I do them, I find those things to be quite enjoyable. I feel this way a lot with reading, which I also did quite a bit of. I haven't read fiction in a long, long time, but I have read through Sherlock Holmes and it has been quite enjoyable.

There was one night when my brother and I were at home and we found out that Mary Poppins was on T.V., so we watched the entire movie. We both loved that movie when we were little and were both really excited when we saw that it was on. The best part by far is when all the chimney sweepers are on top of the roof singing "Step In Time." I know you remember what I'm talking about, so don't deny it. It's just a great movie. Now that I'm on the topic of multimedia, one other thing I got to do was play Nintendo 64 a lot. I think I played Starfox the most, which is a great game. I found though that it is incredibly easy now that I'm older, I don't know why that is. But I could beat that game in 20 minutes now, not even joking. But yeah, I had forgotten how awesome the N64 really was.

Probably the highlight of my Christmas and the best present I received was a Lego Batmobile set. A Lego magazine had actually come to my house a few weeks earlier and both my brother and I saw the Batman Legos in there and thought they were amazingly awesome and wished that they had them when we were younger. Well my parents bought them for us anyways and we were both so excited when we unwrapped them. I wanted to stop everything right there and put it all together, but my mom made me wait until we were all done opening gifts. It's a pretty nice little Batmobile too. It has a cockpit that folds open, a nice little storage area for Batman's weapons and even has a huge missile that can launch off the front of the car. It really was rather exciting to put it all together.

Well, those are the main things that I did over break in terms of reliving my past. I know some or maybe even all of those sound pretty sad and might make me look somewhat like a loser, but I had fun. Well, back to reality. Fun, fun.