contemplations

Well, right now i'm supposed to be blogging about the pros and cons of being a denominatinal or nondenominational camp. but at the moment my mind isn't on denominations; it's on my general science and physics teacher from clear lake, Mr. Blake Lobdell, who passed away this weekend from a heart attack. so if you don't mind i'm going to let my mind wander and my fingers follow where it goes.

it's crazy to think that Mr. Lobdell could be gone. he was one of the most alive people i think i've ever met. sure he had open heart surgery when i was a freshmen, but at the end of the year he was back to normal self which we got to then experience three years later in physics. Mr. Lobdell was a master teacher. i think his classes were probably my favorite in four years of high school. he would take a seemingly impossible problem and break it down into small understandable parts, and then proceed to show us how everything related back to each other in the big picture. i remember the problems about critical velocity every time i'm going around a curve a little bit fast.

i guess what i'm really thinking is, if Mr. Lobdell can be taken just like that (*snap*) then how do any of us know how much monger we have on this earth before God calls us to give an account for what we've done with our time here, and how are we spending our time? do we live with an eternal perspective in our minds and the love of God in our hearts? or are we wasting our time squabbling over petty differences that don't make a lick of good whether or not someone spends eternity in heaven or hell? i'll admit right out that i've spent my time here on this earth unwisely so far, but i don't want that to continue, and i hope and pray that you'll join me in examining your life and challenging yourself and learning to trust God and chasing after God and cherishing love and your loved ones. but most of all God i pray that i would not continue wasting what you have generously given to me and that i would be able to use your gifts to me to give glory back to you as you created me to.

as for denominations and nondenominations, they seem a little petty from where i'm sitting in the kitchen at Hidden Acres, but rest assured i'll get the assignment done in my next blog. but please please, don't waste this opportunity to consider eternity and where you'll be spending it, and what you can do about it.