Reject That Which Has So Conveniently Been Put In Front Of You

Have you ever been to a large city and seen all the thousands of different people doing different things, and realized how incredibly small the world you surround yourself with is? Your job, school, church, family, friends- there are billions of people on this earth and to think that your coincidental relationships are the best out of possible billions is a little ignorant…don’t you think? There is always someone better out there for you, or at least there could be, we ultimately could never know. My point is this; we have to change regularly and put ourselves in different situations, play the field, overturn some rocks and get dirty. Sure, again, it is impossible to find the “in every way perfect” person, school, or church, even if most likely there is one out there, but we should at least put an effort forward to do so. It is hilarious to me, how at my former church people would boyfriend/girlfriend swap as if their fellow church people were it for them…like there was no one else out there for them to choose from. This type of thought is incredibly asinine to me. What a small world they live in…so boring and predictable. I will never be like them, I deserve better than that. Settling, is such a terrible thing.

It is time to shake things up a little and see what happens. I will begin by going to a new church. I have attended Praise Covenant for well over a decade and in that time (with the possible exception of Mia) have received more spiritual insight during five minutes in the mall parking lot from strangers, then in all my time there. I have never really fit in there; they were the ones who drew the line though, not me. With me, they were always welcome; I would never leave one of them out. It is such an incredible shame when churches exclude people.

Anyway, despite what you may have heard I most likely will not be attending the Catholic Church, I just wanted to see what people would say. I more than likely will be attending Urban Grace Church in downtown, because I can walk there and it seems like a good place to start…so we will see.

I hope you don’t think I have deleted you from myspace, in actuality it was my myspace that was deleted…so I hope there is no hard feelings. I really only got back on to get peoples e-mails. Sorry for putting you through that again.

Well I really wanted to put some pictures of my fish tank up for this entry because Saturday I did its bi-monthly water change and it looks amazing right now. I am sure that most of you have seen it though, so I guess you’re really not missing out on anything that mind captivating. For those of you who heard about Murphy’s accident, he has made a full recovery and is back to his old flirtful self.

Next quarter of school (starts early January) is going to be nuts as I will more than likely be taking on 20 credits which includes an “internship.” I will still be graduating in March from UW with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts and Science- General Studies, and with a minor in Nonprofit Business Management. So that will be nice and I am really looking forward to my grad party in June which is going to be awesome- everyone is invited.

To end, school is starting to heat up now so I will have very little free time from now until mid December. None the less, feel free to give me a call or come chill within that timeframe…word is we turned the hot tub back on (idk how true this info is) but if you need to come relax in our tub, I would be more than happy to oblige your wishes should the rumor be true.

I will now leave you with a word of advice that my good friend Jonny gave me (Jonny is the black dude who wears the colorful suits in the Tacoma Mall):

“Instead of telling God how big your problem is, tell your problem how big God is”

God Bless

-Penner