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Name: Michael
Location: Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Birthday: 6/13/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus, the Bible, acting, theatre, movies, writing poetry, short stories, and screenplays, video games, photography, going to OU sporting events, cooking, and spending time with my sweetheart Cherith.
Expertise: Not really an expert on anything... I am constantly learning. I can find something new in things I have been doing for years.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  Soonerferg
Member Since:
3/11/2004
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| I'm going to give the blogging world another shot by with a new site http://www.xanga.com/goodstuffbadstuff and I'm trying to follow more of a structure so I'll write more often. So, check it out if you want, or even if you don't want to.
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| Today on campus I saw a lot of people wearing sunglasses. I don't really ever wear sunglasses. It made me feel either really uncool or like I've been neglecting to care for my eyesight. <--- see this guy? The title for this smiley is called "cool."
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John Donne
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HOLY SONNETS.
XIV.
Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. | |
I am amazed by this sonnet. We used it in an exercise today for my advanced voice class and we read it aloud--first each person reading to punctuation and then going to the next person, then to the end of each verse line before switching, and then finally in it's entirety ourselves. I have always been interested in the dual nature of man and this over 3 century old poem speaks as much to my heart as anything I have read. It is a wonderful insight on how no matter how much we love God and want to do exactly what he wants us to do, our human nature sometimes leads us to self-destruction. Sometimes we become so frustrated with our mistakes that we just want to have God shake us and lock us up as protection against ourselves. The true beauty and wonder is that He created us with a will of our own and lets us choose to love Him, bringing him real Glory.
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| I have thought a lot lately about how God has created us as beings meant to coexist with one another and fellowship together. It is when we are alone and separated from the body of Christ that we face the strongest temptations and are most apt to feel guilt, pain, anger, and fear. We are purposely created with both blessings and gifts as well as flaws and iniquities. This is so that we may use our gifts to bless others and to have others bestow their gifts upon us. This is a representative act of the love of Christ that covers and removes our sins and purifies us. I encourage you all to spend time with your friends and loved ones, even (especially) those who are not believers, so that you may share your gifts. Remember that "for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light" Ephesians 5:8
Where there is light there can be no darkness.
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| I was in the Penn Square Mall in OKC (otherwise boring and over-priced) when I happened to walk into Jason White's A Store Divided... and Jason White himself was inside! After I got up the nerve to ask him to sign a card I keep in my wallet with a Bible verse on it, he said "hey, how about a mini helmet?" and I told him I didn't know, but then he said he'd autograph it for me personally for no extra charge! He was such a nice, regular Oklahoma guy and a darn good salesman, too!
BOOMER SOONER!
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