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Name: Esther
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Interests: djembe drumming, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, roller hockey, softball, reading biographies
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Member Since:
6/27/2005
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| "In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat -- for he grants sleep to those he loves" ~Psalm 127:2
Give me rest from work, dear Lord.
"I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope." ~Psalm 130:5
Revive the forgotten ideals of youth.
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"Some who seek to escape from
taking a stand publicly find a place of refuge in a private
virtuousness. Such a man does not steal. He does not commit murder. He
does not commit adultery. Within the limits of his powers he does good.
But in his voluntary renunciation of publicity he knows how to remain
punctiliously within the permitted bounds which preserve him from
involvement in conflict. He must be blind and deaf to the wrongs which
surround him. It is only at the price of an act of self-deception that
he can safeguard his private blamelessness against contamination
through responsible action in the world."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
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| A Must See Music Video: U2 and Greenday cover version of
“The Saints Are Coming” -
What Katrina
COULD HAVE been.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1353259679641255882&q=U2%2C+greenday%2C+%22the+saints+are+coming%22&hl=en
If only.
“Pray for the peace of NEW ORLEANS:
‘May those who love you be secure.
May there be peace within your walls
And security within your citadels.’
For the sake of my brothers and friends,
I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek your prosperity.”
(cover version of Psalm 122:6-9, NIV) | | |
| This quote is dedicated to all my fellow classmates who are about to
graduate and are torn between following the dreams God has given you
and following the
path of least resistance, that is enshrouded in parental expectations,
security, prestige, and the like. As we struggle together over
that
ever-present question, "what are your plans for next year?" remember
these wise words spoken a century and a half ago by a philosopher who
used his own dreams to awaken a slumbering society.
"...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things
behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more
liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more
liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of
beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the
universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude,
nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness."
~Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will grant you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). Merry
Christmas and happy job hunting!
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| I just need to take this moment and brag about my friend Jon Moy's amazing new music video
that he gracioiusly asked me to be a part of. ("That
Girl") This is for all the girls out there who wonder how
guys stay commited to someone when they are so visually oriented toward anything pretty with two legs!
So I am back on campus, getting ready for the Student Government
leadership retreat. After reading through pages and pages of
Wheaton College Student Government history for the past few days, it is
astonishing how far back the issues of campus race relations go.
Brian Wu, Clement (something), and various other Wheaton
College superstars of the past have had similar experiences with
white cultural Christianity that current students of the college still
have today - graffiti, a homogenous curriculum, the minority student
exodus to other colleges, and the list goes on. We don't even
offer Mandarin Chinese at our school - a school that prides itself in
sending hordes of missionaries to China! The tragedy lies in
the fact that not much has changed since the days of the Civil Rights
Movement, when Wheaton formed its very own Civil Rights club to attend
to the social concerns of the day. Unfortunately, the policies and
programs that have been attempted by past student leaders and
administrators do little to alter the situation. If
Jesus Christ is a unifying force, then why have the slightest invidious
distinctions in skin tones managed to split churches and schools?
If Wheaton is a Christian community, then why are we not
on the cutting edge of beginning to uproot such historically
embedded systemic sins? Too many questions, not many
answers. Ah, politics. Establish the work of our hands
for us on this year's Student Government, dear
God. Yes, establish the work of our hands. | | |
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