So I got to know two of my awesome new housemates. We played a rigorous four hour game of Monopoly... in which one of my housemates quickly got the upperhand and smashed us into the ground... with me intermittently getting enough capital to build hotels on my two monopolies followed by promptly liquidating them whenever I got to one of his hotels (blast!). It was a lot of fun, but we got to the point where we couldn't read the cards and decided that we'd call it a night. I'm glad they moved over to the house.

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I was thinking about Heaven today and I have to admit that I don't want to go. I was just thinking about all of the different possiblities: white clouds, harps and halos (okay), being absorbed into God (?!), being one of the many brides of God (polygamy?) and then my own personal heaven (here?) and I just couldn't see myself wanting to go there. Better heaven than hell, I suppose, but as of now, the whole prospect is not convincing enough to have me particularily enamored with the whole experience. I know people who pine for heaven, who dote upon the idea and cling to it at ever tough encounter... then there's me.

I sometimes imagine that I could be a bodisatvah and come back to guide the living in the right way, that way they could go to heaven if they wanted to and I could keep on hanging out with ya'll down here. I'd still have to go when the world, ended, however, and so there you have it. Maybe when I'm older and a little bit more hopeless about the state of hummanity, I'll enjoy the idea of being recycled into the mind of God, but presently... I'd rather not.

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Is a man who's fun to be with, flattering to be seen with and makes her feel loved. After that, it's all in the details.

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Honey used to love to the piano. Whenever you went to play, she would come up to the door. Sometimes she was there so that you would let her in, but for the most part, she just came there to listen.

Honey always listened. She must have liked the sound of you voice when you talked about all your hopes and all your dreams and all those things that worried you. She didn't gossip, either.

When she licked you, she licked like she was on a mission, no playful kisses with a darting tongue, one pink slab of wet tongue studious slobbering your leg.

She would also pull relentlessly on the leash until she choked. She would onstantly escape and yet always end up in the front lawn.

Honey has been dead for almost three years, she would have been 16 this January and� Suddenly, I miss her.

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So, I yelled at my quadmate today. So get this: i am asleep, right? The I hear, "Are you serious?" wait. Maybe it'll go away. "Are you serious?!" and then a boisterous conversation follows about something that I can't hear enough to understand but what I can hear enough to not be able to fall asleep, so I get more and more annoyed with every "are you serious" *drawer open. drawer slam." Until finally they are singing at each other and I decide enough is enough. I marched out, ready to rap on their door and tell them, but my quadmate is the in the hall, as it were, singing to have her roomate open the door. I say something senseless that involved "middle of the night?" "PLEASE be quiet!" and she's all like "I didn't know we were being so loud."

The thing is she probably didn't, but she NEEDS to know that she's being so loud because they are so loud EVERY night! Most nights, I flick on my noise canceller, plug in my earplugs and go to bed, but I don't know what came over me, I just couldn't do it anymore. Now, I am up and angry still and gooolll. Maybe I will come home on Wednesday after all, just so that I can get a full night's sleep!

Long story short though, the whole thing made me feel kind of rotten and I was thinking about how unchristian it was to yell at her, but then a little verse popped into my head. It's from Ephesians 4:25-28 (mostly just verse 26, but I don't want to take it out of context) "25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body. 26"In your anger do not sin"[d]: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27and do not give the devil a foothold. 28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need." This apparently, according to note d, ties in with Psalm 4:4 "In your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Selah" So then I am confused. They aren't treating me as they, undoubtedly, would like to be treated, so have they sinned and should I call them out on it? I don't know. The bible perplexes me.

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Soooo, I had a brain blast this morning. I was thinking about shut-ins, social phobics and agoraphobics and how hard it would be for them to go to church and how they probably still need a church community. Then, I was thinking about how would my major as a graphic designer figure into God's grand design and my possible attendance of seminary. So I was thinking that a great way to bring the two together would be to have a welcoming well designed 'church' online for people to access.

People could post online video sermons that you could recieve by day, week or month or just browse by subject or length. There could be chat rooms and forums for people to interact with one another in and church search engines to find a live church near you. Also, if you met someone on online church and you wanted to meet them in real life, you could both go to church together somewhere. That way you would know someone there, already, and you also could meet in a safe place for the first time.

Also, if you checked 'finding a live church' as a goal at sign-up (which you could change at any time) then the online church could give you soft to active encouragement to meet you goals whenever you signed in! Other goals could be "get more involved in the online church" or "get more involved in the community" (and we could have a search engine or direct to other search engines that you can search for volunteer opportunities).

Also, you could send messages to online pastors or talk to them live on an online chat.

I looked online and they do have some online church, but unfortunately, like most things in the christian world, they have TERRIBLE graphic design. So that would be something else I could do: design graphically for churches. Churches are really great at advertising, but I have a feeling they don't really have the money to spend on graphic design. So! That's my idea. If you want to join in on it, say if you are good at the programming side of websites, or a designer like me, or if you are a pastor whose interested (really not sure any of those types of people read this blog, but its a shot) then comment below and I'll try and figure out some way to get in touch with you.

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