My dad has been telling me about declaring a victory. Declaring a victory is when you look back on your life and you say, "Okay, I'm good enough. I don't have anything left to prove". I would now like to declare a victory.

It's a lot like my goal to have a 30 inch waist by the end of the summer. You may be glad to hear that I completed it, but then again, it was sort of by error. I was working on my weight, exercising, doing the right things: I was looking a lot better and my 39 inch waist was decreasing a little. However, it was frustrating and I wasn't quite sure it if would ever actually happen so, one day while bemoaning this fact, I ask, "Where DO you measure your waist." It turned out that I was measuring at the wrong place on my torso and I was already at my goal. Neat trick, hunh?

Well, tonight I went to Navigators, a christian group on campus. There is a verse in the bible: Matthew 22:37-40 "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." I always thought, "Okay, so I love my neighbors as much as I can, I can handle that, but the loving God with your whole heart? I don't love God like that, I don't know if I'll ever love God like that." So, for a time I despaired... a long time. It just seemed ridiculous that my heart would tremor at the sight of Him, that my face would flush and my words get caught in my mouth. It seemed absurd that all I would want in life is to hold Him, more than anything else in the world... Well it turns out that I could have been right, but the fact is THAT is not what God was talking about. As they explained at Navs tonight, there are two different kinds of love: the romantic, kissy face, 'I melt when I see you' love and then the unconditional, reliable, dutiful love. The second kind of love is what God commanded of us and the one that we should be striving for. A wash of relief fell over me. I could DO that. I WAS DOING that. So it was that I declared a victory over vocabulary, or as the christians say "a victory over death."

I never understood those measurement things. :P
» randomjunk on 2007-09-05 11:52:51

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um... as for 5 manga novels, do you mean novels as... in book books or just plain old manga (comics) XD
as for... real novels that some manga have been based off of, i would say... scrapped princess and the twelve kingdoms. (well, they dont have that many out yet >.< and ive only read so many of them, but those are the two that stuck to my head ^^)
as for manga(comics), i would say...rg veda by clamp. it has a good storyline, and it has some deep meaning. another series that is really good, and might give a good view on the different subjects that manga touches would be...the the deep love series. its about real issues such as hiv. (though its not for the light headed . thats all i can think of right now, but manga has such a wide variety, just like other literature, theres those cheap romance novels and theres those really good books that touch your heart as well as those science fiction novels that are about what could happen. so...manga is kinda like literature in that way ^^(btw, literature is anything written right? XD)
» crz4manga on 2007-09-06 08:15:51

um.. opps.. >.< it wouldnt post so... i had to try again, plz delete the first two for a cleaner look ^^
» crz4manga on 2007-09-06 08:16:26

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