Christmas

It's Christmas day today, and I hope everyone is having a fantastic time. I have to work tonight which I am really upset about. I close by myself and the roads are horrible (an example: it took Eric and I an hour to get from Woodville to Spring Valley, 4 cars were in the ditch, one car was in an actual accident air bags deployed and everything), and I am the only person who lives this far away from work and nobody will cover for me. And I understand that it's Christmas and everyone has plans and whatnot, but seriously. Why is a gas station in a small town even open on Christmas anyways? Most people pay off of their card at the pump anyways. Even our assistant manager says that they shouldn't be open, it's pointless and a waste of money. We don't have anything up there at the gas station that people are going to need anyways. So, I'm a little upset about this whole ordeal. I called in like four hours early to see if someone could work for me and he said no. Plain out no. Because he had things to do and didn't want to work that long. I understand completely, but he lives a block away instead of me who lives twenty miles away. I guess it's kinda worth the money, but I don't think that driving in really crappy roads is worth it. It's not worth putting mine and Eric's life in danger. The roads are just going to be getting worse by the night. It's a really sucky situation, but then again, I guess I can get some cleaning when I'm there. But then again I can't go in the back at all for anything. I can't even like mop or sweep or anything, then again before the other kid who's working goes home I can go and get everything ready and keep it up by the front. Ugh. Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas with their family.

Kingdom Ethics

So for my first year in Firebrand I have a class called Kingdom Ethics. It's this huge book, like seriously, monstrous. It's honestly hard for me to read because of all of the parenthasis in it but I managed and there were a lot of good points in there. Last Chapel Pastor Randy said that God doesn't put us in situations or battles that we can't fight our way out of. I didn't think too much about that at all, and then last night after waking up for whatever reason, BAM!, it hits me what he meant. I started a new job at Holiday in Woodville and there's this boy there who found out I was a Christian. And he must've had a field day with that or whatever because he kept asking me things over and over again about what I believed and what about other religions and so on and so forth. I realized right off of the bat that his main arguement was gay rights and what I thought about that, and that he had been at a church where he had been hurt. (Another sermon done by Pastor Randy.) He hadn't been asking me so much about the questions anymore and I think he won't, unless if he really has a question about something and not there to just pick an arguement. But last night it all came together for me. What Pastor Randy said went right along with what I learned in Kingdom Ethics so far. It was my battle. And I won it. But all of the information that I talked to him about was what I learned in Kingdom Ethics and everything that we talked about in class, like things we had questions on. It was super cool. There were also some things that I learned from other classes or other readings, but a lot of the things he understood that I talked to him about was from the Ethics book. I just thought it was really super cool. We get along now at work now that I'm an "OK" Christian (LoL) and that I don't judge people and that I have different opinions and can openly talk with him about things and not just bash him down. It's really good to know about the Ethics in our life and why and how we have them there. It explained a lot of that in the book. It covers like everything, and the one chapter that I really liked was the Truthtelling chapter. It covered a lot of the main things that I like in a person. "Part of Kingdom Living is a commitment to truth itself." "Of course, the very act of living and speaking truth in a context of oppression risks abuse and even death; but in the end it shows the promise of puncturing th eoppressors' sense of prerogative and superiority and opening the way for an eventual 'relationship between human beings,' a great triumph for human dignity." I also liked how they didn't sum up that truths of all sort go into one category of truths. There are differen't kinds of truth. "Speech between parents and children is different from speech between government and subject, freind and foe." "The covenant between parents and children requires one kind of truth. The covenant between friends, or between customer and resaurant owner, each demand a different kind of truth." I really like that. People who aren't christians don't even realize how much of a kingdom living that they are already in. I love that. God is all around in things that we don't even think about, and people are breathing in his love and don't realize it either. I just think that's so amazing. Well, that's all for today. Tootles.