Psalm 23

I am currently working on a paper for my English 210 class aka American literature one. and I choose to pick a poem by Henry David Thoreau. And this poem is about sheep and a shepheard. Its actually a pretty good. I like it.

“there was a shepherd that did live.and held his thoughts as high
As were the mounts wereon his flocks
Did hourly feed him by.”

This poem really reminds me of Psalm 23. How the Lord is our shepherd. And we shouldn’t want. Because the Lord will always be with us. Well I don’t know if Thoreau was religious in any way, but this poem really signifies it. how the shepherd needs to be with his sheep to watch them. But its more then just watching the sheep. While he is watching the sheep he is able to think about life, and think about what it means to him. its funny how just a little four line poem can contain so much information about life and a person. I wonder what my four line poem would say?
He will show me mercy and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The last few lines of the psalm are pretty comforting to me.
And as always you tube has something to show for this. Ahh yes the little boys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1sigXS5WzI&feature=PlayList&p=847EEBC2E7993D36&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11

Just... Just What!?

So I'm sitting here at my computer trying to write a paper for my other English class. And for some odd reason I keep finding my self typing the word just. I have done pretty good for the most part on getting that word out of my vocabulary. But why is it that I have been consistally typing the word just. Then it came to me, my friend who lives in Helena says it all the time! I text him a fair amount thoughout the day. And he always uses the word just! And it makes me mad because really it has no meaning, and in all it is a sucky word. So I'm going to have to tell Brady that the word just is just it! Sucky! So i thought i'd share my Epiphany!

Daniel verses Jesus

Yes the music is blasting in my ears, so loud that I can’t really hear the taps of the keys on my key board, and my coffee is right next to me where it should be. and I just got done reading the book of Susanna. And I liked it so far. I mean I don’t know what about it stood out to me? Maybe the writer. The is definitely not the Priestly writer writing. Because its writing that I understand. Haha. This passage really stood out to me in the whole two and half pages that book covers.
“The Lord heard her cry. Just as she was being led off to execution, God stirred up the holy spirit of a young lad named Daniel, and he shouted with a loud voice, “I want no part in shedding this woman’s blood.” –Susanna 1: 44-46
Ok so read this passage. What one word stands out to you? No not that word, pick again. Yes yes your right. The word Lad. What does lad really mean? Well according to Webster it is a young man or boy. Well yes I knew that. But why didn’t the writer of this book just say a young boy instead of a young lad. But going with this story I think that lad fits. Its not to serious but then it gives the correct description of this boy.
Then it says that the holy spirit is stirred up in this boy. The holy spirit meaning Jesus right? Well doesn’t Jesus always do the right things? Hints the saying What Would Jesus Do? Well anyway if the holy spirit is in Daniel and then suddenly Daniel yells that he will not no part in killing this girl. Hmmm doesn’t that sound familiar to one special occurrence in the bible, that involves killing someone. Yea doesn’t Pilate say this in the cruiseafiction of Jesus. Hmmm or is this story foreshadowing of Jesus’ death.
*more on this later. This is really a “thinking story”

Pharaoh Pharaoh OOOO Baby Let My People Go

Being a bible thumper I knew all the Ten Commandments. Its just something I guess that is in the “rule book” of bible thumping. And they must be pretty important right? I mean if there is this big argument about the Ten Commandments being in front of the court house, and when I just typed them into my word processor and I didn’t capitalize them, it did it for me. Hmmm but that’s not the issue here.

Moses. Every bible thumper knows the story of Moses. Well we all hope so at least. I had been a camper at the bible camp that I worked at this summer, and so I know all the songs by heart. And I love to sing them when I’m there and all that good stuff. But this summer something new was there. We couldn’t sing the bible thumper song Pharaoh Pharoah. It’s a really great song. And I love it, and so do all of the kids. But my boss thought that it wasn’t age appropriate. So she decided to “ban” the song from the camp. And we couldn’t really talk about it, and we certainly couldn’t sing it. and now that Moses has been the talk of the town in bible as lit class, it makes me wonder why she really “banned” it. part of me says she did it because she didn’t know the whole story. And then the other part says she did “ban” it because of the whole story, and she knew the whole gruesome, detailed story. And being so she didn’t like the story she didn’t want to hear the song. But the song says nothing about Moses. But pretty much about Pharaoh being really mean, and God used his “Godliness” to free Moses’ people. Here is the song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVpARDceKs&feature=related

Pharaoh Pharaoh Let my people Go

Well a burning bush told me just the other day
That I should go to Egypt and say
Its time to let my people be free
Listen to God if you won’t listen to me

Pharaoh Pharaoh ooooo baby let my people go

Well me and my people are going to the Red Sea
And Pharaoh and his army coming after me
I took my rod stuck it in the sand,
And all of Gods people walked upon dry land.

Pharaoh Pharaoh oooo baby let my people go

Well Pharaohs army was a coming to
So what did you think that I did do
I raised my staff and cleared my throat
And all of Pharaohs army did the dead man’s float

So how about that. There is the song that all of us bible thumpers know and love, but we can’t sing it at camp. Sad day. But I looked at it just a little bit more and I thought about it a little more, and littler kids really can’t understand Moses. I mean come on, I’m 19 and I can’t understand it very well yet. And it does have kind of choice words that might freak out little kids. But I remember when they would sing it they would love it. and I’ve posted a link from of course You Tube where some other bible thumper is singing the song. And yes the kids love it. I think that is saying something.

Not Done Yet...

Just when I thought I was done hearing about Genesis God was like yea right Lisette. You wish. Last Sunday when I was in church we have an opening prayer. This is the prayer;

“Sovereign God, you have created us to live in loving community with one another. Form us for life that is faithful and steadfast, and teach us to trust like little children, that we may reflect the image of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.”

I thought we were done talking about Genesis and creation. Well we might have been. But God wasn’t done talking to me about it. Guess where this passage is baised off of? If you guessed Genesis you get the prize. (the prize is you get to talk about Genesis some more) The frist reading then was a reading from yes Genesis. Genesis 2:18-24. I just read that passage and tried to relate the passage in the bible to this prayer. The passage is about God creating woman. But I guess the prayer kind of reflects this. Saying that God created us to live in loving community with one another. Well that doesn’t always happen lets just put it that way. living with someone and trying to get along with them is a task. I mean I love my family and I always will. But sometimes we have little fights that make us really mad at each other. I know that God created me. (haha to a point yes…) but why did he create women? To do the house work? To take care of the babies. No, to live in a loving community with man. And that’s kind of true. Women are natural peace makers, looks over the kids, and tried to make life fine and dandy. So I guess God had to create women because someone has to keep the boys in line. Haha I don’t know I just found it kind of ironic that we are done talking about creation and Genesis in class, but not quite. I am a firm believer in signs and I think this was a sign from God saying that I need to take one more look at this story and try to understand it a little bit more.

Gossip Girl

Background: So yes I am 19 years old. But sometimes I act like I’m about 12. All throughout high school I worked in a daycare that had babies all the way to 5th graders. So I got my share of screaming whining kids. And sometimes I act like them without knowing it. I find it kind of funny sometimes. (haha as I laugh at all the funny things I’ve done, while acting like a two year old.) Like for example I was in Walmart one night with my brother, and he wanted to hang out with his girl friend. But I wanted to chill with him because I never get to see him. And in the middle of Walmart I started throwing a fit. I screamed and acted like I was going to cry because my brother wanted to chill with his girlfriend instead of me. He eventually walked away from me because we were getting looks from people and ended up chilling with me. Haha it was a pretty funny moment. So I may be 19 but I can act like a dam good two year old.

Which brings me to my next point. I have no drama in my life. So I get it from TV shows. It a down fall that I have. I love to watch MTV all the time, some of my favorite shows include Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, and my most recent is Glee. (seeing how I’m a band geek too. And its kind of a band geek-ish show) many more are to include but these are at the top of my list. And if fills up my time very nicely.

For Realsies: As I was watching Gossip Girl last Monday I wasn’t even ten minutes into the show, the two characters are talking about college. (that’s legit cause I’m in college too!) and the girl was talking about the classes that there are to take there, and New York University, and she was rambling off some classes, and BIBLE AS LITERATURE was a class. As I was like what? I yelled shut the front door! Something I tend to yell all the time. Shut the Front Door! She wants to take Bible as Lit? well girl you are now my new best friend cause I’m in that class now. And I was thinking to myself girl I can tell you who a good teacher is. Haha Professor Michael Sexson. Cause I have him, and I have to blog and read hard core for his class. Girl you will fit in perfectly with your urban style, and your curiosity for classes like Bible as Literature. Go figure. Who would of known that the writers of Gossip Girl would want to put a Bible as Literature in their screen play. And Gossip Girl no less, that a lot of teen age girls probably watch. Love it!

Test = Door Slam

So I haven’t done this in about a week or two. So I’m thinking that I better get on it. So Thursday wasn’t a very good day for me. I had two test, and one of the tests I dominated on. And the other, yea not so much. Which was really demeaning to my moral. But I kind of feel like someone in the bible. Like how God has given them a test and they fail at it. Does that mean that they quit at it? or sit and wallow in self pity for a while but then they pick themselves up and they go from there. And somehow they all turned out to be ok.
This test today was like Gods way of slamming the door in my face and saying maybe next time. The way I’d describe this is when you are waiting for a call back from a job interview and they eventually call you back and say “maybe next time.” in this dry monotone voice that kills your ears. That’s how I’m kind of feeling the way college is for me. I mean its not easy for me, and I don’t like how its not easy. College is my door slam. Since we all know that we have a lonely God he gets bored by himself. And he has to mess around with us here on earth. And at this moment he is messing with me. And I’m not liking it so much. But I’m not going to sit here and say wow I suck at life and just be done with it. I’m going to prove God wrong and tell him that he messed with the wrong girl, the wrong girl to slam the door in her face. Because what I’ve learned is that college is a learning experience and all I can do is get better from the mistakes that I’ve made. So yes God you can have this door slam, but nest time you will not and cannot do it on me! Because I have learned how these tests are going to be like, I’ve learned how to do a good job studying and this is my dream to be an English teacher. I will not let you take that away from me. Cause this is my life, and this is me. You cannot and will not take that away from me. So for all those people in the Bible that you’ve picked on and they were too shy to voice their opinions I will do it for them! All I can do now is pick myself up and continue to do well.