Doxology, = doxa (glory) + logos (word)

Praise be to God, the One and Only, who alone is Omnipotent and Mighty to Save. His Spirit intercedes for us before his very throne, speaking a language that is beyond our expression or understanding, it seems (Romans 8:26; NIV). He alone is Holy and Righteous, with Wisdom Beyond our Comprehension. The Only Wise and Living God--it is his right to receive All Glory & All Honor, and it would be Completely Just of him to send us all to hell. However, he did not. "For God so love the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." (John 3:16-21; NIV; emphases added)
And in Romans 8:1, after discussing grace and the law, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit." (Emphases added)
God is great. Hallelu Yah--Praise God!

A comment on Miss Emilia's blog which felt rather important in its own right...

Maybe I should read that book... More and more I become frustrated with the traditional Christianity in general, now and in the past. Our country and world need a revival--a complete, total, thorough revival--of true Christ-seeking. Think about Abraham, wandering the world. He was not a Jew, not a Christian, not affiliated with any religion. He was a seeker of the one, true Living God, Jehovah, Yaweh.

I was raised in a school whose mascot is the Crusaders, and it wasn't until 10th grade World History that I learned, "Hmmm, the Crusaders were, for the most part, pursuing wealth, not God. The Crusades were a form of genocide." And my grandfather's grandfather was a missionary in the time when a lot of missionaries were, with good or ill intentions, and I can't see whether he was one of them, trying to force Native Americans to be "Americanized"--to take on the culture of the white man. Bleck!

I want to see a world where Christians stand up for social justice and love this world and its people unconditionally. But how does that happen? It's a lot of changing that needs to go on. And, I'm afraid that this all just me being stereotypically "young and idealistic." I want to be realistic and idealistic. Is that possible? And I want it to last my whole lifetime. I want to care about people and potential for change forever and always. I don't think it's too much to ask, but I do think it takes a lot of work, and I think it's easier when it's not just me--when there's a whole network of world-changers held together in the common pursuit of God's plan.

What do you think?

Hi. :)

Note: Haha--I wrote this at about 2 PM, and I didn't realize I hadn't posted it until I was looking back at my blog after posting the one posted at 2:30 PM. Hahahaha. I laugh at myself:)

Hi. Things are feeling really good. Megan, Colleen, Meg's friend Erin, and I went to Todd Aud last night to watch UP. It was amazing, but I'm not going to give away the plot in any way, shape, or form, except to say that it's coming from a perspective that's not usually taken in mainstream films. You should watch it--really. I'm going to make alllll my family watch it, either at Thanksgiving or Christmas Break, whether they want to or not. It'll be worth it, and chances are they'll love it:)

I'm not feeling particularly eloquent or word-friendly right now. I'm in this tired-but-happy land of slow-moving thoughts and brain cells. The week was above-average in that I got stuff done earlier than usual (some stuff), and I am looking forward to the half-sabbatical of next week, in which I HOPE to get a lot of things done ahead of time: book analysis due 12/8, Performance-based Pedagogy Assessment Rationale due 11/18, and I don't remember what else. But I haven't had time to get ahead since I got here, because everything takes time that isn't available ahead of time. So now that I've got the ahead-of-time time, I'm going to take advantage of it--see? Get it? Got it? Good!:)

For lunch, about 1/2 an hour ago, I made a lovely meal of 1 egg scrambled with a green onion and 3/4 a slice of pepper-jack cheese, plus applesauce and a Co-Jack cheese-gooseberry melt on the side. Food is so delightful!

That's all for now.

~Complete Bliss

I am incredibly tired but very awake. (You know how that is.) Bethlehem Heckman is reading us Stone Soup. We wanted Mike Mulligan, but it seems to be lost or misplaced or in someone else's room, so we settled for Stone Soup. We had to fight for the right for any story at all, though, because Beth is a brat; however, she succumbed to our arguments.

When you listen to Beth read stories, you have to interrupt--frequently. You have to ask questions. This is how we learned that the red quilt on the bed has a star design and that the star design happens to be a friendship star. We also learned that the mayor shaved his mustache in order to look more respectable, and, very unfortunately, he will will not grow it back because his wife says she likes kissing him better without him having a mustache. EW! We didn't need to know that, Beth.

...and to all a good night.
:)
~jennifer