Life hasn’t been too bad. Somehow I got cheered up on Saturday with a few reminders that I’m not any different from other humans in terms of sin and that it’s something we all have to face up to and deal with. Many thanks to Cora and Jesse for listening to my meandering thoughts, bitterness, and disappointment while responding with something more than “yeah, that sucks, hope you get over it.”
So the past few days have been better. I’ve spent some time reading the Bible, done a bit of homework, and talked to/hung out with friends.
I started working on a paper tonight about “Christianity and Slavery in Antebellum (Pre-Civil War) America”. I busted out five pages single spaced of a paper supposed to be 15 pages long. The only problem is that this is my appendix and not even central to the topic of the paper. I don’t care though! It’s basically the gospel boiled down to its guts and talking about Jesus. I’ve not had many opportunities for this kind of thing to fit into a paper, but I plan to include it in this one ’cause I believe it bears mention in explaining something about evangelical Christianity. I also plan to argue that a lot of the problems in social conflict surrounding the issue of slavery came from people manipulating chunks of Biblical text to suit their own purposes instead of accurately interpreting it in light of its context. It’ll be a fun paper. I only wish I had more time to work on it. Now that I’ve gotten started, I’d like to do more research into the Biblical arguements used in support of slavery and against it so I can better discuss any fallacies that appear. Alas, I’m not sure how much I’ll get into that, but I’ll look at what the Bible has to say as it is.
In another news… the rest of the semester will be hard, but the end is near. Less than three weeks in this semester. I’m honestly worried that I may not pass all of my classes. If that happens, I don’t know what I’ll do. I’ll be furious at myself, of course, and it will derail my plans if I have to take more classes.
I’m also not quite sure about my summer plans post-May. I’m worried about Jacksonville and a bit frustrated with the speed at which info about it is coming. Therefore, I’m wavering about still going. I want to, but I’m worried.
Anyway, I should get to sleep. G’night.