Ryan's Journal

Choose a religion. This is my pick for dumbest use of the web. Answer a small set of questions, have deity and eternity chosen for you. Thanks for the laugh, Sam (you don't have a webpage, do you?). I suppose there's some virtue in having information about religion out there, but the answer choices to the questions on the first page (I didn't take the questionnaire, got me a religion, thanks) are a little, um, leading.

My discipler Andrew and I happened across the topic of how people who pigeonhole me don't piss me off anymore (i.e., folks who say, "He's really quiet," and figure I'm not worth talking to). I tried to come up with a reason why it was no longer the case but didn't have one, and he observed that it was indicative of genuine change that I didn't have to rely on an argument to behave morally (as an aside, I think there's still some rightness in anger over people in the church who won't allow for change or growth or those who judge only by first impressions). That got me thinking. God's changed me - and I don't even notice sometimes. But I've been noticing lately. These are things I used to cry out in anger to God about, about why I was so weak. Eventually I stopped praying about them, and I realize - I stopped because God answered, but I didn't have the sense to notice. Now that He's finally got a little more of my attention, I want to see those changes used for kingdom purposes. That's why He did what He did. Hm. Maybe I should include some details. That was kind of generic sounding.

Sorry if I don't respond to your email this week. I'll be at a conference put on by my research group from today until Thursday. Busy. Probably tiring. Time to sleep.

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