Glory

I've been thinking a lot about glory lately. By this, I mean how as christians, the ultimate goal in everything we do is to glorify God. Or, to paraphrase someone, probably C.S. Lewis, God gave us our lives and our ultimate joy, and his, is when we give it all back; when we do something for him instead of ourselves.

It weighs down on my a lot lately. As I contemplate it, I cannot understand how to properly do that in all that I do. I mean, there so many things I do in an average day that are just things you do without thinking, but even thinking about them, how does one do said actions in a way to glorify God? How do you sit in class and learn to the Glory of God? Or how does one watch tv or play video games, or even read non-christian type things to the glory of the Lord? I'm genuinely confused and searching for answers. So far, all I have is a bunch of vague ideas, but I do have a worry that such things as regular tv watching, gaming, and reading do not always contain a way to do so, that at least a good portion of that time spent is merely for the self.

Granted, any number of such things can bring joy, and that's something I can be thankful for, and be thankful for the moment. But how does one be grateful or glorify him during? How can I glorify him while sitting in class? How do I learn in a way to give it to him? All I have is questions. I suppose I should pray more about it, but that's also true of a good number of things in my life.

Odds and ends.

My current favorite lyrics are playing over and over in my head today. Mostly due to me playing ti over and over for the time being, but still.

~I don't want to run away but I can't take it, I don't understand
If I'm not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?~


In other news, I completely forgot an assignment that was due today for discrete. We've had the blasted proofs to do for like a week now, and I've been thinking about it all week, then suddenly, yesterday, the day in which to do it, I completely spaced it. I even did other homework for discrete, but I just completely forgot to do that one. *faceplants* I'm just hoping it wasn't a lot of points, although, even if it's one a quiz grade, it's not helping me any. On the plus side, I got my program back, the one I fixed, and I now have 9/10 instead of 1/10, which is just keen.

Any gamer who frequents any comic sites or gaming news area probably knows that Marvel is attempting to sue the makers of City of Heroes due to the fact that there are a bunch of people making knockoffs of marvel characters. It's been suggested that they only seem to care because they're probably working on their own thing and want theirs to have some appeal. Then I read over at ctrlaltdel that basically the creator is blaming anyone who makes a character clone. If I were a lesser person, I might feel the need to flip him off, but I'm not, so I'll only suggest it. The fact is, I don't see a problem with people making famous superhero clones or lookalikes, and in fact have two of my own. My main character is my own creation of course, but I have two tankers that I've made to look similar to the hulk and superman. Frankly, I don't see what's so bad about it. Besides the fact that it'll probably be considered "fair use", I think it's kind of cool. I mean, I can create most any person I've ever wanted to be and play like them. Granted, they all have their own tweaks. My hulk guy has a flaming aura and glowing fists for instance. There was no nifty S and no cape for my supes, but I still think their cool. It's nostalgic, it's fun, and well, pppbbbbttttt to anyone who thinks otherwise. I mean, so there are like 20 wolverines running around the city, who cares? Wolverine is cool.

Ghee.

Man, I keep hearing all these love songs on launchcast. Nothing more depressing to one who is love sick, I tell you what. It's like both a balm and a baseball bat to the groin at the same time. Blast you all!