Hello readers! ...Let us start where we left off!
Ok, so, on saturday I turned 20. I spent a good portion of the day studying and then Hannah and I went to this little hole in the wall place called Mi Casita, very yummy! Hannah paid for me, since it was my birthday :) I found out about the place because because I was searching for vegetarian friendly restaurants in Denton. After that Hannah and I went to Coldstone. I never knew you got free ice cream there on your birthday!! :) :) My ice cream was cake batter ice cream mixed with cinnamon ice cream and white chocolate chips. YUM! After we got back to the dorm Kelly and Gina dropped by with gifts for me. An easter basket with a pretty rotating picture album thingy, flower seeds, flower pot paint kit, and the game mad libs! I also got a pretty yummy marbled cake. I'm blessed to have such good friends! We ate cake, played wallomoppi, and talked.
Sunday was not a good day. Hannah and I went to church, and I was very enraged during the entire time service. We had a guest speaker named James Walker. He is the president of a group named watchman. (http://watchman.org/) is a quote from their website, "Watchman Fellowship is an independent, nondenominational Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age." During the first 5 minutes of this man talking I knew I was not going to like it. He supported a ethnocentric view of Christianity,basically. This man used to be a former mormon and came to know "jesus" and now he trys to get others to convert to Christianity. Seems kinda harmless, right? I did not think so. I do not believe that there is one god. Jesus Christ may be YOUR lord and savior, but that does not mean that everyone else must think the same way. How can any caring person honestly say that other individuals religions do not measure up to their own? If my friends want to be mormon, hindu, buddhist, or rastafarian I am not going to question it. How you would you feel if someone with religious beliefs as strong as yours tried to get you to change an important part of yourself? If this is what Christianity is all about I will not call myself a Christian. Now, I'm smart emough to know that Christianity is about accepting Jesus into your life and living a life lead out through him, but why would I want to categorize myself with such hypocritical people? Maybe it's because I go to a Babtist church (because Hannah wants to) but I once read a book called "Blue Like jazz." It's an amazing book, and in one chapter about love the author describes how he ends up living with hippies in the woods and how the hippies are the most caring, loving people he had ever met, because they loved unconditionally. I wonder if some christians see how they push others AWAY from Jesus instead of bringing them closer to him, by choosing to not associate with gay people, democrats, or deviant people in general. LOVE is my religion...the end.
Today is Thursday and Dustin, Kelin and Brian are all driving up tomorrow to come visit me for the weekend. We are going to Six Flags Over Texas on Saturday! I'm so excited to see them. Hannah is going to be gone friday night and most of Saturday on an R.A. retreat, because she got chosen to be an R.A. next year.
:)
Nessa
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