Money and friends

A college student's nightmare, to me, is frustration with classes and managing all the work you have to do with an equal balance of haning out with friends. But, another equally important nightmare that I believe we college students have is struggle with personal finances. Personally, my finances has not been what it should be. With debt up to my eye balls and continuing to spend money on things that I do not really need, life gets hard. But, our world today makes it so hard to not spend money when you are hanging out with others. The world acts like you must go to a resturant, or have the latest video game system to have the greatest amount of friends and to be the coolest person there is. I would like to hope there is a different way around having friends and being cool. To make me happy, my mom always bought me whatever it is that I wanted as a kid. So, I guess you can say I was majorly spoiled as a kid. My mom wanted to make me happy as a kid,and after awhile, she began to get stressed out because she felt used. I never meant for that to happen and I do not like asking things from other people most of the time. I really believe that we try to impress people with all the things we are able to do with money instead of showing them how much we really care about them. Money does not need to be used to impress your firends with. We try to spend so much money to impress others when saving and putting our money to good use is something I believe that we are supposed to do. I do not have a great plan for saving money or anything like that. I would recommend reading Dave Ramsey's books on money however. But, what I really want to mention here is to not look at your friends as people that you have to impress, but people who are in your life to help you in this crazy world that we live in. I even recommend having your friends hold you accountable with money. Not by sharing all your bank information or telling them how much money you have, but to tell you when they think your spending to much. I have had friends who said that your not spending enought money, and I was dumb enough to believe them. Be sure to keep control of your money and balance that in your life. Be with friends and part of other activities not to please people, but to have fun and to enjoy life on earth theway God intended. This may not be much of a blog, but sharing my thoughts on things going on in my life that I have had to change around and I hope that this may encourage you as well.

My thoughts on creation

The universe is so complex in every way. We strain our necks to look up at the beauty of the stars in question of how they got there and what all they can do. I firmly believe that God made all of these little white balls of light and I also believe in a world that was created in more than six days. This may weird you out in hearing this, or you have heard that the world took longer than six days (I did not count the day of rest) and may wonder why people believe this. I am writing this blog mostly to get my ideas out there about this and to see what you think. I do not think this is the absolute right way because I cannot make that type of claim, but it is an opinion of mine. I have been reading a ton of science magazines lately about stars and how the world was thought to be made millions of years ago. I do not agree with everything science says, but science does believe that there is a Big Bang, or a time when all things came into being. This, they say, came from a huge explosion that happened that brought all things about, and we believe the same thing. We as Crhistians believe that God created all things out of nothing (or ex niliho). Christians and science can agree with this. But, science also says that the world took longer than seven days, and the Hebrew bible may also say the same thing. The Hebrew word for a day is yome (not able to provide actual Hebrew lettering). This word represents two crucial deffinitions that I believe to have a big impact. There is the traditional deffinition of a singal day (that is midnight to midnight) and there is a space of time. Why I would go with the latter deffinition is because scientists believe it took a while for the earth to cool, for the gases on the earth to decline and for oxygen and carbon dioxide to be the perfect mixture for there to be life on earth. I would like to think we can agree with science on this issue. I believe God can still have a role to play in all of this. Yes, God may not have created the world in such a short amount of time, but I believe that He took His time. God aloud all things in the universe to take time so that it would be perfect. God took His time with the world to make it absolutly perfect and I believe that it shows Gods amazing love for us. God took the time to give each star its name and then breathed it into existence. I believe God took the time to work with nature to make the earth just right. Scientists from Reason to Believe say volcanos covered the earth and were not able to produce the right amount of oxygen for life. So, I believe God was still at work and got to know nature, and new every grain of sand, and every plant so that when all the volcanic activity stopped, oxygen began to build and then God formed the birds of the air, the fish, and the animals that walk on dry ground. Finally, God created us, and breathed life into us. If anything I say in this blog is confusing feel free to post a question on facebook or twitter. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on my opinionated idea of creation :).