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I just reread the post I wrote last night after two overnight shifts with no sleep what was I thinking. Some funny grammar and not totally coherent thoughts, the gist of what I was thinking is there so I’ll leave it as is.
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It seems that as you get older the harder it is to keep track of old friends. I find that it is easier sometimes to have the excuse, I have been so busy. I apologize if you are one of those that are close that I have neglected. Now do not get me wrong I have actually been insanely busy this past year, going to school and working full time yes 75+hrs weeks were common until late fall. However there have been times where it was easier to be busy.
The strange thing is now that I have a full time job I still am having trouble not working too much. Between church responsibilities the once a week Dominos Driving that I do. at the end of which I have others demanding my time and I am incapable to give that to them.
I used to think that I was a good friend, but even the best of friends have their differences. There is investments to be made in those around us, the people that are chosen for us and for the people that we choose to get to know. My credit is low and I need to reconnect and enjoy fellowship and community.
It is my mission over the next few weeks to reconnect with as many friends as possible. The challenge is daunting I will update in a few days as I process this cool venture.
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!!!
One of the biggest moral conundrums comes from the reality that many people in this world see the atrocities and horrors of the world and do nothing. I have always struggled to see how we fool ourselves into believing that someone else is better to handle the situation at hand. Often we will say as we drive by a stranded motorist “somebody else will stop”, that is such a cop out. The truth is that we cant be bothered to get involved in the lives of others.
Even the way we give money is offkilter as we send money away from ourselves to aid some agency who is working on behalf of us. Now before the stones come out, let me say that we should continue to give to those agency. However let us realize that when we donate in that fashion we are removing the responsibilty from ourselves and the hassles that getting involved entail.
Peter Parker chooses to be Spiderman not because he has abilities that are extraordinary, he chooses that life because he is extraordinary. The archetype that is presented in him is that we need to live our lives in response to the world and not to be living our life according to our need.
On the flip side there are those who live the life of hero, because they need to, so that they feel whole…that is very unhealthy. Everyone has a unique attribute or gift that seperated them from the pack. It is with that gift we are able to give aid to those who live around us.
What is your power and what responsibility comes from it?
Paul L. Maier is a renowned professor for History related to the Bible and this is his posted response to The Tomb of Jesus! Check it out.
Paul L. Maier, Ph.D., Litt.D
Department of History
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008February 25, 2007
Dear Friends and Readers,
Thanks for the profusion of e-mails I’ve received over the last two days regarding the Talpiot tombs discovery in Jerusalem, a.k.a., “the Jesus Family Tomb” story. Some of you also suggested that “life seemed to be following art” so far as my A Skeleton in God’s Closet was concerned. Believe me, this is not the way I wanted my novel to hit the visual media!
Alas, this whole affair is just the latest in the long-running media attack on the historical Jesus, which – we thought – had culminated in that book of lies, The Da Vinci Code. But no: the caricatures of Christ continue.
Please, lose no sleep over the Talpiot “discoveries” for the following reasons, and here are the facts:.
1) Nothing is new here: scholars have known about the ossuaries ever since March of 1980. The general public learned when the BBC filmed a documentary on them in 1996. James Tabor’s book, The Jesus Dynasty, also made a big fuss over the Talpiot tombs more recently, and now James Cameron (The Titanic) and Simcha Jacobovici have climbed aboard the sensationalist bandwagon as well. He
2) All the names – Yeshua, Joseph, Maria, Mariamene, Matia, Judah, and Jose – are extremely frequent Jewish names for that time and place, and thus most schol-ars consider this merely coincidental, as they did from the start. One-quarter of Jewish women at that time, for example, were named Maria.
3) There is no reason whatever to equate “Mary Magdalene” with “Mariamene,”
as Jacobovici claims.4) So what if her DNA is different from that of “Yeshua” ? That particular :Mariamme” (as it is usually spelled today) could indeed have been the wife of that particular “Yeshua.”
5) What in the world is the “Jesus Family” doing, having a burial plot in Jerusalem, of all places, the very city that crucified Jesus? Galilee was their home. In Galilee they could have had such a family plot, not Judea. Besides all of which, church tradition – and Eusebius – are unanimous in reporting that Mary died in Ephesus, where the apostle John, faithful to his commission from Jesus on the cross, had accompanied Mary.
6) If this were Jesus’ family burial, what is Matthew doing there – if indeed “Ma-tia” is thus to be translated?
7) How come there is no tradition whatever – Christian, Jewish, or secular — that any part of the Holy Family was buried at Jerusalem?
Please note the extreme bias of the director and narrator, Simcha Jacobovici. The man is an Indiana-Jones-wannabe, who oversensationalizes anything he touches. You may have caught him on his TV special regarding The Exodus, in which the man “explained” just everything that still needed proving or explaining in the Exodus account in the Old Testament! It finally became ludicrous, and now he’s doing it again. – As for James Cameron, how do you follow The Titanic? Well, with an even more “titanic” story. He should have known better.
There are more arguments, to be sure, but I want to get this off pronto.
With warm regards,
Paul L. Maier
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This brings back so many memories, How many do you know? I know them all maybe thats not good!
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A few years ago a bunch of friends and I were in a band…a pretty good one…and we had been asked to come to a youth group event and the youth pastor wanted a name so he could promote us properly…we had never had a name before and struggled with coming up with one.
One night I stumbled upon this word…o.k. the truth is I was looking at a thesaurus looking for cool names…but the word struck a chord internally with me. The main definition for evenfall is The time of day immediately following sunset. For me that is an awesome time of the day, the world seems to stop sometimes as it shifts and adjusts its focus from day to night and the first thing that we do whether we realize it or not look for reference points so that we do not lose our way.
I would like to think that this blog could serve as a reference point in the darkness. I am always open to questions about my faith and challenges are welcomed. Evenfall…the world enters into night.
The band name by the way…which was used only a few times as it was our last year in college and we all went on to bigger and better things…was evenfall3. The three being significant of our faith and belief in the trinity makeup of God…a whole other discussion for another post.
