I just “stumbled upon” a new favorite Ikon

I was using stumble upon, and one of my categories is Eastern Orthodox Christianity (I’m not Orthodox, but I love a lot of their spirituality). I stumbled across an Ikon that I had never seen before.

Communion

I love the symbolism of the disciples approaching Christ for the Gifts. Its easy to forget that when we approach the sacrament, we approach Christ. We are partaking in the Sacrifice of Christ through the Body and the Blood. It is a Divine Gift. And I believe this Ikon shows that quite vividly.

I submitted something to digg.

I am curious to see how high i can get it in the listing.

 

http://digg.com/xbox/Star_Wars_360

I can’t f****** breathe.

Seriously, full blown allergies. GAH.

I’m gonna try playing games tomorrow, my wrists feel somewhat better. Nothing intense like wow, maybe just an hour or so of team fortress, to get back into it and get an idea of where the healing is.

This happens every few months, and i freak out like its the end of the world. I know, sad.

Anyway.

I joined a site today, tell you about it later.

I’m voting for John McCain

But I’m not really all that excited. I do like the idea of Nuclear power, but i have trouble electing someone for one damn topic. I guess I’m also voting against Obama’s inexperience, but i’m still not all that excited.

I’m gonna go vote on monday. Eh, sometimes democracy seems like a chore.

Prayer in the dark

The prayer/mantra I mentioned earlier has started to infiltrate my life. I find myself praying it at different times during the day. Especially in the dark after i turn the lights off to go to bed. It calms me.

I begin to think of the atonement. The Sacrifice of Christ. In the past I have focused on the physical Man on the Cross. The 5 Wounds of Christ. Traditional thoughts. But Occasionally my thoughts have drifted to the more metaphysical aspects.

There is One Christ, but in my mind I often see two aspects. The Physical Man, the carpenter from Nazareth. The Teacher, the Rabbi. Then There is the Metaphysical Christus. The Eternal Deity, who is both One God and the Son of God. A member of the Trinity, yet the Wholeness of Divinity. The Godman.

At the Incarnation, he took on our nature, the nature of a human being. He is still a man. He will always be a man. He is not only my Father and Creator, He is my Brother.

What happened to the Godman on Calvary? There are many thoughts on this topic, but very little is comprehendable in our limited minds. Did God Die? Obviously a man died, but did God die? God is immortal, however His Divinity and His Humanity are intermingled. He is One being, Godman. Not God and man, but Godman, a complete entity.

Theologians have twisted themselves up over this topic for centuries, I will not solve it in the darkness before bed (no one will), but to ponder it is to dwell on my God, and to draw near to him, that is always a good thing.

Christian Meditation serves a specific purpose. We are not emptying our minds. We are focusing it. May we draw near to him in prayer and meditation, and may we seek to become his Mirrors.

BORRRRED

I don’t really know what to do with myself half the time.

entertain me with thy witty comments

I WON THE BRITTISH LOTTERY!

I got an interesting Email today!

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I’ll be sure to give this guy all my information so that i can collect my earnings…… YAYYYYY

I hope i don’t have to change my email address. I hate spam with an unholy passion.

Chess

I’m falling in love with the game. I’ve always loved to play, but as i learn and get stronger, I am playing more and more, and loving it more and more. It has been around nearly unchanged for thousands of years and its never been tossed away like so many other games. There is so much variation and strategy involved it just keeeeps going.

I think im going to buy chessmaster for my ds. Unfortunately it does not allow online play but i can do puzzles and play different computer opponents with varying skills and weaknesses. (i read a review lol).

I talked to A today. It was great. She was having difficulty with a friend which really sucks (and I’m DEFINITELY on A’s side in this one) and we chatted about it. Then i talked about faith and forgiveness for a bit, then we went off to play our respective games (I played Team Fortress 2, and A went off to play that awesome game i’ve given up so my hands don’t become shriveled up husks.) I’ve been taking anti inflammatories btw, and they helps.

I didn’t see much of L today. I assume she played a bit of wow. That or she was making out with her Jonny Depp Posters…. or maybe both? I did talk to her a BIT this morning (probably like…10 minutes) so that’s all coo.

I still have the writing bug. This is fun, but i want to create something, not just relay my life.

dad suggested i use his larger keyboard on my computer. What really sucks about this is its helping. Shit, does that mean im getting worse? Does that mean I gotta get more careful? You know, I have these flareups all the time, I should stop worrying. I really need to calm down. All will be fine, it always is.

I have been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2, and chris appears to have gotten hooked by watching me. He’s playing now, and he really seems to be having fun lol. I like the deep strategy in the game. I just wish we XBOX 360 players got the addons and new maps the PC players did. WE are playing it out of box. That sucks because you can update via XBOX LIVE they just havn’t released the feking patch. They Really really really should.

I’m just OCDing i think. About the hands and stuff. I get these flareups all the freakin time, i just had one cause of WOW, and now i’m all worried, NO REASON TO BE.

I found out ENTERPRISE is on SciFi Channel at 5:00 every weekday, that is awesome. I fell asleep yesterday watching one about a Klingon ship in some atmosphere or whatever. I think i have seen it before, not entirely sure.

I like ENTERPRISE, it sucks how hardcore Nerd Trekkies whine about it. FUck continuity, It was awesome.

I, for some reason, cannot reformat my thumbdrive. It is driving me insane. I wish i could. I’ll play with it in a minute see if i can get it to do as it shoulld.

The Battery Life on my Ipod is not as it used to be. Its a couple years old, so obviously these things happen. But I’m No longer under warranty so i can’t get it replaced the old fashioned way. I’m considering (when i get a job) buying a battery kit and changing it, or just replacing it with a fancy shmancy new one. The battery still gets a good few hours of playtime, so its not dead. Its just not what it used to be.

I have been studying Hinduism for school this week. Next week is Buddhism. I am facinated with both religions. I just did a miniproject on gurus, and i think its somewhat cool how Hindu Tradition is passed down Guru to Disciple. its very similar to how Tradition passed in the ancient Church. From Bishop to Disciples, from which came the next bishop.

L made fun of Christianity today, we should lovingly stone her (Just kidding )

I think this may possibly be the longest blogpost i have ever written.

Too, feking funny

http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/06/03/taking-care-of-baby-pics/

I have a schoolproject over at….

meditativeprayer.wordpress.com