home

yep. i'm home. pretty boring. no offense to the family, tho, they're pretty cool. at least i am catching up on sleep! it kind of bugs me that i take too much on bc right now i am paging through my American Gov't textbook looking for answers to the million questions i have to answer. honestly, tho, if it really bothered me that much i would not have signed up for the class. the list of things i want to accomplish over christmas break is pretty random...

finish the homework for my gov't class
work on my novel
finish Screwtape Letters
start and finish Through Painted Deserts
[i think that's the name...it's by donald miller]
write a few songs

there's probably more but that's all i can think of now.
time to get back to the homework.

change

I did something nice for someone this week, and i can't help but wonder if it's changed them in some way. If it has lifted their spirits, gave them a little more hope in the world, or made their life a little better. It's worth it even if though I'll probably never meet them.


Then, it hits me. I think maybe that person will go help someone else and it will start a random acts of kindness chain. It's a real nice thought. I can dream, right?


But THEN I think about how it affected others around me. Someone that saw the random act of kindness. The person that helped pull it off. My friends that I told what happened. I have no idea if the person I helped will even think anything of it. But I took a chance.

trust

thanks for the quote, lys-

When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.

education

While sitting in a boring lecture, have you ever thought "Am I actually learning something that will be useful to you when you graduate and get a job?" Here's a common question I've been asking my whole life: "WHEN am I going to use this stuff I am learning!?" the following paragraphs are two views on education from my micro-econ book. i find the second idea very interesting...probably because I've thought it before!

1- Human Capital Theory of Education
"Education makes workers more productive." according to this view, increasing education levels for all workers would raise all workers' productivity and thereby their wages.

2- Signaling Theory of Education:

"...schooling has no real productivity benefit, but the worker signals his innate productivity to employers by his willingness to spend years at school...action is being taken not for its intrinsic benefit but because the willingness to take that action conveys private information to someone observing it." basically: "Education is correlated with natural ability." according to this view, education does not enhance productivity, so raising all workers' education levels would not affect wages.

Realistically, the answer is between the two. I personally hope for the second one...because then I won't feel bad for not retaining any information from this last semester! haha, just kidding. [sort of!]

more sara groves

yeah....more sara groves. i pretty much love her!

I think we've figured out
this world is bigger than you and I.
We've exhausted our wealth of knowledge
and have no more answers for mankind.

We've had every conversation in the world
about what is right and what has all gone bad,
but have I mentioned to you that this is all I am,
this is all that I have.

I would like to share with you what makes me complete.
I don't claim to have found the Truth,
but I know it has found me.

the only thing that isn't meaningless to
me is Jesus Christ and and way he set me
free. This is all that I have. This is all that I am.

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