Most often, the only way to get to a great joy is through a great sadness.
One thing must die before another can live.
Trade a life for a life.
So God gives you His.

Every day
 I make decisions that affect the rest of my life and I don't think much of them.
I try to keep in the Word so that I can make them instinctively based on the instincts of the new life inside me and not on the old decrepit creature that clamors for my attention when it can.
But every once in a while
 you come to a crossroad that you know can't be taken back or fixed if it is the wrong choice. It will change your life forever and you will have no way to know what could have happened had you chosen the other road.

Permanence,
 in a single move.
Just like every other time I've made a decision of this nature, I'm not very nervous. I just don't want to ignore Gods voice and that is my only concern. I'm ready for anything that either choice can throw at me. (Or as ready as I can be anyway.) I know which one makes more sense, but any prayer you could throw my way would be appreciated.

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I figured out why sci-fi movies often use insects as their inspiration for their aliens.
It's because they are freaky!!!

I just saw a jumping larva of some sort. I say it was a larva because it was awful small to be a full size insect. It wasn't like a fly larva though. It was black and resembled a cross between an elongated cockroach without tentacles, and a six legged silverfish. But anyways, I went to kill it and it jumped three inches into the air and tried to play dead after that...I'm not sure what that was about. Perhaps it would fool anything dumb enough to try to eat it, but it sure wasn't fooling me. I stabbed at it again with the back side of a pencil. (note to self, use larger object next time.) Predictably, I missed it and it jumped again. This time it skipped the "YOU GOT ME, OH NOES!!" drama and started running around in circles.
I began to wonder if some insects are smarter than other insects of the same species. I've noticed this trend among humans, and perhaps it caries over into the insect world too. With my moment of musing dispensed, I attended to "shoeing" my pet what's-it-thingy into the afterlife...which supposes of course that there is such a thing for insects.

"These shoes were made for walking, and that's just what they'll do. Maybe once I'm finished with destroying a bug or two."

But they're different. DanDelyonisms are now appearing in picture form. Some may actually gain an audience. Now wouldn't that be nice?
 

Do you ever feel like there is something you are supposed to be doing, but you don't know what it is? I'm not talking about something you've forgotten to do, I'm talking about something you don't even know.
It's among the oddest feelings I've had. Like there is something inside me, not myself, but other, that needs to be expressed and it isn't for my sake that I need to express it. There is something I'm supposed to do, or write, or record that must be done in order for me to be satisfied...but I haven't a clue what.

China is quickly and peacefully becoming a modern, capitalist democracy. Well, quickly in comparison to its five thousand year history, and in comparison to other nations in the past. Few nations, have made this transition peacefully.

China might.

To make this huge transition, though, China is going to need a lot of support from the rest of the world. Even more importantly the people of China need our support in this difficult period of Chinese history.

The Caring for China Center was founded to help the people of China to survive in this restless time and to seize this moment of opportunity.

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Home... my heart longs for its peacefulness. After working hard for a promotion and almost immediately regretting the change, I am about to take some time to go home to my parents and little sister, all of whom must be the best in the world. God has blessed me so much. Even though thinking of going to work gives me a headache, I praise God for the chance to work and make money. Some people don't have that option.