What I look for in a girl part 2

The sequel to the first question "what makes you cry?" is "what keeps you up at night?" and many others like it (what makes you angry?, etc), but that's an important one I think.

On Marriage and other thoughts

1 Tim 4:1-3
1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.

I realize I talk about a lot of things here, some of which I probably have no right to talk about. This is another one of those issues. I was reading up on the news and I read an article who's title says "California bans 'bride' 'groom'". (to read the full article Click Here Sept 9th entry)

"Brides" and "grooms" are no longer allowed to marry in the State of California.

That privilege is only extended to individuals who allow themselves to be called "Party A" and "Party B" on marriage licenses...

The couple had written the words "bride" and "groom" next to "Party A" and "Party B" because they wanted to be legally recognized as husband and wife.

However, the Placer County marriage license was denied.

EDIT:: In recent news, I believe the law was repealed.

Ok, so what's the problem with this? Is there something important in the names used to describe the people in a wedding? Perhaps not, but this issue goes much deeper and the real question we need to ask is, what is a marriage? On a side not, I believe we don't have a clear understanding of what a marriage is and that's one of the reasons the divorce rate is so high. If it's a legal binding between two people that comes with certain economic and social perks, then fine, yeah the names you use don't matter.

But what if it's more than that...

If you're a Christian, when a man and a woman come together in marriage, it's supposed to be a binding of two people. The two become one! WHAT?!?! haha it's a mystery Paul says, and I don't know how it works, but there is this God induced combination that happens through it. It's supposed to be something that lasts as long as you are alive because in Heaven you will neither be married or be given in marriage. To be separated after God puts you together it seems is going directly against the will of God. Does God separate you from the one He brought you together with? That doesn't seem right.

Although, I'm not sure what is right anymore. I personally think we're very very screwed at this point. Maybe God is bringing economic downturn to us so that we will turn back to Him. I heard a pastor once say, that if God needs to bring us to breadlines He will. If our cars will rust because we have no oil, God will do it. God have mercy on us.

Live for the journey

I was told I seem like the kind of person that lives for the journey. I like that and I think that's right. I think if God wanted, He could take us all away to heaven or the kingdom of God or what have you. Fine. But you would still be who you are. I've heard it said that life is just a dressing room for eternity. Well, then what happens to you in life prepares you for eternity. That's your destination, that's all of our destinations, eternity. Undeniably, it has such an enormous importance, yet there is something you miss if you just focus on that.

The Journey there.

How will you enter eternity? Will it be with much rejoicing because of the life you lived? Or will you be filled with regret at a life wasted? Each choice we make leads us down a different path in life, which ultimately lead to more choices. If indeed you choose the narrow path, you may not walk on it your whole life. You may stagger off and on and pursue other paths for a time, but you will still be aiming at the narrow path and what it leads to. But what of the life we live? Don't you know that God is going to prepare us so we can face eternity? How? Life.

You suffer, you hate, you forgive, you overcome. You end up a different person than when you started. You tell me four years of college didn't change you (five in my case). Maybe you were aiming to get a degree, that was your goal, but to get it you go through so much. (maybe it doesn't change everyone, but I'd argue that if you're not perfect, and no one is, then you still have a lot of room to grow)

You fight, you win, you lose, you cry, you get back up. I always say, to understand a person, you need to walk with them. Go through the journey with them, see how they walk through life. Life is a journey. It ends in the same place for all of us. Death? No, eternity. Death is just a gateway to the eternal. Life influences our eternity as well. Just like the choices you make in life have their consequences whether good or bad, our lives have consequences.

To live a life without any regrets... I wonder, if I will cry in Heaven because of all the time I wasted on this earth. Time I could have spent loving people, praying for people, worshiping God. The Bible says God will wipe away all the tears, well, if you haven't been crying there are no tears to wipe away. It makes me sad. What keeps me going? The journey keeps me going. One day though, the journey will be over, and I'll be done.

There are no goals in Heaven. Nothing to work for, to strive for, nothing to fight against (at least nothing that the Bible says, unless we tend Eden like in the beginning). And if by that time, God isn't what keeps me going, then I'll be very unhappy being with Him. In the end, I don't know, and I feel like I'll be in this place for a while.