Lecture Halls and God

Halelujah, Halelujah, Halelujah!

Okay, I'm not heralding any grand event.
Some days I just want to praise God, or sing that word over and over and over ... and over.
Nothing particularly joyful, just a desire to do so.
It's along the same lines of prostrating in prayer, not knowing why, but knowing that God "likes" it, and in that same vein, I somehow also like it as well.

I like a class of mine; "Happiness, Health, and Well-being" addresses happiness and contentment in our lives.

I like how this is directly related to vocation mail I recieved in November 2006; one of the articles Sister Rita sent me was about finding happiness in the LORD. It was careful to state that happiness in the LORD was not a fleeting sensation, but inner contentment that is stable over time, an awareness of the self and the surround environment, and an inner balance and poise.

I will enjoy relating this class to what I know about God, seeking out to validate all that we know of God in modern day psychology and science. I'm sure some Darwinists, evolutionists, and secularists are tsk-tsking me at the moment. That's okay!

In class we were asked to briefly say what we did when we were stressed. Me: prayer. Of course I have my daily small prayers to the Saints and for help/intercession, but I also have my devotionals (i.e., Brown scapular). I'm getting better at running to the strong tower that God is in my life. If I can turn to Him now with minor stressors, then I'll be primed and trustful in Him with the larger, chronic stressors in my life.

I also realized during class that I enjoy being child-like in Christ. Some days my sister and Dad will be talking physics and mathematics and ask something like "why do plants always grow towards the light, even if you turn them upside down?" I cannot come up with an answer other than that is what God created them to do! Same for how did someone think that a pomegrante was edible and not poisonous. Well, although the Genesis story of Adam and Eve may be called an allegory; a metaphor for the kind of relationship our ancestors had with God, He still had to impart wisdom to them on some matters.

I cannot promise much, but I would like to start posting here more frequently, perhaps even once a week.