Thursday, December 29, 2022

The next chapter? [?]

Hmm.... so a lot of the things I will discuss here, it occurs to me, can't really take place without American citizenship. I'm not saying I can't potentially get a work visa and work towards one, but ultimately a long term stay in any country will require citizen or you may become detained as what happened to my dad because he never returned from Thailand back to Canada to renew his Visas and was taken into custody by the governing authorities over there. Handcuffs are neither fun nor comfortable.




To paraphrase what one of my Pastors said: "If you are given two choices, between continuing the harvest to where God is sending you or ________....."



Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Book of K.... [a Paraphrase and Retelling of the Narrative of Job for the 19th to 21st Century]

Satan returned to Jesus and the Trinity after many years of prowling the earth and contested to the Lord once again... "Have you seen the disharmony among your creation and your followers through the earth? They have fought in wars, they have cheated and stole, disobeyed your oridances, some have even turned from the faith and nobody believes or values the things you hold dear and tell them to value anymore..."


The Lord answered him, "I dare you not to challenge my Kingship, among many of my followers there are many who haven't given up hope on many things I told them to seek me first and that I will grant them what they ask as their loving father."


Satan displayed all the things to Jesus and the Trinity all the things that could break God's heart, broken families, disrepect for the Father's creations, a lack of respect for the earth, idoltarers, marital unfaithfulness, abuse and all sorts of less than ideal stewardship for all the Father had entrusted to their care. "How can you say they still value you when this is what they have done with your gifts?"


The Lord once again decided to find someone he hoped could remain faithful to the call of all mankind and answered: "Have you considered my child K? His father has been emotionally and physically absent in this family and marriage pretty much after the first few years of their union. His mother has had a few miscarriages and finally after he is the first born and he has no father to turn to he has chosen to give his heart to God and acknowledge God as the father..."


Satan rebutted, "So you really think this childlike faith is enough? He hasn't even called on the name Jesus yet at this point. His mind is still not made up on what God is really like? What makes you think he will even survive, let alone do other things in life, like find a wife like you wrote in Proverbs, forever worship and continue to give his heart over to you?" 

In addition, Satan pointed out, "Does he not believe in God because up to this point, everything somehow through the hard work and labour of others on their accord it has been provided? His family is wealthy on both sides, yes in that generation most of those with a full time job can pay off their entire home in about 10 years salary or less. But see this... he is your prince divided. Some of the members of his dad's family do pledge their allegience to Jesus, but the rest, some are buddhist and many on his mothers' side do not believe you exist at all."

The Lord answered: "I may not have full unadultered control over all those details in each step of his life, but nonetheless, I AM the Lord. You think you can get between my relationship with all mankind and my love for humanity by challenging their faith in me through the aforementioned things? I dare you to try as you pointed out in the beginning of this conversation, I have already lost control of many of those details, but I don't think K will give up K's faith."


Satan again answered the Lord, "AND, if you really think that all that is needed is his childlike faith and that one day he will call on the name Jesus, perhaps you will see how much this child of yours will suffer in your name."


As the years went by, K learned more about gifts "The giving of ourselves and what that means

On a dark and cloudy day, a man hung crying in the rain

All because of love, all because of love" [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/avalon/wearethereason.html] 


K too, even with years of developing a stern and disciplined self control over all things including his emotions did over time also find himself unable to stop from "crying". But after finding out and discerning whether Jesus was the one true God in the world and pledging his allegiance in his late teens to Jesus and the Trinity, he struggled. Yes, K struggled, thoughout the years he had both a sense of dillusionment with his faith, so much to the point when God worked in his life, at times people actually thought he was experiencing delusions and had also been put on anti-psychotics he continues to take for over a decade. 

Saturday, December 24, 2022

My Matthew 6 based reflection, the 2022 Edition

Of course you can't talk about anything 2019 and onwards without mentioning Covid as its still present today, but just looks different in how we have been dealing with it since some of the early events I will mention here. Even though I've been trained as a student of the bible, not just in a church context, but someone who has been to two different seminaries, I'm so tempted to just go into a deep deep language study of both how the Hebrew and Greek writers wrote those translations, different English translations, commentaries etc... But then I take a step back and I realize, this post isn't meant to be neither a bible study nor sermon on the passage of Matthew 6. My only reason for even including this passage as a reference is many because I had been looking for a personal space to do my own version of "my confession" regarding some of the regrets I have in my personal life, who doesn't have them? But also as a more universally comprehendable parting thought that should I find a way to leave Ontario prior to the end of 2023, there's a not here explaining why it may be part of "your kingdom come,

your will be done,

    on earth as it is in heaven." [Matthew 6:10] more than any one specific factor such as I just want to leave Ontario.

I found it extremely difficult to write the paper on helicopter parenting and its application, more so the second paper regarding application. Looking back I probably shouldn't have picked a topic that hit so close to home so close to the event that had caused me trauma. Similarly, writing about home is quite mentally taxing but I think it needs to be done. 


First things first, maybe I'm just not Matthew 6:24–34 enough, that is, I don't trust God to provide for the future. I think a lot of it has to do with my conditioning as my biological mother's son that all risk leads to disaster. Although there are some events in my life that also didn't turn out the way I planned, it doesn't necessary mean they didn't go according to God's plan. Recently another passage was brought to mind that I mentioned to one of my profs GH:


[Post is in Progress]

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The next chapter?

A lot of what God is revealing to me recently is more reflections of the past over visions for the future. I remience towards the song I learned to sing from church life decade one of my life:


Specifically... "Come and let... Journey's end..."


I am by no means saying that attending church isn't a faith and spiritual growing endeavor, but in a much more personal context and in Romans 13 fashion, after roughly three decades of attending physical churches, or in person services, Jesus has likely reached the pinacle of my personal growth spiritually, mentally, emotionally and as the Greek phrase [or Hebrew too, originally used in Deuteronomy] says in the expression "all of my heart". Does that mean I should stop gathering with other Christians entirely? By no means ...


Ok, so you finished the teaching on one online platform but it is not the only online platform... "AW you do not own the phrase NOT THE ONLY" [Mighty Ducks Game Changers, end of Season 2, they do not know whether they are going to be able to 'Renew' for a third season, yet...Paraphrase]



[work in progress]

"The Spirit is willing, but my flesh is weakening" [Source available upon request]

"You need to know when the paper is sufficient for the current place in it's timeline." [David Sherbino paraphrase And recontextualization]






Thursday, December 15, 2022

Sex, Babies and Christianity...

 Although I say on a recent YouTube video that I will post on my channel that this blog is kinda of "my bible" maybe what I should clarify is that most of the post you read here, isn't meant to be taken to carry the same authority as "The Holy Scriptures" [in other words the Bibles people use in churches], the majority of this posts on my blog include my reflections and my interpretations of those posts based largely on my own "church" experiences. It is a lot of work to properly cite some of my sources as per the MDC style guide I adhere to when I am writing my assignments, but for thoughts I know are linked to a specific author or person, I'll probably just use their initials as per the "KDL style guide". You will see a refresher or explanation of what the KDL style guide uses to make these references on my next post. 

[POST IN PROGRESS]   <--- SHERBINO SAYS: "Finish ONE AT A TIME..." 

So with that said, I have decided over the years what to say my viewpoints are on the subject as there are many Christian authors and other authorities that have different views on subjects such as:


1. Should Christians kiss?

2. What about sex before marriage? And after marriage (<-you'll see what I mean here)?

3. 

Monday, December 12, 2022

________ Miracle Man...

https://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.com/search?q=the+author

"Be that man ____ ____ (a two syllable name)" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl04GaUtRpc&t=90s]

She asked me what I do for a living, so it got me thinking more about my role as a goalie, in a sense, most of the players ask me to be vocal, tell them about screens, where the puck is etc, I'm sort of a "Captain" in a sense: "Captain K_____" [wouldn't know what this means if I didn't meet heR]


"Hope is a rope..." [RWJ] 


ML is "one Matthew, but he's 'not the ONLY Matthew'" MS: "...the gospel of John" (ROFL...He was one person who's name began with a B, but not the only person who's name began with a B and not the only person you know who has a sister named _ _ _) ... 




"The prophicies (prophecies) are coming true" 

https://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.com/search?q=knock+on+my+door



...the next generation

Not sure who invented it, but presently, it has been a number of years ago now that I have heard someone express that "a generation is ...