“An object in motion tends to stay in motion, an object at rest tends to stay at rest.” That sentence is Newton’s First Law of Thermodynamics. Everyone has learned the lessons of this law at some point. Thinking about motion, immediately a bouncy ball comes to my mind. When you bounce a rubber ball it will go about anywhere and everywhere, however, if you were to put it in a drawer and leave it alone it would go nowhere, thus Newton’s First Law explained. We get the concept that in order to do something an action is required. When we physically choose to do nothing we become slothful. The term sloth literally translates into “without care.” Laziness is one of the most difficult sins to defin
As you might be able to tell by the lateness of this article, my time management is definitely not at its peak right now. With God, school, work, and not to mention trying to fit in a social life, it definitely gets too overwhelming, too quickly. In my defense though, I changed this article four times in this past week. I believe, from what I've seen/heard from others, that time is the biggest obstacle that keeps them from growing with God. I've always been a bit confused when people use that as their stumbling block. But, now that I've gotten a bit older, the weight of life has definitely fallen hard on me. From starting back in public school, working many more hours a week than I used to,
Do you ever get those moments where you hear something so wrong or so misconstrued that you just want to scream? The establishment where I work actively promotes ideological pluralism, scientific untruths, and in general, societal and moral ideas of which God would not approve. This community as a whole views the world through an extremely liberal lens and often misrepresents in a vilifying manner any and all dissenting perspectives. Especially those from a conservative Christian leaning. As an employee here, I often have to monitor events and lectures of this nature whose content makes my body ache with a deep burning, almost as if my bones are on fire. It makes me want to rip my hair out a
