I have too many ideas for projects and not enough time to do them. One thing I’m working on is a tool for modeling agencies. I did one, and it is immensely valuable to the agent, so I’m trying to sell more. I feel like that one should get the most of my attention because it could pay back big.

But I also want to write. I want to write well. I would love to sell a book, but I also think I could potentially make some side money from blogs. I have two ideas for informative blogs, but to make them worthwhile, they would require a lot of extra research for articles and such. One is sort of a gardening blog. I want to have a garden next year to grow my own veggies and such, but I know nothing, and I’m sure there’s more of me. So I could blog it. The other is a book blog, but that also requires that I read several books in short periods of time. I think that one would be exceptionally fun.

I also want to get really good at photography, but I don’t have the time or money for that.

But before any of that, I need to make more time for prayer and Bible reading/study.

The point is there’s so much I want to do and not enough time to do it. Nor do I have enough brain cycles to keep track of it all.

At least in November I will write. I’ll be posting here as I do, if I like what comes out.

I wish we had more hours in a day…

-j

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If you live in the US and somehow manage to hear some kind of news lately, you’ll hear that a big debate is the repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy established by President Clinton. I started getting tired of hearing about it. In my opinion, the only people that should have a say in who is allowed in the military are the people who are actually in the military. No civilian would be affected by that policy remaining or being lifted. While considering this, my mind went to another question: why is this the issue we’re talking about?

Let me pose a second question. As a pacifist, believing that killing of any kind is wrong, shouldn’t I take the stand that *no one* should be allowed in the military? Obviously that’s absurd; only in a world where Jesus really reigns would a military be unnecessary. So then am I saying that the military is a necessary evil?

I never hear anyone in the church talking about banning the military. We holler all the time about sexual immorality, but what about the sanctity of life? Including (especially?) the lives of our enemies (Matthew 5:44). I never hear any talk in the church against the military even though to join it is to forfeit your membership in the ACC. It’s like it’s a topic we just ignore unless it pertains directly to one of us.

So I ask again – does that mean we as a church consider it to be a necessary evil? Answering that question to the positive opens up a whole host of other theological and moral issues. But answering “no” might mean we’re choosing not to do the good we know to do. I don’t have an answer, and I don’t mean this post as a criticism. It definitely has been a thought exercise I’ve been working on in my own head.

-j

*Many people like to use the wars that God encouraged or even started in the Old Testament as a justification for wars now. So called “just wars”. Everyone says war is an evil, but when they’re “just”, it’s somehow better. If there is a place where Jesus authorizes wars (aside from the Final one that He will lead), please show me.

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