The Cessation of Procrastination

Inspired by a certain poem, I have decided to write on a subject that will hopefully give you, My Dear Reader, something to think about.

Procrastination. We all shrug it off as if its a small thing. "I just don't feel like doing that assignment right now. I need a nana nap before I start cleaning. There'll be time to bake that cake after I've checked my emails, and my Facebook and talked on MSN for 2 hours. I'll do it later, I'm not in the mood."

Sound familiar?

Perhaps you laugh it off. Perhaps you shouldn't. Who do you think is tempting you to think these thoughts? The devil wants you to live an idle, lazy, unproductive life. How often has boredom led you to sin? Think about it. "A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls." (Proverbs 25:28)

The Bible is clear that, because the Lord ordained work for man, laziness is sin. “Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise” (Proverbs 6:6).

God commands us to be self-controlled and self-disciplined, which includes not being ruled by our 'mood' or 'how we feel'."No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."(1 Corinthians 9:27)

“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10). Christians are not saved by works, but they do show their faith by their works (James 2:18, 26)

If we plan in the future to live hardworking, productive lives for God's glory as adults, we must now start forming the habits that will make it easy. Don't expect to easily fall into a strict working schedule as soon as you get married or turn 21. If you don't pick up your clothes off the floor now, unless you actively make keeping tidy a habit, chances are you will drop your clothes on your husbands floor too. Is that what you want? Having a slobby untidy bedroom and a dirty, unkempt house is not going to be a good witness. What kind of changes would you have to make in your life in order to portray the fruit of the Spirit? "Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” (Galatians 5:22)


And anyway, how nice does it feel to see a big long list of chores all ticked off at the end of the day? If you don't know yet, you can trust me, it feels great! A whole lot better than that downward spiral of self-loathing that results from succumbing to the temptation, be it one more cookie, or ten more minutes in bed.

Take control of yourself! Make lists! Set your alarm earlier in the morning, and get up and go for a run! Get off Facebook and get into your Bible! Don't tell me you don't have time, you had time to eat, and your eternal soul's relationship with God the Father is more important than eating.
"It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" (Matthew 4:4)

Fundamentalist Nation

I deliver this oration
to reveal the correlation
between age-old obfuscation
and our human degradation.

I decry the aspiration,
of cynical calculation,
conspired in orchestration,
to subjugate education.

Curiosity's cessation,
intellectual castration:
beware this manipulation
designed for assimilation.

Ideas exit gestation
subject to much alteration;
an honest mental libration
of a questing inclination.

Doesn't matter what your station,
intelligence or relation,
learning is an excavation
and knowledge, its integration.

Introducing A Rather Boring And Unoriginal Individual

Despite being A Rather Boring And Unoriginal Individual, I have felt constrained to finally write something in my bloggity blog. My dear friend Prisy, The Rambling Old Maid, seems to find lots of Interesting and Very Original People on this blogsite, and so after much hesitation, deliberation, procrastination, and humming and haa-ing, I write to you in the hope of somehow, perhaps by association with aforementioned Very Original People, become a little less Insipid and a little more Interesting. Or Mysterious. I'd even be happy with Kind Of Funny, Sometimes.

Now that you know my main goal and aspiration in life, you may or may not be interested in the rest of me.

I live at home with Father Dearest, She Who Must Be Obeyed, and my favorite brother, Grey Ham. You may point out that I only have ONE brother and so it is pointless to list him as my favorite.

However, he isn't the brother that tipped my rice bubbles and milk on my head, or the brother that would get me to smack people he didn't like for him because I wouldnt get in trouble. He isn't the brother that gave me the stinky lego blocks and kept the good ones all for himself and then proceeded to destroy my lego castle and fragile 6year-old confidence. He isn't that horrible boy any more. The one who wouldn't let me have a turn playing Runescape even though his half an hour was up and the dizzer had gone because he was babysitting, and getting paid for it.

Instead, he's become the golden boy. He's the one showered with admiring looks of wonderment as he deftly types html and computer programming jargon into a small box on the screen causing miracles to happen. He's the one nobody questions when he stays out late, or all night, or all weekend. He's the one with the room full of trophies and certificates and the brain full of facts and Useful Information that proves homeschoolers are Incredibly Smart. He's the one who comes home late to find me crying in front of the computer and will stay up talking with me for another 2 hours even though its past his bed time and he's got work in the morning. The one who actually agrees to hang out with his kid sister, and even kind of likes it.

So, yeah. This new Grey Ham is definately my favorite brother.

This was supposed to be about Me, you say? Well, I am really not a whole lot more than the product of my enviroments, everyone who has influenced me, things I've been taught, things I've overheard, things I've seen and thought, Gee..that Prisy is so cool, I want to be just like her when I grow up, In fact, if I was a nice reformed baptist boy who had been to Japan and liked anime and cooking, I would marry her straight away.