I have discovered that it is obviously too much to ask that my generation think for themselves? Really? Is it too hard? Is there some pandemic that strikes the brain causing the lack of critical thinking skills? I just don't understand. Christians my age just live off what they have been fed. None of their opinions are their own- they are their teachers and parents. I'm not claiming to be the most informed person. I'm not- I know I'm not. But I'm eager to learn. Some people just stick their head in the sand and don't want to hear both sides of it. They will only listen to one side of things. People, we gotta know what we are up against. So don't give me this crap that we need to be sheltered in order to be Christians. No, that's not how it works. How are you going to share the gospel with someone when you don't know what they people or where they are coming from? Jesus didn't live in a Spiritual Sanitation bubble! No, he hung out with the drunks, the sluts, the cheaters. He didn't come to heal the healthy my friends. This just frustrates me.

I apologize for this lacking structure in any way, shape or form. But this just really makes me mad. I understand that I am making generalizations here and that not all Christians are like this. But a lot of the ones that I am around are. Shoot, if I was an unbeliever and came into their midst I wouldn't want to have ANYTHING to do with them or Christianity. I think I sort of went on a tangent there. What I'm really not happy with is the lack of critical thinking and independent thought in my general. We are either just following the crowd or just spitting out what we have been fed all of our lives by our parents. Maybe I'm really just angry because I go to a Christian school and I'm in a class with a bunch of PKs (I recently learned that hardly anyone knows what that is... Preacher's Kid) and I don't think their faith is their own. They are 16, 17, almost 18 years old and still living off of the faith of their parents. So what's going to happen when the graduate? Oh my gosh! They are going to have to think for themselves! They are going to have to form opinions of their own based on what the Bible says. Oh wait, because they were force fed they don't know what the Bible says because they are just going on what their parents have said! Good luck... this is why 90-some percent of "Christians" leave the Faith their freshman year! Because they aren't ready to stand up because they haven't grown any! They don't have a Spiritual backbone. They won't stand up for what they believe in- maybe because of peer pressure, maybe because they don't know what they believe.

Now I need to clarify while that I can say a good chunk of my opinions are my own because I think, I learn from parents and teachers. Sure, I ask both for advice on what I should be doing. I'm not saying that I don't need them. Shoot, that's ridiculous to say that I don't.

Okay, I probably ought to stop now. This is getting hefty and I don't normally write this much.

So in the Winter I go on an oatmeal kick. I eat it for breakfast, I eat it for lunch, I WOULD eat it for dinner, but there are just better things to be had you know? I should also clarify that I only have it for one meal a day, so I never eat it for lunch AND breakfast and so on and so forth. But anyways, so Kalin reintroduced me to the glories of peach oatmeal. I had had it when I was little but was young and didn't know any better so I didn't like it. Now I don't know if you know how much I like peaches- but I like them. A LOT. My place in heaven is going to have a tree that grows both black cherries and peaches.... yes, on the same tree. ANYhoo... so I bought a box of peach oatmeal because its getting cold and well, it just needed to happen. So I bring it to school, because what better place to eat oatmeal than where you can enjoy grossing everyone out AND eating one of your favorite foods! But apparently fruit flavored oatmeal does not cook the same way as the spice/cinnamon stuff. Apparently it's rather sensitive. Because I have successfully exploded my peach oatmeal in the microwave THREE TIMES IN A ROW. Guess how many times I've tried to make it? Three? Wow, you are a good guesser. Yes, all three times I have made my beloved peach oatmeal it has made a complete mess. Twice at school I might add. The first time I attempted to boil off the water, instead all the oatmeal came out of the cup and the water stayed in the bottom. Don't ask me how that works because I don't know, but that's what happened. Then the 2nd time I tried heating the water before and then putting it in the dry oatmeal which is what I normally do. However, I must have put to much water in and once again- I had to reheat it to boil off some water and BOOF- oatmeal on bottom of microwave (no, it didn't really make that noise) Then this morning I tried making it once again- and failed. I made it with milk- because its better that way. But it still overflowed!! This story is funnier if told by my mother as she was woken up by the racket of my trying to get the perfect bowl of oatmeal so I will spare you the details. But yes- tomorrow I am skipping the oatmeal thing and will attempt to make cinnamon rolls for my class. Which will be interesting as well I'm sure. Why? I don't know, need you really question? So yes, I just thought I would share that with you. I hope in enriched your day as much as my digestive track was enriched by my peach oatmeal.

Yes, its kind of spastic, this was actually an e-mail before it was a blog