What you bring to the text can change it's meaning.

In reference to Pastor Pepsi's post of today regarding what makes a book Christian. (http://pastorpepsi.blogspot.com/)

I commented along the lines that I feel the reader plays an important part in what makes any book Christian. I feel strongly about this, but I'm having a difficult time expressing exactly why. I guess basically, Christians have the Holy Spirit indwelling them, a constant companion who gives important perspective to inform our reading and protect our minds. The most beautiful thing about this is that we are able to give a Christian reading to any book, regardless of who wrote or published it. This is how we are able to engage the culture we live in without buying into it. Of course, there are some books perhaps should not be read, but I believe the Holy Spirit will guide each Christian on that point as well. One Christian might benefit from reading a certain book, which may cause another to stumble. And that applies to "secular" books, as well as books that would be sold in Parables. For example, there are "Christian Romance" novels that may inspire a single woman to look for godly values in a mate, but could cause a married woman to stumble if she begins to compare the hero in the novel to her own husband. That's just one example.

Well, I hope I've been able to be clear enough. Does anyone have anything else to add?

Snacks

Found two yummy and relatively healthy snacks today. One is for you cracker lovers out there. It's called Kashi TLC (tasty little crackers) in Honey Sesame flavour. They've got 7 whole grains and 0 trans fat. For those who prefer cookies, I found Simple Pleasures Baked Cookie Bars. The flavour I got is called California Crunch. They've got raisins, the odd cranberry, oats and sunflower seeds. Each has 4g of protein, 3g of fiber, 1.5 g of omega 6 and 0.4 g of omega 3 polyunsaturated fats. I found said snacks at Walmart. I always find more than I bargained for there.

I also bought a new pair of runners and a new outfit for my morning walks I'm planning on doing. I went this morning and my left heel now has a blister on it from the nasty runners I had. Know what's kind of funny? I took Joel's i-pod with me and I had unloaded Joel's songs and loaded it with just the right amount of my music for my walk. But I forgot to put Joel's music back onto it and he took it to work today. So instead of his brooding man-rock like Billy Talent or Incubus he'll be listening to some Sheryl Crow, Bif Naked, Hanson, and Gwen Steffani on his break. But I also put a couple Johnny Cash songs and 1 U2 song, so maybe he won't be too ticked.

Most Embarrassing Work Situation Ever.

The most embarrassing thing that has ever to me happened at work happened today. I was working on a trouble and had to give our customers a new modem. When I was setting up the wireless, I had to type "home" into the address bar to take me to the modem's internal control page. I must have miss-typed something because a page from the customer's Internet history came up instead. It was a porn site. The customer was standing right beside me, and he knew what had happened before I did, because he said "Oh no! That's so embarrassing!" before the page had even loaded fully and before I had even realized what I had done. He quickly typed in what I had meant to, and I finished and left within two minutes after that happened, trying to pretend nothing was weird. As I was driving home, felt like crying and laughing, but mostly crying. So I prayed for the man. I still feel kind of dirty for having seen that stuff, though.