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I want to give a big thanks to the people at Bible Gateway for their recent blog post about the Google Gadget I put together to search their site.

Bible Gateway is a great site where you can search the Bible for verses or topics. I use it every morning to do my daily reading and the search functions are top notch. I created the Google Gadget to use from my iGoogle page where my reading schedule is on my Google Calendar. If you use iGoogle you can add the gadget by visiting the information page and clicking the Add to Google button.

If you have suggestions or questions about the gadget check out the information page and get in touch.

In about a month I will be moving out into the unknown, into my first condo. There are a whole lot of things that will change at this time, but the scariest of all of them is that I will have to cook for myself — and survive what I cook for myself.

Luckily, Dave Navarro (@davenavarro) of Rock Your Day just posted a tweet about Sushi Day, a blog that posts sushi recipes.

This week’s featured recipe over at Sushi Day is the Crazy California Roll. Looks like fun to make, and I love sushi! Let’s just hope I have better luck than Allison (@sushiday) when I set to make myself some Crazy California rolls. :D

Does anyone know of some good blogs/sites where there are easy, classy recipes for a young bachelor such as myself to take a stab at? (The pun is absolutely intended!)

One of the biggest mistakes we make as humans in decision making is that we try to plan the results of our actions, and oftentimes we avoid any action at all for fear that some undesirable result will come to pass.

Right now in my life I have made the decision to undertake something important and I am not sure what the outcome will be. I am putting a lot on the line to take this course of action and I have no way to know or control the outcome. It scares me to death! But that’s really all I can plan for, just the step that I will take.

The Problem With Human Plans

The funny thing about planning is that it doesn’t guarantee success or the lack of pain. We think that if we plan and research diligently enough we can avoid pain or mistakes or outright failure. The problem is that most of us see planning as a set of results; the outcome of the actions we take rather than the actions themselves.

You cannot plan an outcome. The outcomes or consequences of every action you take are determined by millions of external factors that you cannot even remotely hope to control or even have any knowledge of in most cases. We are just human, and we can only take responsibility for our own actions. Only God could use all of the factors, hidden and seen, to plan an actual result. As humans, we are relegated to looking only steps ahead of ourselves and moving forward with the information and insight that we have access to. (more…)

I find it amazing how our souls are inherently good (for the most part I think), but add a brain and 160 pounds of muscle and tissue to the mix and we corrupt this world we have been given.

Is there a way to live from our souls outward rather than from our body inward?

I have read much from spiritual experts who say there is a vast universe within us that we can learn to tap into and utilize in our day-to-day journeys. Most of them inform us of this and guide us through the process of learning how to use this resource to satisfy our carnal desires; a big house, fast cars, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family.

I think that generally these people are on to something, they have a lot of knowledge and useful advice, but the focus of these books/videos/etc. is backwards

Shouldn’t we be nourishing our souls, rather than pimping them to satisfy our flesh? Shouldn’t we use our bodies and time on this earth to satisfy our souls and the souls of others? (more…)

No, I haven’t disappeared. I am still here, mostly.

This week has been a week full of soul-searching and deep thought. Although I regret that I’ve missed two blog posts, I have had a lot of blog-worthy thoughts go through my head and writings go down in my notebook.

As much as I want to stay consistent with my posts, I really don’t want to post a bunch of ‘fluff’ posts such as links, etc.. Link posts can be interesting, but I don’t write a blog to share links, I write a blog to practice writing and have conversation.

So I just posted this ‘fluff’ post to let everyone know that I will be back soon. Probably tomorrow.

It’s an interesting topic I would like to post, a little, well… odd maybe. Sometimes I have those odd thoughts that most people don’t think about. At least if they do they are smart enough not to share those thoughts, but I’m not that smart.

Talk to you tomorrow! You can decide then if it’s an odd thought or a really ground-breaking thought. I think it’s really an earth-shattering thought personally.