I’ve got a busy week ahead of me. Sure, it’s already 9th hour on Tuesday, but not having school yestrerday makes this feel like the beginning of th week. For English, I’ve got to write a five page literary analysis on Ernest Gaines’ novel, A Lesson Before Dying. In addition to that *exciting* essay, I’ve got to write an inclass essay first hour on Thursday on the same book. Ahh… Then, tomorrow, I’ve got the American Government First Full Session (we have a simulation for American Government class) and I’m speaking against a bill to support government funding of stem cell research. My concern with the issue is primarily that it is no different from abortion – embryos are killed. If it were “adult stem cell” research, I’d have no problem. Just the fact that embryos – unborn human babies – die in the process concerns me greatly. Once I’ve completed the final draft for my speech, I’ll probably throw it on here.

Well I’ve got a few more minutes before I’ve got to go to Calculus. Have a great day!

Luke 24:1-12
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? “He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” And they remembered His words, and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles. But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.

I added two pages to the Writings sections a few moments ago. The first is a literary analysis essay I wrote a few days ago on Shakespeare’s King Lear and the second is an art essay I wrote in Spanish. Check them out!

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I moved all the content that used to be on the sermon illustrations page at http://garagedoor.org/sermon_illustrations to my site, as it is easier to maintain here. Hopefully, I’ll add on to the list as time progresses. If I get enough articles, I’ll maybe even categorize them!

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Went on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago today for my Spanish 4 class. We’ve been studying art in class so we got to look at some of the art of which we’d seen photos up close and personal. Not only did we miss all but one period of the day, but it wasn’t such a bad trip – art isn’t completely horrible. It was especially cool seeing the art we’d seen before, but with greater detail because it was right in our faces. Sure, some of the art there is perverted and I would prefer to just kinda not get so up close with that, but otherwise it was pretty cool.

Now I’m really tired – sleeping only a little really gets to ya. Maybe I’ll take a nap later today.