Lost Theologian

I've been reading a book lately called "The Me I Want to Be" by John Ortberg. Honestly, I'm not even sure how I came across the book. If I'm not mistaken, someone on Google Plus mentioned free books in the Google Play store, and recommended this book in particular. Free just so happens to be my favorite flavor, so how could I pass up the opportunity? Simply put, I couldn't pass it up. But I digress, in this book, Ortberg recalls a story of when his son was three years old. One particular day his son was consumed with a desire to pour his own glass of milk. Knowing full well that small child + gallon of milk = disaster, Ortberg's wife tells him "no". But the three year old persists, how could a mother deny such determination? Ortberg describes how the child's small hands clench the large gallon carton of milk, and milk comes gushing forth. By some miracle, every last drop falls into the glass. This cup is filled to the brim, but the child had...

It has been months since I was last found meticulously studying the Google Chromebook, trying to find out if it would be a sufficient computer for not only my leisurely recreational computing, but as well as capable of standing up to my collegiate workload. In my searching I had noticed how there were very few articles or blog posts that I could find from an actual college student who had been using a Chromebook in his or her college setting for some time. In fact, a good majority of the web pages I had dug up were from people like me, trying to find out if the Chromebook could support their educational needs. Ultimately I ended up going in blind, buying the Chromebook anyways, hoping that it would fare well in my collegiate environment, knowing that if need be, I could always head to the library to use one of the more traditional operating systems to get work done. Luckily, I've found over the past few weeks that the Chromebook seems to be not only satisfying my computing needs,...

It's been a long two months of almost zero contact with the outside world, but I'm finally back and ready to begin writing about my experience over the next several blog posts. As for right now, I'm going to focus in on what a solid chunk of my previous blog posts have been centered around, the backpacking trip I had gone on, and all that had transpired over those three days. Perhaps now is the time for me to reiterate that I had never done something like this before. I haven't even gone camping in a tent over night, prior to this experience. Surprisingly, despite the paradigm shift of going from  an upper middle class citizen of suburbia to becoming a tent dweller in the wilderness who made the world his bathroom, I feel as though I made the adjustment fairly well. I don't think there was a single moment where I even did so much as to think "I wish I had my laptop right now" or "I really could use my phone right now" (with the exception of k...