Hello everyone, and welcome to the new and improved version of Bridging Adversity! I figured out how to variegate the colors of my blog and changed them to better suite my taste. Hope you like it!
In other news, I picked up "House" yesterday and I've been tearing through it! I'm almost halfway finished with it already, and it's a pretty long book, at 400 pages. I won't spoil anything yet in case any of you want to read it, but...wow. I haven't read anything this exciting in a while, and I'm almost positive I'll be telling Mr. Perkis to order some copies, although the writing really is a little edgy and won't appeal to everyone.
And speaking of an appeal to everyone, look at this:
"I simply want to call attention to one dimension of the event, the allotment of time given to the candidates. Perhaps someone can tell me why Mitt Romney, the newest favorite of the Republican Party establishment and elite since Giuliani made his strategic error, got 22 minutes to present his positions and Mike Huckabee, the new whipping boy of the same group, only got 11 minutes?"
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Newsroom.Article&ID=152
I happen to think that this is very unfair. Mike Huckabee, a candidate for the Republican nominee for President, isn't being given as much time as the other people to speak at debates. The article (which was originally written on a Catholic web page, by the way) goes on to say that this is because he is too religious and is therefore not taken seriously as a candidate for President. I am personally and deeply offended by this and think that Mike Huckabee should be getting as much time to speak as anyone else. For a man to be discriminated against on the basis of his religion is a terrible thing, and I will be praying that Mike Huckabee has the strength to go on against this adversity.
I would also like to comment on the fact that this article is from Catholic.org. I am not a Catholic, but this plainly proves that Catholics and Protestants have things in common, like a desire for the righteous and fair treatment of all candidates in the election, for one. This is, in my humble opinion, a great way of bridging all of the adversity and hardship the Catholics and Protestants have had to show that we can all work together sharing in common our love for Christ and for justice. I support this article and I hope you do too: spread it and get the word out there!
I'm still a little worked up about this though, because Mike Huckabee is my favorite candidate, as you know, and so this could be bad news. Maybe a little "House" will cheer me up!
- Dirk
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
A Case of the Mondays
A lot of people don't like Mondays, because they mean that the weekend is over and the week is about to begin, which means one thing: work. I guess that means the reason that people don't like Mondays is that people don't like their jobs.
I guess that explains why I don't mind Mondays very much. I like my job, a whole lot. I get to be around books all day that have to do with my faith, which is very inspiring, and the customers we get in the store are usually as enthusiastic about Christianity as I am, which makes for some very nice conversations!
My boss is also nice. Mr. Perkis is an older man who was a friend of my uncle back in college together. I mentioned before that my uncle got me my job at the bookstore, that was because Mr. Perkis needed someone to manage the store a few days a week and I was just looking to move out on my own and he knew I wanted to be a writer, so, here I am!
After a few months of only helping out a few days a week I started to work five days a week, fulltime: it's a fun job and I like it. One of the great things about knowing the owner so closely is that I can talk to him about things and give him suggestions without feeling too nervous. Today, for instance, a customer came into the store and asked if we had any novels by a man named Ted Dekker. I hadn't heard of Ted Dekker before but he said that he was a very popular Christian writer who had written a lot of books and his son liked them. I told him that I would let him know if we got any Dekker books in.
Tonight I logged on to the Internet and read some reviews of Ted Dekker books. People say a lot of good things! He seems to be edgy, writing on the edge of the Christian genre and linking it (or bridging it, anybody?) to other popular genres too. I said to myself, "I think this guy could bring some younger customers into the store!" Then I called Mr. Perkis and asked him what he thought. He said that I should read one and tell him if they're worth buying. I think it's kind of cool that he's giving me that much say; if I like his books, we'll stock them, and if I don't, we won't stock them.
I'll be picking up a Dekker book soon and giving it a read, then, I suppose...this one he wrote, "House," is going to come out as a movie soon, so I think I'll read that one (comparing books and their movies is a hobby of mine).
Oh! And I was looking on Wikipedia.com today at the article about Mike Huckabee, my favorite candidate for the upcoming election (I wrote a post about him a little while ago). It says that he announced his candidacy exactly one year ago today. I just thought that was pretty neat.
Have a good week, and goodnight!
-Dirk
I guess that explains why I don't mind Mondays very much. I like my job, a whole lot. I get to be around books all day that have to do with my faith, which is very inspiring, and the customers we get in the store are usually as enthusiastic about Christianity as I am, which makes for some very nice conversations!
My boss is also nice. Mr. Perkis is an older man who was a friend of my uncle back in college together. I mentioned before that my uncle got me my job at the bookstore, that was because Mr. Perkis needed someone to manage the store a few days a week and I was just looking to move out on my own and he knew I wanted to be a writer, so, here I am!
After a few months of only helping out a few days a week I started to work five days a week, fulltime: it's a fun job and I like it. One of the great things about knowing the owner so closely is that I can talk to him about things and give him suggestions without feeling too nervous. Today, for instance, a customer came into the store and asked if we had any novels by a man named Ted Dekker. I hadn't heard of Ted Dekker before but he said that he was a very popular Christian writer who had written a lot of books and his son liked them. I told him that I would let him know if we got any Dekker books in.
Tonight I logged on to the Internet and read some reviews of Ted Dekker books. People say a lot of good things! He seems to be edgy, writing on the edge of the Christian genre and linking it (or bridging it, anybody?) to other popular genres too. I said to myself, "I think this guy could bring some younger customers into the store!" Then I called Mr. Perkis and asked him what he thought. He said that I should read one and tell him if they're worth buying. I think it's kind of cool that he's giving me that much say; if I like his books, we'll stock them, and if I don't, we won't stock them.
I'll be picking up a Dekker book soon and giving it a read, then, I suppose...this one he wrote, "House," is going to come out as a movie soon, so I think I'll read that one (comparing books and their movies is a hobby of mine).
Oh! And I was looking on Wikipedia.com today at the article about Mike Huckabee, my favorite candidate for the upcoming election (I wrote a post about him a little while ago). It says that he announced his candidacy exactly one year ago today. I just thought that was pretty neat.
Have a good week, and goodnight!
-Dirk
Friday, January 25, 2008
A Prayer
Hello everyone, I hope this blog post finds you well, but I would appreciate it so much if you would take some time out of your busy schedules to say a quick prayer for the victim of a tragedy:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/1-killed-1-missing-in-calif-avalanches/n20080125213409990016?ecid=RSS0001
Avalanches in a mountain in California killed a ski worker and somebody else is still missing, even after hours of searching they failed to locate him...he could be buried alive and trapped, or even worse dead. Tragedies like this happen in our own country all the time, people just like you or I dying when it seems before their time should have run out. We wish we had more time but often we don't get to choose things like that, because the Lord works in mysterious ways...
But one thing I know for sure and that I would never ever presume to doubt is the power of prayer, so please! Everyone who reads this say a prayer for the missing person so that he'll be found, I truly do believe that if enough prayer reaches God, He will hear them and answer them in His divine grace. And while you're at it, say a prayer for the poor ski worker who unfortunately even praying won't bring back, and for his family.
It seems that the Internet is a double bladed sword: even though there is good information and positive Christian messages, it also alerts one to the uglier side of our world, where bad things happen no matter what we do and in some cases for no reason at all, other than the Will of God. But it is a challenge that we must take in stride, because although we may be saddened by hearing of the misfortunes and tragedies of the world, we can now pray on behalf of the victims.
Isn't that yet another reason why the Internet is a good thing? I certainly do think so.
May God watch over and protect the lost ski worker in California until he is found. Amen.
Try to enjoy your weekends, everybody.
-Dirk
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/1-killed-1-missing-in-calif-avalanches/n20080125213409990016?ecid=RSS0001
Avalanches in a mountain in California killed a ski worker and somebody else is still missing, even after hours of searching they failed to locate him...he could be buried alive and trapped, or even worse dead. Tragedies like this happen in our own country all the time, people just like you or I dying when it seems before their time should have run out. We wish we had more time but often we don't get to choose things like that, because the Lord works in mysterious ways...
But one thing I know for sure and that I would never ever presume to doubt is the power of prayer, so please! Everyone who reads this say a prayer for the missing person so that he'll be found, I truly do believe that if enough prayer reaches God, He will hear them and answer them in His divine grace. And while you're at it, say a prayer for the poor ski worker who unfortunately even praying won't bring back, and for his family.
It seems that the Internet is a double bladed sword: even though there is good information and positive Christian messages, it also alerts one to the uglier side of our world, where bad things happen no matter what we do and in some cases for no reason at all, other than the Will of God. But it is a challenge that we must take in stride, because although we may be saddened by hearing of the misfortunes and tragedies of the world, we can now pray on behalf of the victims.
Isn't that yet another reason why the Internet is a good thing? I certainly do think so.
May God watch over and protect the lost ski worker in California until he is found. Amen.
Try to enjoy your weekends, everybody.
-Dirk
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
This Internet is making me an Inter-nut!
Hello again to all my readers out there! Of course I don't have too too many yet (only a little more than 30 so far) but I have been looking into methods of increasing my visitor traffic flow so stay tuned for updates in that department.
The Internet truly is a marvelous thing, as I have recently been discovering; in addition to posting this blog of mine and bridging adversity post by post, I have recently been browsing a variety of other sites for my edification. There are literally MILLIONS and MILLIONS of webpages out there. It's fascinating to me to be standing before this world that before I had never known; because that is truly what the Internet is, a whole new world. But luckily, it is a world with plenty of bridges to this world, such as the fact that a whole lot of those webpages are devoted to that's right: Christianity.
It's wonderful to see so many Churches with webpages of their own, spreading the Word of God through a whole new medium. There is even a "Christianity.com." It's funny though: I searched for "Christianity" on Google.com (one of the biggest webpages for searching) and the first thing to come up wasn't Christianity.com but an Internet encyclopedia instead, and boy is it FULL of information about Christianity! It is called "wikipedia.com" and they have information about lots of other stuff too: it's just like a real encyclopedia, only faster to look things up!
In short, I am humbled and honored to be sharing my own thoughts and experience with Christianity with the world in the same way that so many other people and organizations are doing. In a few years I truly honestly believe that Christianity can take on a new movement with the new momentum provided by technology, if enough people stay convicted to the cause and keep on writin'.
I have never understood the people who seem afraid of modern trends in society, like the technology of the Internet, who say it goes contrary to God's Will. I don't believe that at all. I believe the Internet is a great tool for Christianity's use, and if it is used properly, it could lead to a new age of peace and love for Christ all around the world.
Here's happily hoping it happens!
- Dirk
The Internet truly is a marvelous thing, as I have recently been discovering; in addition to posting this blog of mine and bridging adversity post by post, I have recently been browsing a variety of other sites for my edification. There are literally MILLIONS and MILLIONS of webpages out there. It's fascinating to me to be standing before this world that before I had never known; because that is truly what the Internet is, a whole new world. But luckily, it is a world with plenty of bridges to this world, such as the fact that a whole lot of those webpages are devoted to that's right: Christianity.
It's wonderful to see so many Churches with webpages of their own, spreading the Word of God through a whole new medium. There is even a "Christianity.com." It's funny though: I searched for "Christianity" on Google.com (one of the biggest webpages for searching) and the first thing to come up wasn't Christianity.com but an Internet encyclopedia instead, and boy is it FULL of information about Christianity! It is called "wikipedia.com" and they have information about lots of other stuff too: it's just like a real encyclopedia, only faster to look things up!
In short, I am humbled and honored to be sharing my own thoughts and experience with Christianity with the world in the same way that so many other people and organizations are doing. In a few years I truly honestly believe that Christianity can take on a new movement with the new momentum provided by technology, if enough people stay convicted to the cause and keep on writin'.
I have never understood the people who seem afraid of modern trends in society, like the technology of the Internet, who say it goes contrary to God's Will. I don't believe that at all. I believe the Internet is a great tool for Christianity's use, and if it is used properly, it could lead to a new age of peace and love for Christ all around the world.
Here's happily hoping it happens!
- Dirk
Saturday, January 19, 2008
I Like Mike!
Huckabee, that is. Hello again, readers! With the primaries underway and the election looming on the horizon it seems to me that anybody who's everybody is talking about politics, so I figured that now that I'm back home and the elections are in full swing I should throw in my thoughts as well.
My favorite candidate (as I'm sure I inferred with my title!) is the Republican Mike Huckabee, and I truly hope he acquires victory in the primaries and becomes the Republican candidate and then beats whomever the Democrat is, because his policies are simply put the absolute best, as far as my concerns, of the people running. There are three major issues for me, and Governor Huckabee - a Christian pastor, by the way - thinks the same way as I do on all three of them!
He is against abortion, which is a big and important issue for me: I'm not exactly a fan of baby killing, but he also supports it in the event that no abortion might threaten the mother's life, which I feel is indeed the only time an abortion should take place, to be sure.
He also supports displaying the Ten Commandments in Public schools, which is another issue that I personally advocate because really, they are a vital part of this country's history and a vital moral code that let's face it: if everybody listened, this world would be a lot better! Teaching these values to our children when they are young is one of the most important things we can do in order to instill them with good morals for adulthood. Some people might think that this isn't so important of an issue, but I strongly disagree with them. Above all else it is a first and crucial step toward bettering our society.
And then the third policy of Mike Huckabee is that he supports creationism, which is very important to me. It is another issue of importance to our schools, to our children: if we don't teach them the Biblical way of thinking and only present them with the Darwin view, how are they going to make informed decisions about which is correct to them upon entering adulthood? Skewing the results in favor of evolution by only teaching evolution will eventually create a society of secularists who don't even believe in God anymore!
So those are my opinions, and well, I hope you can see why I support Mike Huckabee, mainly because he is a good Christian and Christianity is a very important part of my life. Believe me, with him in the Presidential office, the next four years will be pretty darn good! Have a great weekend everybody!
My favorite candidate (as I'm sure I inferred with my title!) is the Republican Mike Huckabee, and I truly hope he acquires victory in the primaries and becomes the Republican candidate and then beats whomever the Democrat is, because his policies are simply put the absolute best, as far as my concerns, of the people running. There are three major issues for me, and Governor Huckabee - a Christian pastor, by the way - thinks the same way as I do on all three of them!
He is against abortion, which is a big and important issue for me: I'm not exactly a fan of baby killing, but he also supports it in the event that no abortion might threaten the mother's life, which I feel is indeed the only time an abortion should take place, to be sure.
He also supports displaying the Ten Commandments in Public schools, which is another issue that I personally advocate because really, they are a vital part of this country's history and a vital moral code that let's face it: if everybody listened, this world would be a lot better! Teaching these values to our children when they are young is one of the most important things we can do in order to instill them with good morals for adulthood. Some people might think that this isn't so important of an issue, but I strongly disagree with them. Above all else it is a first and crucial step toward bettering our society.
And then the third policy of Mike Huckabee is that he supports creationism, which is very important to me. It is another issue of importance to our schools, to our children: if we don't teach them the Biblical way of thinking and only present them with the Darwin view, how are they going to make informed decisions about which is correct to them upon entering adulthood? Skewing the results in favor of evolution by only teaching evolution will eventually create a society of secularists who don't even believe in God anymore!
So those are my opinions, and well, I hope you can see why I support Mike Huckabee, mainly because he is a good Christian and Christianity is a very important part of my life. Believe me, with him in the Presidential office, the next four years will be pretty darn good! Have a great weekend everybody!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Book Of Job
First allow me to apologize for not posting for a few days, I have been quite busy as of late but still nevertheless managed to have a fantastic weekend! I go back home (and back to work) later this week so I'm trying to spend as much time with my family now as I can because I don't know when I'll see my uncle and my cousins again, soon, God willing.
Over the weekend I also had a discussion with one of my cousins (he is 15 and a very bright kid and DON'T GET ME WRONG! I love my uncle and am sure he is probably a great and well-meaning father but my cousin sometimes says things that...well let's just say if he said those sorts of things in my house my parents would probably have tanned him a new hide!) about what is actually one of my favorite Bible Stories, the Story of Job.
In the pseudophilosophical agnosto-atheist type of prose so popular with college students and newspapers these days he was saying that God looked like the "bad guy" in the Story of Job because when he tested Job's faith he did bad things to a good man just to prove his point to Satan. Like I said he's a good and smart boy but very misguided sometimes. Here is what I told him:
I said that there were several things wrong with his argument, first namely that reductionist thinking like that is something that God is way beyond and even if something on the surface seems bad to us, that's only because we are human and incapable of fully comprehending the Will of God. And the wonderful thing about Job is that it was clear that even though bad things were happening to him he still never questioned the Will of God even though others expected him to! "Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" (Job 2:10) Even though Job knows he is good and that he is not being punished, he realizes that the works of God were simply above his ken.
And after this, my young cousin still was not convinced. He even said that Job was just being "stupid" for trusting God through all his adversity and misery and that God really didn't have any reason to let Satan harm Job the way he did, and so I told him that the reason was right before his eyes and that if he only let himself stop thinking about it so hard he would be able to see it: God did indeed test Job's faith in order to prove his point to Satan. Remember, God made Satan too which means that Satan is still his creation and the events of the Book of Job are meant to teach him a valuable lesson about faith! Sure, Job suffered, but Job is merely one man; getting through to Satan would improve the lives of many men, would it not? And let us not forget the very end of Job's tale: "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before." (Job 42: 10) God rewards Job for his faith, for sticking through all the hardships. Twice as much as he had before? Not a bad deal at all!
Hopefully I got through to my little cousin at least a little bit, I figure if God can even try to convince SATAN of something I can certainly try to set members of my own family along the right path as a good Christian and a good person. I hope everybody has a wonderful week!
-Dirk
Over the weekend I also had a discussion with one of my cousins (he is 15 and a very bright kid and DON'T GET ME WRONG! I love my uncle and am sure he is probably a great and well-meaning father but my cousin sometimes says things that...well let's just say if he said those sorts of things in my house my parents would probably have tanned him a new hide!) about what is actually one of my favorite Bible Stories, the Story of Job.
In the pseudophilosophical agnosto-atheist type of prose so popular with college students and newspapers these days he was saying that God looked like the "bad guy" in the Story of Job because when he tested Job's faith he did bad things to a good man just to prove his point to Satan. Like I said he's a good and smart boy but very misguided sometimes. Here is what I told him:
I said that there were several things wrong with his argument, first namely that reductionist thinking like that is something that God is way beyond and even if something on the surface seems bad to us, that's only because we are human and incapable of fully comprehending the Will of God. And the wonderful thing about Job is that it was clear that even though bad things were happening to him he still never questioned the Will of God even though others expected him to! "Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" (Job 2:10) Even though Job knows he is good and that he is not being punished, he realizes that the works of God were simply above his ken.
And after this, my young cousin still was not convinced. He even said that Job was just being "stupid" for trusting God through all his adversity and misery and that God really didn't have any reason to let Satan harm Job the way he did, and so I told him that the reason was right before his eyes and that if he only let himself stop thinking about it so hard he would be able to see it: God did indeed test Job's faith in order to prove his point to Satan. Remember, God made Satan too which means that Satan is still his creation and the events of the Book of Job are meant to teach him a valuable lesson about faith! Sure, Job suffered, but Job is merely one man; getting through to Satan would improve the lives of many men, would it not? And let us not forget the very end of Job's tale: "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before." (Job 42: 10) God rewards Job for his faith, for sticking through all the hardships. Twice as much as he had before? Not a bad deal at all!
Hopefully I got through to my little cousin at least a little bit, I figure if God can even try to convince SATAN of something I can certainly try to set members of my own family along the right path as a good Christian and a good person. I hope everybody has a wonderful week!
-Dirk
Friday, January 11, 2008
A Night at the movies
Last night my uncle and I went out to see a movie. I don't see too many up in NY but I do really like movies - well, some movies, anyway. Read on.
We went to see "I Am a Legend," with Will Smith starring as the main character in the story (I forget his name though). Did I like it? It's hard to say whether I liked it because I am actually pretty conflicted. Will Smith acted very well indeed, even though I certainly don't like most of his movies (and they're all the same! Independence Day and Men in Black and Men in Black II are all about aliens!) and this one would have been no exemption except for one thing: the ending.
I don't want to give too much away but basically Will Smith sacrifices himself in order to save a girl and her little brother from the zombies and then also to save the rest of humanity because they're the only ones who can bring the cure he made to the rest of the humans. Dying to save humanity. Hmm sound familiar? I don't know if the film maker even realized what he was doing though because the rest of the film wasn't very Christian at all, there were lots of guns and violence and Will Smith even says there's no such thing as God!
I'd say there is a very good chance that he didn't even realize how Christian the ending of the movie was...this is an example of how Christ works his way into all facets and aspects of day to day life, even in atheistic movies like this one!
So I'm not sure whether I liked the movie or not, because mostly it was anti-Christian because of saying negative things about God, which is of course a sin, but then also there was (maybe unintended??) Christian symbolism at the end. Does that make up for it?
-Dirk
We went to see "I Am a Legend," with Will Smith starring as the main character in the story (I forget his name though). Did I like it? It's hard to say whether I liked it because I am actually pretty conflicted. Will Smith acted very well indeed, even though I certainly don't like most of his movies (and they're all the same! Independence Day and Men in Black and Men in Black II are all about aliens!) and this one would have been no exemption except for one thing: the ending.
I don't want to give too much away but basically Will Smith sacrifices himself in order to save a girl and her little brother from the zombies and then also to save the rest of humanity because they're the only ones who can bring the cure he made to the rest of the humans. Dying to save humanity. Hmm sound familiar? I don't know if the film maker even realized what he was doing though because the rest of the film wasn't very Christian at all, there were lots of guns and violence and Will Smith even says there's no such thing as God!
I'd say there is a very good chance that he didn't even realize how Christian the ending of the movie was...this is an example of how Christ works his way into all facets and aspects of day to day life, even in atheistic movies like this one!
So I'm not sure whether I liked the movie or not, because mostly it was anti-Christian because of saying negative things about God, which is of course a sin, but then also there was (maybe unintended??) Christian symbolism at the end. Does that make up for it?
-Dirk
Thursday, January 10, 2008
This humble servant greets you
Hello out there to everyone in Internet land! My name is Dirk Tapert, and if you are wondering how exactly I am a servant in this modern day and age let me tell you: I am a servant to Christ.
All my life I was raised a Christian to believe in and serve Christ humbly with all of my mind, body, and soul. Jesus died for me and for my sins and for everyone's sins, and if that isn't enough to be someone's servant I don't know what is! I grew up in a small town in Arkansas where everyone was nice to eachother, we never drank or smoked or did any drugs, I was an only child. I had a happy childhood with lots of great friends and a great family and I owe most if not all of that to good Christian values and to always being faithful to Jesus Christ!
I am 27 years old now and unfortunately not living in the south anymore and let me tell you something: it's a culture shock still everyday! I live in New York (not NYC city though!) near Syracuse and I work in a small Christian bookstore. Boy is it cold up here! I love where I work and my boss is a nice man (my uncle knew him and he said he was looking for another employee right when I was looking for a job!) and our customers also are very nice usually but sometimes people can be very rude up here. It's unfortunate in this modern world how Jesus gets forgotten so much.
Which brings me to the purpose of this web blog I'm writing. I'm pretty new to this Internet stuff, but I'm visiting my uncle in Pennsylvania right now and he was telling me how hundreds of people are already spreading the word of God with the Internet with blogs, and I figured that since I want to be a writer I should start a blog too and start spreading the word! I know I'm not the absolute best, but I do know a thing or two about writing and I think with my Christian outlook on life I can write a pretty interesting and informative blog and maybe "bridge the adversity" of the times we live in to make the world a little bit better, so I hope you all enjoy it!
-Dirk
All my life I was raised a Christian to believe in and serve Christ humbly with all of my mind, body, and soul. Jesus died for me and for my sins and for everyone's sins, and if that isn't enough to be someone's servant I don't know what is! I grew up in a small town in Arkansas where everyone was nice to eachother, we never drank or smoked or did any drugs, I was an only child. I had a happy childhood with lots of great friends and a great family and I owe most if not all of that to good Christian values and to always being faithful to Jesus Christ!
I am 27 years old now and unfortunately not living in the south anymore and let me tell you something: it's a culture shock still everyday! I live in New York (not NYC city though!) near Syracuse and I work in a small Christian bookstore. Boy is it cold up here! I love where I work and my boss is a nice man (my uncle knew him and he said he was looking for another employee right when I was looking for a job!) and our customers also are very nice usually but sometimes people can be very rude up here. It's unfortunate in this modern world how Jesus gets forgotten so much.
Which brings me to the purpose of this web blog I'm writing. I'm pretty new to this Internet stuff, but I'm visiting my uncle in Pennsylvania right now and he was telling me how hundreds of people are already spreading the word of God with the Internet with blogs, and I figured that since I want to be a writer I should start a blog too and start spreading the word! I know I'm not the absolute best, but I do know a thing or two about writing and I think with my Christian outlook on life I can write a pretty interesting and informative blog and maybe "bridge the adversity" of the times we live in to make the world a little bit better, so I hope you all enjoy it!
-Dirk
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