Birthday Post and such.

WOOO! It's my birthday, and I am at the glorious age of lukewarm. A.K.A., I am 19. 19 is an interesting and bull crap age because we are (in the U.S.) considered adults and such, but we are still considered teenagers until we are 20. 19 and 18 tend to be lukewarm, but 19 more so because you are closer to 20 and have been an "adult" for a year. So yay for the beginning of a fun chapter in my derpy little life.

Anyway, some adventures have happened recently, as I have started playing Star Wars the Old Republic. This is the first MMORPG I have played in years. So, to commemorate myself and to fit the gap my friends have in their characters, I decided to be a healer. As far as I know, the hardest role in an MMORPG is not a class, but actually a role in fights, mainly focusing either on the tank or the healer being the hardest. Combine difficulty leveling up with unknown controls and mechanics and I am in for a glorious adventures of blunders and mess-ups. Yay fun times.

But anyway, one thing I would like to talk about is 1st Timothy 2:1, which is saying how we need to pray for all men. Now, I know I have very few readers (I mean, who wants to listen to a barely out of puberty teen talk Mormonism on a blog with a planet as the background, though I will admit the planet is flipping cool), but I still feel that I should say this message. What this verse is saying is that we need to pray in every way for all men, basically meaning we need to show gratitude and wish for blessings on everyone we meet, men, women, babies, old people, that guy in the tree playing Pokemon (I slightly wish I had a Pokemon tree). But what really matters is that no matter how stupid, arrogant, selfish, annoying, or pretentious someone is, we still need to pray for them with gratitude and kindness in our hearts. This scripture is one of the few scriptures I read and feel are completely absolute, another similar absolute example is John 13:34-35 (the "Love One Another" passage). This means, or at least I believe it means, that we don't really have any exception to the rule. In order to be Christ-like, we have to be loving and grateful for every person we meet no matter how much we don't want to be, or how much they irk or hurt us. However, praying for and being grateful for everyone is what Jesus meant when he was talking about praying for your enemies. By showing that gratitude and love towards them, we will become absolutely more like Christ and will definitely become closer to being perfect, celestial beings. So as simple but undeniably difficult this is, I challenge people who read this to pray for everyone they know and don't know, that they may be blessed and that the person offering the prayer can show gratitude to their loved one.