Day 1 of 365: Looking ahead

Day 1...counting down to the day of marriage. The thought brings excitement, yet there is fear. Fear of the unknown, stepping into the next milestone of life. The part of life where priorities are altered to have the family in mind instead of what was once the selfish desire to gratify the id. Still, there is much less to fear when you have a circle of support from those that went before me. The ones that been through more struggle to the point where life, as it is now, is a luxury. These are, of course, parents and parents of close friends. Wisdom comes from experience and fledgling wisdom seeks the wisdom of the old. Learning what my parents went through in their wedding makes mine almost too glamorous. A long guest list, extravagant banquet, and a ceremony fit for kings.

Marriage is a beautiful picture of Jesus and the church. As this last year of my singlehood counts down, I hope to document the experience and pick up a couple of cool revelations.

Jeremy's philosophical corner:

In this world, the only real world we know of, "perfection" is wrong. A thought after watching "Surrogates", the Bruce Willis film, came to me when Annie and I shared our opinions about the movie. One of the claims made in the movie was the low crime rate due to the use of robotic surrogates, which is true if you don't count abuse and harm to surrogate units. Would that be perfect if the world live without worrying about themselves? True be told, "perfection" is foreign to a sinful world. Of course, "perfection" defined here would be a world without fear and death and that's what's wrong with it in this world.

Reflecting on this, Jesus is actually pretty foreign to us. The man who knew no sin lived among us who indulge in it. In the same way, most of us that avoid sin and follow Jesus are probably shun for not tagging along to the usual clubs, parties and drinking binges. It's just foreign for one not to indulge. With that said, what Jesus did in the Bible is contrary to what Jewish culture deems correct. And today, it's still opposite to the world.