Friends Interview / Samson had an intense life

I've been waiting to post on my recent interview with Friends University. I gave a little hint last week.

To go more in-depth, I felt it went well considering what I heard from other students who have made it through the process. From their feedback and experience in the process, I feel that, despite the stress of it, things are heading in the right direction.

The focal point of the stress was centered around an interview with one of the professors and the site director. The interview was more like an introspective and critical look at my abilities and hindrances that would impede my progress in the program. Though these types of questions are difficult to work through (especially under pressure), they are necessary in coming to an objective look at who you are as a person.

Thankfully, within a couple days of the interview, I had put it aside and have been spending some much needed time away from the Manhattan flow, putting my future in God's hands and catching a glimpse of what life after Manhattan will look like.

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A couple days ago, i sat down and read Judges for some Old Testament action. It's very entertaining. Especially the directness of the some portions of the text.

Example: Judges 14. The background. God directs Samson to see a Philistine woman and convince his father to "get her for [him] as [his] wife."

vv. 5-6. "Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done."

How do you rip apart a lion and with your bare hands and not get some sort of evidence on you?

vv. 7-8. "Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her. Some time later, when he went back to marry her..."

Judging by v. 10 "Now his father went down to see the woman...", 'some time' must have been a relatively short amount of time. I guess when God is directing your libido, time doesn't matter that much.

Later Samson tells a riddle, his wife (who still has no name) feels left out and cries for a week. "So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him." The girl's father gives her to Samson's friend. Then Samson becomes Mr. Sabotage in 15:3-5.

Read it.

Here's a video I found. I'm all for finding video games that are wholesome and promote Christian morals, but seriously...

I want a yellow lightsaber...