TheOneCubed

From time to time I answer the question, “What does TheOneCubed mean?” Some people would put this in an about page but you see, I love the conversation it sparks. TheOneCubed is not me or some online persona that I have established for myself. TheOneCubed rather is the one whom I serve. My God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - the Holy Trinity - that is whom I serve. You see the trinity is three parts yet one. Thus one cubed, is just one, mathematically speaking.

Why bring this up now? Well, because it is on this day - that will be in a mere few minutes - the day that I celebrate a most wonderful and joyous occasion. At this most joyous time of the year many people forget why we celebrate. It isn’t the presents and the gifts. It isn’t even for family and friends. You see, the real reason behind this time of year is one Christ - a child, born of a virgin. A child who would one day take three nails for you and me.

In the words of the Grinch, “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags!”. That’s right Mr. Grinch, because the Christmas spirit that lives in each isn’t about even the most noble of ideas of peace on earth and good will to all men. No Mr. Grinch, the real spirit behind this most joyous of seasons is Christ our Lord. Our only hope, you see, the only reason we can wish good will to men and hope for peace on earth is because of the grace of our Lord Jesus!

So on this day of days when you hopefully spend time with family and enjoy giving gifts of thanks, remember the tiniest of gifts was given on this day that we all might celebrate the gift of the ages.

The ways of this world are grabbing a hold
Won’t let me go, won’t let me fly by
It taken it’s toll down on my soul
‘Cause I know what I need in my life
Don’t let me lose my sight of You
Don’t let me lose my sight

Chorus:
I don’t want to fall away from You
Gravity is pulling me on down
I don’t want to fall away from You
Gravity is pulling me to the ground

This world keeps making me cry
But I’m going to try, going to try to fly, going to fly high
Don’t want to give into the sin, want to stay in You ‘til the end
Don’t want to lose my sight of You
Don’t want to lose my sight

Chorus

I want to fly
Into the sky
Turn my back on this old world
Leave it all behind
This place is not my home
It’s got nothing for me
Only leaves me with emptiness
And tears in my eyes

Chorus (2x)

Disclaimer: I believe this is the sappiest post I’ve ever written - click more to read on.

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The other day I was looking through some older photos as I was restoring things to my hard drive and ran across this parking meter. For some reason, this struck a cord with me. Am I like this parking meter? Do I keep putting the quarters of life in, hoping to avoid this state of being expired? You see, no matter how many quarters you put in, eventually they run out.

It was then the Spirit reminded me that my Lord and Savior is there to fill me up with a love and a passion that will never expire.

Lord will you please fill me with your passion. Allow me to seek after the things you have for me. Allow me to simply love and never feel “expired”. Until your glorious return.

Today is MLK Day, a holiday to observe a great man who believed for the equality of all people regardless of race, sex, or religion. He was truly a man of vision. Due to this official, State observance, I am off of work today and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I could sense my life once again bordering on busyness and that’s the last thing I wanted! Today allowed me to take a bit of time to myself, focus things, plan for the next few weeks, etc. It was great!

In other news, I’m now officially published. I have an ISBN and everything. I used a service called SafariU to build a textbook for a course I’m co-teaching over at NC State. The course focuses on Applied Web Development. Basically we’re teaching Computer Science majors how to program for a web environment and make cool things like Wordpress, the blogging engine I use to power my site.

In some other news I have to say that the Lord has been gracious to me in really putting things in perspective. He has shown me the realization that I have to stop thinking and planning for 2, 5, or 10 years down the road. Instead, I need to focus on today and now. Focusing and meditating on the Lord and how the next step I take can be used to glorify Him.