Where did summer go?

I realized when coming into work today that I only have 4 full weeks left of working, and then a partial week before moving back to Rice. I've already worked for 8 weeks, which means that summer is basically 2/3 of the way over. I'm getting more and more excited about going back to Rice. Perhaps I'm also just in a good mood because I had an amazing weekend. Phantom of the Opera was incredible, and although Robyn had to work for part of the weekend, I still enjoyed just getting to sit in the same room as her. And I'll get to see her in Austin in just 4 days. I spent a lot of June waiting for July to get here because it meant getting to see her more often, and now that it's here I'm pretty excited.

As Mithun commented on my last post, I've noticed that a lot of my problems seem to come with not being completely convinced of the importance of devoting myself fully to God in everything I do, and I don't see the benefit of doing that over just giving him control over 70 or 80% of my life. I need to find a way to become completely convinced of that again. I think this was the theme of DWC during my freshman year. Perhaps it would be good to try to find any notes that I took while I was there and see if any of the verses or points made by the speakers are relevant to my problems. Maybe even spending more time in prayer and reading from God's word will convince me of the importance of giving him total control of my life.

Another thing I've been thinking about is how far is too far in a relationship? It's something that I'd always considered irrelevant when discussed back in my high school youth group and something I didn't pay much attention to. Every Christian knows that holding hands is good, and premarital sex is very bad, but where is the 'Do Not Cross' line somewhere in between the two in the spectrum? It seems like every Christian couple has a different idea of what they consider too far. Some will consider everything short of sex to be ok as long as they aren't losing their virginity. Others think they should save kissing for when they're married. I haven't done anything that I think I'll regret at this point, though maybe I'll find that I have and need to stop doing things to remain faithful to my beliefs, but it's still something I think I should look into now that it's something that might actually influence my future actions. It seems like something I could find answers to in John Paul II's Theology of the Body, though there might be something about it in the Bible.

It looks like this is going to be a very busy week. I've got something going on every night this week (Soccer on Monday, Movies and a Meal with the college aged church group on Tuesday, Harry Potter on Wednesday, and frantic cleaning on Thursday). As someone who really likes constantly having things to do, I'm really looking forward to it.