Hormones in heaven?

I'm taking this class called pastoral theology (does that make sense in English?) and we're talking about mind, body, spirit and all those things a lot. Some christians really make a distinction between those things, but our teacher says we should view people more as a whole and not try to divide them in so many pieces, because the Bible doesn't seem to do that either.
Anyway, we were talking about the soul and what it is and what happens to it when you die. We couldn't really define the soul, but we kinda agreed that it's the part of you with it's passions and longings. We also thought it is our soul that goes to heaven. But a big part of your passions and longings are controlled by your brains that regulate the hormone functions. So if your brain dies that part of your soul will be gone too.
Which made one girl say: "Oh, that's why people don't get married in heaven!" :)

50 random things

I got this idea from Magda's blog, the coolest polish girl I know! :) I hope this 'epidemic' spreads, it's fun to read random stuff about people!

1. My sister Nynke and I sound alike on the phone.
2. We can wear eachother's clothes and it's really fun to see 'yourself' from another side :)
3. We make the same jokes at the same time.
4. People think we have secret signs to do this, but we don't.
5. I wish my school was in Amsterdam or Utrecht instead of Ede.
6. I've been dying (spelling?) my hair since I'm 14 or 15 and haven't stopped since.
7. I've been a vegetarian since I'm 12.
8. I have eaten a little meat in those 11 years.
9. Me and my roommate made too many poffertjes to eat for the both of us today.
10. I wish I was better at keeping my room tidy.
11. Sometimes I want to get married in a purple dress.
12. I wish I could have a dog in Ede.
13. I never cleaned the toilet in my appartment and live there for over 2 years now. (don't worry, my roommates have)
14. I hugged a tree today.
15. When I was younger I wanted to work for Greenpeace when I grew up.
16. I don't like beer.
17. I can (and do) drink tea all day.
18. I watch Seinfeld till late at night if I don't have to get up early the next day.
19. And sometimes even then I do.
20. I can only do this at my parent's place 'cause I don't have a TV in Ede.
21. My roommates do and I make them watch America's Next Top Model with me.
22. I love raspberries.
23. Pretty much all fruits besides pineapple.
24. Though I ate a really big piece of it at the Flevo Festival because it filled halve of my cup of fruit and that was pretty expensive.
25. My summer is not complete without going to the Flevo Festival.
26. The Violet Burning played there and now I have one of their drumsticks that the drummer threw in the audience.
27. I don't really know what to do with it.
28. It upsets me when people don't want to make more of an effort to save the environment.
29. Or pay more for their food or clothes to make sure the producers have not been exploited.
30. I usually find a man really attractive because of his voice.
31. I can quote from pretty much all Friends episodes.
32. Sometimes I dream about having to take a math test the next day.
33. This usually happens when I have a lot on my mind.
34. I would like to go back to Chicago and New York.
35. The best job I ever had was working in the Shelter.
36. There are a few famous people I want to meet just to tell them I think they're ridiculous and annoying.
37. When I was younger I prayed a lot for Michael Jackson to become a christian.
38. I still hope he gets saved.
39. Sheep are my favorite animals.
40. I'm going to the hairdresser tomorrow.
41. My haircut won't be very different from what it looks like now.
42. I like to make people tell me a story.
43. I need new shoes.
44. I'm not just saying this because I'm a woman.
45. I would like to brunch 3 times a day, it's my favorite meal.
46. Getting my driver's license feels like my biggest achievement.
47. I don't want to put here black on white how long it took me.
48. I know a lot of random facts.
49. But am really bad at reading a map.
50. I should get some schoolwork done now.

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So yeah... I guess I'm not so good at keeping my blog up to date :)
It's like with keeping a diary. That was also hard for me, 'cause whenever I missed a few days it didn't feel right not to mention them at all, but it also felt like too much work to write about all them too.
Anway, preaching went well. Thanks those of you who have prayed for me. I don't think preaching is my calling (though you never know what the future brings) but it was a good experience. I've learned a lot from preparing, the actual preaching, the feedback and watching myself on DVD.
It's too bad that you can't put music on this site like on myspace. So, I suggest you all go to www.new-day.nl , go to the audio section and listen to 'Nain'. Then you'll know what song I'm singing all day!
Summer is almost over for me. Next week I'll have to take to exams that I missed last year because I was sick. And the week after the whole 'college circus' will start of again. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again and following new interesting courses. But I will miss long sunny days with a cool drink and a book in my parent's garden!

Preaching

The fourth and last period of this year we have this class called homiletics (the art of preaching)
It's a really interesting class. But even more 'interesting' is that we all have to practice by preaching a sermon to our classmates!
My turn is this Thursday and you can't imagine what it does to you when you have to prepare a sermon (besides those of you who've done that before) I've been thinking and praying and dreaming (!) about it for weeks already!
I'm not a big fan of standing in front of a group. Whenever there's a presentation that needs to be done, I'm always glad when someone else offers to do it. But this time I have to stand there. For 20 minutes. And I can't just make stuff up. It's the word of God we're talking about here, so I don't want to say anything that's not true! With any other presentation I usually don't really mind to make something up when you're not sure, but I don't want to mess with Biblical truth! Thank God for the Holy Spirit to help me understand his Word when I pray for it!
So I'm working really hard on my exegeses, try to make up an interesting introduction, maybe some fun anecdotes and so on... I'll be talking about 1 John. 3:11-24 Read it and if you have some interesting thoughts about let me know!
But I would really like you to pray for me. 'Cause I don't think I've ever done something else that made me this nervous! Thanks. I'll let you know how it went!

Oops!

Yesterday I made the first scratch in my dad's car... He didn't mind so much. My dad is really cool!
The car is really pretty, so it's not that you wouldn't see the difference or anything. My parents are just not into material stuff. I think that's great!