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So today I was at work and a friend of mine made a comment that he does so very often, he said "Will, you need to show me how to win the lottery or something". Usually I just let out a half hearted chuckle and keep quiet, but for some reason, today I decided to say "money won't make things any easier for you", "Why you say that will? you hurt my feelings" (keep in mind he has a pretty thick Korean accent). I spoke with broken words for some reason being nervous, but managed to quote a verse from the bible. I said something along the lines of "it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." He then seemed offended and said something like "You're going to preach the bible at me now? do you actually believe that?". He talks a lot and I think slowly so he began to speak before I responded and proceeded to tell me that he was a buddhist and that his parents and grandparents have been and that he doesn't care what anyone believes as long as they aren't hurting anyone and are basically nice to people. Anyone who knows me would probably say that I'm NOT a very aggressive conversationalist and I don't remember accurately how the conversation went, but I know He did most of the talking and work is definitely not an easy place to cary a conversation of such importance, hence, I remember feeling as though I offended him when the only points I was trying to make was that money doesn't help you become happy, it simply increases your responsibility, but of course what came out wasn't explained so clearly. Instead I ended up feeling like an idiot trying to plant a seed for my God to work, but feel as though I did quite the opposite. hopefully I'll get better at this, but the thing that's really been bothering me lately, is that I've come to an extreme revelation of the conflict that is to come with christians and the rest of the world, but I guess that's a whole other blog. Maybe I'll write about that soon. Anyways, it's very difficult trying to be committed to Jesus and his gospel (particularly, the great commission), when people believe lies and never think that they could be wrong, suddenly they get offended when challenged with truth. It breaks my heart that I have what they need, but sadly it's not what they're looking for.  Christianity is the oil to the other watered down religions. They don't mix, thus I will have to defend what I believe for the rest of my life and I believe that one day it may threaten my life and my finance. 

So, I know that many of you are expecting this blog to be of amazingly revolutionary content, but for my first, it is yet simple in thought. I am waiting to go to church this morning, which got me thinking, I always feel awkward wearing T-
shirts in church. Many of you on this here vox probably have seen me in nothing else (with few exception who have seen me without a shirt yet with cheesecake). The reason for this being; my nice shirts are still at my parents house (they do make me look good, or maybe I just make the shirt look good) and I don't know how to iron. So for a long time I didn't care, but I'm beggining to feel like a man again and ready to take on the adventure of learning to iron anyone would so care to teach. Thank you all it has been a pleasure.

                                                                                                                  Will Smith