Life According To A Ranch Kid: Death By Pencil

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Death By Pencil

Murders- they happen all the time. Doesn't make them right, but I guess that's life. If you are going to dwell on a planet among many other human beings, be prepared for such tragedies and atrocities. But generally- murders are kind of, well, normal? I hate to use that word, but I mean normal as in the murder weapon. Stabbing- knife or the occasional axe or letter opener. The common gunshot or choking device, and of course poison. Oh, and no I'm not some sick person who tries to get into the mind of a criminal, nor do I possess the mind of a criminal. I do enjoy murder-mystery books and movies, though.

So, there are your common, every-day murder devices. But there are some odd ones out there, and I heard about one the other day that kind of shocked me. People, or a certain person, I'm not sure of which, use pencils as murder weapons.

This actually happened to somebody, I recieved it in a forward from a friend. There was no way to determine who had killed this person because anybody is allowed to walk around with a standard #2 pencil. They couldn't determine that it was a 45. caliber or short, wide blade of stainless steel because it was just a normal, everyday pencil.

How freaky is that?

Are people really do desperate? I mean, I don't understand why somebody would want to take another's life, and I don't think I can ever understand so I might as well quit trying. But really- a pencil?

They won't let you on a plane with toe-nail clippers or a bottle of seizure medication, but it's totally okay for anybody to walk into any public place with a pencil. How scary is that? I mean, your cautious of any suspicious character walking around town with a knife or a gun or a length of cord dangling from his hands. But what about the businessman sitting on a bench near the park, a pencil perched behind his ear? How scary is it that all human beings are capable of taking other people's lives, and that it's even harder to determine those people from the innocent anymore?

Folks, beware. If you see anybody walking around with a pencil in hand... Well, let's just say you'd better keep an eye on them. I mean, they'd be easy to keep track of right? There's not that many people walking around with pencils nowadays is there?

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-2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about such things. Whatever you have learned or recieved or heard from me, or seen in me- put into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

-Philippians 4:8-9

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Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverence; perseverence, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

-Romans 5:3-5

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We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in His death we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done awawy with, that we shold no longer be slaves to sin.

-Romans 6:2-6

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Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, for you are not under law, but under grace.

-Romans 6:13-14

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending us his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.

-Romans 8:1-3

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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things. Now we know that God's judgement against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement?

-Romans 2:1-3

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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.

-Romans 8:18

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It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

-Romans 9:16

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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposese and some for common use?

-Romans 9:20-21

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"By myself I can do nothing. I judge only as I hear, and my judgement is just, for I seek not to please myself, but Him who sent me."

-John 5:30

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Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

-Matthew 10:37-39

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

-Colossians 3:16-17

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God is just, He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you.

-2 Thessalonions 1:6

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Lord, who may dwell in Your sanctuary? Who may live on Your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart, and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong, and casts no slur on his fellowman, who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his oath even when it hurts, who lends his money without usury, and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

-Psalm 15

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I am still confident of this; I will see the fondness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heed and wait for the Lord.

-Psalm 27:13-14

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I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind, and therefore have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."

-Lamentations 3:19-24

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Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

-Romans 5:18-19

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For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

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Death By Pencil

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