It’s A Lost Art *EDIT*

I’m going to an event this weekend called Muslim Women: Myths, Realities, and Scriptures.  One of the things that we have mentioned talking about during our Sunday evening bible study is religions of the world.  Trying to learn more about them and what it is they believe.  This just happened to come up, and the women from our church were invited to attend.  I’m pretty excited to learn more about the culturn and what they really believe.  I know it will be interesting.

They will be discussing the following topics:

• The concept of the veil and hajib
• Arranged vs. Islamic marriage system
• Polygamy

Please note, I am not by any means interested in exploring new faiths for the purpose of being converted.  The Lord has my heart, and there it will stay.  I stand firm in my faith.  I do however know that I live in a community of so many different cultures, and I feel that it is important to learn more about other’s beliefs, the facts and fiction of it all.

I’m really hungry right now.  I’m not sure what I’m going to have for lunch.  Probably Subway.  Again.  Or… mmm… indian food sounds really good right now.  But I need to stick to a budget.  If I get Subway today, that’s lunch for today and tomorrow.  Why do I feel the need to write this out in my diary?  LOL

I’m really tired of the phone ringing.  So I let it ring a little over one ring, and then one of the other girls will grab it.  LOL  I’m slackin’.  I know.

I checked out this website last night called interpal or something like that.  It’s a website that is for finding pen pals.  I have this interest of wanting to write somebody a letter.  A real letter.  Not email.  I don’t know why.  I just do.  Letter writing is a lost art.  I think the postal service should be doing more than just delivering bills and junk mail to my mail box.  But at the same time, I get leary of trying to be pen pals with some random person that I don’t know because of the fact that my mailing address is also my home address.  It’s not like I have a P.O. Box to mail things to.  And I’m not going to get a P.O. Box just so I can have a pen pal.  LOL

How sad that our world has become so scary that I’m leary of becoming friends with somebody that I could learn so much from.  Who wouldn’t like to have friends in other countries?  I do have a friend that I met when I was at my women’s retreat last September.  We wrote to each other over email a couple of times, but I haven’t written since.  Maybe I’ll send her a letter.  I love getting email and all, but getting a letter means so much more I think.

I’ll ponder on the random pen pal thing for a bit I guess.  At the same time, if anybody happens to read this and is interested in being a pen pal (not email pal) let me know!  At least here, you can get a sense of a person by what they write in their entries.  As long as they aren’t faker-fakertons and writing a fictional diary.  Lord knows there are those people out there too.  *sigh*  Maybe I’ll just write real letters to my friends and family, people that I already know, and hope that they get the hint and write me back.  I bet I could get my mom, aunts, and grandma to do it.  Maybe I’ll do that now instead of spending all afternoon staring at my computer.  Yeah.  Sounds like a plan!

*And to further make my point that letter writing is a lost art, I JUST came across THIS article over on Yahoo!  The internet has made people lazy!  I’m off to write my letters!  =)