Reflections of a True Millennial

This weekend, be enlightened and receive answers to life's questions by watching General Conference. Tune in on Sunday at noon ET on lds.org or BYUtv.

     In Matthew 25:14-21 the parable of the talents is delivered by Christ. A parable is a short story with a hidden meaning, and a talent is a unit of money in that era. In this story, a man calls upon his servants and gives five talents to one, two talents to another, and one talent to another. He gave them this money "according to [their] several ability" (v.15) for each man to use this money to get more. The man that got five talents traded his money and eventually ended up with ten talents. The man with two talents did the same and got four talents. The man with one talent feared his master and hid his money. Eventually the master comes back and has his servants come before him. He is very pleased with the first two servants and makes them "ruler over many things" because they have "been faithful over a few things" (v.21). The man who hid his talent sorrily came before his lord and was rebuked as a "wicked and slothful servant" (v.26). He r...

     So, how's the first 2 (or 3) weeks of school? Is 24 hours a day enough to fit in all your work, friends, hobbies, and sleep? Combinations of 12 hour school days (plus hours of homework, 5 hour sleep nights, and an abundance of other activities have been the norm for myself and most other Juniors at my school. (But maybe it's paying off, I corrected a common PSAT grammatical error just as I was reading that last sentence.) So with our 24 hours each day we have about 24 million different things we could participate in, I guess the biggest question is, what do we participate in? With the lack of any post for a few weeks you could probably guess my writing hands have been more focused on English assignments than blogging. Well let's run down a day's schedule. You wake up anywhere from 5-7 AM  and get ready for school. Perhaps if your Mormon you venture to Seminary for an hour or so in the morning. After all this school starts in the morning and the next 7 ...