The Way Matt Sees It

Today marks 50 days until the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.  In honor of it, I'm posting this blog.   The Hobbit movies have become something that I hold near and dear to my heart.   While they started simply as movies about a story and world I already loved, the Hobbit films have become to represent the deep friendship that has been fostered between my college friends and me. The Lord of the Rings films and the world of Middle-Earth was the glue that brought us together.   Our mutual love of the world of Middle-Earth brought us closer, and we eventually made it tradition to watch the films together every single semester. In a way, we kind of fed off each other, and grew to love LOTR and Middle-Earth even more.   Throughout the years, we all bought different bits of memorabilia that came to sort of represent us.   Every semester, we constantly talked about LOTR and when our next viewing would be.   A few of us learne...

In college, I’ve heard a lot about resumes.  I had to make my own last semester.  You need a resume to get a job; without it, people will not know what you have done, your skillset or why they should hire you.  Resumes are key to moving up in the world! Now before we go on, I’d like to define two terms here. Human Doing vs. Human Being A Human Doing , as it implies, is simply doing , while a Human Being , as it implies, is simply being .  A Human Doing works, gets the job done, and appears to have specific qualities, but does not actually personify them.  A Human Being embodies the qualities that they are doing. Where am I taking this?  Humility .  I feel like God has recently put this on my heart.  Are you being humble, or just “ doing humility”?  There’s a huge difference. Resume of Humility A Human Doing , someone who just does the humble thing rather than actually being humble, serves just becau...