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I dont know where I am
06.24.04 (12:29 am)   [edit]
So Im getting it... I havent really been living a christian life, I have been a non-relational walking sermon for the last five years and that is not a chirsitan. As a matter of fact that isnt even living... That is judging and it is all about me. Im for the first time begining to care about people inspite of what they do and I am probbly less "christian" then I have ever been. Life isnt meant to be like a sermon Im not meant to change people into a mold. its funny going agianst my faith for a while may have been the only thing that will save it. Forget being good, I dont want to be a good person. Forget being nice I dont want that either. Forget being moral, I dont want a stick up my ass. I want to care about people because life seems right when I do that. And it isnt about being right. . . it isnt about politics. . . it isnt about morallity. .. none of that matters however there is something that yells out inside of me when I start to care about people and have fun and making fun important. When things are heavy let it happen and be serious but be fun first. Maybe Im missing that in God maybe Jesus is a whole lot more fun then I have ever given him credit for. I dont know this proabbly sound like most everything else I have writen less this one thing, I dont have any morals anymore I just want to be compassionate.
 
ok fine Im updating my blog
06.07.04 (9:14 am)   [edit]
Well I am pretty much now 100% a beach bum I havent not been to the beach in like a month so ya Im leaning toward beach bum guy. Any way... So there are two girls there are always two girls but the way i see it girls tend to = less beach time. . . so maybe there not worth it.
At the moment I am unemployed, though that may be changing at any moment. Im waiting for a call and at noon o 'clock Im calling. So hopefully I get this job, that pretty much brings you up to speed on my life. Oh and bobby is slowly but surely becoming a member of my house. He has been to his house twice in like a week. . . its pretty crazy.

Church was amazing last night... we just read stright the sermon on the mound... That Jesus guy was pretty good with the words if you know what I mean. But it was definately way different then last week. Im still (no ofence to rodger) Trying to figure out what that was about.

So to give you a quick recap... no job = no money, girl = less beach, chruch=cool last night, and mike=beach bum=slacking in everything including blog.
 
The wait is up a 1090 on my SAT
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no more waiting Its about freakin time... I needed to get a 860 on my SAT to go to Hope in the spring ya I got a 1090. Considering I havent touched math in two years and I havent been in a class in that long either I did awesome. Im just bummed that I didnt take them in high school I would have had like a 1400 or better. I knew so much more back then. But Im twenty and I know a lot of other things now that will help me actually finish college oh and do well so I guess there is a reason. Oh and there is hope and the end of the tunnel I dont have to live in mikey freaky wallgreens. I have more of a future then that yay. Im so happy right now I cant sleep but I need to but I cant so I think Im gonna work out till I cant do anything but sleep. Ok Well Freaking yay.

 
A ticket nooo but its ok
05.13.04 (12:33 am)   [edit]
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So I got a ticket on monday and well its not so bad. there is actually a lot of good to come out of it. Ok so maybe Im crazy but this is what I figured out. First that I wont make a dangerous U-turn in that intersection again. . . Im there all the time. Second is that I am in the perfect place to start bugetting my money and if I dont I go to jail. So rock on go spending wisely. Ya so anyway that is the quick update... Oh and on a side dish I got a date while working yesterday pretty crazy detials to come. ---it is one of thouse Chill have a good time date things. I like to go on them there fun and no presure so pretty awesome. I just hangout get to know them and they get to know me. . .yay dating to date. Ok no real deep thoughts right now im working to much to have time to think about anything other then well working. Oh and for thouse of you keeping track this is not that awesome girl who some of you may or may not know about. but most probably not and Ill keep it that way. Awesome girl if you read this you know who you are...Lets go to dinner some freakin time yo. Jack in the box you know... ok maybe a little nicer Ill buy. Come on do it. Wow ok Im done

 
The places that I fear the most
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So Im not an Emo kind of guy but Dashboard Confessional has a song which is virtually a sound track to me right now. The places that you have come to fear the most... it is all about a facade not working... (The words)buried deep as you can dig in side yourself and cover with a perfect shell. . . but your barely scraping by. . . well this is one time that you Cant fake it hard enough please . . . everyone or anyone. . .at all.
Ok so its out there by now for the most part. I messed up I slandered someone to a girl he liked. Now not that I deserve trust because I don’t, I destroyed a friendship. Or in this case, many (even though most people who are bothered by what I have done arent even effected by this.) However what I don’t get is that its not even a pattern but then again it is.
So here I am exposed in probably the best standing that I have been in, in quite a while with Jesus because hey I realize Im way more evil then I thought and ya God still loves me and he hasn’t quit on me even if everyone else does. I have to set my value in how God sees me because I have damaged everything else (little over board however it will get out the right people know in Long Beach I will soon be alone here void of friends this time I pissed off someone popular not high school either) Ok that fine I don’t care do what ever I don’t care there is nothing to lose, I will serve people no matter where I have to go to do it. I don’t know its not like I have too much respect to lose out on anyway at least not in Long Beach, Im gross and un trust worthy worth. Ok But Jesus still died for me.
Im perfectly ok with being seen as a gossiper because well I am. Its not ok but I did it. I own it.

On a new note so this is grace. . .contempt. I must have missed that part in the bible that says, contempt is forgiveness... however that is something I learned from this to. That this guy cant even look at me... and has said quote that "I will never be trusted again" but he wants me to know that he has forgiven me "that we may never again talk" but Im forgiven. May I then pose this simple question what the Hell is forgiveness???? and what is the point if that is all it is to feel good??? If all forgiveness is, is this moral thing that says I don’t hate so I can feel good about my self well then, Im going to hell I mean that really. Because I deserve hell and if it doesn’t effect the person who has the right to damn by causing them to overlook wrong that someone has done then I am going to hell.
That is such a weak view of forgiveness, I don’t want to ever forgive that way. It sucks for both people... I would rather not forgive and let that person face the consequences because at least that isn’t a lie and they can deal with. But saying that you forgive then ignoring the actions that complement it, is just cruel it really is. I deserve it but it sucks. So if my wife is killed and the murderer is repentant then I either help him Get on death row or probation. If I don’t forgive death Row, if I do probation. If he is repentant. Which I am in this case so pick one not both it is either or. You cant forgive and be contempt full and eaten’ up by it. No one is going to read this but I needed to say it. Oh and for those keeping track God actually took it a step further he took me off of death row by placing himself on it for me. That is forgiveness.
Be kind and compassionate to one and other forgiving each other as in Christ, God forgave you.

 
Kerry homolover babie killer
04.29.04 (2:01 pm)   [edit]
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This may or may not make sense but I don’t care...above is a picture of two kids in Kenya a country afflicted with aids. Ill get to that but remember it, that is the image of hope in a land of death.

Ok so I am getting really irritated with Christians equating voting for bush and the Godly vote... I think every single Political party is now edging on being evil through and through. Allow me to explain...Republicans want to protect the tax payers from poverty... it is all about America and people in other nations will die because of it. . . Democrats are into giving freedoms that will kill unborn but they are at least on the surface wanting to help other countries. Republicans in the long run will protect our tax payers so much, that they will protect, other countries into death...While Democrats will Kill some in our own country under the gueiz of freedom. I really don’t think either one is holy or the Godly vote.

Africa is the land of Kids with out parents a place where getting to that age of 30 is close to a miracle. . . it is a place where governments don’t have money and it is a place America is only helping because of rock superstars like Bono of U2. What about the rest of the world... I think we should run our country into the ground to be loving...not that it would ever happen but... wouldn’t it be amazing if it did. That would be the guy to vote for, were it Gods choice any questions read Deuteronomy ... The guy to vote for would say were scaling everything back ten percent and there will be no poor in our nation... oh and every seven years all debt is cancelled oh and ya as of now no more debt if you had it your out... oh and once a week the country stops completely everything every store no one works. Ya that is the guy that would be awesome... out of the abundance that we had...countries get the help we still would have an army but it would stand up and fight evil (i.e. Saudi Arabia with out fear). Seems like we would die and it makes no sense but that would be the guy.

I heard statements yesterday such as you better vote for Bush because Kerry is a homo lover baby killer... So what??? I mean really So what. . . God is bigger then our government and Christianity was and is more effective when the church is persecuted. We need to get over it. I don’t care if our government made it a capital offence to be a Jesus follower its fine I would still be one... My God died for me. It matters not. Homosexuals are people who matter to God still...there wrong if there acting on it but God still loves them. Jesus still wants to know them. . .Ok so maybe im a little extreme but Ill deal with that tommrow... Feel free to comment. . .

It doesn’t mean Ill change my mind but it doesn’t mean I wont.

 
ROAD TRIP: objective Long Beach to????
04.27.04 (11:13 am)   [edit]

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This is my buddy colin making a phone call he went with me. Ok he is the reason why the journey happened



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This is me at lauguna beach... It is a drive but so worth it.

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Ok so this picture was taken as I pondered the sheer power of what I was looking at. The wave here was proablly six feet high. It was nuts.

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Oh I need caffiene before I am really able to think


 
This is a sweet picture too kinda makes me think
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This is a cool picture
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A honest look at myself: Im lazy
04.25.04 (1:27 am)   [edit]
Ok this isnt a blog to say something that will get published this is just simply an honest look at me. I am going to face the truth, Im am horribly lazy.

Let me explain I got called into walgreens today and basicly I couldnt say no the schedule said I was working and so what if they changed it on friday it said it therefore I was. Anyway I havent been working on my stuff for our Lakewood campus at parkcrest this week at all so I was really upset that I had to go to work.

The first half of the day I was having this crapy self centered unloving its all about Mike mood to me. I eventually relized that my bad mood is and was my own fault. . . I was the one who didnt work on what I have commited to work on I was the slaker. I was the one who didnt do anything about what I haddnt been doing till the last min. it was my own freaking fault. Lazyness is dangerous because it gets me in that mode where I just point the finger at other people, its nuts and not very Jesus like. Not to mention its stupid because it Im placing the blame on people who dont deserve my "rightous anger" Anyway this isnt deep it is just what I was dealing with today, oh and God was speaking to me on this saying the entire time that "my crappy day was me not my work and that is who I had to blame." To those of you who may not understand that Im sorry but there is this closeness with me and God sounds arogant but its this thing at work in me. um ya let me explain Jesus is like dude I love you and Im going to interact with you. That is part of this whole Jesus follower thing is that I still interact with God as God interacts with me. Not the most eligant post, not a culture post, not a theological post but it was an honest post ...and isnt that the point. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS??? be honest I dont care feel free to think stuff through in my space Ill be on the other end.
Mike handy
 
JESUS FOLLOWER NOT RULE FOLLOWER (PART II)
04.23.04 (1:19 pm)   [edit]
Ok so yesterday in my post I set up the context for Jesus (I do belive he is God on earth) and I do follow him he is the master Rabbi. Today I would really like to explain why that means I dont have to follow rules...now this question I need to genuinly answer so this is me thinking and artculating stuff for the first time Im going to start with the question... Why not???
Christianity is all about love it is the central theme of the new testement, it is the grand theme of the whole bible starting from the tora and moving on. You cant force love. Being loving isnt something that rules could make you become, it isnt something that ideas can be, Love is about action, to be inclusivly loving it means that you have to have value for people. That is the way of Jesus. Jesus says God the God of the universe made all people and wants to know all people and therefore all people matter and matter alot. When Jesus was saying this he was speaking to a crowd of people who had the belife that God only cared about them. They had a special knowledge of God, and no one else did. They belived that they had the rules to live by and if they could just tighten there boot straps they could make it on there own.
Jesus came down and was like you missed the point... do you get it the man after Gods own heart broke everyone of your laws and rules. However he had a heart for God and he cared about other people. David (the guy)lived the best life possible because he submitted his life to loving God first. Jesus said that his way to live was the best way. Jesus died because people couldnt tighten the boots straps and become clean. I dont care how hard you try to get clean when your in a mud pit it wont happen. Humanity needed someone to pull them out of the mud pit and wash them clean. That is why God came to earth and died on the cross. When Jesus died the seperation between man and God was no longer there. Jesus was the sacrifce that finally tore the holy of holys apart and humanity could know God agian.
Because God died so that I could know him, it means that I am free to live in love the price has been paid...I dont need rules, christianity isnt about rules it is about a way of living and that way of living is to place value on other people. That value starts with Loving God. I dont know if I artculated it well enough but that is the idea.
--Mike Handy
 
The questions still vaild
04.23.04 (2:44 am)   [edit]
This isnt the way I normally blog but Im just wondering what types of people are here and reading answers to this stuff often gets me thinking in a good way so It would be awesome if you want to answer them...

-What do you long for in life???

-What do you live for??

-What is your favorite song??(why would be awesome)

-What is your favorite movie??(why would be awesome)

-What is christainty all about??

-What do you think about God.. Who is he
 
Jesus follower, not rule follower
04.23.04 (2:27 am)   [edit]
I belive like most evanglicals that Jesus was the messiah, and that he was God on earth. I beleve That the bible is Gods love story to us, that I need grace from a God whom I have destroyed my connection with and that life is meant to be lived in this tight and close relationship with God.
Ok there is a lot there but basicly let me explain it as a story... God created man (woman included sorry Im still greek) ({in whatever time frame makes sense the bible here is poetic so as to days or not tuff argument **CS lewis belived in evolution**}) anyway. . .we were ment to live in harmony and to rule over nature keeping it in balance. (the theology there is a little bit broad so I wont get into it) Man was also to live in perfect harmony with God. There was this intmate closeness that people and God had... humanity was living the best possible life because they were living the way God had created them to. Then there came the whole snake and eating the forbidden fruit thing, basicly humanity fell out of this close binding relationship with God and the world fell apart. At that point evil came into the world, I belive God is all good and in him there is no darkness, that evil is the result of being where God is not.
So at this point in the story man and God are seprated. Throughout the old testment Man is reaching up to God, trying to find meaning agian and know the God loves them. However because of sin (humanity not living the way humanity was made to live) God could not be close to humanity with out sacrifice and them learning how to live the best possible life again. . . it is weird that I deserve death because I am seprate from the God, who is life (John 1). So in order for God to be loving he has to be just, and death must occur otherwise God is unloving because God is unfair and inconsitant.
{Think it through ask questions lets journey together.}
Skiping ahead God deicieds that this whole sacrifce and rules thing isnt working because it isnt changing anyone people are just trying to be good and trying to find meaning in that. Not in knowing God. So God decieds to enter the world....Here comes Jesus... Jesus is God on earth, he's way is the best possible way to live. We all long for love and Jesus challenged rules with the question of and answered with the questions of love. God is a lover, so on earth Jesus dies **innoncent might I add, and on the third day after that the cool thing happens, he rises. (there is more eveidence to sopport this then there is to belive that the odeasy was wirten by homer or that nero burned Rome) Ok so what happend when Jesus died God was no longer distant, God no longer was about rules, it was all about love. God paid the only price that God ever could, just to know humantiy and so that they wouldnt have to be sepreate. Im not trying to convince people to become christians, I am defining what Christanity is... that is the answer to that question. . . It is just really condenced well in type its condensed in person I can actually say it with better word economy... but thats not the point. To me being a christian is about being in this close relationship with God I probably need to edit some so expect this post to change some but I dont feel like editing right now.
 
One more
04.22.04 (12:07 pm)   [edit]
What do you think about God.. Who is he
 
Questions for anyone to answer Please do
04.22.04 (11:53 am)   [edit]
This isnt the way I normally blog but Im just wondering what types of people are here and reading answers to this stuff often gets me thinking in a good way so It would be awesome if you want to answer them...

-What do you long for in life???

-What do you live for??

-What is your favorite song??(why would be awesome)

-What is your favorite movie??(why would be awesome)

-What is christainty all about??
 
--The study of culture --A new thought
04.22.04 (1:14 am)   [edit]
Im currently studying pop culture as it relates to faith, I dont have too many thoughts on it right now but there is more to come... I am currently reading a book called "The Life of Pie" which is a book about a guy on a boat and so so so much more. It really is a shout out to pluralism however Jesus enough to cover all aspects that Pie longs for. A personal God, A holy God, A strong God, A wise God, A God of stories, A God who loves, A God of mystery. It is the longing for something complete that stands out to me soo far but then agian Im only on page 70 something. It is cool to read because it allows me to see the way christianity is veiwed by those who arent so much, but those who are seeking truth I know antagonistis to faith but they are not the majority, people who are searchers of meaning are I think and in my experiance the masses. I am Also just barley starting another book that I am on chapter one, this book called a "matrix of meaning" is causing me to ask some different questions. This isnt a culture bash book but a book that looks at the longings of pop culture and sees what the culture is asking of God. I suggest Acts 17 as a method to understanding this theology. There are a lot of intresting things in the book so far, but I need to figure out what I have already read and really digest before I make any kind of concerte ideas. Over the next month or so I plan to focus on whatever sticks to my brain as I read. That is the nice thing about not going to school I can study in depth whatever I please and be happy while holding on to what I learn till I can use it. But I think I am in a good place and Im glad
 
Today I had Surgery
04.21.04 (1:07 am)   [edit]
I tend to go go go at an incrediable rate of speed. For a guy who doesnt do much with his life, I dont stop... ever and I know it's a bad idea but it has been my life for the last few years. One thing I do is that I dont stop getting new info, I just get more knowledge not always processing but getting. However today I was forced to stop. At work my life was stressfull to say the least and I couldnt bare coming home, I didnt want to risk anything adding stress to my day. I also physically felt like I couldnt move, so I decided to sit infront of "its a grind" in my car for an hour and half (the time not so much known). Just silence nothing more just me being quite living in a moment where God was free to do what he wanted with no outside distraction, no books, no bible, no music, no addtional noise and no talking. Just me being quite not driving, not pushing just listening.
So as I was there I relized I had an intence hurting inside of me. I relized that all I am is mind, my heart has been taken out of the game. I have been hurting but I used the anistatic of motion and information to blind me from the pain. There are alot of things that caused it, my senior year my Grandad died and at that point I was done I never greived, a few months later my sister moved away I never took the time to think through that, my dad lost his job, and then there is the stuff from really far back that I have not wanted to deal with. I have kept my relationships on the acadmic level, Jesus was letting me know I hurt and Im not real with people. Ok at this point I sound a little chessey but hey its the truth...I have been only relating with people in one way and it has caused a great many problems, because when all I am is ideas I dont care about people.
When all I am is ideas I will always destroy friendships because if there is no love then there is no wisdom there is only knowledge but that knowledge is folly and is like a recless hammer smashing whatever it wants. It isnt that I am completly void of love but I just havent been able to see past ideas because the people have been secondary to idealogy. I dont know what this means yet and I cant really verblize it very well either. but let me say this, I am understanding that the way of Jesus is more about being a lover then having all the right ideas, that people matter far more then what they hold as veiwpoints. I wish I knew what it meant but i dont and it is 1:00 am so I need to go to bed.
Mike Handy
 
this new blog will do for now FOR now how ever I may end up opening one on typeset
04.17.04 (1:31 am)   [edit]
So I Got this thing open just because I am oposed to all and any forced registrations by a company... ie Mike Goldsworthy having to sign up to comment LAME so here I am and here Ill learn perhaps or maybe move on in a matter of days.
 
April 16
04.17.04 (1:06 am)   [edit]
Ok so today I have a bonifid blog. . . I was talking to two people at my work both arent chirsitans yet... (well see what God does) but it struck me that most people see evanglism like they are suposed to be little Johnny apple seeds of Jesus. **0Yes this will most definately turn into an artical for 5950 I think. but back to the subject at hand I think most people do try to share there faith like all that they really need to do is to scatter seeds... Forget the Soil that is Gods bussiness is there moto.

BIGGER IDEA INSERT HERE---- I have been on a farm in the past, as a matter a fact I have lived on a farm for weeks at a time. I completly understand what it requires to plant a crop but I dont think that I have heard many other people who do. I bring this idea to light because so many people understand evanglism this way (as planting) and rightly so because Jesus himself described the kingdom this way. However it seems to me that most people have this Johnny apple seed idea of evanglism and farming, where all they need do is just toss seeds out of their little pouches in the case of chritians toss Jesus out their pouches and hope that the seed finds a good spot of dirt. I think this is the momentum behind a lot of bumper sticker "evanglists".

Ok I can see it alittle but this whole idea makes me ask one question if this is really the best method for planting then where are all the apple trees??? Shouldnt they be everywhere yet I see far more pines then I do apple trees and I also see almost no natural apple trees in america dude had a good manager to get all that Good press with such crap for results, however he still didnt change the landscape.

On a slightly different note Appleseed missed the best part of farming. . . using the tractors... da oh right the tractors to.... oh....um...got it... to move the dirt and soften it so that the seed that you will plant can grow. So seriously the Best most fun part of the Job being is ignored. . . ok maybe reaping is cool too but I like the empty feilds because it means I get to drive the big toys. Before you ever plant a seed you perpare the feild... otherwise your just wasting your time. You are not responcable for the feild not always yeilding a crop but most of the time there is something that you can do about it.

Let me explain I spent most of the time I was closeing discussing what little I know about the old testement and listening to Maria and Maurice's storys I was not planting seeds I hardly Got to Jesus but I was being a spritual roto tiller. I think far to often I have missed this idea that the sowers of the feilds are people who work the soil as well as plant the seeds. I would not be succesfull running thru a desert with a bag of apple seeds tossing them around but never touching the soil that I was throwing the seeds on to. I would first have to tear up the desert get water to the source soften up the Soil and then only then could I plant the seeds. Johnny apple seed is not the sower that people in Jesus day would have thought of but in america that is so the case and that mind set has done a great deal of harm to the Cause of Jesus in this quest to restore hummanitys relationship with God.

On yet another rant I plan to tie the two together but well see what God shows me tommrow.

Till the day ends agian and I look like I do this in the morning on the east cost

Mike

PS it isnt even one yet... THATS EARLY FOR ME SHHH

 
This was the first blog april 15th
04.17.04 (12:57 am)   [edit]
Ok so it happened at one am when I wasnt thinking about this (blog**) thing and I was about to go to bed. So I as I do every night before I try to smash the pillow to death with my face. I start stumbling through some of my many random museings and as I read I beggin to think. . . What is happening to the church, and more importantly what is happening to my relationships in the church. I find it odd that as I think about becoming a pastor I forget about relationships, and then I asked my self isnt that what its (the church that is) all about anyway?

I mean didnt God come to earth on a relational level, Wasnt Jesus was relational in nature when he was on earth?? That didnt change when he left earth, right? God is still relational in nature and always has been. . . for goodness sakes isnt the trinty itself a relationship within one being. So in yet another episode "of Mike you dont get it" I got a spirtual kick in the nuts saying "ya remeamber that whole people matter thing. . . its not about the programs thing. . . its not about planing out the next thirteen stages of life thing. . . Ya I want you to remeamber that", isnt it odd how it is so easy to forget that its about Jesus and other people and not events. That we are gross and God loves us still, and wants to know us and he wants us to know each other. Isnt odd how that base can be forgotten.

what does a life of relationships look like and what am I doing if I am not investing into relationships how could I ever make a difference anywhere.

Side note its not so much that Im not doing this as it is that I tend to forget about it. . . and that scares me. I cant do a relgous thing it just isnt in me. If I am not relating to God in a real way my faith will die out. If I dont care about people and I stop knowing God then I just have a bunch of random rules, I cant do this being a Christian thing for the sake of rules. I dont work like that and I dont think Christianity can ever work like that either. The rules would become stale and lose all purpose. With out relationships Christianity breaks down to nothing more then a whole bunch of rules. Simply put that doesnt sound like life to me, it sounds like prison, which means that it is not the way of Jesus and would therefore cease to be christianity.

But that is just my thought

Mike
 
BOOKS I SUGGEST:

Jesus with Dirty feet: A Down-to-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious & Skeptical

By: Don Everts

Uprising By:Erwin Mcmanus pastor, Mosaic.org