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I wonder why people have blogs... I know why I do... It's for me to make myself feel professional. To type with proper punctuation, (and even though you can't see it) proper posture, with a smirk on my face. Why do you have a blog? Hmmm?

In Response to "Procrastination"

That was straight foolishness. I should've done it earlier. I got a 98 % on that thing!!! But because it was late, I got an 88%!!!

"Procrastination is the thief of time"

-J. Oswald Sanders

I think it's also the thief of good grades. And plus super heros that show up late suck. What's the point of even having them if all they do is show up late?

Spinning Chairs, Movement, Stairs, Etc...

I have discovered that we are no longer moved by the world. WE move the world. I went under a series of observations that involved walking, spinning chairs, and other objects to prove this. In my observations I have discovered that with ever step or movement we make against the earth, we turn it. Next time you decide to walk, try and move the world with all your might. I'm 18% sure it works.

=]

In the same way (not really because that'd be absolutly ridiculous if we could move the world), we are not moved by the world, but we move it. More over, God moves it. Don't be of the world. Because we are not of it. :D

Well, I guess I got tagged...

So here goes:

1. I've secretly quit skateboarding... I think.
2. I had the money for my dreads TWICE but something (fiesta and my lack of self control) happened.
3. Iwhen m laughed y mom told me that she saw a bird fly into a starbucks window... it died. =[
4. I've moved 4 times in the past two years- CO to CA, CA to CA, CA to CA, CA to CA. Ummm... Something there doesn't make sense...
5. Sometimes I feel like a robot.
6. I have water machine thing and I sometimes drink two to three glasses and fill up one more at a time just to hear the "glug-glug" noise it makes.
7. I often find myslef walking in circles with a diameter of about 3 and 1/2 feet

Ha. That was harder than I thought... I had at least fifty things people didn't know about me... and when I put down number one, I forgot 'em all! Haha. Oh, and I guess I tag you, oh beloved one and only reader. =]

Rain

Is a bully.
Constantly beating down on me
When I'm trying to walk home
And getting all my clothes dirty.
With all those cars speeding by
Not knowing they might just die
All because of rain, rain, rain...

So Sick...

That phrase can describe this weekend in two different ways: Sick, as in amazing. And sick, as in ill. How you ask? Well my dear friend, I will answer that with another question: How amazing is our God, our Abba Father, our redeemer, our friend, our saviour, our creator? He was there and it was super sweet. He gave us sweet messages, and good fellowship. He redeemed us, and He re-filled us. He gave us victory over sin death and the enemy.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony they did not love their lives to the death."

-Revelations 12:11

And we got some sweet sweaters. =]

And the second part...

I have a cold.

Winter Camp

Winter camp is tomorrow... It... Is... Going... To... Be... Amazing!!!

Winter Camp!!!

Something Missing?

Richard Cory

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace;
In fine we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory seemed to have it all. But apparently, something was missing. He needed something to pull him through life and make it out on the other end feeling alive. But He couldn't find it.

• Revelations 3:20

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."

He's found you. You know where He is. So open the door! He'll pull you through the hard times.

• Zecharaiah 4:6

"...not by might or by strenght, but my spirit, declares the Lord Almighty"

Here the Lord was speaking to Zerubbabel about the work that was set before him that was too much for him to handle on his own. The Lord offers His love, strength, mercy, and grace. Can you open your door?

Study notes

Genesis 45:5 & 7

"... Because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you... 7God sent me ahead of you to save your lives by a great deliverance."

• In the Bible, alot of foreshadowing is used. And I think that these verses here use some. Just look at John 3:16:

For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

In Genesis 45:5, it says: "God sent me ahead of you...", which can go along with: "He gave his only begotten son...", from 3:16

Where it says, In 45:7: "... to save your lives by a great deliverance.", that can be compared to what it says in 3:16. That entire verse in fact, speaks of a great deliverance of the people from the consequences of their sins (Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death...").

So? What does this verse in Genesis mean?

1. Questions come up like:

• What did we need rescuing from?
• Who was Joseph foreshadowing?
• What are we being rescued into?

Lets now turn to the second question (we'll get to the first later)

• Who is Joseph? What is significant about Him?

1. He was the lord over alot of land
2. He was the cheif adviser of the pharoh
3. In this verse it says he was one sent ahead to save lives in a great way.

• How is Jesus like that?

1. He is Lord over all things
2. He is at the right hand of God
3. He was sent to save the world from the sins by dying in the horrible and gruesome story of the cross

   Lets focus now on the first question asked: What did we need rescuing from? And why?

   • Eternal damnation is what we need saving from. Or in other words, rescuing from hell.
   
   
   • What is hell? Hell is known as the lake of fire, the second death, the blackest darkness, a place of weeping and nashing of teeth, a place of loneliness and sorrow and suffering. Doesn't sound alot like the retirement plan you'd want after you die, huh?

Now, onto the final question:

1. 1 John 2:25 says this

"And He Himself has promised us this: eternal life."

No matter what, we will have a tomorrow, or an afterlife. It's up to us though, on whether or not it's in heaven or hell. We know what hell looks like, but heaven?

• Rev 21: 3 says it clearly.

"...I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them."

But now we wonder, what does that look like?

• Rev 21:5-6

"He who was seated on the throne said, "5I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true. 6He said to me: "it is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life."

• Then in verses 9-27 then go deeper into what there is. A city made of pure gold shining with the glory of God, surrounded by walls 200 ft. thick, made of jasper 1400 miles long, tall, and wide. A city that doesn't need a sun, or lights because Jesus is the light. It's gates made of pearl never are closed, yet still keeping impure and evil things and people who are impure and do things shameful and deceitful out, thus making the city absolutely perfect in every single way imaginable way possible.

Belated New Years

This is going to be a good year. I know it. The Lord does good things through those whom are faithful.

Speaking of New Years, I knew I needed to have a resolution. And so the pondering began.
4 days later, self control entered into my resolution category.

What are your resolutions???

Catch Up

I'm not sure why you would read this blog. I sure know I'm not so great. But by the power invested in me by the Holy Spirit... I'm going to blog my butt off.

Any way. Review over the last 3 weeks.

• Got me dreadlocks done =]
• Went to cold Colorado. Saw Mason and Jeremiah.
• Missed home.
• Finally came back.
• Waited for the bus to get us for 2 whole hours (yes that was almost exactly how late it was)
• Went to back to school
• Fell asleep in el latin
• Went to Reality Carp. (gosh I LOVE that place).
• Came home

Man, oh man... I'm terrible at blogging. But I'll get better. =]

Apologies...

I'm sorry I haven't been able to post a blog lately...

I lost a pencil yesterday... But not just any pencil... This pencil, was mechanicaly... And it wasn't just a mechanicaly enhanced pencil, it was my favorite pencil...

But on the upside, I lost it at the getting to know you concert. :')

That was fun. But now I need to find a new pencil...