check it out

I have not shared a video on my BLOG for a while. I think this one is worth sharing. Check it out. That little kid is so funny, I feel like I would really get along well with his dad. I think he was right on with his calm reassurance. This video is a keeper. Ha ha ha ha ha. That is literally what I said when I watched this video. Great stuff. So, this picture is kind of my artistic expression for the day. The people, their positions, and just the overall sense you get from the picture explains a little bit how I feel. Don't read too much into that. BUT at the same time, take the comment for what it is. I love God with all my heart, soul, and mind. But a mind is a mind. Don't be scared, just send me massive quantities of CLAY so I can make this scenario come true with my friends camera...that would be tiiiiight. I just have one last thing I wanted to share with you all. Who ever you all are. Because I know you are reading. I appreciate it so much. Ohhh, and for best results for the picture above, just drag it and drop it into something like paint, or if you have photo shop, EVEN BETTER!!

G'Night!

got some pictures.

Remember when I took that picture of the train car and the flag pole on Tuesday? Well, check um out. Well, here is how the train car turned out. Pretty cool, but I wanted the background to be blurry, and the train car to be super clear. Didn't get quite what I wanted, and the wheels on the train car are too bright. And here of course is the flag pole. I really don't ike it. I guess I don't know what I really wanted. But, I don't like what I got. Up next we have my favorite picture from the reel. It was the overpass, blurry, sweet picture. Ohhh yes, daddy like!! This is the picture I really like. Some things I did not get to accomplish today was....dinner, my Bible study, meeting my wife, deciding what my favorite place to be is, understand why I am so fascinated with people and their eyes, and finding the answer to why am I so blessed? I am actually in my evening class right now. I am soooo bord. It is crazy, we come to class, mess around with our pictures on the computer...and watch him do the same. FOR ALMOST 3 HOURS!!! I have got to get out of here and get some food, I am very hungry. Here is one more before and after picture. Dang, I almost forgot the "thinking stairs." There are some stairs at school in the Walb Student Union that cause me to think deeply every time I walk on them. It is amazing to me to watch people. I am so fascinated by people and how they do things. I study their interaction with objects, other people, and try to understand their motivation. Many people on campus don't like to make eye contact. I love making eye contact and smiling. But, it is okay if someone else does not.
Anyways, these are the thinking stairs. They go up a little bit further. I love them, they are wide and interesting. Goodbye

ohh BABY!!!

This morning, after I got out of work I went straight to the ER and had my 12th infusion!!! I can't believe I have been on TYSABRI for a whole year!!! I am still going strong and it is amazing!!! Glory be to GOD!!

Our country is in ruin. What we are doing with money, and bail outs and all this crap is horrible. This is bad bad bad news. The way the U.S. deals or should I say, doesn't deal with money is going to destroy us. Bad bad stuff.Young Life was soo good. It was good to be back. I love the way Young Life does things for kids. What an amazing organization to be a part of. Christ is in it, big time. I will have pictures from the next CLUB. PEACE BE WITH YOU!!

it's official

okay, it is officially official. I have a cold. This seems odd to me because I thought I just recently got over a cold. Hummmm, dern (yes I wanted to spell it that way) season. My nose is stuffed up, my throat is sore, my forehead is warm, and my nose is all like, "ehhh I am gonna drip and be a punk." But whatever, I don't care.....maybe just a lil.

I had my first test for my Elements of Law test today. I honestly thought I did pretty good. I studied for it a lot, and reviewed and did all that I could. We will see if the work paid off.

Tomorrow I start Young Life CLUB back up. It will be the first one for 2009. Pretty exciting stuff. So, because YL is starting back up, I knew I had to take advantage of the time I had tonight and try to snap some pictures. I had a great idea to go and get an action shot of a train going by, and I would explain it futher, but there is no point to do that. When I pulled up to the tracks, the train was going by, and I didn't have time to get out the camera with tri-pod. I still stapped some pictures. We will see on Thursday if they turned out any good. These two shots should give you an idea. I did long exposures for both shots, and had the aperture opened all the way. I think they should turn out good, but we will see once I develop. I am going to go to bed now, I am sick, so that is what I need to do.

i-hop, study/sick, Bible study

Started off the day with a little I to the Hoppity. I met with my friend Brandin, the kid who I took sking with me not too long ago, and have known for a little over a year. I met him last year just from hanging out at the Snider lunch room, and going to his table every week to talk with him. Well, sense then, we have established a friendship and try to meet up with each other every now and then. It's good, God is at work some how, even if I can't see how.
When I left I-Hop, I went straight to the library. The library is good because it is very quiet, and there is no mistaking why I am there. I am there to read, take notes, and mess around on the computers just for a little bit. BUT MOSTLY STUDY!! It was quiet, and there was some studying. I have my first Elements of Law test tomorrow morning. I am feeling pretty good about it. God knows I have spent enough time reviewing, reading, and memorizing the material. I feel I should do good. We will see tomorrow. When I got home from the library, I went out back and kicked what was left of my beautiful snow man. If you remember not to long ago, I had a magnificent man of snow proudly standing in my back yard. ~CLICK THIS LINK~ to see what he use to look like during his glory days. As you can well see, he is not in such good shape any more. And in all actuality, he is much worse now even. I kicked what was left of his chest, and now he is nothing more than a puny base. So long friend.Then it was off to Bible Study Fellowship. It was really hard to concentrate tonight though. About half way through the day, I started getting the sniffles, sore throat, and all that non-sense. I was sniffling so much, it was annoying me, I was super tired, and worn out feeling, so I just had troubles concentrating. But, I do remember that the jist of Liviticus 25,26, & 27 were that all men should be treated equally, God is a fair God, and that He needs to be respected and he will then respect you. Seems simple. Ohhh Israelites, you silly silly people. You are so much like people of today. Ohhh Silly, silly people of today (including me).

G'Night! Say a prayer that this darn cold goes away quickly. THANKS!!

Do you believe in what you see?

I had a conversation with one of my friends a while back. We talked of God, and many subjects that were "God concerned." When it came down to the, "well, do you believe in God?" He was kind of beating around the bush, I got an answer that was kind of like, "well, I know everything didn't come from a dust particle." He further explained that it just was not enough. I asked him, "well, would you surrender your life if Christ came back right in front of you, if he let you touch him, or did miracles?" He kind of shrugged and said, "well yea." I have a strong inkling that he would not. I mean, I am studying the Israelites in my Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) and they had God do all the most amazing things EVER, but still choose to turn their backs and go against him, and do their own thing instead. That is where blind faith plays such a HUGE part in the walk with Christ/personal relationship. Trusting no matter what the situation is, allows you to create a relationship with God, that brings you to new and inspirational levels in your life. It is truly amazing. For me, personally. My belief in God can be explained like my belief in the wind. I can not physically see wind. I can not physically touch wind. Sometimes when it is really cold, it will blow past me and give me chills do the innermost part of my bones. When I see a great tree flow back and fourth on a windy day, I can see the impact wind has on it. The wind becomes real and tangible, but not physically present. With GOD, I can not physically see Him. I can not touch Him or have Him physically touch me. BUT, without the slightest doubt in my mind I KNOW he exists. I know He exists when lives change, for better or worse. When I am chilled to the bone after experiencing the Holy Spirit move in such a powerful way, it is just undeniable. Today, the Young Life conference in Louisville continued. We heard the speaker speak, but the WORSHIP music was what really got me. Don't get me wrong, I took some really awesome stuff from the speaker (Jack), but the worship music, and singing to God with 400 other like minded individuals can do something to a person. This was Jesse, he was the worship music leader for the weekend, and boy was I glad he was. Filled with the Holy Spirit that man was. Great music, very fun, very Holy. I am so glad I was able to go to Louisville with my team this weekend, it was GREAT!!

I got home and took George to Dave Church. Again, an amazing message, and George was glad I kind of persuaded him to go. He didn't want to at first, but after I got him there, he was very thankful he did. This is a great picture of Dave. In his message tonight, we talked about the church, and what the Church's stance needs to be on the topic of the cause. His cause, to paraphrase the whole thing would look like this. [The cause is more important than the people]. SLAM BAM, thank you ma'am! These were some of my notes, I am just going to throw them down because I am tired, and I am taking a kid from Snider to breakfast tomorrow morning, so I wanna go to bed. I love you for taking an interest in my life. I really do.
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CAUSE: We need 2 do what is in Gods best interest: proclaiming Him & loving Him.
-drawing others to Him.
-doing unto others what we want done to us.
-sacrifice ourselves: live in a way that works for others best interest....no matter what. This must continually be made the central focus.
-thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Do we really strive for that? Making those two one in the same is the goal.
-must be sold out for the cause, willing to die 4 the cause.
-a Clear cause creates community. ++COMMITMENT TO THE CAUSE=COMMUNITY++
-Programs, structure, success, aren't gonna be found in this Ministry, BUT A CAUSE, we will have, and it will be bright and powerful.
-implant and execute the principles that allow real people to do for others what they want done to themselves.
We want the big picture (or big opportunities in life), but God points out the little things & we can't even do that correctly or aren't willing.
-He heals your diseases. we all got problems, not a physical healing, but a healing from any kind of condemning promise there is not.

When it is too hard to move forward in Christ, or maybe it is just too hard at the moment, or frustrating or whatever. At the very least, just stand in Christ. Just stand and accept the Truth of salvation overflow into your heart, slowly everything will do exactly what it needs to do.

Louisville trip

WOW, what a blast. From the drive up, to the first song we sang.Here of course is Sam, fellow Young Life leader. I believe I will be spooning with him later on in the evening when I go to sleep. Of course, not on purpose....This is a picture I captured of one side of the room of people. It is awesome because there is so much energy, and God is so ALIVE In these people that are close to my age and just like minded. It is such a powerful thing to be a part of. Our group, like our area people ended up at Applebees, and we ate desserts, and it was really fun and awesome. God has showed up in a big way. I felt lead to give a toast. So I took a glass and got everyone's attention, and explained that ever sense I got involved with Young Life, I have been able to be accountable to the things I want in life, and have just grown so much by being able to be around people that are the same as me, or at the start, were the same as what I wanted to be. Very cool, very good for me to say. Response was excellent from one girl. I explained how I had never heard of Young Life, and then I got super involved, she said she needed to hear that. EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON, I constantly learn to listen to God when he tuggs. AMEN.