Thoughtful in Selah
Sunday, March 30, 2008
For Life's Little Mysteries: Why?
The topics discussed:
Why do women wear high heels?
Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Why women's clothes button from the left and men's from the right.
Why are some car's gas tanks on the left and others on the right?
Why are DVD's in larger packages than CD's?
Why whales are endangered but no chickens.
Why don't more people wear shoes with velcro fasteners?
Why do taxis drivers stop working early on rainy days?
Why is milk in a rectangular carton while soft drinks are in cylindrical containers?
Here's the link to the article for the answers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=548730&in_page_id=1879
Now you know...
Friday, March 28, 2008
Brave New Worship
Wednesday night AppleJacks came over and we really wanted to worship. So we started getting into it and I had two new worship songs. As I started playing a new one entitled "Brave New Worship" the Holy Spirit overcame both of us and we really entered into worship. During that time, AppleJacks prayed an awesome prayer about us not being afraid and not caring what anybody else thinks of us as we live our lives for Christ and that we need to be brave. This awesome song lasted roughly half an hour.
After worship we sat down and were talking about different things in our lives and whatnot. Half way through our conversation, I started getting really shaky and jittery and I knew that it was the Holy Spirit. AppleJacks told me that he was feeling it to and I told him that we were definitely going to start worshiping again. So at midnight we started getting into the same song again. It was so AWESOME. I believe that we have a new theme song.
Onto a new topic...
Yesterday I went to Walmart and bought our first wireless router. 802.11G with speedbooster. Sweet... Today my WiFi card came for my laptop and right now, I'm sitting on the couch in the living room posting to my blog... wirelessly.
I'm sorry this post has been so dull and boring but when your friends are nagging at you, I guess you gotta update.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Attempts To Be Artistic
Please Enjoy and feel free to download. If you cannot download them off webshots or even off my facebook, please email me a brief description of what it looks like and I'll email you the high quality original.
http://good-times.webshots.com/slideshow/562918390YFvSmn
Labels: Posts of my Personal Life
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Life gets crazy and you realize you're growing up
Why is this significant? Because I realized that I'm growing up and my "adult" life is beginning now. Lately I've been upsessed with college and freaking out on how to start my own life. I have a great plan for what I want to do but I have no freaking idea on how I'm going to take care of everything. This is where a lot of faith is necessary that God will provide.
Where to begin.... Ah yes.....
I turned in my application for PSEOP (Post - Secondary Enrollment Option Program) which is just a fancy way to say that I'll start college as a senior in high school and it's free. The guidance counselor has done so much for me that a lot of the stress has been lifted off of me.
Then a couple days later, he comes and finds me and says, "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse. Have you ever heard of boy's state?" Thanks to DA I have. I'm not that enthusiastic about it but when I got home from school my parents started freaking out and saying that it would be awesome for me to go and that it is a high and prestigious award. (I really had no idea.) So I'm thinking about doing it although that is just another thing to make mer nervous for summer! Whoopy!
After next year I'm planning to go to the college of my choice - Full Sail. I want to major in show production and touring. Something else to look forward to stressing out about. With a tuition of $46,000 (that's not a typo) it's going to be one huge financial burden placed on my shoulders. Plus not to mention how difficult it's going to be to start life as a college student in a completely different state where I won't know a single soul.
Sometime between now and that time, I really need to find a job - something else for me to juggle. FUN!
By the way - I have another "award" to add to my collection: I am now a member of the National Honor Society.
Labels: Posts of my Personal Life
To Ranting Heathen
To Ranting Heathen -
I think you may be starting to get some of the point. This is just one of those things that doesn't "fit in the box". There is only one intent of life and that is that we are created to worship God.
Now I've felt this way for a very long time and there's sometimes I still don't get it:
It seems like God is almost greedy. He wants all the worship and he created us to praise Him. Now c'mon - if you just think about that it does sound a bit selfish. Any Joe Shmo could tell you that. And I can honestly see why it turns you (collectively, people who disagree with certain Christian views) off.
The reason why it doesn't turn me off and I still love God and still worship Him is because he loves me so much more. He provides and cares for me. And the blessings that he has in store for everyone is so great you cannot even imagine. I have personally been infilled with the Holy Spirit on multiple occasions and the feeling is phenomenal. There's just no words to describe the greatness.
Here's an analogy that might be able to help. If I just randomly gave you $10,000 do you think that you and I would become really good friends if you knew that I was going to keep giving you money? I'm just making sure your seeing my point here. If someone is blessing you with such great things - including life and eternal life - isn't the least you could do is thank that person?
I realize that this might be difficult to understand considering you don't believe God exists - or do you? (I'm not certain of all your views) There is one thing of which I am certain though. In order to experience something great, you must take the first leap - either fearlessly to try something new or out of faith as you are scared to death. It all starts with being open to a new mindset.
I'm not asking you to change or anything and I'm not convicting - I'm just asking you to think about "Life". What purpose are we serving if we are just living and dying? If there is nothing out there to hope for than what good is caring? Why should I be a moral person if there's no consequences against it?
I must admit that this is quite an interesting conversation...
Labels: Posts of my Faith
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Bad Things Happen When You Mock God
I just got this email from my grandparents and it contains a list of who has mocked God and the consequences that have followed.
John Lennon (Singer):
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:
"Christianity will end, it will disappear.
I do not have to argue about that. I am certain.
Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him" (1966).
Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.
Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency.
Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.
Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),
While smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:"God, that's for you."
He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.
The man who built the Titanic
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said:
"Not even God can sink it"
The result:
I think you all know what happened to the Titanic
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:
"I don't need your Jesus".
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment
Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:
"Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell".
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.
Campinas (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend.....
The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
"My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You."
She responded: "Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full "
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,
The car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken
Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer)
Said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
What our President is really saying...
Did anybody else have really strange dreams last night? I had one that kind of scarred me and now I'm slightly traumitized by a horrible mental pic. I heard that everyone at school had weird dreams last night and I was wondering if you did too.
Second thing is I found a couple videos on Youtube that I just had to share. These are actually pretty old because I've seen them a while ago but they are still really funny...
