Thoughtful in Selah

Conversing With God

2008-12-08T15:04:00.002-05:00

I apologize for neglecting this blog for quite some time. I have been posting most of my entires on my facebook. For those of you who only read posts here, I think I will catch you up to pace with some of my most recent posts. Beginning with one that I wrote yesterday titled "Conversing with God"

I really have not had a good week spiritually. It was probably the worst I have ever had it. But last night I was getting sick of it and so I started praying before I went to sleep. One thing that me and my accountability partner's have been praying for is the ability to have dreams at night, because com'on, wouldn't that be cool? So I was praying and I just said, "God, I need a bit of encouragement, so I pray that You would speak to me tonight." Well right after I finished praying I heard someone call my name. At first I thought I was just making it up, but it kept persisting. It was a quiet, calm, deep voice with a small echo trailing after. I'm serious. I kept hearing my name and so I replied, "God, if You are speaking, Your servant is listening."

Next I heard Him say, "Open your Bible to Romans, chapter 6, verse 23." This was about midnight last night and I had already gone to bed, but being faithful I said, "I'm going to walk by faith and trust that this is really God telling me all this." I realize that everyone should know what Romans 6:23 is but because it was really late, I temporarily forgot it.

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."

I sat and pondered this for a minute. At first I was terrified because I felt like I deserved to die for what I had been doing. I was not living the life that God wanted me to and now I felt like he was going to take revenge. But that's not what the Spirit said. Instead, He was saying this, "You need to realize that sin is a very serious thing and I absolutely despise it. But I'm only reminding you of that. Instead I want you to focus on the fact that keeping right with me, though it may be difficult, will pay off and you will be blessed with the greatest gift ever!"

I was still kind of scared that God himself pointed me to a verse that made me feel like I was basically unworthy of living (so to speak). So he gave me one more verse. He said, "Now go an look up Ephesians 3:13." I had studied Ephesians before but I couldn't remember anything out of it so I turned there right away. Remind you that I was just praying about needing encouragement from the Lord.

"I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my suffering for you, which are your glory."

If your sitting there scratching your head wondering how that has anything to do with the situation here, don't worry, I didn't understand it either. I said, "I don't understand what your telling me here God." He explained to me that basically the point was not to be discouraged. He said that when the world doesn't seem fair and there are circumstances that just seem to be ruining your life, like Jesus' crucification, He did that for us and we should be proud that he loves us to that extreme.

I was quiet for a few more minutes and I didn't hear anything so I literally asked God as if he was sitting at the edge of my bed, "Do You have anything else to say?" His response was, and I quote verbatim, "No. Now go to sleep and you will have a restful night for I am the One who gives you peace."

Wow.

I was still curious, though, and I went back to the original topic of dreams. "God, will You give me dreams tonight?" He replied, and again, verbatim, "No, for you are not ready yet." Being the impatient and minimal understanding human, I pursued further and asked, "When will I be ready?" and He replied, "You will be ready when you take steps of faith that you never thought possible."

Was I disappointed that I didn't have any powerful dreams last night? No, I wasn't. However I was more motivated to think that God wants to use me even MORE! God told me himself, clearly, that He had plans for me that I'm not even ready to take on yet.

I apologize for the length of this note but I want to share the conversation that I had this morning too.

I can't quite remember how the conversation started but I do remember God saying, "Remember that you must take great steps of faith to work towards my return to Earth. You are the salt of the Earth and I want you to make it pleasing to me. I have created you to share my beauty and love and spread my kisses." I'm totally serious God said that this morning. ...and a shout out to Kurt right here with 'God's Kisses'. I decided to take somewhat of a daring move and so I asked God, "When will we see you return again?" Not to go into eschatology here but he replied and this was the last thing he told me, "You will see my return when the sun turns to golden rain." ...and what that means, I have no clue.

Satan is Losing - Jesus is the Winna, Mon

2008-09-30T23:00:00.002-04:00

Hang onto your hats ladies and gentleman, God is moving big in my life. He just now re-ignited His Fire within me and I've started randomly speaking in Tongues again - praise the Lord, and he is really giving me a lot of stuff to share with you all. I realize that this is the second post in one day, but it is going to be a spectacular one!

First of all, I really feel completely set free. I have an emptiness that only the Holy Spirit can bring. Hallelujah!
Secondly, because of this, I want to share everything that Lord is trying to spill out of me and it keeps coming too fast so hold on while I try and overflow here..........

God told me to look up some scriptures pertaining to Joy - go figure. I found 25 instances of expressing joy in the Bible and two caught my attention. I think you will be astonished at how God is going to use them.

1. 1 Samuel 18:6

6 When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines and lutes.

I just listened to Nathan Issac's teaching from the GenOne conference in D.C. and he was talking about a pattern in the Bible where enemies have killed themselves with the weapons setup to destroy us. So this particular passage applies great here as one of Nathan's examples was David and Goliath. See Goliath was supposed to take on David and his goal was to kill David with his gigantic sword. Well it ended up being Goliath's sword that took of Goliath's head. It is the weapon of the enemy that kills the enemy. And just like I was referring to in one of my latter posts, my worship is my shield and that is what the enemy is attacking. And it is the weapon used in that attack that has defeated him! So from this passage, it is the joyful songs - which I am now singing - with worship that has defeated my enemy.

2. Ezra 3:11-13
11 With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD :
"He is good;
his love to Israel endures forever."
And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12 But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. 13 No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.

See the connection? Neither did I until the Lord reminded me of another verse: 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.

wow...

So it is almost like this huge cleaning that has taken place, where the Holy Spirit has moved in my life again and it is almost like rebuilding my temple into a new clean slate. So because I am a child of God, I rejoice with joy that God has blessed me with a new foundation for a new temple - so to speak.

again, wow...

I think you can meditate on that for awhile because I can't explain it any better. Also part of this note is the following link. It will take you to rhapsody that will play a song by Ron Kenoly that I find perfect at this moment. http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.22856937

True Happiness Dawns from a Sudden Realization

2008-09-30T18:44:00.001-04:00

It's a long title I know. In case you missed it: "True Happiness Dawns from a Sudden Realization".

Any guesses at what I'm going to talk about?

yeah... so, here goes...

There was all this stuff about how I thought I liked a certain someone. Turns out, all my friends were really worried about the whole situation, and etc. It really felt right. And because of the timing with the death of Daniel, I knew it wasn't perfect, but it still felt like, 'I'm going to be careful here and I know this is what God is leading me into and so I'm going to follow it'. Turns out through a huge slap upside the head at midnight last night that that wasn't true whatsoever.

I suddenly realized that when Daniel died, it took a large part of me and it feels like half of me has been destroyed. And so, without even knowing it, I unconsciously began trying to fill in that missing piece with what I thought was right - or maybe, what I wanted to be right.

I was in a pretty somber mood today just thinking about this whole ordeal. I feel bad that it all turned out this way but I know we still know each other for a reason, whether or not it is for this reason. So I am much happier now that I know what to watch for. I think this is part of what was getting me so frustrated and angry.

**And when I changed my facebook status from "it's complicated" to "single", the only thing that I could do was smile a huge smile.

What to do with myself?

2008-09-30T18:23:00.001-04:00

I am at a point currently in my emotional storm where I have nothing better to do at which case all I can do is just vent.

As a forewarning, I will be stepping on toes, standing on my soap box and passing out a lot of pennies as I give more than just my two cents.

All I can say is that it is not fair. But that doesn't do it justice. It is a satanic attack aimed at my heart and geared towards my emotional destruction. The thief in the night came with brutal force and he knocked me down hard. I'm here in the middle of this chaotic highway in the middle of a down pour and I'm calling out with everything that I have, so loudly, that it is physically hurting. "My Lord, My God, where are you? I need help! I feel so ashamedly selfish and mournfully arrogant that I feel like I can get up myself... but I need Your Spirit to tear down my pride, and to break the spiritual forces of religion that keep me inside of my box and I need Your help, oh Lord! Abba Father! I cry on my hands and knees for Your hand to uphold me!"

Here's where the strong words come: Everyone keeps saying, I know Daniel is here and I know he can still hear us and he is with us, etc. I'm not sure if I believe that. I know Daniel is in heaven but I doubt he is actually here with us. Even though it is a comfort thing, I just am not sure about that. I keep trying to cry out to God to really help me break through this trial but it seems like my voice is just fading away. I keep finding it hard to really feel God like I have at TheCall and other conferences.

God keeps pointing me to this chapter of the bible but just now, he showed me some verses from the first part of the chapter. In Colossians 3, God keeps showing me verses 15-17 (which I will get to later - I'll even quote it for you below) but this time he called me to verses 1-4:
" 1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. "

.... **sigh** ...I guess I'm just frustrated.

I don't know what to think really. Here is says that we just really need to keep focusing that everything is alright - that it is all part of God's plan. 'Keep looking up and keep pressing in.' So we have been born again in Christ, so now that we are living in Him, we are that much closer to the angels in heaven - that being, our Daniel.

.....***"Oh, what I would give to hear his voice again"

So God tells us to keep pressing in, right? Here's verses 15-17:
15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

'We will reach peace in Him when we sing psalms, hymns, praises, spiritual songs.' So we all need peace! So let's get into worship! Well right now it just seems that WE CAN'T! An attack is being made on our spiritual lives in our very worship!

After sharing my testimony of TheCall at my church, someone frantically came up to me telling me that God told them specifically to tell me "to guard your heart." I thought, 'thanks for your concern but my friends and I worship nearly every other two days - I think I'm good'. Well that's just it! The very thing that was supposed to be shielding us from the weapons of the enemy is the very thing that the enemy is trying to tear down. First he's working to break the shields so then he can come and destroy us as we are defenseless - HOW LOW!!! That is just so--------AH! I'm so mad I am literally screaming in my head and my spirit is enraged!

It seems that every time we try and get together, it is a culmination of all of these little distractions that forces our worship to end early or prevents me from really diving into it. I don't know about you guys, but I need a spiritual exorcision - a removal from all crap down inside - and I need a revival just like TheCall to come. Honestly, I was pretty torqued that we had to cut it short on Saturday night. I felt that we were on a verge of a break through after one or two songs and it didn't happen because no one wanted to participate in the last song.

Spirit of religion - I'm calling you out. You have no place in my temple, that is, the Lord house. I am a vessel of the Lord, God Almighty and you have no control over me. I will worship freely and truly dive into such a spiritual movement that I will meet the Lord in a powerful explosion of praise. No more will worship be under your constraints, and no longer will you hold me back. Traditions and strict methods are destroyed in the name of Jesus so we can come to Jehovah Jirah with the chains broken.

After all of this had been laid on my heart, this song came on the radio just as I started my car:
http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3321397

Leaving a legacy, leaving a mantle

2008-09-30T18:20:00.000-04:00

I wasn't sure exactly how all this would come out, but I feel that it is time to share my thoughts and recent experiences with everyone. Normally I would post this all on my blog but I want people to easily be able to find it here on facebook. All of this is going to be scattered a little but I'm trying to catch everything that I want - that I need to get out.

After TheCall, I was on a major spiritual high considering I was just infilled with the Holy Spirit and I now have the gift of speaking in Tounges. Well all of that kinda came crashing down the morning I heard that Daniel was killed. Most people don't know it but Daniel was my best friend and I feel like I can honestly say that I was his too. For about a week, there was just nothing I wanted to do and grief was overwhelmingly taking over.

Just the other day I read about the five stages of grieving.
1. Denial/Surrealism - This isn't happening, I can't comprehend nor grasp it
2. Questioning - Why is this happening to me?
3. Anger - THIS ISN'T FAIR
4. Depression - No motivation and deep mourning
5. Acceptance - I'm ok with it all now

I moved through the first three stages all in about two hours that Thursday morning. However, a heavy depression began setting in to the point where I started withdrawing inside of myself and I had horrible thoughts and I started being mean to my friends and I just didn't want to talk about it at all.

One week later at Remain (which is my youth group on Thursday night) my youth leader thought it was best that we share with everyone on exactly how we had been feeling. It was a bad night for me. I just really felt that it was all too soon. I had said it a couple times that Sunday after the funeral that I didn't want the burial to come and go because I was afraid that all would be said and done and things would move on and all would be forgotten. I was terrified of this happening.

Afterwards, Marriana and Jordan and myself went over to Jordan's house and we were talking in my car and he started praying over me for comfort and that I would have God's Fire again. I began feeling such a powerful embrace and holy presence that was so calming that I've NEVER felt before. My fire just lit up so bright at that point and God moved HUGE! I began speaking in Tongues like I never have before. God even delivered a message through my mouth between four people!

At this point I was doing so much better and I still am now that my Fire is back. I am not, however, to stage five of the grieving process though. I have not exactly come to terms on acceptance - and I don't know if I will ever be able to.

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Through this whole time, everyone has been telling me about how Daniel had this amazing mantle that he left behind and that I would be the one to pick it up and run with it. This is just really powerful to me. Obviously I cannot replace Daniel in personality or spirit but I feel like I am the one to continue on his ministry to others in worship. Ever since this, my worship has been so much more powerful - and frequent for that matter. It seems that every time I play, there's always a crowd that gathers. I made the comment to someone that "It isn't about how Daniel touched me during his life, it is how he is touching me now." I think that sentence is the best way I can put it. His legacy is touching myself so greatly, and yes, I am going to miss him so much, but I just feel such a holy annoiting being placed on my life in my worship because it just feels like I'm stepping up and being that worship leader that Daniel helped teach me to be.

When I was searching for a new youth group to go to, I found Remain and the at the time, I kept coming back just because the worship was so intense and all of the kids were so passionate and hungry for God. And because of that, Daniel showed me how worship is really done. He taught me so much in music and how to be a leader in worship.
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I also wanted to share a little bit from my speech that I gave at his funeral.

"At one of the conferences that we were at, Nathan Isaacs had said, 'Since this [we] is the generation that has escaped death [in abortion], we do not fear death.' There is no better example of this than Daniel. Daniel was not even afraid of death because he was a warrior of God." And I can tell you the exact thing Daniel was probably doing as he was riding his bike that night: he was probably worshiping. He told me a few times that he rode his bike to pray and worship by himself for awhile.

I think that there is something to be said about someone who completes his mission here on Earth in 18 and a half years.

Hearing from God

2008-08-23T23:27:00.002-04:00

God did quite an amazing thing this night while I was at Church of the King. During the sermon, God had said, "Phillipians." I was just like... "Say what?" So I ignored it thinking that I just said it in my head rather than heard it. Well, a moment later, I hear "Phillipians." It just kept coming. So, by faith, I turned in my FireBible to Phillipians and I just happened to have a sticky note there with a verse marked: Phillipans 2:13.

"...for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose."

Simple verse, right? To you, maybe, but it applies to a much larger picture to me and the other guys from my circle of faith. See, lately we have been praying for purity in our daily lives in what we do - what we say, how we act, and even our thoughts. This is just one of those little reminders that God is still BIG and we are to be walking in His footsteps according to His plan. I guess I just can't effectively explain this one in words.

Shortly after this, God spoke to me a second time and said "Ezekiel." So now I'm thinking, alright, now this is cool. God is telling me some cool stuff here. So I flip to Ezekiel to find that there are 48 chapters there. I'm just thinking, 'how on Earth am I supposed to find what God wants to tell me out of 48 chapters?' So I prayed that God would give me a number. He pointed me to 20 so I turned to the second page of chapter 20 by happenstance to find a section title in bold letters: "Prophecy Against the South".

I don't want to spoil it for someone else but this is actually the answer to a dream from Cinnamon. (If you don't know the dream, than you'll have to ask her about it.) So anyway, I started reading this short little paragraph to see what it said.

"The Word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest of the southland. Say to the southern forest: 'Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it. Everyone will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenhed.'" ~Ezekiel 20:45-48

Now time for the context: In this time pertaining to this particular passage, the people in this land worshipped idols. So basically God was not very happy and plans to destroy the land because of it. However, afterwards, everyone will return back to God and praise only Him. I believe that this is a shift in the nation that will begin soon.

I'm not the most philisophical person, but I'm going to put this passage to present times. I think that we can compare the fire to hurricane Katrina and the damage done to the south, mainly Louisiana. Obviously with Mardis Gras, and the things that take place down there, New Orleans is not a holy city by any means. Same thing in the days of Ezekiel. But the Bible says that they will turn back to God and like verse 47 says, "from south to north" I believe that a revival will start and begin sweeping up the nation when it starts. So Cinnamon has recieved a dream that has called us to pray for the south, and I don't mean to ruin it for anyone or lead a different interpretation here but I believe that we need to start a prayer initiative to begin interceeding over the south of the United States because things are going to begin to change and it will sweep to the North.

Why wouldn't God begin a change - a revival - in probably the most unholy city (other than Los Vegas) in the United States?

Vision of Abortion

2008-08-20T22:23:00.002-04:00

"In front of me sits a baby that is larger in size than me. Behind him is a large wooden door that stands wide open. As I slowly approach the door and lay my hand on it to move it, the door suddenly slams shut."

This is the first vision that I have ever had and honestly I don't know the true meaning. I have prayed about the 'translation' and I'm trusting that God will tell me soon. I really do believe that this was a movement - a transformation - to end abortion.

God's Calling on My Life

2008-08-20T22:16:00.002-04:00

Lately I have been praying that God would really begin to show me what he has in store and that He would give me multiple gifts of the Holy Spirit and supernatural abilities. How many of you know that God hears, and answers prayers, amen? YES!

Lately, I have not been able to stop praying in the Spirit. Even at work, whether or not I'm alone, I'll start praying in the Spirit. I feel that there are going to be powerful things happening when I begin praying.

About 20 minutes ago, I was working on my summer reading assignment just working away quitely on my laptop when I feel this urge placed on my heart. It just kept saying, "Call [AppleJacks] and pray with him." So, being an obedient servant of God, I call AppleJacks and say, "This is going to sound a little strange, but is something wrong?"

Sure enough, God had told me that there was something that needed to be prayed for and He called me to do it.

My Testimony from TheCall 2008

2008-08-17T21:57:00.002-04:00

God has done an amazing thing in my life and this is the praise report. I really wanted to share this testimony to everyone who reads it in hopes that they find it encouraging in their relationship with God and that they will see how awesome God is.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 was a night that I will never forget. It was about 11:45 PM when I had just laid down to go to sleep. Somewhere around there, my roommate had made a comment how his shoulder had just spontaneously twitched. At that same instant, mine had done so too. This seemed a little eerie. I then felt the room begin to grow darker and something like a black cloud made its presence. I told my roommate, JD, that we needed to pray. We both sat up in bed and begin to break the spiritual forces that were there. We began casting out demons from the house and praying that blessings and peace from the Lord would take its place.

Two years ago, I had another experience with a spirit in this very room. It was the spirit of sexual temptation and immorality. I did not want that to come over my life again so JD began to pray over me that it would no longer exist.

We decided that we needed to wake up the other men in our group that were sleeping in another area of the house to come and join our intercession. The instant that the other two guys entered the room, both JD and myself began shivering and shaking like we were experiencing cold temperatures that not even an ice age could fathom. We continued to shatter demons and spirits with their grips of death wrapped around our necks and pray blessings over the home in which we were staying. Then, as God began to move, we began to repent of things that had taken place in our lives and prayed that God would start to move in our lives.

After about 15 or 20 minutes of this, we thought that our hearts we clear. The other guys went back to sleep, but I made a remark to my roommate that I just felt such a peace of God that the spirit was forced out. I said, "I wish that I could feel that peace too." I asked him if he would like to me pray over him or just wait until the morning since it was around midnight and we had to wake up early the next morning. He said that it could wait for another time but I said, "You can't wait with these things. If you wait, it is only going to get worse."

So once again we entered into intense prayer and I declared that the spirit of sexual immorality and temptations, "would be ripped out by the roots and never return." By this point, we began to break other chains in our lives. The chains of crude joking, the chains of impure thoughts, the chains of impure speech were all broken.

I believe that it has been over a year now since I have been praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and to receive the gift of Tongues. So somewhere around midnight on Thursday, August 14, AppleJacks (who we woke up a second time to come pray with us - God Bless him) and JD began praying over me for the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

I began pressing deeper and deeper into God that he would release it upon me. I could feel the power of God begin to fill the room as the other lifted their voices in Prayer Language. Soon my mouth began to go numb and soon it overtook my entire face. It traveled down my neck and into my arms. My trembling hands soon became heavy and I didn't have the strength to stand on my weakening legs. I was beginning to become overwhelmed with the present power that my body was just trembling before the Lord.

We then puts our arms around each other and continued to pray. JD said, "Just between me and Brice right now, God is giving you an embrace from Heaven." As JD put his arms around me, I felt such a power close in on my body. My body felt like it would fall like iron to the floor, but the arms of God were physically wrapped around me and I felt like a string puppet being suspended by His hand.

After close to an hour of praying for the baptism, we were approaching the one o'clock hour. JD and AppleJacks kept telling me to just open my mouth and God will move my lips. I knew I just had to speak what was on me heart but there was nothing there to let out. JD had looked over at the clock and actualy saw it change from 12:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. and said, "Brice, it is one o'clock and God is in this room and it is time that you are filled with Holy Spirit."

I felt something start to rise from my chest and into my mouth. The best was to descibe it is taht feeling like you are holding yourself back from throwing up - but this was a word. In that very instant - Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. I began to speak Tongues of the Holy Spirit. As I did, AppleJacks confirmed it, "Yep, you got it, that's it."

Keeping in mind that we were in the basement of a house with other sleeping guests upstair, we lifted an extremly quite shout of praise unto the Lord. The only thing I could do was lift my hands above me head and take as much effort as I had to clap without making any sound.

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We went to the International Leadership Embassy conference at 6 p.m. on Thursday. During some intense worship, I was able to dip into the Holy Language about five times but only when I would begin to pray really fast. At this point, I could only say one syllable repeatedly. The next evening, during the second session of the Generating One conference, God began to teach me to say other words and He taught me how to pray in Tongues without first praying in English.

TheCall was on Saturday and I knew that it would be a life changing and spirit filling day. We arrived on the National Mall at 8:00 a.m. for the pre-worship service that led into TheCall. I began praying in Tongues and I couldn't stop until I fell asleep 16 hours later. TheCall was an intense 14 hour fast in which I was completly consumed with fire for the whole time.

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Even on the van ride home - a 9 hour drive - I was still enfilled with the Holy Spirit and could not help but randomly break out into Tongues. I'll tell you what, it makes the trip go so much faster when you are in your own personal sanctuary while listening to contemporary Christian music on an MP3 player and praying in the Spirit.

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I still have not been able to fully withdraw from the Spirit but I say, "I don't want to lose this at all. I will not silence the Holy Spirit from speaking through me."

Once I got home from the trip I was chekcing all 40 of my emails when something came from God.tv. They had sent out a prayer request for one of their team members who had just suffered from marital seperation. Both him and his wife were in high positions at God.tv. Normally, like any other email, I would just think, 'oh that's sad and terrible' and I would delete the email and move on. But as I continued to read to small letter, I just began to speak out in Holy Tongues and I just lifted them up to God and asked Him to rebuild their marriage.

Now why am I telling all of you this? For the first time, God has increased my compassion for others and I believe He is beginning to reveal his plan for my life to me.

Another one happened when I was watching tv just a couple hours ago. An presidential candidacy ad for Barrack Obama came on and they were talking about all his plans that make him look like a good guy and I said out loud, "...but he doesn't care about the millions of murdered innocent souls that cannot cry out for themsleves" and I began to speak in Prayer Language again.

I believe that God is working on my heart to become a true prayer warrior for Him to show compassion and pray for those who are hurting and in need. I believe that God is going to begin giving me gifts of miracles and healing as I rise up and be an instrument that He would use.

100th post ~ A special time, a milestone, a celebration

2008-07-18T21:05:00.003-04:00

Don't worry. You are on the right blog. I am happy to anounce that this is my 100th blog post. I can't believe that it is finally here. It feels like my 21st birthday or something. Well you're probably wondering what's with the radical new look. Well my friends, I found some awesome new templates and decided to change it for this special event.

Honestly, I've been putting off updating for awhile because I needed some time to cook up something good for this post. Doing the whole one hundred things about me is quite a bit much but I will atleast attempt to list some things. To make up for the shortened list, I will also leave you all with some of my favorite quotes - many of which were said by my friends, which would be you.

Ok, here we go. (In no particular order - some which may be obvious)

1. I'm a very technical person
2. I love making music
3. I have a dream to go jogging in the rain
4. I can actually see without my glasses
5. My eyes are an awesome blue.
6. Most people think I am older than I actually am
7. Sometimes, I take too many liberties than I should
8. I suffer with lack of motivation sometimes
9. I feel very blessed - some people mistake it for being spoiled
10. I am a very self conscientious person
11. I have low self confidence/esteem sometimes
12. I carry grudges although I know better
13. I bottle up my deep emotions (especially mourning)
14. I can usually over analyze anything
15. My imagination is very vast
16. I'm a sticler on grammar and mechanics in written text
17. Sometimes I question if God is there
18. I worry a lot of what others think of me
19. There are quite a few things that annoy me easily
20. I have too many petpeeves
21. Sometimes I hate the way I look
22. I usually know a bad idea when I see one
23. I love taking things apart to learn how they work
24. I usually try to be as helpful as possible
25. I am deathly afraid of other becoming angry/yelling at me
26. I have begun to overcome the fear of heights
27. I'm an absolute sucker for butter pecan ice cream
28. I can become stressed quite easily
29. Most people don't know it, but I worry alot
30. I get nervous before I make a phone call
30.b. I 'script' a phone call before making it
32. I have more friends who are girls than who are guys
33. I AM DYING TO GET MARRIED
34. I usually hate spending money
35. Sometimes, I just don't care
36. I'm afraid to go off to college
37. I have a hard time throwing anything away - I'm a pack rat
38. I fear dirt - I think we all know this one
39. I hate thunderstorms at night
40. Being alone in the dark freaks me out - That's pretty much my biggest fear
41. I don't like creapy basements
42. I used to be the one kid in class that no one liked
43. I never study for a test
44. I enjoy watching chick flicks
45. I hate not wearing shoes
46. I slept with a stuffed animal until I was 13
47. I nearly dispise reading
48. I don't like asking people for things - especially money
49. I always enjoy something more when I know everyone else is having a good time
50. It really really really disappoints me when something isn't as good as it sounds.
51. I get kind of nervous about graduation parties where I may not know anyone there.
52. I always find it a good idea to make friends with people in authority so you can easily 'pull strings'
53. I no longer have 'hyper issues'
54. I can still laugh for no reason
55. Everything seems better when I'm in a good mood
56. I hardly ever get headaches
57. Sometimes I get dizzy standing up on a regular basis
58. Because of my height, body parts can 'fall asleep' very easily
59. Pretty much any fast food goes right through me
60. I'm a slow runner
61. No one else can skip like me... :-)
62. I have not once removed my LIFE band in over a year
63. The first thing I spend a paycheck on is tithe
64. Complaining is something that I need to work on
65. I have only had one, true and extremely close girlfriend
66. I am the only teenager who has difficulty sending a text message
67. Most of the time, my right eye drifts at night

Well I got most of them anyway. Here are some of my favorite quotes:

Word Association - brain freeze: Mind flies at 1000 mph and just like MS Windows, it then locks up and crashes.

There's always an undifined variable called reality. - Smash Lab

- I'm not black...
- Ever heard of white chocolate brother?

It definitely affects me and I don't appriciate it.

Sometimes the cure is a clean conscience. - Fun with Dick and Jane

I'm mearly remarking the paradox of asking a masked man of who he is. - V for Vendetta

If you are looking for the guilty, you need to look in the mirror. - V for Vendetta

People should not be afraid of their governments; Governments should be afraid of their people. - V for Vendetta

Writers use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up. - V for Vendetta

Vi Veri Veriversum Vivus Vici - By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the power of the universe. - V for Vendetta

-Images in the night flash across the sky. Visions and fantasies revealed as thy visage is painted amongst the clouds. I have always adorned thee. Translation: I was looking at the sky when your face showed among the clouds
- yeah, I think I saw you in a puddle once

"at all events, I really must obtain again with work, goodbye my blue of a hair of blonde observed few pigon of sleeping bag"

YOU ARE MY HERO
LOL
that didnt happen
hahahaha
AWKWARD

-Why do you get all the good ideas?
AppleJacks: "Cause im just that good"

"I feel like we're two old farts who have known each other for a really long time."

"You make tuplips perverted. You have relations with tuplips?"

Now I know not to use Negro spirituals as hints to you guys anymore. ~Mr. Cloud

-Am I gonna have to keep one eye open..?
-Do you want to?

what?
I mean WHAT?

Sorry I didn't mean to bring on a sudden burst of insecurity - Kelso

That would be something right there, I think I would crap a brick if he said yes

"City Morgue, you kill 'em we chill 'em" ~Apple Jacks

Preparation meets procrastination

No Brice, you are my first priority

I was as dumb as a freakin box of rocks

I'm an accident-prone kid... It happens

It is possible to have a friend of the opposite sex.... "Blasphemer!" ~House

She's not a friend of the opposite sex, she's a different species. She'll eat your head off after she's done with you. ~House

Before you get better you have to hit rock bottom ~House

I was not pandering.. I just told her what she wanted to hear. ~Music & Lyrics

'Cause at the end of that road is a culdesac of vulnerability ~ Fraiser

"...I could climb you like a scratching post" ~ Fraiser

"We have one or two of them depending on how glutunous we are" - The Late Show

Ugh! The Bigness! ~ benrr101

"I logged it here in my journal... 5 AM - Awake - 'Blissful confusion. Somethings happened, but what?'" ~ Niles from Fraiser

"They're already dead. Gunshots mean people die." ~ The Happening

Extraordinary Human Abilities

2008-06-29T14:58:00.000-04:00

Just the other day I was reading this really interesting article about human abilities. Most of these gifts are neurological functions, but there are a few that are actually learned skills. Below is a link to the article where you can read about these cool abilities.

http://listverse.com/science/9-extraordinary-human-abilities/#comment-77889

I must say that I have a bit of synesthesia because sometimes I am ticklish by sound. I also carry somewhat of an absolute pitch because I can easily tell when a note is not in tune.

The Daniel Fast

2008-06-10T20:05:00.003-04:00

A funny thing happened yesterday. I'm not quite sure how we got on the subject but I was explaining to my little brother what a "Daniel Fast" was. Well I'm not exactly sure about the story but I'm pretty sure in the book of Daniel it tells what happened. Regardless, I explained to him that a Daniel fast was no meat and no sweets - pretty much just vegetables, fruits, and water.

He took it in for a second and said, and I quote, "Did they even have sweets back then? Oh, yeah they did. They had donuts." My first reaction was, 'you've been watching way too much vegetables', but he said to look it up in the book of Leviticus. Much to my surprise, he was actually correct. If you don't believe me, I'll even include the scripture below...

1 “When you bring a grain offering to the LORD, the offering must consist of choice flour. You are to pour olive oil on it and sprinkle it with incense.
(Skipping to verse 4)
4 “When you present some kind of baked bread as a grain offering, it must be made of choice flour mixed with olive oil but without any yeast. It may be presented in the form of cakes mixed with olive oil or wafers spread with olive oil. 5 If your grain offering is cooked on a griddle, it must be made of choice flour and olive oil, and it must contain no yeast. 6 Break it into pieces and pour oil on it; it is a kind of grain offering. 7 If your offering is prepared in a pan, it also must be made of choice flour and olive oil.
- Leviticus Chapter 2, New Living Translation

Nifty, eh?

Pixar's Hidden Easter Eggs

2008-06-10T12:19:00.001-04:00

I've been kind of anxious to go and see Wall-E when it hits the theaters. I just watched this youtube video about the ideas of it and Pixar's sneaky plan.

Photobooth

2008-06-08T16:52:00.001-04:00

I stumbled upon this really funny video. Excuse the bad part at the end...

If the movie does not play, you can follow this link to the original page.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/the-old-photomaton-portraits-for-the-poor-rich-and-celebrities/

BEWARE! - Be Aware

2008-06-06T13:01:00.002-04:00

Let's take a trip down a quite and peaceful path. The sun is high over head gently warming you and there is a lovely slight breeze that keeps you comfortable. As you are enjoying this moment, you begin to notice things that you do not appreciate. Personality traits are coming up that you do not like. Even though the day is beautiful and the setting is perfect, it is turning into something you hate because you are surrounded by pet peeves and bad characteristics. This is your journey into "Self Awareness".

Nice intro, huh? Anywho, I discovered something about myself yesterday that kind of irked me, and it's my own flaw too. I realized I'm bossy - to an extent. Now we all appreciate being able to give orders to other people and be in charge of a group or whatnot but sometimes I act a little to much on impulse. Maybe it's the thing that I know that I can do a job more professionally than someone else, so I tend to tell them how to do it. At the time I would say that I'm giving you tips and helping you, but that's just the nice way of me saying, "You're doing it wrong!". I think this is something I need to work on.

Here's one that everyone will agree to...
I'm very cynical.

'Nough said...

Issue three is one of those that every employer hears that is rarely true: I take on too many responsibilities. For some odd reason it all goes beyond the whole thing of "just saying 'No'". No for me, it's the thing of "STOP VOLUNTEERING!" When someone needs help, I'll usually say, "Oh, I can do that for you." or "Don't worry about it, I'll take care of it". I think that has been happening alot lately. In one day alone, I had to take care of the following list between the times of 9:30 and 2:30 at school:

Fix the tricaster
Finish the Beauty and the Beast stuff
Burn a copy of "B&B"
return the DVD duplicator
give video DVD's to Mr. Nardecchia
Cleanup the TV Studio
Buy "The Cold War"
get my saxophone from the bandroom
fill out my A.P. Signup sheet and get it signed by the teacher
fill out my tablet project sheet
Cleanout my locker
take care of a teacher's old computer
delete old files off of 10 computers
burn a data DVD of my personal files at school to transport them home
cash checks at the bank
return some photos to another teacher after scanning them
capture, edit, and burn a movie for my science teacher.
cleanout the video storage room
run a video camera over to the EPAC

Think I did enough in four and a half hours?

This has been my self awareness lessen for the day.

***Please, no comments from the peanut gallery***

Make your own "Debut Album"

2008-05-29T14:56:00.003-04:00

My friend did a post about this on his xanga and that's how I heard about it. Here's one of those random fun things that you can do using wikipedia and Flickr. This will give you your debut album for your imaginary band.

1. Follow this link. Whatever the name is, that is the title of your band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

2. Follow this link. Scroll to the bottom of the first page and read the LAST FOUR words of the LAST quote. This is the name of your album. (You don't have to use the punctuation.)
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

3. Follow this link to Flickr's last seven days page. Whatever the THIRD picture is on the page is you album cover.
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

And a finished album is like the one that follows (which is my first one)

The Susan Diol ProjectLiving: It's Still Popular

This one turned out really well. It's like one huge coincidence.

And lemme try another one for the fun of it...

The Valentin Dubinin Experience
"Make Today Worth Remembering"

Ok, one more... (you know you love these)

Fujiwara no Kanefusa"The Path Of Joy"

I hope that you have enjoyed these and please do try it yourself!

Breaking a new era

2008-05-28T17:54:00.002-04:00

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!

Where does the time go? I know it has literally been FOREVER since my last update but life has been so recklessly hectic that it has been almost impossible to update. So the title actually affects several current life events. Where to begin... um... ah, yes...

Two Sunday's ago (May 18th) I died. Well.... it's more like I started a new life - that is, a new life in Christ. I was finally baptized in water and let me tell you that it has been pretty awesome! I can definitely tell that the Holy Spirit has definitely done some extreme makeover - heart edition. I've been feeling very refreshed.

Secondly, Last Sunday was my 17th birthday. I was kind of disappointed it wasn't something more spectacular but hey, I'm one year older all the same, right? So this is the 17th year "era" of my life.

Thirdly, I just got done setting everything up for college next year. I now have my own "BGNet" account to register classes and check email and what not. If anyone cares the school address is "briceh@bgsu.edu".

I'm hoping to update again before a new era comes round again. :-P

My Life's About To Change

2008-04-25T22:06:00.004-04:00

I'm really struggling to find a good title of this post.

I'm going to be covering a couple topics in this post. All of them are connected to one main theme which will appear somewhere near the middle or end of this post.

Last Sunday my pastor preached a message concerning baptisms of water and Spirit. He said that Christians should be baptized in water but only if we make that choice and are old enough to understand it. The point that he stressed the most was that we should only be baptized after we have had a life changing experience. I'm pretty sure my life changing experience was theCall last year. During this time God set me free from a few things and I had the opportunity to experience Him in a way I couldn't have imagined.

Our church is having a baptism ceremony in a couple weeks. I was really hoping it would be the 25th because that is my birthday. How cool would it be to have your worldly, sinful life be laid down dead and been reborn into God's family on your 17th birthday? Unfortunately, they scheduled it one week early on the 18th. I was kind of disappointed.

Today in English class while Ziebs was lecturing about Macbeth's emotions, etc... I was somewhat foreseeing (not visioning) but rather imagining what it will be like once I am infilled with the Holy Spirit. I kind of had a view at myself and I caught a feeling of what it is like to lose control and just be in a direct line of communication with God. I'm getting pretty stoked now. I really can't wait for the next month to fly by. I'm really getting anxious because I know I don't want to wait and God doesn't want to wait. I've come to some sort of sense that anymore it's not just enough to be forgiven and trying to live for God, but rather be born into His kingdom and living under His blood. Somehow it just seems that I've come to this huge cathartic realization and I'm ready to fly now. I'm ready to drown in His amazing love.

There have been quite a few occasions where I can feel that God has almost given me a taste of speaking in tongues. The same thing usually happens when I get deep into worship. My mouth and lips will go numb and just start to tingle and I'll get this hard urge to just start yelling out words - just words - words I don't even know. I open my mouth but nothing comes out. There is just no flow of the Spirit out of my mouth. This has happened many times but I am almost certain that when the time comes again that it will be completely different.

I'm sure the next time I get around to updating again it will be after my baptism so there will be a continuation of this post. Until then, God bless.

~TiS

In other news... I'M FREAKING OUT!!!

2008-04-03T14:55:00.002-04:00

Here's a quick update to tell you all that I'm so stressed out right now I think my body just may explode. Here's the list:
3 videos to edit
100 pictures to edit
2 computer jobs
150 DVD's to make (that's 150)
2 Shows to do lights for
all my homework
and a partridge in a pear tree...

So if you need any favors... PLEASE HESITATE TO ASK!!!

For Life's Little Mysteries: Why?

2008-03-30T14:55:00.002-04:00

Lately, I've been doing a lot of digging through my favorite website: fark. The had an article on there talking about life's little mysterious and shedding some light on the logic and reasoning behind them.
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...

Brave New Worship

2008-03-28T22:31:00.003-04:00

This blog post is a little... different. You see, Cinnamon has been nagging on me to hurry up and update. So here's an update that will - more or less - be disinteresting. Unfortunately, I have nothing to blog about. So instead I'll just give a recap of the past couple of days.

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.

Attempts To Be Artistic

2008-03-27T19:44:00.002-04:00

Below is a link to my webshots page where I encourage all of you to check out my new photos. These are all original and taken by me. They are mainly taken in Florida but some are from The Call.

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

Life gets crazy and you realize you're growing up

2008-03-22T23:17:00.002-04:00

Just in case the title got cut off for some reason, the title of this post it "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.

To Ranting Heathen

2008-03-22T23:00:00.003-04:00

I was going to post another comment after your comments but I thought another post would be better because I want to say a lot of stuff. I don't want to really change the subject becuase we are actually seeing eye-to-eye.

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...

Bad Things Happen When You Mock God

2008-03-20T21:37:00.002-04:00

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.

What our President is really saying...

2008-03-19T20:28:00.004-04:00

First off -
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...

Where's Luna?

2008-02-20T20:38:00.002-05:00

You know.. like where's waldo?

Actually I'm talking about the moon Luna, which if you didn't know, that is the name of Earth's moon. Anyway tonight there will be a lunar eclipse. Technically, it began about 38 minutes ago, but it will not be fully eclipsed until about 10:00. They say that when it is fully eclipsed, it will turn a deep orange color or even red depending on the current atmosphere.

I was thinking about this today when a certain verse came to mind. Out of the good old book of Acts reads: "I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord." So I was thinking about this verse and applying it to today for the fun of it and here is my translation with a commentary...

We will experience prophecies in the last day and miracles and wonders performed. The signs on the Earth like storms, tsunamis, and earth quakes. Blood as in wars taking place in Iraq. The sun will be turned to darkness - as in night time, as in the current time right now, and the moon to blood, the shade of red that will occur during the eclipse.

Wouldn't that be cool? Now I know that's won't really happen as Revelations tells us that no man knows the hour when He shall return but there's no harm in applying the bible to our everyday lives.

I thought I would just share that for the fun of it. Have a good night everyone and enjoy the show tonight! A total lunar eclipse only happens every three and a half years. However, a partial lunar eclipse happens about every 173 days.

P.S. - This is my first post from my brand new computer. Thanks to the BIG Nerd for helping me with my O/S troubles.

Single Awarness Day

2008-02-15T22:16:00.002-05:00

I know that this post is a little delayed but I still wanted to put it on here. From the title, I'm speaking about Feb. 14th. Now I'm not going to be as cynical as last year because this year is quite different. But before I get into that, I'm going to put something into mathematical terms...

All women require two things: time and money.

So Women = Time*Money

We know that time IS money, so...

Women = Money*Money
Women = Money2 (to the second power)

We know that money is the root of all evil so...

Women = sqrt(evil)2 (to the second power)

And thus, we are forced to conclude that...

Women = Evil
Q.E.D.

On the contrary, I had quite a pleasant afternoon with a.. um, let's just say a lady friend. It was sort of like a date but we just sat and talked. I could tell that we both really enjoyed it and were wishing that time would stand still. Somehow, I think we ended up promising that we would get together again. It's really weird because this time I don't have to do anything. Normally I always have to ask someone out but this time it is just happening naturally. Talk about sweet.

Dating vs. Courting

I know the difference between the two and I must say that I feel that I'm somewhere in the middle, honestly. I'm not one for just randomly dating people and I feel that you should really know someone by kinda courting them first. I used to play the game like everyone does in middle school, but then I became mature (well more mature anyway) and I now realize it doesn't and shouldn't work like that.

So I've been doing a completely different approach. I decided to lean more towards courting. I've actually been praying about a future relationship for quite awhile, and it hasn't been over a specific person. I left that detail (which is rather a large detail) up to God. I've just been praying for the right door to open and that he would lead me. I think God's timing is perfect and awesome and I believe things may be falling into place. Who knows? Well, God does.

Now to the members of Remain - I don't need preached to about making the "right decisions". I've heard that sermon from DA a few times. I'm not even saying anything at all and wha d'ya know? Everything is just happening itself.

So that's life for now. I hope your V-Day was 'ight'.

Update

2008-02-13T15:34:00.002-05:00

Today is my 80th post! woohoo.

Next on the agenda...
To SuperK and Cinnamon and everyone else who read my last post:

I was not "trying" to be gangsta.
And you're both wrong... I said "ight" in place of "alright" not just "right".
and I occasionally use the word "ight" in my speech. You're just never around enough to hear me say it.

Take this job and love it

2008-02-10T21:04:00.000-05:00

Today at church, Pastor was preaching about loving your job no matter what. Even if it sucks and you hate it to death, you are put there for a reason and you should do your best at it. Period. Afterward, I made the remark to my parents, "I find it ironic that pastor preaches about jobs one day after I call Best Buy following up on my application." Weird huh?

Lately, it has been interesting to see how all the little pieces of life have been falling together in quite a peculiar way. I'm just gonna say, it has to be a supernatural God thing. It's almost like one event will come up that will hint towards the next step which will be something BIG! Allow me to refer to a previous post. Lately, the little thing's I've noticed have fallen into a bigger picture.

So I'm taking this one all the same. I'm expecting God to provide for me. Now that I'm becoming older and I now have so many other stresses being placed on me, I know that God will stretch me out and everything will be ight. I just need to remember that God is my taxi cab driver in downtown "Life". After all, doesn't the bible say that "When you pray, believe that God has already given it to you and it will be yours"? So I should believe that I already have a job and that God will provide.

~TiS

How Big is Your Box?

2008-02-09T17:45:00.000-05:00

Ever since Thursday, I've been feeling much better and on a higher spiritual level and more encouraged. I guess the thing that I needed to say was the thing that I needed to hear.

I was talking to a friend about her art class and she said something along the lines of this:
"I'm not good at abstract sculpting because I can't see an abstract object in my head and recreate it. Making something nonexistent real is impossible to do. It's like trying to the of a new color that doesn't exist. That's why I can't wait to get to heaven where there will be so many more colors that we've never seen before."

I've been kind of thinking about this and how logic like this doesn't fit in our box. But that's ok because we can't put God in a box either.

Along this same subject, I was thinking today about living eternally. Now we've all heard it several times but have we ever really meditated on it? Think about it. How old are you right now? What do you plan to do with your life in the next five years? What kinds of things will you do that will cause ripple effects into the ten years after that? How old will you be thirty years from now? Won't your life basically be over by then?
In heaven there will be no sense of time. We won't be thinking about these questions because we won't be worried about our lives for one, but two is that we won't base our actions off of how much time we have with the rest of our lives.

Take a minute right now and just picture yourself living FOREVER. I'm serious - do it. I can almost guarantee that you will get a sense of confusion.

So then another question arises. Is the Earth a one time thing? I mean after the rapture and everything calms down and God creates a perfect Earth for us to live on again, will somebody eat an apple and the whole thing go again? That would be crazy. Now I know this actually won't happen because then we wouldn't live for an eternity. But I thought I would just throw that in there to make you think.

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One day a man asked God how long one million years is to Him. God answered it is like one second. The man then asked how much one million dollars is like to Him. God said that one million dollars is like a penny. After a moment the man asked, "God, can you spare a penny?" God answered, "Yeah, hold on one second."

~TiS

And so, Life Begins

2008-02-09T17:31:00.000-05:00

On Friday, we registered for next year's classes at school. I've been throwing some ideas around of what I wanted to take. My older brother has given me some advice in the past and so far it has helped me get my diploma with honors. Now he has advised me to take PSOP (Post - Secondary Option Program). It's a great concept, but I'm scared to death of actually doing it. PSOP allows me to get one year of free college education while attending high school. So I will be at NHS until 11:15 and then I would go to BGSU Firelands and take a couple classes in the afternoon. Now I'm going to weigh it all out:

Pros:
Free college courses
advanced classes
huge selection of classes
get both high school and college credit

Cons:
More schooling time (credit hours)
Way more difficult homework
A lot more homework
A more busy schedule
Giving up some extra curricular activities

I think it is all balanced. Not to mention I'm pretty nervous about it all considering I have no idea what I'm doing. I mean this is college we're talking about. There's no one there to tell you where room 5209 is. They don't lead you by the hand anymore and I understand that but that's the part that makes me nervous. But that's life and sometime or another everyone will hit that point.

On a different note - I called BestBuy today to do a followup call for my application. They said that they would give my name and number to the people in charge of apps and they would call me back. So I'll be waiting on that. I'm not quite as afraid of working because I've had a couple jobs already. I'm actually anxious to go to work in a geeky environment. I think I will fit in quite nicely (***please, no need to comment on this statement). I need something to keep me occupied as if school next year isn't going to be enough.

Topic three - performances (in general). On Monday, I get out of two periods for the fun of follow spotting some guy giving a presentation. Whatever...
After that I have the GALA
Then I start Musical which will run until the middle of March. Here comes the fun!

I think that's all for now, I will probably end up posting some sort of schedule on here maybe.

Jesus Take The Wheel

2008-02-07T21:15:00.000-05:00

Now I'm not going to be talking about the country song or anything like that but lately I have been experiencing some real rough times. The first thing being my thoughts and the second being the impure actions that follow. I'm a teenager and so these are the things that I'm pretty sure all teenagers with an X and Y chromosome go through but that is no excuse for one who is living and striving to live for the Lord. I've learned that these times just come in waves. I'll being doing great and I'm on a Spiritual high and then it falls and I'm at the depth of a crater.

Tonight at Remain I was giving the message. All this week I've been pounding the pavement of something to discuss and I just had no idea. Something just told me to read through Acts. When I flipped open I read Acts chapter 10 "Faith of the Centurion". My message tonight was titled "Small Steps in Big Shoes". It doesn't sound that impressive, I know, but I broke it down and talked about how we have to have a strong enough faith to follow God 'blindly' wherever he leads us.

This is something that I have been struggling with because I've been doing it my way. Everyday we have a choice in our actions and sometimes I take the wrong way. I need to put up a stronger fight. Instead of forcing myself into a 'higher sense of spirituality' -or so to speak- without earnestly seeking God and digging deeper in faith and my relationship, I need to let God lead me and take the driver's seat. When God opens a door for me I need to immediately take advantage of the opportunity instead of pausing and asking Why?

It's funny because I didn't have the intention to talk about this but now I feel that more people need to hear this. So many people claim that they are spiritual people but they don't do anything when God gives them the opportunity. They don't pursue they're relationship with God.

~TiS

You won't want to miss this!

2008-02-03T22:40:00.002-05:00

...

...

... I FOUND THE CURE FOR HICCUPS!!!

so we all have that embarrasing issue from time to time right? Well when I get a case of the hiccups, they are usually very severe and can last up to 45 minutes. I'm not exaggerating by any means! I had a bad case last night. I was about to go to bed and I couldn't stop. It was driving me insane. I went down into the kitchen to see what I could conjure up to make the torture cease when that's when it happened. I FOUND THE CURE!!!

You probably want to know what it is don't you?

well fine...

If you take about 1/4 - 1/2 glass of warm (room temperature) ginger ale and chug it, it takes your hiccups away pretty much instantly. I think you might have to hold your breathe too. I can't recall for sure. Usually we hold our breathe when we drink anyway. They say that warm water will work too but I think that the carbonation helps.

Capture Me

2008-02-03T22:23:00.000-05:00

Last week I wrote a new song that is by far the best that I have ever written. Using my talents I write two kinds of music - Instrumental (somewhere from easy listening to smooth jazz) and Choruses (Songs with words). This one is the best Chorus that I've written. I have no clue where I get all of it from but I know that the main melody I somewhat pulled from "Here I Am To Worship". I think that Remain liked it to when we did it on Thursday. I'll post the lyrics below:

(1) Here I am Lord once again
I leave all that I am behind
I turn around and run to You
Please take my life and make it new

Bridge:
And I fall on my face, before Mighty Grace
And it's You I'm trying to find.

Chorus:
I cry out to You my God that You would save my soul.
Fill me right here, right now until I overflow
I lift my hands high to You that You would touch me.
I lift up my chains to You that You would set me free.
Cause I'm lost in the dark and I cannot see
So I pray that You would capture me.

(2) I'm standing in Your presence once again
You have saved me from the lion's den
I give all that I am to You
Let me follow what is true.

I'm planning on writing a new song over Isaiah chapter 60. I think that is a pretty cool section of Isaiah.

This really explains alot

2008-01-18T12:21:00.000-05:00

On facebook, a new application has been developed that tells you what your birth date means. Here's my result. And let me say that I believe it is dead accurate...

It's amazing how effective prayer is

2008-01-14T20:10:00.000-05:00

I've been meaning to tithe for about a month now. One week I forgot, one week I was out of town, another week I was sick... yeah. So yesterday in church I remembered at the last minute. Now I figure it all out that I owed something like $8.50 in tithe. I always just round up. So I pulled a ten out of my wallet and write my name on an envelope real quick and slip it in. Pastor Hiser then was about to pray over the offering when he said this to the whole congregation, "We should all give cheerfully and I want you all to take you tithe in your hand and pray over it that God may use it to further His kingdom." So I prayed that God would put it to good use (which I'm sure any use of it in God's case is a good use) and I also prayed that by blessing God, that I would be blessed back.

Well God answers prayers really quickly. As soon as I got home that afternoon I had to run and make a house call to fix someone's computer. While I was there I ended up getting another job to do. I told the lady how much she owed me but she didn't have the right amount so she gave me more than what I asked. I think that's a blessing. So I got more than what I wanted plus another computer job too!

There's only one more thing that I'm praying for that will help out financially and that is a real working job. On the way home on Sunday, I stopped in at ABC Warehouse and picked up an application. I'm hoping that I'll get hired there because they do have a computer section. I think that Best Buy would be better but I'll take what I can.

New Experiences

2007-12-31T17:42:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I was invited to go with my grandparents to Akron to visit my cousins. My grandpa preaches to a deaf church on Sunday mornings and my uncle is the senior pastor at Akron First Assembly of God. Brandon went to my uncle's church but I thought it would be quite an experience to visit a deaf church.

Everyone there was excited to meet me. I was happy that I knew a few words so I could sign to them. I said Hi to one lady there and I told her my name and she was so delighted that I could sign it so well.

After church we went back to my cousin's house and we hung out there for quite a while. I ended up telling my cousins about the call and showing them some videos on youtube. After that they showed me this awesome video on God tube. I think this would be AWESOME to do for talent show!

This video gives me chills and I was about to start crying at the end. I really want to do this human video!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2007-12-28T22:28:00.000-05:00

I had a fantastic Christmas and I hope everyone else did too! I know I'm what... three days late? But that's ok because no one else has updated yet. I think I did more buying for myself than anyone else sadly enough.

Right now I'm updating from my new computer system. I made some modifications allowing me to have two monitors. Sweeeet... And I'm now running on Vista premium. SHOCK I know.. but I actually really like it although it's a big pain to try and run all my software from another location (but that's for the other blog).

So right now I'm trying to setup Firefox and Thunderbird AGAIN! The biggest pain is trying to get all my RSS subscriptions entered in again. I'm not sure if it worked or not so that's why I'm updating to find out.

ok enough tech.....

So I'm going to throw the invitation out there if you haven't heard about it already...
I came up with the idea that this year for new year's eve, instead of having a party, we should get together for a few hours of worship at the COTK office. I know that DA and I were planning on it and I've been meaning to ask AppleJacks since it is our thing. DA asked if we could have more people join us. I said I didn't see the harm in that so if you want to worship and interceed into 2008 you are welcome to join us. We'll talk about a time when we'll all meet. I know DA wants to go to another party for a bit so AppleJacks and I may start it off. IDK we'll see. Let me know if you want to come so I can keep you posted.

Ah, the Festivities

2007-12-16T23:15:00.000-05:00

I was going to talk about one thing in particular, but as I just sat down, more things have come to mind. So, I'll write on all of them.

First off, I am now finished "Four Tickets To Christmas" musical. The shows were pretty good. I believe another rehearsal would have greatly benefited us but there wasn't enough time. Saturday's performance was perfect though. I was very happy and proud. My total time for working on the show was 29 hours. I'm glad I have a "life" again, now.

The second topic is derived from the title of this post. The "Festivities" being a synonym for "Holidays" which is now politically correct. I'm here to criticize the word "Holiday" because it shouldn't replace Christmas. There is a reason why we call it Christmas and that shouldn't be forgotten though it seems that it already has.

Third topic is about my feelings of Christmas. Today was my first official "Christmas Moment". Mom and Katie were baking cookies, snow was flying at 53 mph, I was wearing my slippers, doing my Christmas shopping online, and had that warm fuzzy feeling inside. Then tonight I had a thought that I thought I would share with you. One of my fondest memories of all my Christmas's is the enjoyment that I get not from the big present under the tree, but from the small ones. These are my favorite. The smaller the better because it is like a riddle or a thinking puzzle. It is a tradition that every year my aunt gets us some unique gift small enough to fit on our palms. It's moments like these that I feel are special. And I know it's not about the presents and I don't feel that it is. But I like it when families spend time together, keeping traditions alive, and making Christmas special.

Ornament

2007-12-15T15:14:00.000-05:00

Saw that Mama Lilly did this and I did it too.

You Are a Bow

You don't think of it as the holiday season - you think of it as the present season!

What Christmas Ornament Are You?

(I don't think that this is true, I'm not greedy for presents)

My favorite question was:

4. What's your favorite thing about snow?

Snowball fights
Staying inside and having hot chocolate
Debuting your new snow outfit
Going for a drive to check out the holiday lights
Building a snowman
Skiing

Guess which one I chose!

Word of the year

2007-12-11T22:51:00.000-05:00

The Mariem Webster dictionary has released the word of the year. I can't express it the way the article can. Here's what CNET said:

http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832741-52.html

The Blasphemic Compass

2007-12-08T22:03:00.000-05:00

I just read an article from TIME about 'The Golden Compass" and about the views of how the movie "'supposedly'" kills God. The book and film were written by non other than of course an atheist. But I find this absolutely ridiculously STUPID! Atheists do not believe that God exists. So how can an atheist kill God? How can you kill anything or anyone that doesn't exist?

In the movie, the friends of the little girl are referred to as daemons...

daemon
noun
1.	an evil supernatural being [syn: devil]
2.	a person who is part mortal and part god

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

dae·mon (dē'mən)
n.

Chiefly British Variant of demon.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

So once again, an atheist is obviously proving supernatural characters. Atheists do not believe in God or any god nor any deity. So by having supernatural demons, excuse me, daemons, it is just proving yourself wrong.

Next point - why would any human being want to be friends with a demon? Do you really want to call the Devil your friend? Do you want to be pals with Satan? The TIME article even says from the author "God is the villain of the piece, Satan the hero. And Lyra's on the side of the devils. As Pullman said to the Sydney Morning Post, "My books are about killing God."" Something should be instantly raised in your mind right here. Now I understand that not everybody is a Christian or even goes to church but there should be something morally wrong if you take interest in teaming with Satan.

In this article, it is also mentioned that some who see this movie do not have the mindset that the main intent is of killing God and so they do not see the spiritual battle behind that picture. But the subtle clues placed by the author should be a major hint at something that isn't right.

I know that we all do wrongs sometimes and we watch indecent movies and television shows but I don't believe anyone should go so far as to watch something so blasphemic and God-hating as 'The Golden Compass'.

Here's the link to the TIME article:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1692926,00.html

Is nothing sacred any more?

2007-11-25T21:34:00.000-05:00

Ok - The whole reason I started this blog thing is because all my friends were doing it and I thought that I would join the fun. The only problem is that no one else is doing it any more? Have we lost sight of our priorities? I'm just kidding... Seriously though, you all need to update because I've been bored with no new posts to read.

Here's a quick review of my life...

Teusday - get out of school. Go home and eat dinner. Mom ends up in the hospital.
Wednesday - I do nothing all day long.
Thursday - Thanksgiving. Everyone is together except Brad, Katie, and Mom.
Friday - more like Black Friday... I got the pleasure of working at Shoe Carnival for 9 hours. That was fun. Thank goodness it was from 1 till 10. Mom came home today.
Saturday - Slept a lot
Sunday - Church and then more nothingness.

JTLUK

2007-11-20T19:09:00.001-05:00

By the way... I've been doing about five posts in one day. This is just easier to help seperate and compose my thoughts. So if your one to come to my site and read the post, you might want to scroll down and look for the dates. Cinnamon - I'm not sure if you saw my other ones but I know that you commented on my latest post.

Dream 3

2007-11-17T20:35:00.000-05:00

I had another dream last night. This one wasn't poetic or encouraging as the previous two. It's actually more disturbing than anything else.

I was in a building much like the high school and I was walking down the hall with a couple or other people next to me with guards around us. We were all wearing really really really white shiny clothes and the guards were wearing black. We were walking towards a giant room to wait. After awhile we start walking out of the room and down another hallway. I see a man (and somehow I knew that he was the one in charge) and he was holding a gun. I began praying over and over that God would forgive me and I kept repenting for everything I've done. I kept wishing that I could have been baptized and feared that I wouldn't be saved since I didn't.
We were waiting in line and I saw up ahead that he was shooting the people in front of us. We kept getting closer until we were in the center of it all. The guards pushed us down on our knees and we were helplessly looking at the man holding our lives' destinations. I looked over at the others next to me as I said one last prayer and asked if they were ready to see Father. (not THE father - meaning I was speaking more strongly of the relationship with God). We all began saying the Lord's prayer when thankfully the dream ended and I didn't have to find out what happened.
It is also unfortunate that I didn't get to "experience" heaven but hopefully I'll have the continuation of the dream tonight.

Isaiah 55

2007-11-17T20:28:00.000-05:00

I was trying to find a good verse for the column at right and found the following passage and I wanted to share it. It's a bit lengthy to put in the right column.

"Seek the lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man [forsake] his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to out God, for he will freely pardon.
'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.'" Isaiah 55:6-12

"Wake Up Call"

2007-11-17T20:06:00.000-05:00

Billy just sent me a comment on my fine arts post about creating a movie. I'm not sure if I talked about it or not but here is a detailed log line of the synopsis.

The main character (I'll just call him MC) starts the movie out by normally living his life. He is one of those average Joe's that is kinda the type that hangs out with the wrong crowd but does go to church (one of those "I'm a good person just because I go to church" person). This Sunday is like no other. The rapture happens and the majority of the church instantly vanishes. MC looks around and sees a couple of dazed and confused people that are in the same boat as him.

Now the action starts - MC tries to continue his life as best as he can. But since most of the world's population is missing, crime rates are up and life is hard. The government begins trying to take action to prevent utter chaos. This doesn't work.

Enter the AntiChrist - He begins doing his thing like Revelations predicts. The mark of the beast is introduced. Gov't says that anyone who doesn't accept it shall be killed for going against the decree of the land.

Climax - MC doesn't accept the mark and is about to be executed, when...

Scene cut - MC suddenly wakes up in his bed in a normal life to a ringing phone. After a moment to think about what is going on, he answers the phone. After a slight pause a deep voice responds "Good morning, this is your wake up call". End.

I want a really powerful message in a high suspense thriller movie. The image I have is great but because I am a junior in high school with no money and no studio to shoot such a film is very difficult. But when I think about all this, the story of David comes to mind. David believed he couldn't fight the giant but he trusted God to help him with his great feat.

The best part of this project would be the ending because of the wake up call. It physically says "After seeing this whole movie and what life really COULD be like, what choice are you going to make. You need to wake up and realize that the Lord will soon return and you better make the choice to live than possibly die in the chaos of the world".

Fine arts

2007-11-11T20:38:00.001-05:00

On Saturday Brian and Julie Steel (the Bible Quiz state coordinators) met with us and our team to give us tips and helped us do better. We took them out to lunch as a little thank you gift and we got talking about fine arts. They already knew that I was good with computers and tech and video stuff. (Ironically they're son's name is "Bryce" and he's on Geek Squad). So they said that fine arts competition has a film competition.

So today I've been thinking about some log lines that I could shoot a movie about. One idea came to mind is the rapture. Now to skip all the controversy and debate it would start from the point of the rapture and only talk about the daily life of a specific individual. So there really wouldn't be any eschatology stuff in it.

I do have some awesome ideas for it but they are all impossible to do because it requires adults and actual buildings to be used. This might be kind of difficult to get a hold of. I think I'll pray about this for awhile.

Encouragement...

2007-11-11T20:17:00.000-05:00

Encouragement - This time through a dream.

Lately Pastor Hiser at my church has been speaking about the anointing of God. These have been amazing services. For awhile now I've been praying that God would transform my life and that he would speak to me. I especially like dreams because they can mean different things and it gives me something to meditate upon. One night I wasn't expecting anything and I didn't even pray about it. God gave me this dream:

Being a guy, we all have the same "struggle" (you know... chapter 5 from "Every Young Man's Battle") So I was in the moment and being tempted. And as I was about to do sinful things, the Holy Spirit moved and let's just say "completely ruined the mood" which was a good thing.

That was it. Kind of weird because it was rated R and was very graphic, but it was highly encouraging. So I prayed about it when I woke up, just to thank God for the dream. No by no means does it make me have less of a hard time of a circumstance. I believe that when God begins lifting us up that Satan will try to work harder to bring us down. So these passed two days were not very good days but that can't fully obfuscate my focus.

About a month ago, I was in the shower and was trying to keep my mind fully focused on God and then I began getting really angry at Satan because of the apparent temptation. I physically and spiritually said "I am filled with God's Spirit and my mind is focused on Him and I will not disgrace the presence of the Lord with sinful acts." So now this is the phrase I say when I'm having it rough. It means so much because as anointed servants, we should be "Holy and blameless and pure" in His presence.

Here's a random update

2007-11-11T20:15:00.000-05:00

I believe I have already posted this before but here's another go of it...

1. Jeremy
2. Andrew Kinder
3. Daniel
4. Whitney Roth
5. Audrey Ross
6. Melissa Patrick
7. Hannah Duncan
8. Dylan West
9. Josh Roy
10. Brad
11. Trent Ringle
12. Eric Smith
13. Hilary Lesch

How did you meet 3?
At Remain

What would you do if 6 and 2 were going out?
Laugh very hard. The relationship wouldn't last... There'd be way too much sarcasm.

How long have you known number 8?
About a year, maybe more

What do you think of number 7?
I like how she's quiet, because then it's more fun to think about what she's thinking about. Plus it's hilarious when she finds something funny by the way she reacts.

A fact about 9?
He sang an offertorial today at church.

Who is 2 going out with?
No one currently

What's 5 do for a living?
I'm not sure

Where does 7 live?
On the other side of Norwalk from me.

Is number 12 your best friend?
Not my best friend but he's definitely up there, and we get along really well.

You miss number 6?
Kinda, but I'll see her tomorrow. It's always an adventure with her.

What is your opinion of number 4?
I'm sort of planning to ask her out.

What do you think about number 11?
Really cool...

Would you ever go out with number 1?
... (sorry Jeremy)

What would you do if 3 and 13 were going out?
She's dated weirder guys (sorry Daniel)

Ever gone somewhere with number 10?
Kind of... We've worked on some productions together. We are planning to go to Cedar Point sometime next year.

What would you do if 11 and 5 were going out?
I don't know but I could see it happening.

What do you think of number 3?
Awesome Friend!

Ever slept over at any of the 13's houses?
3 (&7) and I sleep at 10's house every night

Here's some more proof...

2007-11-03T23:52:00.000-04:00

I know that this sort of thing goes on my other blog but I couldn't resist putting it on here...

So there you go. I really wanted to know. I've taken another one just before this one and it took about 30 minutes to complete. I really am a geek. I would have scored higher if I took an interest in Star Trek and Star Wars. But I don't...

God blesses those who bless Him

2007-10-30T22:42:00.000-04:00

Here's a very interesting thing that I'm sure is going to start some sort of debate. I'm feeling up for it though.

I don't have time to go through and find scriptures to prove all this because it is really late but I just want to get the idea out...

I believe that, enabled by God, I can foresee events in life. Not everything that is going to happen but only certain special things. For example:
Last Saturday I was about to go to bed after Refresh and I had the thought "don't worry about getting up in the morning to go to church because we aren't going". Well I pushed it aside and the next morning got up and headed for church with the family. However, we never actually set foot inside the church. Mom started not feeling well and wanted to go home, so we turned around and came home.
That is just one example. There have been a couple more things like this, where I can say how something will happen and it usually does. But I don't predict it myself. It is just a thought that jumps into my head that even I in all my randomness could not makeup.
Let me know what you think... I'm excitedly waiting to see what God will give me next. I know it is from God because there is no other power that can stand against Him.

One more personality perk...

2007-10-28T22:25:00.001-04:00

You are most like: Selective Procrastinator
As a selective procrastinator, you know how to procrastinate but only do it when you feel you can afford to. Your a faker!
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Mark of The Beast vs. Seal of The Almighty

2007-10-03T21:34:00.000-04:00

Now I'm not going to go too far into eschatology here, but I found this interesting. First let me provide you with the decision chain of how I got here in the first place.

1. I received two comments
2. These inspired me to do a follow-up post
3. I needed something to talk about
4. I went digging through an interesting book of the Bible
5. Found something very interesting in the interesting book of the interesting Bible...

Interestingly enough, I found a verse in Revelations that talks about 144,000 people from the tribes of Israel. Now I was quite perplexed when I read a couple versus from chapter 7.
"'Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.' Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel."
When I read this at first I was really thrown into a whirlwind because I just saw 'seal' and 'marked' and the first thing I thought of was the mark of the beast. I didn't think that was right and I didn't understand what was going on... thank goodness I have a study Bible! Let's take a look at the footnotes...

"SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD" - The seal was a tool or ring that stamped an owner's mark of identification on something. God's seal on a person identifies that person as belonging to God, devoted to his service and under his care."

WOW!!! I WOULD LOVE TO BE BRANDED BY GOD!!!

So now I have learned something new that is really interesting which just makes me want to serve a God because I've been branded by him and I am in His service and under His care. Sweet....

And thus I succumb NO LONGER!

2007-10-01T20:02:00.000-04:00

That's it I'm finished, I'm through....

This post is for the guys mainly but I want to make, ...uh... a praise report if nothing else.

You know how when your 13-16 you go through that stage of life that is just filled with junk and trials and temptations? You know what I'm talking about...
Well who doesn't deal with that?

For the past couple of days I've been thinking about hard it is to over come this stronghold that has its grip on me. I am no longer obsessed about thoughts or fantasies of sin. Now all of a sudden a great burden is being lifted off of my shoulders. I'm beginning to lose interest in what use to be a daily focus and a daily battle. I just feel so revived that I can praise and worship the Lord so much more!

Today I was surfing the web looking through some pieces of software when these popups kept coming up. Okay I know that a couple of my readers have told me time and time again to get a popup filter installed but I said I didn't need it. Well usually these things don't happen but one popped up and of course it was just the thing that we fear the most. Let's just say it was "adult content". So what do you do... You have two choices. Either X-Out or sit there and stare and follow the links to the sinful web pages. No before when this would happen I would do what any random Joe would do; I would go looking through the website. Only today was different. I became just so--I don't know the words for it--"enraged" that I just said in my heart, "I'm walking with God and I will not stumble nor fall". So I closed out of Firefox and felt proud of myself for taking the stand!!! And if you were in TFC last Tuesday than you know that that is what I talked about.

They say that the first step is the hardest. With the Lord on my side and I on His than I will begin fighting a winning war than a losing battle.

"I cry freedom from the chains that bind our children,
Freedom from the chains, that bind our praise to You,
Freedom from the lies of the enemy!

FREEDOM!!!!"

"I'm no longer chained, no longer bound,
I'm no longer lost 'cause I've been found,
No longer dead 'cause I'm alive,
HE lives in me He's Jesus Christ!"

The Tribe Has Spoken

2007-09-29T19:00:00.000-04:00

I really didn't know that I had such an audience. Makes me feel worse for not posting for twenty days. So I'll take everyone's advice and just keep the one blog. I do have one thing to share about how I've been blessed personally...

On vacation in Florida, I had another dream. This one was nothing spectacular but it was enough just to keep me thirsty for more. It was like a flashback in a movie. I was in the middle of a roaring crowd yelling something out in Spirit language. I have no idea what I was saying because the dream came with no interpretation. The dream lasted for about three seconds so I didn't really understand what was going on.

God also has been changing me physically. Today I wanted to play a few of my favorite worship songs and my voice was much much easier to get along with and sing with today. I think my voice is starting to quit changing so it can develop into a fine gift to be used for the Lord.

I think that is all I have for now. Thanks for reading...

It's almost October - brought to my attention by SuperK

2007-09-28T21:19:00.000-04:00

Thanks SuperK for bringing me back to the blogging world. Here's my season thing that everybody else has completed...

You Belong in Spring

Optimistic, lively, and almost always happy with the world...
You can truly appreciate the blooming nature of spring.
Whether you're planting flowers or dyeing Easter eggs, spring is definitely your season!

What Season Are You?

I still need to upload Florida pics yet. This usually kills quite some time of an afternoon.

School is just too much fun to even begin to describe***
(***NOTE: Sarcasm)

I don't really think that there is much to talk about. Everything that has been going on will be posted about on my other blog.

I do have one question for the readers here: Should I create a new blog that is fully devoted to my Spiritual life filled with all the things that God has blessed me with and keep it separate from my "personal" blog? Let me know what you think...

Update...

2007-08-31T20:50:00.001-04:00

I'm going to Florida tomorrow...

I won't be updating for another week and a half.

Time has told

2007-08-18T22:01:00.000-04:00

...instead of time will tell... you know?

Anywho, time has told how outdated my blog is. I know it's been awhile and I must say that peer pressure is ridiculously outrageous. Seriously, I think some of you guys are about to resort to threats just so I'll post. Goodness gracious.

I'm hoping this post won't be too long because I have a boat-load of junk to do but there will be lots of stuff posted.

First off - I am now street legal... and I don't mean that I am selling under-the-table items like drugs. Sorry... I do mean that today I was granted my license. I passed maneuverability PERFECTLY! Although on the driving portion... I was docked twenty points.
3 counts of "Improper vehicle position to make a left turn"
1 count of "Improper approach to a right turn.

I found out just this moment that -26 points is failure. So I was 6 points away. Hmmm...

So after I took the test I went to the BMV to get my actual license. I forgot my soc. card the first time but that was a quick run home. Got the license and went to visit Trent Nationwide. THE NASTY INSURANCE MAN!!!!
Come to find out - because my brother has a 2006 Ford Mustang, it is driving my monthly payment up to $66 because we are all on the same policy.

Pros:
I share the same policy with everyone
I am insured to drive the mustang

Cons:
We share the same policy
The mustang drives the premiums up by about 400 a half (6 months)
I pay $66 per month rather than $25

Yeah........

Next up - I found this really awesome thing on eBay. I bought it too. It's a geeky thing so I'll talk about it on my other blog. Good news is that it has everything imaginable including restore programs for every single version of windows even vista.

next - I now have the Fire Bible thanks to my grandparents. I really really really really like it.

Finally - I went to the fair today! My first fair ever! Here's proof:

This calf is one week old today.

I also, for the first time, watched a demo derby and I laughed a lot. I didn't know destruction was so much fun. Let me rephrase that. I didn't think that damaging vehicles could be so entertaining.
we got in the stand about an hour before it started so there's not a whole lot of people in this pic.

Sorry but I do not have any pics of action. I will say that it was kind of cool when the cars were
pushed too hard and the engines burst into flames.

I think that's about it.

Until next month... I mean until tomorrow -

Life's so hard

2007-08-01T20:22:00.000-04:00

God was right when he said that we would have troubles facing the world. I just thank Him that He is there to help me through this one. I'm sure most of you have read through my last blog post. It was late when I put on here and I was tired so I need to go back and edit some of it I think. I don't know what exactly is wrong in it. None of you have said anything about it.

As I'm sure you've seen... I've been in a huge debate with BloodSoakedRoses over my little Harry Potter comment. We decided to move over to his forum so we each wouldn't end up with thirty comments on each post. The full deal can be read here.

And people - the chatter box is not a forum.

Tech camp has been really fun. I just found out today how much I have really been looked up to during the week. All the kids were saying how cool the Super Techs are and how they really appreciate our help. One day I was fixing a computer and a fifth grader came up beside me and said, "Excuse me, sir? This computer is broken, can you fix it?"

The only thing that ran through my mind was "AAWWW". I was really touched by this because they really look up to us.

We are still debating if we should have a poll of who the best Super Tech is. Mrs. Lund came up with a poll for "The Cutest Super Tech". I love my job. (sometimes)

Okay so I just got another reply from Blood Soaked Roses. I could really use some help with this one. I wasn't asking for any of this so it's not my fault I'm in this mess. Just go back to the link at the top and read one of the last things that he has said.

This one's for Billy - What God has spoken to me this week

2007-07-31T22:36:00.000-04:00

For everyone who's been at Remain recently... you know how Billy is always asking us what God has spoken to us during the week? I now have some pretty good answers. I don't want to give the one away yet because then you would just hear it again on Thursday so I'll only give one right now...

Now if you would refer back to my second to last post... There is -was- a comment on there from an anonymous person. They said and I quote,

"Evil.... LOL!!!
Since when is the battle between good and evil itself evil? I mean really, the bible is the same concept, and almost all books like that have biblical inspiration. There are only 3 things that are evil: satan, demons, and sin... books are not on that list, and satan doesn't right books.

Don't call something evil until you can prove it."

Instantly becoming filled with knowledge from God here is my response:
HAHAHAHAHA You just set yourself into a trap. I can call Harry Potter evil because I CAN prove it!!! Allow me to expound...

1. The Bible is not based on the same concept of a battle between good versus evil. Yes, it may contain some of that but the main focus is to give us the weapons that we need to live in the footsteps of Christ. The Bible also instructs how to overcome evil with good. That's about as close as the so called 'battle' gets because there is no battle when the Lord is on your side - there is only victory... (Now changes blog banner to this statement and pats himself on the back...)

2. Harry Potter and like books do NOT have Biblical inspiration. This is BLASPHEMY! They are truly evil. They are completely filled with witchcraft and black magic. During the Salem Witch Trials, people were killed for even being accused of witchcraft.

3. There are way more things that are evil besides Satan, demons, and sin.
Romans 1:22 - 32
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to like like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with on another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought no to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

*Read that last verse again.

First I'm going to use a different word instead of evil. Let's try sinful. Same thing yes? This person claimed it themselves that sin is evil. So let's go on that...

I counted in 10 verses, 29 counts of sinful acts. So if sinful acts are the same as evil acts then 29 is greater than 3 yes? So there are more than three evil things that exist yes? But it is not limited to 29 sinful acts and sins. There are over 30,000 versus in the Bible. I'm sure that in countless other places it mentions other evil and sinful things. These can even include books and other worldly possessions.

4. Agreed that Satan does not write books directly but I guarantee that he influences those who are under his control - meaning those who serve him/the world rather than walk with Christ. Example - The summer of love. Thousands of teens going to a concert to smoke LSD and PCP and listen to music written and performed by musicians who were most likely high the whole time. Does that sound Godly? NO! What do you suppose would make someone smoke drugs and be into free love? You can say "the world" or "human nature" but guess what! The Bible clearly says in Romans 5:12 that we are born into sin and it is our human nature to sin. Sin is evil, yes? So that makes our Earthly actions evil since we are living in sin, yes? We need forgiveness from the Lord and a strong faith and relationship with Him so that we may overcome evil with GOOD! -that is the LORD!

I can call Harry Potter and other things in association with the devil 'evil' because I have proof and that is the Holy words of God!

Also quoted from my chatterbox at right:

": one last thing, remember that you will be judged as harshly as you judged others, so keep that in mind. P.S. read this from the bottom up, your posting is backwards :P
: so don't call something evil until you can prove that it really is, which as far as I can see, you CAN'T.... By saying the things that you and your friends have said, you are judging thousands of people, me included, and I don't much appreciate it."

Matthew 7:1-2
1 Do not judge or you too will be judged.
2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

We are not judging. We are stating truth about the culture in which we live. Our mission is to try and spread the Gospel and the love of Christ as far as we can. If speaking out against what is wrong is judging then I am guilty and I plead forgiveness. But I am not sorry for stepping on someone's toes trying to spread God's light into the dark crevices of lost souls.

The next time you decide to fight with a man of God, expect to lose because He is always victorious!

TheCall

2007-07-29T19:52:00.000-04:00

I don't have much time to update because I'm way tooooooo busy!!!! I really wanted to let everyone know that God.tv has The Call on video on demand. I think you may have to be a member but it is free and I'm a member. It is split into 13 episodes so good luck trying to find your favorite part. I was trying to find the Horton the Elephant parts but I couldn't. Hurry up and watch all you can because it's only on Video On Demand until August 6.

That's it. I promise I'll update when life goes into freeze mode.......

The highly anticipated release is here!

2007-07-21T00:16:00.000-04:00

--and I'm not talking about Harry Potter. I would never read anything so evil. Ever.

What I do mean is that I am finally updating. According to blogger, it's been seven days. But I'm here again so there's no huge worries.

I'm finally a working man!!!
Honestly, I've never felt so proud of myself before. It's kind of a cool feeling to be able to say, "Oh sorry, I can't do that, I'm working." Officially I have been dubbed as "Tech Support" for the NCSS (Norwalk City School System). I just remembered what that meant applejacks. Remember? NCSNHSFTMCLGIF. That is an acronym believe it or not. One more thing we came up with at work. Anyway, I love my job. It is really quite interesting and I'm learning a ton of stuff. I could go into a bunch of details but that is for GeekTech.

And I'm proud to say that we have a new family member. My brother's girlfriend became his fiance earlier this evening. Congratulations! I'm so happy for both of you.

Well Refresh is tomorrow evening so there's something else to do and I have made some more progress and reached a milestone with the movie for the doughnut family (DA's family in case you didn't catch my little code name). I have finished scanning and receiving all pictures. Now I just need to sort, arrange, and insert all the pics into my timeline. This is kind of beginning to be fun. I only like the editing part but there is no way on Earth that I would do this for a living. Though it is not a bad service to offer to anyone who asks.

I think that is about it. I will try and post at a later time with more details about what God as been speaking to and through me. You've only received a glimpse at Remain.

I hate the smell of spinache...

Reunited

2007-07-13T21:36:00.000-04:00

Today I was reunited with one of my best friends ever. The last time we saw each other was eight years ago in second grade. After that year his family moved and he is now living in Canada. It was a miracle that he found me on facebook. We have been talking for a few hours now and have been strolling down memory lane. You'd be surprised of what may actually happen. That's all that's going on right now. I'm sure I'll update again in a few hours.

Before I go, I wanted to share something from DA's and my conversation. Somehow we got talking about wine. I said that a good oxymoron is fresh wine because the good wine is the oldest from fermentation. So I said so they must use the yucky new stuff to christen ships before their madden voyage. He told me that they use champagne for that. That was my slow moment for the night. But this was last night at around midnight so what do you expect?

Cinnamon - this one's for you

2007-07-13T12:32:00.000-04:00

Do you realize how hard it was for me to get to your blog this morning? I couldn't remember the URL so I kept trying. Plus it doesn't help anything that I can't spell "Cinnamon". Anywho, here's the post I told you I would write.

Last night was a brand new record for me. I talked to cinnamon on the phone for two hours and then pianoboy for another hour and a half! so three and a half hours!

Cinnamon and I discussed our time at TheCall even more in depth and how amazing life was. During this time I started getting all excited and worked up because I was just saying how I can't stand what our culture puts up with and deals with. She kept laughing at me because I was getting really happy because I could tell that the Spirit was within me. That was an awesome night and I really didn't want to go to bed. So I didn't. I stayed up until 2 last night just because I wanted to stay up. yeah...

Well I got so bored today that I actually cleaned my room! YEAH, BELIEVE IT! Here's proof...

And to show the last time it was this clean...

I barely even touch the bottom part of the desk (underneath the surface where everything is in two stacks) and my hand collected all this dust. Yuck. (by the way, the cool part about the first picture, on my monitor on my desk, if you look real hard, you can see this blog entry. :-D )

Well that's about everything. I don't have anything else to post about for right now anyway. I'll be back later.

Can Anybody Hear Me?

2007-07-12T11:30:00.001-04:00

By the way... last night was my 40th post. yay me.

So has everyone else just given up on their blogs? you guys must be really really busy because I haven't received a subscription in weeks. (Except for RockFist) I changed a bunch of things in my program that feeds on my subscriptions (just so I don't have to visit each blog site any time I want to check if there's something new) and I'm not sure if I killed it or not. So somebody needs to update! I feel all alone...

AppleJacks - Let me know what you're doing today. I have my phone so call me if you want to do our focus. Plus I thought of a good name: "Scope" You know - "Focus through the Scope"

sweet...

About the bible...

2007-07-12T00:44:00.000-04:00

First I've got to stop posting multiple times in one night...

Question: "Who divided the Bible into chapters and verses? Why and when was it done?"

Answer: When the books of the Bible were originally written, they did not contain chapter or verse references. The Bible was divided into chapters and verses to help us find Scriptures more quickly and easily. It is much easier to find "John chapter 3, verse 16" than it is to find "for God so loved the world..." In a few places, chapter breaks are poorly placed and as a result divide content that should flow together. Overall, though, the chapter and verse divisions are very helpful.

The chapter divisions commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern. Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton's chapter divisions.

The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Nathan in A.D. 1448. Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555. Stephanus essentially used Nathan's verse divisions for the Old Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been accepted into nearly all the Bible versions.

Change - Spiritually and physically

2007-07-12T00:15:00.000-04:00

Wow well today was really boring for me. I actually had nothing to do as well at the same time I had plenty to do. (And now I feel like I'm in Charles Dickinson's "A Tale of Two Cities") So I did read a little bit more of "Lord of the Flies" and I worshiped. ALOT. Which I kind of needed it.

Today I failed.

My new goal after coming back from TheCall was not to "fail". If you're a guy, you should know what I'm talking about. It's not easy and I was really trying not to do it but no one is perfect. I felt really terrible and I was afraid that one slip up would send me into bondage with sin. NO LONGER will I take it. NO LONGER will I sit back and let sin and my enemies take control. NO LONGER! So as I was praying and worshiping after I "failed" I said to God that nothing can separate us, that nothing can separate me from His love. At this time I needed that song, "Your love is deep".
So I called DA and he just started laughing at me. I meant that I was really serious. I mean I felt like I just died, or killed somebody (you know the feeling) and I wasn't in a laughing mood. But I'm not mad at him. I just didn't have time to explain things. I was after all, in the middle of praying.Who knew that worship could be so intense by yourself?

I thought I almost broke a couple keys on the piano because I was throwing myself into it a little too much. I need a piano with some weighted keys then I can really pound 'em.

I hope everyone likes the feel of my blog. I know it is a major change from what I last had (not referring to last night). I wanted something dark because that is the theme of Silence (Selah) but I didn't like the black template that blogger offered. So I created this one. It was ind of difficult and it took a little while to find all the hex codes but I got it to somewhere around where I like it. If you want a custom designed template just let me know and I'll make one for you. Just specify what colors and starting template (from the template's screen) and I'll fix it up for you! This is my service.

So recap: Saturday came a huge spiritual change. Today after a downfall, I have been revived. This was today's spiritual change. Following the spiritual change, I needed physical reconstruction with the way I present things to others (e.g. blog). So I changed it yesterday and redesigned today.

End abortion, send rivival, to America!

2007-07-11T00:46:00.000-04:00

Even though there are people who do not disagree with abortion, I disagree with it and so I advise you to not read this post.

I know it's only an hour since my last post but I was reading through Proverbs and I cannot believe I found these two AMAZING verses.

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the right of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy" Proverbs 31:8-9

This goes exactly along with what we were discussing at TheCall!!! Just like the story of Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss. They unborn babies are Who's that only one person can hear. That one person is God. The bible has instructed us right here to speak up for them since they cannot themselves. We must defend their rights for them.

Jesus I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God end abortion and send revival to America!

Spiritual HIGH!

2007-07-10T23:46:00.000-04:00

I'll tell you guys what... After fasting for 14 hours and praying and worshiping God, some things in my life have CHANGED! and ever since Saturday, I've been living on a Spiritual (notice capitalization) high. I've been praying that it will not diminish but increase as well.

Today I did something different for a change. Right after I got off of the phone with DA I remembered something that someone once told me.

I'm sure that God sits and heaven and says, "I created them to praise and worship me. Why won't they just talk to me?" Why don't we just take time out and just talk to God?

So that's what I did. I sat there for some time and I just began talking out loud. Sounds crazy I know but I know that God heard me. I've have never experienced such joy before. I really felt that God is my best friend. But best is not good enough. There's no way to describe it really. The bond between God and I is better than best friends.

So anyway, as I was just talking and hanging out with God, I was thinking about something that I could change just to show a change in my closeness with Him. I thought about my blog. The other day I looked at the blog description and I noticed that I had never ever changed it. So I completely re-did my header. So now the title reads "Thoughtful in Selah" and the description is Psalm 126:2. There is a reason...

I noticed after reading a little from Psalms that every once in a while the word "Selah" comes up at the end of a stanza. So I went onto a bible dictionary site and looked up the meaning. The actual definition is unknown but many believe it means some sort of pause or silence. I also found the verse Psalm 126:2 which talks about laughter and joy. I used this word and this verse as my header because it is basically what I just did. As I was speaking with God I said to Him that a conversation is two way. And I wanted Him to respond in some way to me (whether a vision, dream, sign, miracle, etc. (He's God - He can do it!)) So I was thinking about a bunch of things and just talking to Him when I just now made a connection: I was the only one audibly speaking and when I wasn't, there was silence - Selah. So I wasn't speaking when I was thinking so I was thinking [thoughtful] in silence [Selah]. So while I was speaking I was very joyful that I served someone that was so beautiful and awesome that I could just talk to Him like I was talking to anyone else. And it made me laugh -- I was actually smiling the whole time!

So when I talk to God it makes me very joyful and laugh. And when I'm not speaking but I am thoughtful there is Selah.

I hope now you understand the new meaning behind my new header. This basically all I wanted to post about. Also too, to everyone who went to TheCall - I figured out the "Life" song -- you know, the song that we sang when we wore the Life bands. I have the sheet music printed and we are doing it on Thursday at REMAIN. See you guys then.

Let me know what you guys think about my new title. I was going to change the URL address to my blog but that is kind of a hassle to tell everybody because I know that there are several people who read this.

P.S. Afterthought - I was thinking about creating yet another blog fully devoted to Christian living and messages from God, but I don't believe I'm to the point where that is necessary. I'm just going to say that from now on all my posts will be more fervent towards the Lord.

P.S.S. Afterpost construction - I totally redid my blog for those of you who cannot tell because they use RSS and ATOM feeders. I advise you to check it out. Be sure to look at the bottom of the page to check out what the footer says!

Revival in America!!!

2007-07-09T13:05:00.000-04:00

Where to begin.....

I suppose I'll just go in order:

Thursday

Today we traveled to Kentucky and after arriving we set up the tents and moved in. Then we walked to the other side of the farm to Uncle Jim's and Aunt Marlis's (sp?) house. We had a big fire that we roasted hot dogs on and we hung out there for the evening. Then everyone but me and doon went Snipe hunting. HAHAHA Then I found out that they went snipe hunting in a 10 acre corn field at 10 at night. I knew there was a reason why I didn't want to go.

Friday

Talk about a laid back day for me. First stop was the National Corvette Musem.

More pics are coming... I just have to upload them to webshots. After a tour of the museum we went back to the farm and ate lunch and then it was just time to be guys... GATOR RIDES! First Daniel took us down to the cave.

So DA and AppleJacks had to go into it and check it out. I wanted to but the path down into it was slippery and my shoes had no traction and MB didn't want to for some reason.

Then we took an extra long ride all over the farm and we each took turns driving. DA drove down a hill which I'm guessing was about 60 foot. He put the Gator into neutral and just went rolling. I was in the back with AppleJacks and we caught some major airtime. Then we landed very painfully. So we all took turns driving. I drove next and almost drove into a sink hole because I thought it was a valley on the other side of the hill. I was wrong. Everyone freaked out. I wasn't.

At some point I lost my cell phone and I didn't realize until that evening. We found it in the back of the gator. It is really really really scratched up.

So anyway then we went back for a little while and then everyone decided that they wanted ice cream. I was going to go but then I realized that all the little kids were going too. Now I don't want to sound mean but my patience after that morning were pretty much shot. So I said that I didn't feel like going. I went inside and fell asleep in a huge leather and comfortable chair and enjoyed the peace and quiet.

Friday evening after dinner, we had a prayer meeting for the call on the back deck of their house. And then we had a scavenger hunt on the farm. ***Note to self: Running after dinner does not go over well with your stomach*** This concluded the day

Saturday - THE CALL

The gates opened at 8 and it started at 10 but we wanted good seats so we woke up at 3 AM and left at 4 AM. We waited in line for 2.5 hours and then got inside and worshipped for two hours until 10.

The call was AMAZING. There are no words to describe how awesome it was. The only thing I can say is you must come with us to The Call D.C. in 2008! If you have DriectTV you can watch TheCall on demand.

My favorite part was hearing 300 chauffars (sp?) and 100,000 people yelling at the top of their lungs for 15+ minutes! YEAH

We fasted for a total of 19 hours and I was awake for 22 hours. Except for the van rides (I was partially awake but my mind was resting). This was an experience well worth experiencing! My favorite part was the breaking of the spirit of Baal. He is dead and trampled upon. I also loved the decrees that we made and the LIFE song.

There were so many things I loved and I wish I had time to tell you everything but I don't. I have to go for now but be there for REMAIN on thursday to hear more.

Happy Fourth Of July!!!

2007-07-03T22:40:00.001-04:00

Well almost... but because Brad won't be at home tomorrow night, we decided to "celebrate tonight". I'm not going to be very specific because it is self incriminating but I will say that we made some BIG HUGE BOOMS! And if you've ever been to my house you know that we have a revine in the back. Well sounds travel and echo very easily so our neighbor came over and yelled at us. He said "I've been up since three thirty this morning and I'm trying to get some sleep. It's not very courteous to others to be doing that at this hour."

My response was (in my head) - I think it's your problem that you were up so early, and it's only 10.30. Once midnight comes things are really going to get bad. He threatened to call the cops if we set off one more. We only had one left anyway. You can't have a good time without a pooper.

Hoora!

2007-07-02T21:35:00.000-04:00

I fixed it!!! My Hierarchy Listing at right was making me mad because February was always the month that was open. I wanted July to be open and I couldn't figure it out. I finally got it by unchecking the "Show Older Posts First" tick. (a tick is that little white box where the check marks go for those of you who don't know computers extremely well). That's about all I have to say. I just wanted everyone to observe my great achievement.

Prayer was AWESOME at CCC. When I said I wasn't sure about going to Nashville, all you had to do was take me to prayer and I would have made up my mind. Now I'm really excited.

and JR - I'm sorry I forgot about you...... I guess I didn't have a message for you
Let's see now......... um... cool afro

Later

Making someone - scratch that - a few hundred people happy

2007-07-01T23:36:00.000-04:00

Well everyone, here's your update. I guess I'm that bored where I need to type some junk up about who knows what.

By the way, every thinks I'm too critical and cynical, have you guys heard yourself lately? What about "typing up things about the way you feel make you feel better" ? Well it's true. Have you ever tried it? It helps, and it's not like I put anyone's name into the posts. I just do it to blow off steam and to really get someone's attention if need be.

Carrie - Great party and Congratulations again.
SuperK - You know I got the moves, I just wasn't use to playing songs that I didn't know Thanks for the workout.
Sandman - KNEX are what make the egineering entertainment world go round. You must have patience!
Addicted Game Freak - That's a lot of texting
AppleJacks - I was bored today and thought about calling you to see if you wanted to hang out... too bad it was already 8.30
Mama Lilly - I tried to begin editing today... I can't until I have the rest of the pics, the video, and I need help on chronologizing the pictures.
Belle - Good job today, I'm proud of you for coming up with a better plan than me (not to sound egotistical). I'm glad your brain isn't fried from having your first lesson in video editing
BIGnerd - I hope you got my email. I finally remembered to send it today. I know it's more like a novel. Sorry for the delay
Exquisite and Rockfist/AmericanFreak - I'm really really really really going to miss you guys this weekend. I hope you guys have a good time in.............. um... chicago?

I think that's everyone from Remain except for the Hart's

um

You guys are the coolest youth group leaders I think I have ever met. um.... yeah...

Anywho

I can't say I'm really that excited about this whole trip. Now on Friday, something amazing is going to happen. But it's the whole camping thing that gets me. Now it's not as bad as I make it seem. I know how to go camping and what to do and all that because my dad is a training trails commander. He knows his stuff. So for me I know plenty on how to survive. ***Weird thought pops into head*** --- LIKE A STILL!!! HAHAHAHA I have to show you guys how you can pee and then drink it!!!
So I will be uncomfortable for a day or so until I get broken in. Lord let me relax and let go and calm down. Maybe I'll just make that my moto.

PEOPLE TICK ME OFF!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-26T00:04:00.000-04:00

Please read the following post like I am yelling everything as loud as I possibly can.

(If I could cuss most of this post would be in asterisks)

You really know how to grind me down to my last nerve. ALL OF YOU! The Mighty Cactus was right. I can't stand any of you sometimes. You called my cell phone so I answer it and you say to me to hang up so you can show a whole group of people my voicemail greeting. I'm not stupid and I know what you were doing. You were saying how ridiculous is this? Isn't this so funny? LET'S JUST ALL MAKE FUN OF ME!!! I'M SICK OF IT!!!!!! So I hang up and you call again. So I hang up again. You kept calling 15 times! Don't you get the picture? I'm surprised you could be so stupid to realize that I've been ignoring your phone calls for the past month and a half. There is a reason why my phone always goes to voicemail. And when I hit the ignore button, that doesn't mean call again. So then later someone else calls just to annoy me. Carrying on a stupid conversation about NOTHING!

I have tried to tell you nicely but it just isn't working....

30 and still goin

2007-06-19T12:55:00.000-04:00

Today is my 30th blog post. I feel special. However this is not the reason why I am posting. I have an announcment. I have started a new blog. Now I'm not moving to it and forgetting this one, I have started a new one for a reason. With all my ramblings of geeky and technical things I have decided to put those on a blog all their own so Exquisite and Rockfist and anyone else who feels disappointed when I update with those don't have to feel that way anymore. (Plus you don't have to get lost trying to read my posts on here). So now this blog is just general. If you would like to check out my new blog it is:

http://geek--tech.blogspot.com

Somebody already stole geektech and someone else stole geek-tech so I just put two hyphens in there. DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU?!!!?! lol. Well there you go. Now be happy that you don't get headaches reading this site.

On a side note - MAN I'M CONFUSED!!! I've been trying to figure out how to link both my blogs together so I can easily update either one when I sign in. The way I wanted it was so that the blogger welcome page displayed both my accounts. Because google is stupid I can't use the same email address for two blogs. It says that another blog is using that email address. So the way around it is to invite yourself to be an author. I think I messed up because in my profile one of the blogs and its team member have the same address. Same thing on the other profile but it's vice versa. Stupid Google...

1 more life goal complete

2007-06-18T23:46:00.000-04:00

This will have to be a quick post because I'm tired and I need to go to sleep.

I'm really extremely happy now because one of my life goals has been completed thanks to the Reader's Digest. You know on those tooth brush commercials where it says "In fact, four out of five dentist recommend the Ultra Sonic - Radio Active Super Duper Teeth Cleansing Apparatus Version 2"? Well that one dentist (or doctor) out of the five that doesn't recommend the product is actually called something. That fifth person is called a plaquack. My life is now one step closer to being complete...

Intellectual Theories

2007-06-15T00:08:00.000-04:00

I'm actually kind of disappointed because I found out today that nobody has read my blog recently. I must say, what the junk? This is my third post in two days and who knows how many people still have to catch up to last week. wow...

I suck at life.

I've been thinking again and devised, yet another, theory in which I should enlighten you all. (Don't worry this won't be that complex as this post.)
This actually relates to Lost. So for all the fans out there, you may actually know what I'm talking about.

In Lost, there is a man who gets bits of flash forwards and can always see when this guy is about to die. He has saved his life countless times but tells him that life has a way of self-correcting. So no matter what he does to save this guy's life, he will still end up dying. Now I think about this because of this event:

My dad and I were watching the Cav's basketball game (WOW shocking... Me watching sports) and at the end they lost by one point. (of course the last 37 seconds of the game actually takes 15 minutes in real time). My dad said to me, "If only LaBron had made one more shot then they would have won."

Now I think about this and devise a new theory that things have a way of self-correcting. If LaBron made another shot in the middle of the game, the players would be set up on the court differently creating a new scenario and altering the end result.

Let's try some math here - Say that A + B + C + D + E + F + G = 25
okay, so say that these are a whole bunch of baskets made and their score is 25. If LaBron made one more basket in the middle (making D2) then that would not correctly set up the scenario to score E, F, and G. So the new scoring order is A + B + C + D2 + H + I + J = __<=25(less than or equal to)

So by changing one variable, it can ruin the whole order because other dependent variables are not in the same place yielding different results. So now matter what, the game would have self-corrected and the Cav's still would have lost (even though I was rooting for them)

Relationships

2007-06-14T15:29:00.000-04:00

Do you know how it feels when something your looking forward to doesn't work out and really backfires and blows up in your face?

It happened...

Everything was horrible for awhile but lack of communication does not help anything. We talked about it and we felt better afterwards but then you say one thing that kills the feeling. We have to be split apart. You say that you don't like me and you must be apart from me to keep your mind from going where you don't want it to go. I'll never understand. You cannot split a friendship over your thoughts. It does not make any sense and you're only making me feel worse. I was fine but now everything seems bad. You don't like me, fine, but don't kill my emotions by RUINING a friendship.

GOODBYE FOREVER....

Geeks BEWARE!!! - you now have competition

2007-06-13T22:49:00.000-04:00

This will be a very geeky post yet very interesting to read.

So all those computer geeks out there, here's a new theory to work on. My new life goal is to create a way for computers to truly generate random information (whether numbers or characters or sets of data).

*COMPUTER LESSON 1*
Computers (in programing) have a procedure to produce "random" numbers. This is based on the number of milliseconds that your computer has been on (Called "System Clock"). This number is technically a decimal and then is multiplied and front end estimated to create a possible number between any two numbers that the programmer sets. (e.g. any number can be generated between 7 and 31) Point in case: A "random" number is actually derived from a mathematical algorithm.

So now how do you get a number from a computer with no math? Good question! This is where the impossible theories come in. As soon as my brother asked me this, I spent thirty seconds thinking and came up with a possible solution that would be more random and less logical than the current random function. Allow me to explain with the use of visual aids.

Say you have an array of data...

(don't pay any attention to the symbols (they're actually suppose to be numbers))

Okay this array was "randomly" created using the random function based on BIOS system clock (the mathematical function).(not really - I just typed it up with paint but this is what it would do if using a procedure to do it. That's another point. Forget it....)

Now we use another random function to shuffle and mix up all these numbers. (Again based on BIOS system clock)
Now the numbers are in a new order which the computer does not know because the chronological order does not follow the original stepping of the BIOS algorithm (did I just lose everyone with that statement?) (In english: the new array does not match the pattern used to create it).

So now we have a halfway random list. Now we use a third random function based on system clock to pinpoint a specific number which cannot be predicted by using any sort of mathematical operation because of randomly random order (yes that is random squared). So say our function returns an X and a Y in this array from the top left corner. The point the computer has specified is (11,25) (eleven down and twenty-five right) Yielding...

3. The computer (IN THEORY) has now returned a fully random value using multiple and complex mathematical equations. Obviously it is not fully logical but uses math outside of chronological patterns of a clock. Hence giving randomness no predictability.

*COMPUTER LESSON 2*
"With random information, computers could make logical decisions that would be equivalent to the intelligence of a five year old, which is outstanding."

The most powerful computer on the planet currently has the intelligence equivalency to about a two year old. It can make decisions based on math, not logic. Using random integers (whole numbers) could change this dramatically because a computer could then learn (artificial intelligence). Say a computer is shown many red objects. After a while it is accustomed to seeing and recognizing red objects. After some time it then knows that it's favorite color is red. Now here's the test: present the computer with two objects, one red and one blue. Now here's the random part. Will the computer be logical and choose it's favorite color, or will it be spontaneous and choose blue because it's decision was based on mathematics? Unfortunately, the question cannot be answered. This is an intelligence question far out of range from current progress but once more mysterious and coding secrets are found, these scenarios can become a reality.

*COMPUTER LESSON 3*
Computers have progressed one hundred times faster than humans. Humans had to go from learning how to make sandals and wooden tools to building sky scrapers. Computers have gone from evaluating 1+0+0+0+1 = 2 to working backwards with logarithms like Log(18)x = 271 (which means 18 to what power equals 271). All of what I have discussed here could be a reality very soon in the future.

Remember that all of this is actually imaginary. These are the logical steps to it all. The computer would not actually create a picture for all to see.

I hope you enjoyed my geeky side for the time being. Sorry to all who are now asleep. By the way - this all came about when I built a "Magic 8-Ball" application to "randomly" give answers to dumb questions.

Life really blows....

2007-06-08T22:34:00.001-04:00

WHOA!!! HYPERLINKS!

2007-06-05T16:14:00.000-04:00

Yes... I know how to create hyperlinks but I didn't know that you could do it with pictures. So like... HMMM... I could have fun with this!

(click on me)
HAHAHAHAHA

This is cool. Now, I won't put anymore links on here... You guys get screen shots and photo hyperlinks!!!

Okay, I'm done being geeky for the day

Got (Spatial) Skill?

2007-06-05T16:03:00.000-04:00

I found this game online because I got so bored with nothing to do because it is only exam week...

http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/squares2.jsp

I'll tell you the rules so you don't have to sit there and read them from the game...

You are the rotating black square and it is controlled by the mouse. You move around and avoid the red squares and red circles. Your goal is to get all the other BLACK squares but then the game speeds up and gets harder. The BLACK circles will give you help (like slo-mo, invincibility, and other things) Try and see what your highest point value, and number of squares are. Plus the music is cool too so turn up your speakers!

My Collage - Thanks Super K

2007-05-31T15:36:00.001-04:00

B-Day pics are in

2007-05-30T17:09:00.000-04:00

Here's the link to my pics:

http://family.webshots.com/slideshow/559236545CEBsuV

The comments that I made aren't shown so if you want to see them go here and click the next button to look at the photos and their comments.

http://family.webshots.com/photo/2216377660071211753FShxWo

My Birthday... Continued

2007-05-30T15:52:00.000-04:00

Sorry to leave everyone hanging like that. Situation called for bedtime. Any who....

Thank you all so much for coming to my birthday party. I didn't realize how much of a good time everyone had. And according to Exquisite, it was pretty awesome. I'm so happy that I could show all my friends a good time. I'm still working on the party pics. Those are going to be uploaded to webshots because it's faster than doing one by one on here.

So I haven't updated in forever because.... my computer died. Long story (all of those who are technically illiterate please skip the next couple of paragraphs)

I had to reformat my computer because a program modified system files that was slowing it down. When the operating system was re-written, NTLDR was compressed. NTLDR is the file that boots a computer. With out your machine is worthless. I had to back up 50 GB of data on my parent's computer and then completely wipe my hard drive and start again.

Next I wanted to create a partition for my files. My computer froze while trying to resize partitions. I lost all my files. Good thing they were still saved on my parent's computer. So as we speak right now... they are being transfered back to me via the network.

ALRIGHT Back to life.
I've been actually catching up with EVERYONE'S blogs. It's amazing. And so I took some of everyone's ideas and came up with the following from Super-K

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? NO

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? I cry all the time deep inside myself... You just don't know it.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? No, it's too messy. I actually created my own manuscript with a cursive twist.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? This is interesting... I like fried chicken lunch meat or microwaved ham. Nothing cold though... yuck.

5. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'm a big jerk... I'd consider it... I'm kidding, of course I would.

6. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? You better believe I do!!!

7. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes

8. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? I don't like heights but I may still do it.

9. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Honey Nut Cheerios or whatever I'm in the mood for.

10. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? I used to but I'm trying to keep these shows nice.

11. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? I am super Buff

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Sugary

13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? That depends on their appearance

14. RED OR PINK? Red

15. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Beige shorts and white and blue tennis shoes

16. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? My birthday cake (it was left over)

17. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The sound of a ticking lawn sprinkler that better shut up before something goes FLYING out the WINDOW!!!

18. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Silver or Black or White because then I just wouldn't show up.

19. FAVORITE SMELLS? Vanilla and RAIN!!! I love the smell of RAIN!!! Thanks Laura for the AWESOME candle for my birthday!

20. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? I called Laura but Apple Jacks called me today.

21. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Super-K is SWEET! Of course I like her. Who doesn't like her?

22. HAIR COLOR? Brown-ish (Blonde?)

23. EYE COLOR? Aqua

24. FAVORITE FRUIT? I hate fruit... I do like apples, rasberies, cran berries, and the occasional grape

25. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Ending

26. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer with air conditioning

27. HUGS OR KISSES? KISSES

28. FAVORITE DESSERT? Sugar

29. FAVORITE SOUND? Deep, loud musical notes tickle me... REALLY! But I like the low note of G and on the piano I like a power chord of Bb/Eb

30. WHAT IS THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Tampa Bay, Florida

This I got from my friend Dan.

Level 1
() Smoked A Cigarette
() Smoked A Cigar
() Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex (I've been kissed by 2 guys (not at the same time))
() Drank Alcohol

SO FAR: 0

Level 2
() Are / Been In Love (WAS)
(XXXX) Been Dumped
() Shoplifted
() Been Fired
() Been In A Fist Fight

SO FAR: 1

Level 4
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(X) Skipped School (Kinda)
() Slept With A Co-worker
(X) Seen Someone / Something Die

SO FAR: 4

Level 5
() Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your Facebook Friends
() Been To Paris
() Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
() Thrown Up From Drinking

SO FAR: 5

Level 6
() Eaten Sushi
() Been Snowboarding
() Met Someone BECAUSE Of Facebook
() Been in a Mosh Pit

SO FAR: 5

Level 7
() Been In An Abusive Relationship
(x) Taken Pain Killers (Tylenol counts)
(xxxxxxx) Love/loved Someone Who You Can't Have
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x) Made A Snow Angel

SO FAR: 9

Level 8
() Had A Tea Party
() Flown A Kite
() Built A Sand Castle
() Gone mudding (offroading)
() Played Dress Up (fancy dress counts)

SO FAR: 8

Level 9
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
(x) Gone Sledging
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School

SO FAR: 13

Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
(x) Felt An Earthquake
() Killed A Snake

SO FAR: 15

Level 11
(xxx) Been Tickled
(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized
() Been cheated on (to my knowledge)
(xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Been Misunderstood (you know it)

SO FAR: 18

Level 12
(x) Won A Contest
() Been Suspended From School
() Had Detention
() Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident

SO FAR: 19

Level 13
() Had / Have Braces
() Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Danced in the moonlight (I think)

SO FAR: 20

Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Look. (Sometimes)
(x) Witnessed A Crime (atleast once)
() Pole Danced
(x) Questioned Your Heart
(X) Been obsessed with post-it-notes

SO FAR: 24

Level 15
() Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
(x) Been Lost
() Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
(x) Felt Like You Were Dying

SO FAR: 27

Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
(x) Played Cops And Robbers
(x) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
(x) Sang Karaoke
() Paid For A Meal With Only Coins

SO FAR: 31

Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls
() Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
() Kissed In The Rain

SO FAR: 33

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
() Made A Bonfire On The Beach or anywhere

SO FAR: 36

Level 19
() Crashed A Party
(x) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A car/coach Full Of People
() Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
() Been Humped By A Monkey

SO FAR: 38

Level 20
() Worn Pearls
() JumpedOff A Bridge
() Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"
() Swam With Dolphins

SO FAR: 38

Level 22
(x) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cube
() Kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
() Sat On A Roof Top

SO FAR: 40

Level 23
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
() Done a One-Handed Cartwheel
() Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
(x) Recently stayed Up for a while talking to someone you care about

SO FAR: 42

Level 24
() Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
() Climbed A Tree
(x) Had/Been In A Tree House
(x) Been scared to Watch Scary Movies Alone

SO FAR: 44

Level 25
(x) Believed In Ghosts
() Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes.
() Gone Streaking
() Visited Jail

SO FAR: 45

Level 26
(x) Played Chicken
() Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
() Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused (all the time)

SO FAR: 48

Level 27
() Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
() Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
(x) Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed

SO FAR: 51

Level 28
(x) Mooned/Flashed Someone
(x) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
(x) Cheated On A Test
(xxxx) Forgotten Someone's Name (I don't know why, but I'm horrible with names)
(x) French Braided Someones Hair
(x) Gone Skinny Dipping
(x) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
(x) Tried to hurt yourself

SO FAR: 59

Level 29
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
() Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling
() Had A Cavity
(x) Black-Mailed Someone
(x) Been Black Mailed

SO FAR: 62

Level 31
(xxxxxx) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs
() Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone(not violently)
(x) Licked Someone

SO FAR: 66

Level 32
(x) Been shot at/or at gunpoint
() Had sex in the rain
() Flattened someones tires
(xxx) Rode your car/truck until the gas light came on (driving around everyday)
(x) Got five dollars or less worth of gas

Total: 69

And these from Exquisite:

Who says I'm not dramatic?

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Musician Doo doo de doo waaaa doo de doo! (<-- That's you playing something.) Everyone appreciates the band/orchestra geeks and the pretty voices. Whether you sing in the choir, participate in a school/local band, or sit at home writing music, you contribute a joy to society that everyone can agree on. Yay! Welcome to actually doing something for poor, pathetic human souls. (Just kidding.)
Drama Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Literature Nerd
Social Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Anime Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace

(the Drama Nerd level was the highest)

Here's my life in a nutshell...

You Feel Like You Don't Fit In 35% Of The Time

You have a place in the world, even though you may forget on the bad days. You fit in pretty well, but you don't always feel like it. All you need to do is keep the right outlook and stay true to yourself. You will go places.

Do You Have a Place in This World?
Create Your Own Quiz

Happy Birthday to me....

2007-05-29T20:58:00.000-04:00

Yes, Friday was my birthday and it was fun too. I don't have any pics from my mom yet...

Oh wait, I lied. I'm transferring them to my comp right now.

Alrighty now... let's see here. I have all the pics but circumstances are preventing the whole post right now so I'll do it all tomorrow. I must go to bed now though. Sorry for the let down. Just wait 18 hours for the whole story. It's a good one too. For now though, I leave you with this...

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? NO

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? I cry all the time deep inside myself... You just don't know it.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? No, it's too messy. I actually created my own manuscript with a cursive twist.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? This is interesting... I like fried chicken lunch meat or microwaved ham. Nothing cold though... yuck.

5. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'm a big jerk... I'd consider it... I'm kidding, of course I would.

6. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? You better believe I do!!!

7. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes

8. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? I don't like heights but I may still do it.

9. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Honey Nut Cheerios or whatever I'm in the mood for.

10. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? I used to but I'm trying to keep these shows nice.

11. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? I am super Buff

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Sugary

13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? That depends on their appearance

14. RED OR PINK? Red

15. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Beige shorts and white and blue tennis shoes

16. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? My birthday cake (it was left over)

17. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The sound of a ticking lawn sprinkler that better shut up before something goes FLYING out the WINDOW!!!

18. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Silver or Black or White because then I just wouldn't show up.

19. FAVORITE SMELLS? Vanilla and RAIN!!! I love the smell of RAIN!!! Thanks Laura for the AWESOME candle for my birthday!

20. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? I called Laura but Apple Jacks called me today.

21. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Super-K is SWEET! Of course I like her. Who doesn't like her?

22. HAIR COLOR? Brown-ish (Blonde?)

23. EYE COLOR? Aqua

24. FAVORITE FRUIT? I hate fruit... I do like apples, rasberies, cran berries, and the occasional grape

25. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Ending

26. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer with air conditioning

27. HUGS OR KISSES? KISSES

28. FAVORITE DESSERT? Sugar

29. FAVORITE SOUND? Deep, loud musical notes tickle me... REALLY! But I like the low note of G and on the piano I like a power chord of Bb/Eb

30. WHAT IS THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Tampa Bay, Florida

Useless Randomness

2007-05-14T21:23:00.000-04:00

Hello all... Long time no update.
Talent show is over, which I'm kinda glad and kinda sad. It was one of those fun things because it was my job but it was just taking up time too. It was sweet though. I didn't use enough blue but the whole show went really well. I love foggy ambience. For those of you who don't know, we had a smoke machine this year. So I had some fun before the school performance. I dragged the thing into the middle of the auditorium and fogged the whole house for fifteen minutes until it left a hazy atmosphere. You could see the beams of the dimmed house lights. It was pretty awesome.

Update with my beta machine (that's what I'm calling it now since I have so many programs on my computer and I have to end up reformatting it three times a month. Not healthy I know.) Anyway, I got new software (again) for video editing purposes. It doesn't run very well because the Vista Transformation Pack is killing my computer. It takes so many system resources to load it isn't even funny. Probably when I finish all my projects I'll reformat the thing since I can't uninstall the pack. Word of advice...Do not install the Vista Transformation packs! They have a shady install and no uninstall. Disregard my previous post. Disregard the beginning of that post as well. It's all backwards.

Catching up to current - Me and AppleJacks went with my dad to Cedar Point to drop of some furniture covers in Hotel Breakers and went to a couple's summer home on the Chaucer (sp?). AppleJacks freaked out when we went inside because the house was really nice. I didn't think much of it though. We took a couch to recover it and went and ate at Fazolis (sp?). My splelnig is attrocoius.

"Jr. Bacon King Wendy Mc Burger"

Which brings me to now ---Now I will fill the rest of this post with uselessness.

NIC Card: Network Interface Card Card

"Paradoxical"

reality = anti-oxymoron

today I am 15.9698630137 years old.

AAAAA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse

x=y
x^2=xy
x^2-y^2 = xy-y^2
(x+y)(x-y) = y(x-y)
((x+y)(x-y))/(x-y) =( y(x-y))/(x-y)

So: x+y = y

If x = 1 and y = 1 Then

2 = 1

Jenius

There's no place like 192.168.1.1

If you dissolve prozac in water, will it depress the freezing point?

53.7% of all statistics are made up

Commenting on comments

2007-05-05T13:04:00.000-04:00

alright you blood sucking savages...

here's my response to your comments...

"Anonymous" said...
¡We want snacks! ¡We want snacks!
¡We want snacks! ¡We want snacks!
¡We want snacks! ¡We want snacks!
¡We want snacks! ¡We want snacks!

I'm guessing this is Super K only because you just found out how to use the upside down symbols. Let me tell you that I had no intention of skipping Remain. And I did forget all about youth night. I already said I wasn't going to be there because of way too much stuff to do.

Next, DW said...
Unfortunately, the Start Menu is the best thing on Vista.

I agree and disagree. After seeing a live simulcast online when Vista was released I must admit that the side bar is very handy. I personally have a legal version of it on XP that came with the Vista Transformation Pack that I installed. It is very handy and I use it a ton. I also use the search feature to find files. Xp's version stinks so that's another plus for Vista. so the Start Menu isn't technically the only good thing.

and finally... Exquisite, Thanks for the love.

Alright we all happy now?
If not then I don't care what you say. It's just food and you should only be worried about the hunger for the Lord not for junk food.

Where in the world is Brice?

2007-05-04T22:21:00.000-04:00

Yes I realize I was quite missed on Thursday as I have been missed on blogger as well. So much for updating regularly...

Life: Stinks
is stressful
too complicated
too short
too busy
is very crazy

I have two projects: english research project and a computer hardware project, a junk-load of homework to do, driving for two hours, and now the Talent Show that I have to do lights for. When does the MAYHEM stop?

Overview of week:
Mon. Boring - with homework
Teus. Boring - even more homework and a thunderstorm
Wed. Not much going on still working on those projects
Thurs. Interview with Lance Heal at Cedar Point for my career research project. VERY EXCITING AND INTERESTING!!! Got home with a b-load of craft to do.
Fri. Driving with June after school until 5 then worshiped with AppleJacks

My interveiw: I met the guy at Cedar Point who is the head of show productions, Lance Heal. Come to find out in a super long story short that can be viewed here, that he is the one who recorded "Keep arms down, head back, and hold on." that is played on Top Thrill Dragster just before each train is launched down the track. He also created Halloweekends and created the idea of using fog to create a quick, cheap, outdoor haunted house. This is One Cool Guy.

Yeah... That's about it...

Tune in next week for Brice's favorite quotes.

Geek portion all others will be confused.
Favorite geek quote: ROFL x2.47GB

yes...

and the newest thing to be downloaded on my beta machine: Windows Vista Start Menu on XP.

super sweet...

That's it.

Peace and Tranquility at last...

2007-04-19T16:41:00.000-04:00

Yes... As the week draws to a close I finally have more time to teenager. YEAH! No more drivers' ed until next week and no homework tonight. I'm looking forward to an awesome night at Remain. That's about it. Nothing new. Just keeping you all updated.

Time to relax. I need some smooth jazz.

UPDATE

2007-04-17T15:45:00.000-04:00

In the post about my dream I forgot to include some stuff because I wrote about it seven hours after it happened so I forgot some of it. I just rememebered the rest of it and edited it. I put it back in the post under the headings of " ***UPDATE*** ".

Thank you all for your encouragement. I really feel like I have a new outlook on life.

~Blessed be His Name!

Teenager - (noun, adjective, verb)

2007-04-16T21:21:00.000-04:00

How is the word teenager a verb? I think my mom used it this afternoon. I've used it as an adjective as I'm sure we all have. I came home today after the first day back to school. **SIGH** I was feeling kinda tired and lazy and overwhelmed. (adjective form of teenager) And so I pretty much just kinda sat there for awhile (verb form of teenager). But then I had (and still have) a buttload of homework to do. And it's time to go to bed too! I had Drivers Education for the first time tonight. It wasn't as bad as I thought....

"What's wrong friend? Don't you like my chop job?"

"If your hand is at 12 and the airbag goes off, your hand is going to hit your face and it's going to get messy. Then it's going to screw your face up." ~Miss June

Yeah... That's about it...

I need sleep

Acts 2:17 "...your young men will see visions..."

2007-04-15T15:44:00.000-04:00

First off... I'm really surprised of how many people actually read my blog. I went searching through all of your sites today (and yours too Daniel.. I resent the link to my site. It's insulting) and I discovered that a lot of people took my idea of "Music My Life". ***If I had a dollar for every view (like charging admission) I could be rich. Buy out Microsoft or something... Not to be egotistical or anything***

But that's not the reason why I'm posting.

Some stuff happened in that past couple of days. I know I said in yesterday's post that nothing did but it wasn't relevant until now.

On Friday me and AppleJacks got together to worship and pray. We felt that God was calling us to help encourage each other. So we did. Andrew and I have been praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit for quite some time now. We both really want the gift of speaking in tounges and other blessings. Well for encouragement from the Word, I used Acts which I recently got done with studying from Bible Quiz. I turned to Acts chapter 2 where it talks about "The Holy Spirit Comes At Pentecost" Starting in verse 17, God spoke through the prophet Joel saying, "17 ‘In the last days, God said, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. (NLT)

Well here's where the story gets really good.

Last night (Saturday night - Sunday morning) I had a dream (which turned out to be a vision I'm pretty sure).

It was a place where people could fly (like a bird) when they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Crazy I know; just go with it. My friends could fly and I wanted the ability as well. I prayed and prayed but I just couldn't do it. My friends wanted me to go with them off of "the runway" (I don't know how to describe this. This was a place in the dream where people would run and jump off the end of this platform over a cliff's edge and fly away. I'm just going to call it the runway). I would go with my friends as they would jump and fly and they wanted me to join them but I couldn't. I would stand there on the runway and just cry and pray.

One day, Daniel took me up to the runway and told me, "Brice you are going to fly today and your not getting away until you do." Forceful sounding I know but I went along with it. As we approached the runway I was about to get sick I was so terrified, and I kept praying, "Lord please baptize me in the Holy Spirit. Send Your Holy Spirit upon me." I just kept saying that over and over. Daniel went ahead of me and jumped and I just followed him, not thinking of what was happening. I remember taking a step off the end of the runway and looking down seeing the ground below about one hundred feet away. I thought I was falling down with gravity when I spread out my arms and I soared away.

***UPDATE*** (I forgot to include this the first time which is pretty important)
After flying around for a bit I landed and asked if anybody else was going to join me. I was about to go again when someone said that I was low on fuel. (There's a way were you can tell but that is really weird and takes to much time to explain). I said I had enough to go again but then they said, "You better come back and fill up because you don't have enough to go it alone" yeah... I thought that was pretty awesome (I can't believe I forgot that the first time.)

My interpretation:
Flying is like speaking in Tounges. (not in real life of course) I wanted the gift that my friends had. I kept praying without seeing any results because "14 What good is it my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 17 So you see, it isn’t enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn’t show itself by good deeds is no faith at all—it is dead and useless. 26 Just as the body is dead without a spirit, so also faith is dead without good deeds. James 2:14,17,26. Even though it's not exactly a "good deed", I need to show action that I am truly hungry for the Spirit. It isn't enought to say it we have to be committed to obey God to get His blessings.
The funny thing is is that Pastor Tom just talked about this today. "Obedience Brings Fullness".
14 When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,
15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.
17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love.
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.
19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
20 Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.
21 May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen.

***UPDATE*** To go along with the end of the dream.
I want certain things but God's answer to all of our questions is Yes, No, or Wait. I was blessed with a gift and I wanted more but God said "Wait" for a reason. We can't do all things on our own and that's why we need to be refilled or refreshed to help us on our way.

I hate to feel that I'm preaching here, but this is what I really feel.

So basically what happened in the end is that we need to make a move of faith. I need to come out of my box, take the right actions to do what is necessary (even if I don't feel like it), obey God, take a leap of faith, dive in, and praise Him as he gives me fullness. How's that for breaking the comfort zone? Forget being all inside myself because I'm afraid what else may happen. I need to overcome the feelings inside myself to press through and enter in! I want to have passion, fullness, and thankfulness in my life.

***UPDATE*** Footnotes
My grandpa sent me an email about this post giving me more encouragement and I wanted to share a couple things that he said (he is a pastor and all). He pointed out that we should seek that giver and not the the gift itself. And he's right. I didn't want it to sound like that. And that's what me and Apple Jacks are doing together. Together we are seeking God that he might bless us.

I also need to remember not to worry about what I'm saying when I'm praying. I just need to let it flow freely and "Just make love to Jesus".
~Thank you so much Grandpa J

Dive - Steven Curtis Chapman

My driving experience today...

2007-04-14T16:13:00.000-04:00

My heart was racing wildly. My knuckles were turning white from the intense grip I had on the wheel. I started sweating as the temperature rose. I was looking around my eyes going every which way wildly. I was about to scream from the pressure of it all when my dad said, "Start the car".

I'm kidding. I'm not that oblivious.

No but I did get quite an experience in. I drove for 2 and a half hours on the highway. Going 65mph towards Cleveland was kind of terrifying with all the traffic around. Then actually trying to make it through the city of a suburb of Cleveland was bad enough. I got to learn how to do it sometime. Fun.

I think I'm going to take a nap.

Cun yu sea goud?

2007-04-14T12:05:00.000-04:00

moderob si gnikat revo htiw eno yad tfel ot og. yldas gnirps kaerb si revo.... dna I od ton tnaw ot og kcab ot taht live ecalp.

siht si tola erom nuf naht I thguoht ti dluow eb.

rof esoht ohw era dionna ydaerla htiw siht:

I get to go driving today and work at the same time. Me and dad have to go deliver furniture up near Cleveland and who gets to do the driving on Route 2? Me.... Pray for protection for me. I'm sure I'll post tomorrow over the fun it was of being deeply horrified for an hour at a time. I think that's all I have to post about. Nothing new has happened to me in a while.

Well... I made my computer look like vista for free. That is pretty sweet. Here's the link...
Make sure to start your computer in safe mode (for XP press F8 at boot and enter the options) and then install the executable. This will change all icons, title bars, taskbars, and will also add windows Vista sidebar gadgets. It does slow the computer down so make sure you have a good CPU and atleast 512MB of RAM. (The install is a little scary but as long as your in safe mode you'll be fine. This is the 6th edition with 7 on the way.

You can also download other themes to change the title and task bar here. This does not change anything else so all your icons will stay vista style after installing the transformation pack. Simply download and double click the theme file to apply. No going through the control panel. If you have trouble click here for the fix. This is more advanced stuff. Save everthing you need in a folder where it won't be deleted, moved, or modified. (This can be placed anywhere but make sure you know where it is). And that's it. Have fun. Make sure to back everything up first if your worried you won't do it right.

I'm a geek.

No Mispellnigs

2007-04-10T22:34:00.001-04:00

I went driving today to get some more hours. Plus I had an eye exam and yeah. I'm making progress. They had to add a prism to correct my one eye. Before the exam I had to fill out the patient info and I'm pretty sure I spelled some things wrong. (That's not my strong point). But then I found this:

clipped from www.google.com

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Psas Ti ON !

Music My Life

2007-04-06T17:50:00.000-04:00

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.

What does next year have in store for me?
Suond of the Underground - Dave Koz

What does your love life look like?
That Mellow Saxophone - Brian Setzer

What do I say when life gets hard?
Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

What do I think of when I get up in the morning?
I love you - Celine Dion

What song will I dance to at my wedding?
Together Forever - Happy Hardcore

What do you want to do for your career?
Cityscape - from the album "Night Owls"

Your favorite saying?
Leave [Get Out] - JoJo

Favorite place?
In the Rain - Kenny G

What do you think of your parents?
True Love - London Pops Orchestra

Where would you go on a first date?
Mockingbird - Eminem

Drug of choice?
Misty - Dennis Marcellino

Describe yourself.
High Flyin' - Nick Colione

What is the thing I like doing most?
Remember - Mindi Abair

What is my state of mind like at the moment?
Almost a Whisper - Yanni

How will I die?
Show me - Michael Lington

The song that will be played at your funeral?
It's alright - David Benoit

The song you'll put as the subject?
Love Won't Let Me Wait - Luther Vandross

The song that describes my friendships?
Chariots of Fire - Yanni

The song that describes my future marriage?
Where Is The Love - Black Eyed Peas

The song that describes my future children?
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley

The song that describes what this summer will be like?
Wake me up when September Ends - Green Day

The song that describes what people think of me?
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla

The song that describes how I will do in school?
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai

The song that describes how nice of a career I'll have?
Must Get Out - Maroon5

The song that describes my personality?
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai

ATTENTION!!! Update now posted

2007-03-23T17:06:00.000-04:00

Back into the swing of things...finally. Musical is over and I'm really upset about that because after working hard for 95 hours it really feels like your second home and I don't know what to do with all my free time. I do have plenty of time to work on projects and whatnot now so this ones for Hannah...

For those of you who don't know - this movie was created by me and a friend for a 1920's project in honors English class. Obviously we had news head lines of the '20s and so we did a newscast and we had fun with it. Oh and by the way ladies... you must remember that not too many people wanted to give you suffrage back then.

Back to my life...

Boring VERY BORING.... I am however, starting something new and exciting that will just cause me to write so many more posts to share my experiences it is....

DRIVER'S EDUCATION!!!!!

☺☺☺☺

I hear it's torture but I only have to go for two weeks Monday through Wednesday. YEAH!

I think that's about it...

I'm p-paralyzed with happiness.