Currently Playing Weezer (Green Album) By Weezer see related

So I guess enough time has gone by since my last post...maybe it's time for a new one.

School has been INSANE lately!  This pre-seminar reseach class is a real trip!  I've been in the library 8 hours a day for the last two weeks now--any more of this and I'll go nuts.  But we're making headway, and with 3 exams and 2 papers down, there's only one paper left to do!  It will be such a relief to just have work--I'll be upping my hours to about 25-30 per week, so that will be much better money.

The thing I've hated most is that I feel that I have put my relationship with God on the back burner through the last couple of weeks.  This is stupid, and if any of you see me, please hit me.  If I cannot stay strong with God through some heavy work loads, I've got problems.  But He has been very merciful, and He keeps blessing me (I don't know why sometimes).  Tonight at work was great--I had the radio off for most of the time, and just prayed a lot.  It makes the night go by so much quicker!  I need to do that more often...

I watched most of the TenaciousD episodes tonight--sweet guitar playing, interesting "lyrics", and overall a good laugh.  Their Guild is such a BEAUTY...ahhhh...I want one...speaking of which, I need to get the action fixed on my own baby still...my guitar I mean...;)

So I should really get to bed now--gotta be up for the LIBRARY at 8 latest...tomorrow the rain is supposed to be gone by 3pm and it will be sunny and high sixties...we'll see, ohio, we'll see...So I should really get to bed now.

Currently Reading Sex And The Single Guy: Winning Your Battle For Purity By Joseph Knable see related

Hmmm...been a while since I posted.  I suppose it's been a few months, so I'm due.  The semester's almost over, and I'm glad that God answers prayer (like the one about the school year going quickly).  That's kind of a bad thing to pray for I guess, but I'm definately ready to move on.  Only three more semesters...

I'm still pretty unsure of what I'll be doing this summer.  I'm really excited about the opportunity to go to London for the summer and work/live/explore/adventure/etc but I'm not sure if it's what I want or what God wants.  If you guys could join me in praying that God makes it clear to me if He wants me to do one or the other, I'd really appreciate it.  The other option is to stay here at school and do May term.  Which would help me get done with school quicker, but would be expensive and very busy.

Update on James (my best friend in the Marines): He's finished with combat training and is waiting for his MOS school to start.  This is where he'll learn his job (mechanics) for three months before shipping out to wherever they want him.  But he's doing well and staying strong with God.  This was my biggest worry, and I praise God that he protected James and gave him the strength and perseverence to keep going and live righteously.  I miss my boy...

I'm reading "Sex and the Single Guy" right now.  My friend Joe Knable wrote the book, and it's been a very awesome experience so far.  I encourage all guys to read it and put what Joe says into practice.  The battle for purity is so important, and this is an issue I really want the men on campus to deal with.  It's such a taboo subject on campus, and it kills me.  My friend Nate and I were talking and praying for opportunities to get something going at school here dealing with this topic, and then God really began working.  I'll probably have the opportunity to lead a small group on campus next year, and I talked to Mark Irving about doing the group on Joe's book.  He liked the idea, and I've got the go-ahead.  I'm so pumped!  It's amazing how God works, and I'm so excited to see how he will work in my life and the lives of other men this next fall.

So we'll see how it all pans out, but it should be a great summer and fall semester either way.  At the very least, I'll be able to stay the Man Mecca for a couple weeks before I leave for London, or the whole summer if I stay for May term.  This is the off-campus house I'll live in if I GET APPROVED!  (Dean Gibbs--if you're reading this, YOU NEED TO LET ME OFF CAMPUS!!)  Visit www.ManMecca.com and check it out.  It'll be incredible.  These are the guys I lived with freshman year with on the HILL back in its glory days (and when we KICKED LAWLOR'S BUTT in the football game!!).  Ahh, those were the days...Man, I sound old...

So I think this is enough, especially since I haven't been on in so long and I don't want to get burned out right away.  ;)  So I'll shut up now--may God bless and keep you.

Wow, I haven't posted in a while...guess I'm burned out on this whole xanga thing.  I'll probably hop on here and there to keep in contact with you folks, though.

Wow, I need a new profile pic, that's ugly...How's Christmas break going for all of you?  It's a great time with my family and 2nd family (best friend's).  I'll be getting together with old highschool friends soon, as well as my college buds who live close to me.  (Be sure to stop by on your way down from Canadia, John!)

I've really been missing James lately.  I want to join my boy over in Sandiago right now, but the Marines didn't feel right for me when he joined.  Now I sort of wish I would have gone with him.  He's learning so many awesome things (knive fighting! my life-long dream...) about himself and God.  Letters just aren't enough--I wish I could call him, but he's not allowed to use phones.  Only 6 more weeks, though, and I get to fly out and see him graduate.  AHHH!  I can't wait...

I'm excited for him to get out so we can start our adventures together--Colorado is first.  We're living and working at Vail and will be snowbums for a while.  I've got some awesome ministry ideas for out there that I think God has been revealing to me--it's going to be great!  God willing...or maybe I'll actually use my college education!  ;)

After that, God willing, I'll end up in Nepal for a while.  I don't know why I'm drawn to that place, but I want to go and learn their culture and share God's love with them.  There may be a bit of selfish interest: everest is there.  I want to snowboard down everest sometime--if I live through it, that would be great!

Yeah, it sounds like I have things planned out, but I really don't.  Whatever happens will be God's leading and it will be awesome!

Well I've got a New Year's party to go to so...

Be safe guys...

Numbers 6:24

I'm in one of my moods...

Right now, I want to explore.  Go on a ten-year adventure to the corners of the earth.  Experience different cultures and peoples who do not care about the things I care about.  I want to be able to relate to people on an entire new level.  I want to know why everyone on this earth hasn't accepted Christ as the Messiah after seeing what He has done in so many lives!  Why does the world not understand that the Messiah has come and they can know Him and be part of His family?  Why am I not shouting out the Good News at every street corner until I cannot yell anymore?  What is holding me back?

This life is so short!  When I step back and look at it, will anyone really remember me a few decades after I die?  If not, then what do I care what anyone thinks of me while I'm still here?  Why do I struggle with pride and pleasing other people when I should be concentrating on what they think of GOD and life after death?  There are hundreds of millions of people in this country alone, and somehow; I seem to think that if some of them do not like me that the world will end!  What a moron...

Now, I understand that to a point I have to worry about what people think of me and my behavior because what I do reflects on God and my witness of the work He's done in my life, but I draw the line much too close to myself instead of God. 

I need to break out and stop wasting time...