I am eating pineapple downtown

"My spirit is willing, but my flesh is so weak"
So my friend Val, who I love, introduced me to a worship band that I am really diggin' right now. The Glorious Unseen. Check them out.

I Know We've Heard It All Before

Prayer. It is such an immense tool that I always take for granted. God, the creator of the universe, vast beyond all measure, a force that we can never possibly understand... he calls us to talk to him. To lift up our troubles, to lift up our friends, to hand all of our fears, troubles, and needs to Him. Wow. It is mind blowing with you actually think about it.

How easy is it to take that for granted? To forget worry, forget loneliness, and stop feeling sorry for ourselves so that we can truly put our lives in Christ? Too often do we find that actually feels like a BURDEN?

This summer is right around the corner. Where does God want me? I need to pray to the Lord for wisdom and to remember that my life is not my own.

I would much rather be filling out a Toms internship app. right now than studying for a Research Methods exam.

Where O' Where

www.lightgivesheat.org

Unplug.


I need to start listening to what the Lord is revealing to me in his word, in his creation, and in the people he has blessed me with throughout life. Focus on his love, mercy, and beauty; not the negatives in life... remembering this:

"Consider it true joy my brothers, whenever you are faced with trials of any kind, because the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.


Storms will pass.

Yeah Man.

I'm sitting next to a couple guys who are complete "bros" in the commons.
Their conversation is making me lose faith in the entire male population.
This is what it consists of:

-French Fries
-The reason he is staying with his girlfriend - sex.
-How hot his friend's girlfriend is, but she ISN'T as hot as the girl he is cheating on her with, which for some reason is incredibly funny.
-Olive garden and how you don't even have to buy food just breadsticks.
-How his other friend should dump the girl he is dating because she "looks good from far away but up close she is ugly"
-Sex.
-Olive garden.

Now I know I shouldn't be listening to their conversation but they were talking so loud anyone within 20 yard could hear them.

I Heart Minus the Bear

Hey lets cross the sea, and get some culture.

I'm applying for Africa mission work.
Recipe for fun:

Decide to drive to TC at 8:15 at night and be on the road by 8:30. Play "would you rather games" with friends until they become so completely morbid you begin to question if you once had morals. Sleep on a couch that is actually a puzzle. Drink great coffee and leave for home during a fluffy & lazy, but steady, snowfall. Make friends at AAA. Meet three tow truck drivers. Get two flat tires. Break two rims. Call friends from high school for rides when they haven't heard from you in a year. Get animal cracker mush on your boots.  Eat Bob Evans and get home 15 hours later than planned. All while wearing the same clothes. 

Then taking a heavenly shower.


i can play my music sans headphones as loud as i want tonight when i'm sleeping and no one will get upset.

Quiet Places

In the apartment. By myself. Its lovely.

I have a list of things to do, but only if I feel like it.
Which is in general just a marvelous feeling.


Gaza


Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.
 
I prayed hard for Gaza today. Something like 1000 people died in the last twenty days or so. 50 people a day? Over a third of these casualties are children. God is sovereign but I pray for peace.
And since there's no one else around we let our hair grow long and forget all we used to know. Then our skin gets thicker from living out in the snow.

Forget It

I have a habitual faith. I was completely convicted of that this morning in church. It wasn't even really what the speaker was talking about, but God kind of set it on my heart and showed me ways in which I put Him and my faith in a box. 
I always say I need to pray more often, I need to read the Bible more, reflect more, write more ... the list is pretty long. This formula of mine, this long list of things I need to better, will it really make my faith any deeper? Don't get me wrong, I know that these are all important ways of strengthening faith, but they are only tools, and without something deeper I think they are shallow and useless.
I feel like I need to forget everything I thought I knew about my faith. I want to forget my habits and see Christ revealed in real ways. And I'm not sure that these real ways are going to fit in the "read, write, pray, repeat" ideals I currently have.


Laugh Hard

Nothing rocks more than pasta dinner with good friends (including a Chewbacca cardboard cut-out) and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young filling in the gaps of conversation.
A re-telling of our A.T. trip to new friends who laugh at all the right moments.
A trip to the gallery to expand our creative minds.
And finally, an epic battle of Settlers of Catan, with three people I love most.

Life is hard, but I'm blessed to have people who help me walk that road.

Mehh

This is how I feel about class, school, homework, being downtown right now, professors, and the cost of books:


Don't I look good?

First Day of Class

A good verse for me, one of the most indecisive individuals alive. 
Surely as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
So I can't screw up too much decision-wise, right? 


Today is a very strange day. I feel like everything is in slow motion, and I feel completely detached from my surroundings. Very peculiar. 
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