Blog Neglect

I am a bad blogger. But I have an excuse, I am in college. So there.

Maybe over Fall Break I will do something on here.

Hopefully there is not a "Blogger Services" people can report me to.

Verse that has been on my mind lately...as in we talked about it last night at group:

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 focusing on the last part of 16
"But we have the mind of Christ."

A Thousand Questions

Last Sunday we watched this video in church, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I called my pastor up and asked for it's name, but I couldn't wait for a response so I asked a friend for the title and googled it. It is brilliantly put together and is well... really challenging to me becuase I have a 1000 questions too. The end of the video is what I have really been grappling with, do I live my life saying "Here am I, send me?" and believing that there is more going on than I can see?

Third Day's "Born Again"

Press play below and listen to a most wonderfully uplifting song.

Most pointless blog yet

As the title already claims this post is pointless so please feel free to ignore it. I just feel the urge to get back to blogging but have nothing important to write.

The following statements are going to be of whatever I think of:

My wonderfully hard working momma is outside edging the yard. (its like a jungle!)

I can't get some of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long songs out of my head. Thank you Brian and Abbi S.

I am reading Mere Christianity...so good. (*lightbulb flash* that's what I can write about!)

I can't believe it is in the mid 70's on July 5th.

The sound of a weed-whacker and edger thingy are really funny, though they almost are trying to harmonize.

My chigger bites no longer itch. (yay!)

I have a really bad bathing suit tanning line thanks to 5 hours of canoeing.

Icecream trucks are very scary and their music makes it worse. And why are they always driven by scary looking men?

I..I... have no more thoughts....

Lost in Transition

My two handsome brothers both graduated (High School and Middle School) this past weekend. I can't believe how old they are getting (which just means I am getting old too! yikes!). Notice I left out how mature they are becoming, maybe one day I can add that part in :) What is fun is that the two group pics are with two 8th grade teachers that all 5 of us have had. Tim got the award of the "Last of the great (our last name) Dynasty!" Poor Tim, as he enters High school, that's only going to get worse "Oh, you must be another one."

My family is in for another summer of transitions. Stephen enters the NAVY, I move out, and we all move on with life. It will be good but to be honest transitions are never easy. Life is not easy, an overused cliche, but completely relevant. I have been thinking about that lately. This culture is in hot pursuit of the American dream. I love this song by one of my favorite bands, Switchfoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8CznEC3qw

The chorus is what gets me and is kind of what I want my summer 'theme' to be. I was all ready to plan out my summer how I wanted it to look like, to redeem it in a sense from last years summer. I was really challenged to not look at this as my time, my day, my week, my summer. How can I make others successful and spend my time learning and hanging out with God? I want 'my' summer to be opposite, to be God's summer that I get the chance to live out beside him. To transition well and move along God's path for those who want to live.

I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom

This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream