all God's children singing

Today I sat and talked with James for a long time about lots of awesome things. It's so awesome to sit with a good friend and share scripture with each other. Psalm 89, Psalm 101, 1 Corinthians 4, Psalm 24.
God is good.

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I have all the money I need for Kentucky. It all sort of fell into my lap. I knew it would, but somehow I am still suprised. I am so stoked for this trip. God is going to use us in awesome ways, I know it.

we can swim in your kidney

I am a whiner. I don't know why. I think I like it when people feel sorry for me. Maybe I think that complaining about a situation or event will make it better. I don't often consider suffering to be pure joy.
I don't think I know what suffering really is. In fact, when things are put in perspective, I believe that what I think is suffering is really very minor discomfort. "Consider your minor discomforts to be pure joy, brethren"

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I was talking to a good friend of mine today about Lent. Lent is good. Lent is something that I want to be a part of. I think I'll give up TV for Lent. Movies, TV shows, all that stuff. Aha, even better, no YouTube OR TV.

That's it, no YouTube or Television for Lent.

live the faith

Today I went to Live the Faith Bible Study at Guido de'Bres High School. I was asked to speak on "What is means to be a Christian", so that's what I did, emphasizing the call to have faith and to tell others about Christ. It's a pretty basic fundamental topic, but I enjoyed putting it together, digging up all different Scripture verses about it. The Bible is so cool.

It was really fun. I just hope that everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did.

Guido is a pretty neat place. I don't care what anyone says.

yes

SNOW DAY!

Snow morning anyway. Mohawk has canceled all it's morning classes, and it is so far undecided about the afternoon ones. I'm incredibly excited.

I'm not just excited about missing a day of school. I'm just thrilled that I'm actually getting a snow day...it's never happened to me before! I've been home schooled my whole life, so I have never experienced this unexpected pleasure.

Anyway, I'm gonna go and bask.

a friend that sticks like peanut butter.

A friend is someone who you can talk with until 1 in the morning without noticing that time is passing.

Thanks.

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Silica Gel
Silica Gel
Do not eat
The Silica Gel
For if you do
You'll end up feeling terribly ill

-A poem by Ryan

When There Is Nothing Left To Burn

Sometimes I get tired of music and I don't feel like listening to it anymore. This is not good, because I am a music student, and one could say that it is my full time job to eat, sleep, and breathe music. I sometimes forget how amazing music is and start to get bored with it. Maybe you know this feeling as well.
If you do, I recomend following these 3 simple steps:

1. Buy Radiohead's Hail to the Thief*
2. Insert into CD player or other media playing device.
3. Turn it up as loud as it will go, lie down on your bed and close your eyes.

Your music woes will be gone within the first 15 seconds of 2+2=5.

*Hail to the Thief can be subsituted with any other Radiohead album, and in extreme cases Sufjan Steven's Illinoise or Star's Set Yourself On Fire.

anyone can play guitar pt. 2

I have decided to stop hating things, because I can't think of anything more useless than hating things.

anyone can play guitar

Today I skipped a boring class to go see the third year music students put on a performance in the Mohawk Theatre.
There was this one guy named Alex. He's a piano player. I see him around quite a bit, but I never talk to him, because prep people don't really talk to third year people.
Anyway, he didn't announce what he was going to play before he played it.

I hate it when people do that.

Its sort of like they are saying "I would tell you who wrote this, but that would mean I have to stop and pay attention to you."