Spontanaiety

Hey! I just finished writing my first hermeneutics paper. I think it's alright...we'll just have to wait and see what Watson thinks. It's weird though, now that I'm done, I feel like I really don't have a lot to do. Well, I do, but I dont...haha. I've got a bunch of reading to do, but that's pretty much it. I'm going to try and get ahead on things soon becuase we leave for catalyst on wednesday! I'm so excited, it has come so fast...I just can't wait! Anyways, you'll never guess what I did today....we're talking total spontanaiety here. Ok...well not total spontanaeity...but pretty close. Let's just say I decided yesterday and went and got it done today. Just next time you see me...just take notice of anything different. haha.


(okok...I know it's not really THAT big of a deal...but it is becuase I finally did it)

Things Are Getting Underway

Wow, I feel like it's been so long...and it's only been a week. Anyways, this week was a killer. I got hammered big time with tests pretty much in every class...and if I didn't have a test...I had a paper due. What can I expect though, it is college. Malone got supported by the facebook finally, so now i'm able to keep in touch more easily with some of my friends from Jackson...plus it's opening up some opportunities for me to talk with people from Malone.

I think finally this whole making friends thing is getting underway. I'm telling everyone (and if you haven't heard this yet...you probably will soon) that if you ever see me on campus after 1 or so, I'm usually just wandering around...so stop and hang out for awhile! Not only that, but for one of my classes I'm going to start practicing the spiritual discipline of solitude. This may sound a little paradoxal...but I'm going to pick somewhere on-campus for me to do it. See, I'm still going to hang out and all like I've been doing these first few weeks, but I'm also going to be spending an extra amount of time on-campus in a particular spot for the practice of that spiritual discipline. Plus I've committed to keeping a journal with me at all times for the next 8 weeks for the purpose of capturing all the little things God shows me everyday.

Well, I must be going. Oh...and don't forget...Facebook me! (haha, I swear I'm addicted!)

Meditations On Luke 2

This week has been nothing but average. I had my first big exam on tuesday...but I guess I should get used to it, because I've got 4 or 5 more this coming week. There was a worldview forum on thursday about the gay marriage bill that I really wanted to go to, but I couldn't because I scheduled worship team right over it...but I made someone promise to tell me all about it. I'm hoping it'll be a help considering my first paper in hermeneutics is on homosexuals in the church.

Oh, this is cool...for one of my classes I had to choose a passage of scripture and just meditate on it...so I went to Luke 2 to look into the story of Jesus as a boy. Out of that whole story, God really pulled me into just a few lines out of the whole story where Jesus is responding to his parents saying, "Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?" What really stuck out to me was two words. The word "know" and the word "had." You can break this down into two essential things...he asked, "Didn't you KNOW?...I HAD to be in my Father's (capital F) house." He HAD to be there, it was as if he didn't have a choice. It was his only desire to be in the presence of his holy Father. So here's my prayer: God, make my only desire to be in Your presence.

A Farewell Chipotle Trip With JR

Well, today we went to chipotle...again. haha. It was JR's last sunday here before he leaves on wednesday to go back to California...so we had to go one last time with him. It was a good time...the boys were having fun in my car because I was letting them choose cds. Let's just say if you would have seen us, you'd have been cracking up. Three of the least ghetto white kids ever driving up to chipotle listening to rap. Oh, and last night was a pretty good time too. We watched the ring two over at rachel's house. It was mackenzie and her boyfriend, nick and rachel, and me. So anyways, rachel and mackenzie are wimps. They were screaming and freaking out the whole time. After the movie was over, mackenzie was walked around the house and turned every light she could find on. So while she was in the bathroom, we turned all the lights in the house off and ran upstairs. She came out and screamed, then we turned on the TV from upstairs and it was set to a channel with static and she freaked out...it was the best thing ever. If we would have been even so much better if it would have been executed perfectly. Wow, I just realized that this has actually been a pretty good weekend. I love you guys.

Just To Catch You All Up On Life

Wow, I can't believe it's almost been a week since the last time I posted. Time has flown by with school starting and everything. I really love my Bible classes at Malone...they seriously couldn't be any more interesting. Let's see what's happened lately...I went to a celebration meeting last week and then helped out with it the next night. I think that might be a good way for me to get involved on campus, I just hope that some of those people who have already kind of established themselves at Malone with friends and all are going to be willing to get to know me. But anyways, I think celebration is going to be a lot better this year...and hopefully I'll be able to get some of the worship team to come down with me sometime. So friday was pretty boring, and saturday too...I just ended up hanging around the house. Oh, my car got saran-wrapped on Sunday night...it was pretty great. I just want to know who it was. Last night was a bbq at the church...but I ended up leaving early to go hang out with the boys. Tonight was worship team...it was kind of rough. I just know I had so much to talk with them all about, but I forgot it all. A few of us ended up at starbucks, which was much needed because I hadn't had it in awhile. Well, I've got a macroeconomics quiz tomorrow, so I'd better get some studying done. I'll try and update more fequently than I have been...but I can't promise anything.