my friend zach has a blog now.

booyeah, i'm a trend setter.

now everyone else should get one.
go!

stephanie and i are doing another cover soon. it should be very coverlicious.

new timbaland song. i had my doubts before i heard it, but its pretty cool.

rainy monday. boo for rainy mondays.
or just mondays in general,

dumb drizzly monday, it was 65 degrees yesterday, and then today it was like 35.
it even snowed.

dumb.

i fell asleep alot today, dont know why, maybe cuz math is just so dang boring.

i am about to embark on a collaborative songwriting adventure with mary-beth, we are going to write a song, probably about graduation, and leaving.
and if it is good enough and we get it in time, we might do it at graduation, which would be pretty cool.

tomorrow is tuesday, therefore, better than monday.

later! :)

i had a really good worship session tonight.

micah massey came and led worship, and God showed up too.
it was much needed!!!

i ate at chilis, reconnected with some old friends, and learned new things about other people, so overall today was fun, and got me even more pumped about church!!

i'm now really really pumped about college, all my friends who are going next year really are too.
they are getting me pretty pumped!!

so, pretty much,life at the moment is chill.

:)

i looked at my followers today, and i found out that i have somehow managed to follow myself twice...

how does that happen??

i guess that means i think i'm interesting.

i drove alot today, so that got me thinking, aboot road rage.

how come you can take the nicest, sweetest, most calm person ever, put them behind the wheel of a car, and they become a ginormo horrific ogre-mammoth-chewbacca thing and yell, cuss, and flip off everyone that does something on the road that they don't like.
even a petite little (redundancy) like mary-beth salguero can get behind the wheel, and all the sudden she feels like ripping someone's leg off, feeding it to whoever happens to be in the passenger seat of the other car, and then feeding the passenger to the driver with the missing leg.

is it because people can't handle the power that is entrusted to them??

maybe vehicles; large in volume, mass, and weight, make people feel like they are more powerful than they really are, so they belive everything belongs to them.

for example, almost every living person who is notorious or infamous is that way because they came into power, it corrupted them, and they found a way to abuse it.

which makes me wonder, how does God handle having all that power??

the power God has is what makes him God. but imagine if any other human being had the same amount of power God did. The world would be chaotic.

this whole entire concept just makes God even more amazing and awe-inspiring to me. the fact that he has so much more power than anyone on earth has ever had, and he is still God, and he is still good, and not corrupt.

the fact that almost any human being cannot handle having such a minute amount of power (by comparison) without something bad happening, just proves to me, and so many more, that God is so much more mighty, powerful, amazing, breathtaking, merciful, graceful, supernatural, holy, and worthy than any of us could ever comprehend.

happy pointless holiday everyone!

because the holiday has no meaning, i decided to give it one.
a few of my friends and i went to walmart and chased one of my friends dressed in green around with nets. it was fun.

we had an amazing night tonight at church, adam, garrett, and i filmed a video for adam's series on momentum.

it was just garrett running through things and knocking things, and people over in slow motion.

it was awesome.
also we made a winterfest preview.

next week we will be giving out winterfest dvds.

tomorrow i am taking the mac from the church and getting final cut pro put on it so we can make better videos.

and funnier ones.

the band is doing a full praise and worship set for fca tomorrow, no speaker all music, should be fun.

goodnight everyone.

the following is dedicated to tuna:

winterfest.

what to say about it.
it was totally not what i expected it to be.

i don't know if its a mental block, or if what i'm thinking is true, but for some reason, the past few big worship conferences i have gone to i have been disappointed by the fact i feel like it has been more of a putting on a show or plugging in different orginizations and things.

they would stop praise and worship to do random things like tell us to text jesus to a certain number and save and get free music on our phones and such.

just alot of stuff they did was unnecessary during a time of worship.

they really didn't let the Holy Spirit do his thing because they were more worried about production more than the encounter.

i read a quote once from a college bible teacher:
“Christianity started in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it then came to America and became an enterprise."

when the church begins to make it's business more important than reaching out to communities and connecting with God, a huge problem occurs.

think of it this way.

the church is the body of Christ, and when the church becomes more focused on making profit than making belivers, it becomes a business. "selling church"

when a body is sold, it is called prostitution.

so when we as a body begin to focus on ourselves, making money even if it is for the church, more than reaching out to others we are basically, pardon my language, whoring out the body of Christ, and making it something that is completely and literally unholy in any way you look at it.

can we not worry about how much money we are making, or advertising, or if we have the largest production with the most people and coolest bands and instead worry about reaching out to God, and having a true, intimate worship experience?

please?

i will be gone for a weekend!
it will be a spiritual weekend, filled with lots of crying, music, insight, deep thoughts, laughter, love, emotions, new experiences, new friends, old friends, new old friends, inside jokes, regular jokes, card games, the bible, and most of all, God.

i'm looking forward to this weekend, and everything it will have to offer, if adam lets me, i will try to post over the weekend. just about the things that go on.

if not, then i will be back very soon and you will hear all about it.

:)

good evening!!

how is everyone doing!?

fantastic.

before i begin, i would like to take a moment to apoligze and make a correction to something i posted earlier this week. that girl lives in canton, not woodstock. but its still the same general area right?? all those cities around atlanta all run into each other anyways. but i told her i would fix it, so i did.

now, onto new business.

i have a friend who has a blog,
you should visit it:

http://www.stephlenphoto.blogspot.com//

she takes really great pictures, and she is quite possibly one of the funnest people i know!

i wish i had a camera like hers so i could take really cool pictures and put them on here, but i'm just stuck with the yearbook camera... :(

jordan.

its not that bad, its just not that good either.

but anyways, im gonna post some random pictures that i have taken this semester with the yearbook camera.

i'll post them in different installments, so its like a book.

here we go!


thats mandy and cassidy, they are two friends, and they're cool


the silhouette of quite possibly the nicest teacher ever.







a big thanks to steph for inspiring me, and teaching me how to do this!!
visit her blog @ http://www.stephlenphoto.blogspot.com//

later! :)

P.S. happy birthday kristin greear

hmm.
i wonder how many people are still avid followers of this thing.

no one has said anything in a while, and im starting to wonder if my following has dwindled into a small cloud of nothingness.

its okay, for those of you that still do, thank you.

i appreciate it a whole buttload when you tell me you enjoy it!

today was a monday, a boring old monday.

mondays are so depressing, partly because they are too far away from any other day of the week, so the anticipation of the other days when you actually have something planned hasn't arrived yet. plus there is always nothing to do on mondays.

boo monday!!
when i become president i will outlaw you.

we had a substitute in math class and we sat there and did nothing for about thirty minutes, then another math teacher came in and gave the sub some worksheets and then he made us do them.
we got in trouble when we talked.

they were just busy work,
so i decided to make the best of it, and instead of sitting there, being bored, and silent,

i wrote down random words for the answers.

that was fun!

elise.

i love random.

speaking of helicopters, here is a random haiku:

haikus are cool
but sometimes they are random
refrigerator

that was fun.

there is this one girl that i recently met,
a friend of the family introduced us.
she lives in woodstock, and she is super pretty, and super nice.
and we are going to college together.

i hope things turn out between us the way i want them to.

the end, and goodnight. :)



(dumb monday)

i wrote something earlier.

i clicked post and it didnt post,
and then i lost it!!

dumb

but the jist of it was...

why work, when you can serve??

when you work, we expect the person we work for to reward us,
yet when we serve, the reward is included.

serve is just such a softer word than work.

its more attractive, and easier to use.


that was just the jist of what i wrote earlier.
dumb blog

i can't think of what to write about.

thinking is hard.
i believe we should only do it at school, and then the rest of the time, be spontaneous, because i've found that the more random, care-free, and blissful you are, the happier you are.
its like a superweird phenomena i cannot explain.

because explaining would require me to think.

its okay to think outside of school i guess,
i mean, its important, if we didn't think, we would do stupid stuff and shorten our lifespan, or totally lose the ability to solve real world problems.

but sometimes, you just need to forget about everything, just for a little while.
find that place where you are really happy, and hold onto it for a few moments, because in this life, we will never stop completely thinking about things.
just take some time, by yourself, or with friends, doing something that you love, and just forget about "your worries and your strife"

also, keep in mind one thing that i have also found to be supertrue:

when those who are around you are happy, is when you are the happiest.






\/peace.

a good friend told me today: "hey, you havent posted today?"

so i asked if he was talking about my blog, and he said yes.

and then he urged me to hurry up and do it.

then, as i was watching the movie 2012, it occurred to me,


people actually read this!?

what is it that attracts people to the innerworkings of my brain? who knows? i know i myself wouldn't find this very appealing if i were just a random bystander waiting out the end of the world(dang 2012 putting ideas in my head)

maybe it's because the people who read this care about me, or maybe its because they are looking for the first thing i say that can be misconstrued and for them to use to ruin my reputation!

or...

maybe its just the first one.
i'd like to think that instead.

i care about you guys too!! :)

also, i want to touch on another subject: FRIENDS... (again)

but this time, its about new friends.

the past few weeks i have made some new friends. how this has happened, i know not.
but i rather enjoy it.
meeting new people is always really fun for me, and i really like getting to know them, and i'm looking forward to hanging out with them in the future!!!




and one more thing,
stephanie: make me cookies,
please. :)

yeah!!!
new post.

this is fuuuuuun.

some of my friends got their dorm assignments today.

i didnt, sad face.
i should probably mail my housing deposit in soon, you know, so i can have somewhere to live when i go to college.

i've decided to start typing the blog in all lowercase letters.
why?
it seems less hostile, and more personable.
plus it looks cool, hip, and modern.

i need to write music, this one girl gave me lyrics she wrote cuz she couldn't write music, and i can't write lyrics, but she writes things weird and its hard to write music for it.
i know i will get it with time though, i just hope she doesn't constantly pester me.

teenage girls have a knack for pestering sometimes.
and sometimes they have a knack for being cool.

like mary-beth salguero.

she told me she enjoyed reading this, and she liked the way my brain worked and described it as "refreshing"

i was going for something more like supersexyawesome, but refreshing will work just fine.