Two messages that have changed my life...

and that I have to remind myself of what they talk about daily.


The first is one is a message that I have posted before but it seems like I get something new out of it every time I listen.


Outreach

This second message talks about prayer and how it is necessary for our life. Check it out.


Prayer

Happy listening :)

My Crazy Summer

Let's see if I can remember most of it.


I started it off in Disney World. That was a blast.


I stayed at a friends house with him and his brothers while their parents were away.


I then moved into a frat house with the rest of the Rock.


I took 16 credits over the summer. By God's grace I got 3 A's and 2 B's.


I co-led a discipleship team with another dude.


I led a Friday service project group.


I worked full time and then part time and then full time again.


God a new computer. A Mac :)


Moved to an apartment at the end of the summer.


Played Ultimate Frisbee every Thursday.


Learned more of what it means to run after Christ. I think I will always be learning this which is not a bad thing.


Okay, now I have to get off because I told myself that I would start shutting things down at 12:15 and now it is 12:18. I wouldn't change any part of my summer if I could do it again. There was much rejoicing at times but there was much sorrow at others. But I know that it was all for my good because of Romans 8:28 because I have been called according to God's purpose and I sure do love him bunches.


Good grace blog readers!

Slowly but surely, I will catch up

I don't think I am going to be able to remember anything about the rest of the trip to disney world. I just have to say that it was a blast to spend time with my family that way on a vacation. Being with the parents, the sister and brother-in-law, and most definitely can't forget about the nephews. They were all over the place all the time. I still don't know two little boys can have so much energy. I think by the end of the day, all of the old people were more tired than they were.


The hotel we were at had swimming and a movie night. So we got pizza from California Pizza Kitchen and it was much good. I think the movie had something to do with rats? mouse/mouses? (I know, I spelled it wrong, deal with it) some sort of animal? I can't remember. But I really like the pizza, maybe that is why I can't remember.


By the way, if I repeat myself from the posts while I was there, I apologize. I didn't care to take the time to reread what I put there.


One of the best parts about the trip was being able to see a space shuttle launch! I knew that I wanted to put something about it in the blog so I wrote a little bit about it on the way to NASA in my itouch.

A spectacular sun rise. The sun was coming up and it kind of looked like the sun rise at the beginning of the Lion King. It seemed like the edges glistened a bit while it was this golden yellow. I would have taken a picture of it but I was too lazy and B had his head on my lap while he took a nap. Plus I was mostly just resting my and took a glance too see how light it was outside by that point. Pretty much awesome.

We had to get up way early to catch the bus to get to NASA and then we drove for a really long time but we finally got there. We went out to the watching sight which was like 6 miles away or so. The craft seemed so small but they really are crazy huge. We then waited for what seemed like forever for the spaceship to blast off. We did get to see a dolphin swim by in the waters that were near by which was pretty awesome. When the shuttle did blast off, it was an amazing sight. It took off crazy fast and the shear amount of energy and thrust and power was...I don't think I have words to explain it. Another thing that made it amazing was that it was the 3rd to last shuttle launch ever and the last launch ever for that shuttle specifically.


The shuttles are 30 some years old and are being decommissioned. NASA's budget has been completely cut essentially and so they are no longer sending shuttles up there anymore. They are working on a new design if they do ever get funding back, but for now, it is like NASA has become no more.


Essentially the trip was awesome and I loved it and hope to do it again some day with my family.