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I am so excited.
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Home, Home On The Range

This is my roomie Autumn.
So far I have had to write five papers and read 175 pages. I have a stalker on campus(I will have to tell you the story sometime..its bad) and have made some really fun friends. Last night I got to sleep for 10 hours and it was the best. I woke up to it all stormy outside--and freakin cold. I have been challenged to think differently in so many ways so far. One of my lectures was about purpose, one of the chapels was about home being in God and not a physical place here on earth (side note on that...this was amazing to me because I had been thinking all along that I was leaving my home..when really my home was never in Vegas), I also had a student led worship night that made me think about the things that I desire most and if I would be willing to give them up for God. Here at LCC I am surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses.

Home

Well folks I am at Lincoln. I love my roomie. She is a lot like me but a bit quieter which will be good. They have us doing all kinds of crazy stuff every hour of every day so far. It is going to be the death of me. I dont know if I remember the feeling of sleep. Today we did a service project for 4 hours--sorting clothes and then bagging them-- In a few minutes I will be headed to a professors house for dinner. mmm mmm good I cant wait for a home cooked meal. Things are well so far and the YM guy Ramsey spoke this morning and it was freakin awesome. More to come on that when I have more time. I love and miss you all!

Across The Universe- Day 4

Today no traveling to school went down. However I still learned several things:
Steak n Shake can give you food poisoning.
The Reed's dog Jack will eat my stuff. --here is how it went down: We left the dog with Kyle while we went shopping. He let the dog out of his room and it wandered into my room, found my retainers and some other things and ate them. I am sad that my retainers are gone because now my teeth will get crooked and look ugly... i need new ones asap.
The Reed's sub division is the hardest thing in the world to get out of.
Getting lost in Missouri while everyone is at work can be entertaining.
The Goodwill in St Peters is super clean and HUGE!
Kyle(former intern) gets very competitive with Scategories.
Kamrie(Kyle's sister) gets very creative with Scategories.
Chelsea says things that make people want to fight us.
I also learned how to use photoshop to make graphic things..some look good..others not so much. I will put one or two up later.
*tell me something interesting that you did today?
-something out of the normal routine
*tomorrow I get to Lincoln and see the next four years of my life. I hope that I dont get lost on the way.

Across The Universe- Day 3

Things I learned today:
Heavy rain with bad windshield wipers is very very scary
Getting lost in MO is horribly funny because other people are grumpy
Everything closes in Missouri before the sun goes down
There are more Adult Video stores in Missouri than in Vegas... you may think that I am exaggerating because I usually do, but seriously there are a TON!
The Reed's are some of the nicest people
Time differences are miserable and hard to remember
There are a ton of country stations on the radio
Chelsea does not like country... but I do
Driving for three days straight sucks

Did you learn anything today?

Across The Universe- Day 2

Things I learned today:
The people working at Denny's should wear yellow shirts--their gray shirts do not make anyone happy
Fed Ex trucks are numerous on Route 66
Garth Brooks is from Yukon OK (a sign said so)
Oklahoma has some of the biggest bugs in the world
Not everything is bigger in Texas
Jeff Henson's old youth group is great
Garth Brooks attended that church(Rejoice Church in Owasso OK) and was married by the pastor
I get very grumpy with no sleep and long drives
Fast food for every meal makes me sick
I have confirmed the idea that naps are the best

What did you learn today?
On the drive I had plenty of time to think. I started thinking about the heart as an organ. Strange, I know. But you know how people think that emotions are connected to that organ..but really it has nothing to do with the heart. I tried to think of reasons why people say emotions are from the heart and I came up with this: The heart keeps you alive and you cant live without it. So they associate the heart with emotions and feelings because they are so important. Walls are built to keep from getting hurt but you cant escape the reality that you need feelings and people in general.
At Jeff's church Scotty spoke about giving our whole heart to God. It was interesting how he came about it though. He talked about how God loves us so much. I have heard that a million times before but not like tonight. As a result of His love for us, we should want to accept it and then love Him back. He used a verse in Zephaniah about how God is so delighted in us that he sings over us. I cant imagine this righteous and holy God singing over me as such a dirty sinner..yet He does. I used to hear the song but it has become fainter and fainter over the years with each mistake and failure.

Do you hear the song of God rejoicing over you?

Across The Universe- Day 1

Things I Have Learned:
Arizona has lots of dinosaurs all over the place.
Indians are welcomed in Arizona.
They really want you to buy their jewelry or jerkey.
I need new windshield wipers
It is possible for there to be only one cloud in the sky and it follow you and continue to rain.
The oldest lady to graduate from college is 95 years old
Texas is smelly-like Dotty the diesel.
Fog is awesome
Humidity is not
Chelsea is not good to sleep with-- she is a cuddler=no go0d for me haha
It is possible for me to drive about 14 hours all myself.
Muisic really is amazing and I would die without it.
Cruise control would make life easy..of course I do not have it.

What have you learned today?

Soccer Ballin'

The first two pictures are of a recent game, and the last one is from soccer season my senior year. I love the first two because I was playing one of my best friends Jay. In the last picture--I think that was when I got hurt. haha. I tried to slide tackle the girl in red but she was a beast and didnt move out of the way quite like I had planned. Soccer is the best and I am going to miss it a lot.

Name That Movie

1. "You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events."

2. "Here's looking at you, kid,"

3. Yo rug-man! Haven't seen you in a few millennia. Give me some tassel!

4. "You ain't cool unless you pee in your pants!"

5. "And you must be the monopoly guy!"

6. "I'm Scuba Sam, Scuba steve's father."

7. just when i thought you couldn't be any dumber, you go on and do something like this.... AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!!

8. "If she were President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.

9. "Exercise makes endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't kill their husbands. They just don't."

10. O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, O Captain my Captain

*answers are in the comments section of my first blog post

Internship Finale

4 days left of my internship at the church. We took some pictures during the final set up for the pulse(a weekly video). I finally figured out how to do it all by myself! Ususally Josiah is the one that is working while I am messing around, but this week I was all business. Some of you have been wondering what I am up to these days..well here it is proof that I actually do work!

Social Justice

When I hear social justice my attention is immediately drawn to national problems that can only be fixed by a civil government with enough power to enforce its policies. I guess it is just a natural thing to blame problems on other people and think that the problems are too big to do anything about them myself. I find it discouraging to see so much need in the world--as well as pressured to handle it myself. Feeling incapable to fix the big problems, and being unable to decide what to do about the small ones... I am left in the same place that I started in. Only this time, I recognize that doing nothing is not acceptable.

So-making an action plan- is extremely hard, I find. Being an optimist with a realist's perspective makes this whole thing difficult for me personally. Well that is where I am at right now on this whole thing but I will keep digging to see what I feel led to do about this topic.

"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

--Franciscan Benediction

la la la

"When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me."
-Hosea 13:6

I was reading and stumbled upon this interesting verse.

Word of The Week

SCUZZY
definition:

1. dirty; grimy

2. disreputable; sleazy
uses:
"you scuzzy!"
"Skip cleaned his scuzzy glasses in a ruthless manner."
"i'm not sleeping on that scuzzy couch!"

learn it. live it. love it.