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first of all, Merry Christmas! i hope everyone has a blessed day admiring the date of birth of our saviour Jesus Christ.
secondly, this means that 2008 is quickly coming to a close. i am now going to make a list of things i did the most in 2008:
most times i read a book:
4 the outsiders
3 through painted deserts
2 irresistible revolution
2 knowledge of the holy
30+ other books tied for 4th place
most songs listened to (by band):
| 487 | New Found Glory
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| 377 | Tegan and Sara
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| 244 | Radiohead |
| 237 | Bright Eyes
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| 226 | The Smiths
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| 217 | Saves the Day
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| 211 | Have Heart
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| 194 | Brand New
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| 183 | Neutral Milk Hotel
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| 171 | The Format
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most times i tripped:
365 crack, uneven pavement, etc
100 flat ground no other objects involved other than my own feet
15 stairs
10 slippery object or surface
my semester is almost over! and that means family time is coming. weee! but seriously. one more final and im halfway done with my sophomore year. i still feel like im sixteen sometimes. like the last 4 years just flew by and i grew up too fast. even though im still not really grown up to some people. gahh this post is all over the place so far. i apologize.
anyways...i still need to go Christmas shopping because ive been so busy with school and such that i have had no time. i guess i'll do it this weekend when i head home. hopefully its wont be crowded everywhere, even though i secretly know it already will be.
its been raining like crazy since monday and im about the happiest little schoolboy in the world. i love the rain. i cant stop watching movies or putting down a book. rain here means snow else where so that also makes me quite happy.
Thoughts as of late...
First of all, God is to be the focus of everything in my life. Yes, I have all my other things going on that are important to me but they are important to me because they are important to Him. Why worry about anything else when He is in control of everything? Sure, I think about other things during the day but when its just Him and me…nothing seems to matter but my time spent with him. That’s not to say that those other things aren’t important at all when Im only in prayer with Him.
Sometimes I feel bad if I dont think about my loved ones or other important things during my time in prayer, because I thought I might be a bad friend by not thinking about them during my time with God, BUT its just that when im with God I only care about Him and His plans for me. Yes, friends are prevalent in the those plans, but when in tune with the Holy Spirit all that matters is the love that God has for me. He is so infinitely huge, and its impossible to grasp that because of our human nature. Though, the more time we spend with Him, we see His hand in everything and we catch a glimpse of that hugeness.
Secondly, by having Christ at the center of the my life, everything else falls into place. God is not just a point on a list of important things. God is the only thing. Period. By caring about God, all else goes into place according to his perfect will.
"Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance."
- A.W. Tozer
first day back at school since thanksgiving break. sometimes breaks come at the perfect time and this was a perfect example of that. now i have 2 more weeks of classes and then finals. so basically 3 weeks of school left. so stoked! then i have a 3 week break from christmas and then i go back to take 2 classes during a 3 week interterm session to catch up in my schooling.
my favorite book of all time is called "the outsiders." the female author S.E. Hinton starting writing the book when she was 15! and it was published in 1967 when she was 17. the book is about the struggles between the working class (the greasers) and the rich social class (the socs). at first the greasers seem to get all the the bad breaks in life and the socs get everything handed to them. but after diggin deeper into it you realize that life is rough all over. the west side of town sees hardship just like the east side of town does. no matter how different you think you are you all watch the same sunset at the end of the day. we all go through periods of both hardship and triumph. this is probably my tenth time reading it and it keeps getting better and better. read it. i highly recommend.
"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not." - C.S. Lewis
