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just like strongbad would say it

i just posted and it got deleted. I'm sitting backstage at YC while the concert's going on.... may, i was excited about finally getting back here.... and now, nothing. man that ticks me off!

highlights from deleted post: got a new car, saw my girlfriend, here in edmonton. crazy week. i didn't base my comparison of the YA groups on one service and remain firmly behind my previous assertion. however, i am not preaching at anyone. i lump myself in the group as well. but i hate apethy. and i dont wanna be there.

k, YC highlights this week including A WALK THROUGH THE DESERT. should be fun.

wowza

so much to write, so little time.

over the last week (i cant believe its been a week already... maybe if you'd leave a comment instead of just lurking i'd feel more inspired to write more often)

wed the 11th - Superhero night at E-68. great times. Carly had a wicked costume, as did Dalton! there were so many of the youth dressed up. it was craZy.

thurs the 12th - battery boys..... not much else

fri the 13th - worked at church didn't do much... Kerri and i kicked butt at Rook.

sat the 14th - battery boys moving day. visit us in front of the circle-8 mall beside JD Peppercorn's. But the real excitement of Saturday came at 5pm when i got to leave battery boys and head off to Winnipeg to see my beautiful Sarah. i got to the peg by 1:30 (lost an hour due to time change).

sun the 15th - Sarah and i went to Carman for church. good to be home. watched Garrett's baseball game. i love baseball.

mon the 16th - brunch with Sarah, went for a walk down by the forks (very beautiful. beautiful girl, beautiful place... how good is that??) later in the evening we went to the LINK. the LINK is the Young Adults service at Sarah's church. it was a great time. I hope and pray that our Young Adults will begin to get out of their complacent, passionless lives and live for something other than themselves... just a thought

tues the 17th - breakfast with Sarah and mom in headingly then headed back to sask where i was supposed to have a baseball game that got rained out. sucky deal for me.

today - got in a fairly major car accident. we'll see how that all plays out.

other random highlights - i had a cold for most of my time in Winnipeg. i think i'm almost over it. My parents are the greatest people alive. And i got to meet Sarah's parents, which went really well. I think that's all that's happened. Tonite we got jr youth. i'm going to talk about worship.

k, leave a comment. please?

two more days of housesitting/babysitting. its gone well so far, though its definitely a change in lifestyle, thought process, etc. i've cleaned up after kids, done their laundry, woke them up for skool, drove them to skool, maybe supper for the family, fed the pets and i'm about to embark on a major house cleaning over these next couple of days. Wow, i have become quite domesticated. it's ok though, it's all preparation for something down the road.

what have i learned? i need to learn patience and become less self-centered. i'll work on it. maybe you all knew i needed to work on that crap, but now i learned it too. yay for me.

JYC was alright. the kids had fun. i had some fun. kids got saved. i got saved... wait a minute... i think i was already. i thought that staying in a room with Dalton and Brayden would have me up all nite. they are two of the most hyper kids in know. they're great. they're two of the guys that make ministry worth it. Anyway i had those guys as well as two grade 5 boys in my room. i think we were asleep somewhere around 1am. what a miracle! i was sooo excited to get so much sleep. most of the boys dorm was still hoppin at that time. but nope, not my boys. Yeah, it was a great weekend.

prayer part II

Pastor Marvin said something really good yesterday in his sermon about prayer. when i heard it i thought, "hey, i'll have to put that in my blog as a post-script to my last blog. and now i forget that brilliant thought. i really have to get back to taking notes. if any of you know what starvin' marvin said let me know. merci.

i might go home this weekend

my baseball season starts next tuesday. Go Rockies.

friday

GOOD MORNING!

I dont really have time to blog today, yet here i am. so it'll just be a quick one today. Me and 24 others are heading out to Caronport for Junior Youth Convention 2005. oooo, should be fun. it's a really great time. it's only one night and they pack out the two days with tonnes of fun stuff for the youth. hopefully we come back big winners like last year. We came back with the XBOX for the youth group and another kid won a Riders jersey. that was 2 out of the 4 major prizes. when i was growing up i always hated it when the bigger youth groups won everything.... and now here i am.....

so the reason for this quick blog is this... Sarah and i have been going through a devotional book. Throughout the week we do the devos on our own and then at the end of the week we discuss the stuff. it's great cuz it's gives us a more intentional excuse to challenge each other in our faith. so this week's devotions are on Prayer and yesterday i read the first one and it challenged me sooo much. but instead of preaching to you, i'll just give you some quotes.

'Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.' - D.L. Moody

'Prayer doesn't change God, but it changes him who prays.' - Soren Kierkegaard


'The most important thing about you is what you think about God.' - A.W. Tozer

'Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality.' - Charles Spurgeon

i especially liked this last one. it's so easy sometimes for Christianity to turn into religion - dead formalities!

peace

happy mothers day

Robin Hood

(song) robin hood and little john, runnin' through the forest..... i got nothing. man i wish i remembered the rest of that song... it's from Robin Hood the cartoon movie. that's a classic. i like it a lot.

3 posts in less than a week! whoa, am i back to the old ways? nevermind that. let's just take it one day at a time. no need to define things!

sleeping update: it's weird that coming over here to the Eagle's would help me sleep better. but that's exactly what seems to be happenning. i like it though, don't get me wrong. yeah, can't complain. maybe last week there were just too many things on my mind... yeah maybe that's it. Just like Alyssa last week, i find myself blogging in a new environment. i kinda like. it's weird cuz i dont have a computer at my place. i'll have to make use of it over these next couple of weeks.

k, now to the real content of this blog

but first, the preamble - ang and amelia were over here last nite and we played settlers (sarah, i know i said we wouldn't but it just kinda happenned). anyway i won both games but that doesn't have any real relevance other than an opportunity for me to boast. (may i only boast in the Lord, right?) k, so after the games we were talking and ang was saying how she was this great archer. i laughed cuz i thought it'd be funny watching ang with a bow and arrow. scary crap. but later that nite my mind came back to it.........

last nite i was in bed thinking/praying. i was really noticing all those things in life that don't really matter. if you really think about it, most of the things in your life are completely irrelevant. if you strip that away, what's left? is there anything of substance? i hope so. but as i thought i saw it like this. it's kinda like an target. you know how in archery there's many rings. at camp they had pretty colors. but in life we prioritize like a target. what's got the bullseye in your life? If our eyes are fixed on anything but Christ we live life out of focus. None of the other rings make any sense without focus on the bullseye. on the next ring come our family and our very closest friends. Next are hobbies, jobs, and other friends.

obviously you might prioritize differently than me. i'm ok with that. and as i think about it, this message isn't a whole lot different than a lot of the other stuff i've been saying on here the last little while. it's just a different picture with different words.

but so much of our lives is spent majoring on the minors (one liner for sarah). we make a big freaking deal out of the crap that doesn't matter while giving no attention to the stuff that really matters. we place huge importance on our hobbies, jobs, and how we appear to the people around us while we give little thought to God throughout the day. Instead we should invest more time with God, to our families and our loved ones. Who cares what everyone else thinks???

Strip down your life and see what you've got. will it all blow away like chaff in the wind, or will you have something left that really matters?

to bring this to a close, i read this about an hour ago and i had to give it to you.


Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.

For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

- Psalm 37:4-7, 9