And Greatly to be Praised

I'm just gonna give you guys some encouragement. recently I've been feeling the wear and tear of the school year. exhaustion has come to not be too unusual. and before Bible Conferenc ewe begin to feel the pressure as teachers try to get every last grade in before the week of services. but this is where the title of this post fits in. we have an Everlasting God to look to. a God that will give us strength that we need to finish the course (no pun intended) and whilst studying for point 1 (the A) for my "sermon" (or as I think it should be better termed "challenge") in the preaching contest, I looked at many verses that dealt with God's greatness (many of the Psalms, I personally used Psalm 145, hence the title) and just when I was despairing because I felt so tired, and I had all these projects due, it was if God was saying "hey, look over here, I'm great, so don't worry about it(Philippians 4:6) and that is part if not the whole reason why I chose what I chose for the preaching contest. because without prayer we-- no, the whole world would be sunk. the mere fact that we have the ability to pray is one of the greatest gifts from God because prayer is a direct communication line to God, operators are standing by average hold time. . . -10000 years. and that bad joke is also something I have been thinking of. God knows our problems, He has known them since before time. and its so awesome to think that all we have to do is pray to God and He already knows the best thing to do, whether we think it is the best or not. so I hope this is an encouragement to you, as it has been to me

So. . .

I'm gonna be an uncle
wait wait wait wait

I'M GONNA BE AN UNCLE!!!!!!!

I'm excited.

Twist and Shout

well, it seems I'm a little overdue for a post, so. . .I'll give you a little report on whatever.
so I was reading this book Oliver Twist. on a scale from 1 to awesome I give it a "meh." I would say don't skip it, but its not one of my personal favorites. in other news, I went to Camp Spearhead met this awesome guy names Christopher Lloyd Luce. He was the man, he had this 3 step plan for life
1. keep busy
2. keep in control
3. stay out of trouble
and he knew the words to every song under the sun. And he looked similar to a leprechaun.
so yeah it was cool, probably one of the coolest events of the school year.
I'll follow this up with my report on Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis who is my favorite author. which some of you may already know. . .
so ok bah

Book 2

due to an unforeseen, and rather malicious in my opinion, book report (definition: irony. . .) My post on Screwtape Letters will be postponed, you can thank Oliver Twist. but I'll turn this into the report when I get a chance to finish both books

Mere Christianity

by popular demand (VC 1 everyone else 0) I'm posting "book reports" (how I despise that term) on both the books that I'm reading.

Book #1 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

This book's contents were actually given by Lewis on a radio station in three separate parts Broadcast Talks (1942) Christian Behavior (1943) and Beyond Personality(1944) plus a few additions by the man himself. One of the reasons I like C.S. Lewis is because of his allegories and word pictures. He used a cube to represent the Trinity which taking in the fact that he is using a finite object to describe the inexplicable its a pretty good description (and I like it better than the egg thing). some of my favorite chapters were the chapters on the cardinal (or pivotal) virtues, forgiveness, faith, and charity. I also liked his logical thought process (heh) walking through loving your neighbor as yourself. He also gave a good (and rather funny) reason why many people aren't too fond of Christianity. and why people might resist the best thing that could happen to them, because they think it is the worst thing that could happen to them.
overall this book rates a 'yes' on the Awesome scale

read it

Books

I'm reading 2 books, its more like just one, but I read the other occasionally too. I'm not even finished with either of them and I'm gonna recommend them to you. C.S. Lewis wrote both of them, Mere Christianity and Screwtape Letters. He is one of my favorite authors both secular and non secular. I'm not even half way through either of them, but I'm recommending them too you because they're really good. and I also have to give a shout out to the man who gave me both books as a present VC.

2007

kickin off the new year in one of the greatest states in the USA. I spent my Christmas in Houston Texas in other words. we visited both sides of my fam, because they live about 30 minutes apart (pretty handy huh?) but that also meant that if we hadn't sprinted out of each respective house when we did, we would have died from food overdose (if thats possible) we also fired off a veritable barrage of fireworks at each house and I had a "black cat" explode a couple inches from my hand which makes everything more interesting. we brought in the new year with a game of spoons and we watched the ball drop in NY. overall it was pretty sweet