Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Seedless fruit sucks! Genesis 1:29
Trisodiumphosphate isnt a food, its a cleaner.
Amen

Monday, January 23, 2006

I choose eternal life

Here's my thought of the day.
You've gotta get in water over your head in order to really learn to swim. At some point we realized that any more time in the Kiddie pool we called home wasnt going to serve us. So we left our premortal life to swim with the big fishes. We can drown here soour parents help us till we learn how to tread water on our own. Nothing makes us grow more than those moments when we need all we have to survive. Some of us spend lives in pursuit of a greater challenge, always over our heads in the beginning but eventually we build the strength to succeed. Some spend much of their lives clinging to the edge, occasionally letting go long enough for the fear of drowning to scare them back to safety. See, there are those who live life with the confidence that anything unfair about life and even the mistakes I make can be made right through the atonement of Christ. so the fear of actually drowning fades as they trust in the lifeguard. Sure its scary when you sink under, sometimes we fail despite our best efforts. There is no feeling that compares to being cradled safely in his arms, after what seemed like certain death. The point is, im jumping in the deep end and im really not much of a swimmer. He knows that, he has watched me in my training. Im watching his reaction carefully this time as I near the edge, no fear in his eyes, no apprehension, just a smile. He knows.
"now is the time you have to decide
whether to do it, or set it aside,
whether to reach for the goal thats afar,
or just be content to stay where you are"
(i dont know who made that up, i got it from President Mordock)

Sunday, January 15, 2006

What's it gonna be?

So there's this girl........
This really isn't starting off like a revolution at all, more like the beginning of some tragic love story, but that's where I am (not that its tragic). So my latest revolution is against....well...being lonely (I guess), YEAH!... being lonely sucks!... so everybody fight the power! or the.....lack of power..I guess...hmmm, that doesn't really work does it.
So she met some of the family yesterday, here are the reviews.
Pato says "She is nice and smart and pretty"
Little Joe says "She's nice, she's smart...(2 minutes)...She's pretty"
Dad says "Im favorably impressed"
Rebecca says "Is she cool with us? if she's cool with us im cool with her, she is so different from the other girls...in a good way"
Mom says (and this is the kicker) "I like her...She looks right through you.....wise....beautiful..." (and lots of other good stuff I cant remember)
I say, When im around this girl, I feel the sense of peace I have been missing since I left the mission, like I'm in the right place... Home I guess. I was really starting to miss that, Its not loneliness so much as it is homesickness. I feel welcome with my family, I just miss the sense of direction and purpose. I feel that with her.
In love, but being in love isn't really the measure. Its all about what you do with it right? So if love is this great power (and it is) How do we weild it? I think that's the great test. So what! You're in love, what are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do with it? You can use it to destroy (seen it done), or you can use it as a springboard to build the most wonderful thing -ETERNAL LIFE
what's it gonna be?

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Sweet nothings (wink)

Jamie, you are the best and breathtaking

I just need to figure out where to start

so many things to rebel against, so little time.