Tuesday, April 21, 2009
School Update
its been a while since i wrote about school, so just thought id write something...schools been pretty boring overall...ive got 2 projects due for novotny and im reading julius caesar in english...i hate shakespeare right now...camerons on a field trip, so things arent as interesting as usual...brooke forgot her luch today...so did baileigh...poor bossos...im out of gum...darn...im eating a 3 musketeers bar...its pretty good...audreys weird...she reads weird books at lunch and we make fun of them...she'll live...we had a sub in drama and biology today...one made us do worksheets...the other made us watch a video...everyone talked during the video...a fox ate a duck...everyone screamed...novotny read a dr. seuss book...told a dude in my class not to give hepatitis to the stuffed turtle he brought in to go along with book...everyone laughed...actually did work in geometry...teacher was pleased...had to do work in drafting...bell rang before i was ready...almost late to spanish...project in spanish on mi familia...mi clase de espanol es muy aburrido, ?no?...darn computer...i cant put actual spanish symbols into my blog...have to make due without them...thats why there are 2 right-side-up question marks and no tilda in that spanish sentence...says my spanish class is boring, no??...dunno why i asked since you obviously dont know if my class is boring or not...think ill film my history project over the weekend...has to do w/ nazis and jews...need actors...im bored...school is boring...hope i bored you to death with this post...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Decisions
in life, decisions are unavoidable, whether theyre helpful or not, and there are many times in our lives where we have to face decisions that are, pardon the very cliche phrase, life or death...it has come to my attention that a very good friend of mine has reached one of these all-important occurrences in her life, and i think it's about time she made a decision...ok, unlike a very similar post i put on here a few months ago, im not even going to bother with any stupid code names or anything, so yes megan this is about you...if anyone else is reading this, you can just stop right now cuz she was somehow offended by a remark i put in my last post that didnt even use her name, so i deleted it...id rather not have to delete a whole entry, so if you would kindly just skip this one passage?? thank you...
as i was saying, you now have a choice to make, but im not going to make it too too hard on you...im not going to force you to quit band or anything because A) even though i hated it, you seem to like it for some odd reason and although i have almost zero tact, i would never strip someone of something they really cared about, and B) i have no influence at all over any of your decisions so even if i had wanted you to quit (trust me i dont!! i really could not care less about your extracurricular activities!!), you wouldnt have listened to me...so anyway, back to your options...theyre actually quite simple and straightforward: you can either find some kind of balance in your life between your current status and your love for God, or you can just forget about Him altogether...im not trying to sound like some bible nut or anything, but it even says that He'd rather you loved Him or you hated Him; there is no in-between!! dont get me wrong, i mean im not saying you dont love God or anything like that...im just saying that He only asks that you spend a bit of your time each day thinking about Him and what He's done for you...if you cant even take ONE DAY A WEEK from your busy schedule to show other people that you care for Him, i hardly doubt youre going out of your way to show Him!! and trust me, this is NOT just about me anymore...sure, it stung a bit when you first stopped going cuz that was the only time we ever hung out, but i got over that quickly enough, and now youre lucky that i care at least enough to stop you from giving up entirely on your faith...
i think that probably one of the things that ticks me off the most is that we've witnessed this kind of thing in other people, but you cant seem to see it in yourself...or if you do, youve obviously chosen not to act upon it!! like a certain person we know who stopped coming to church after her first mission trip for reasons i never really understood...maybe she wasnt really as committed to God as she claimed to be; i have no idea, but the fact is that it happened, and its happening again...you even compared her to "Slow Fade" by Casting Crowns...you would think that you could at least see part of that in you, but i guess not...also, remember last summer when another certain person we know decided she wasnt going to go on the mission trip because she just didnt enjoy it anymore?? i remember getting into quite a heated discussion on the matter because we both knew it was wrong to go on a mission trip just for the enjoyment of the trip...but now you seem to have the same mind set as she had!! i have a direct quote from a texting conversation we had a few weeks ago in which you clearly stated that "church isnt something i enjoy anymore"...sound at all familiar??
i think it takes a lot of nerve to go from dissapproving of someones behavior to acting just like them!! its so hypocritical, and i can honestly say that hypocrisy is something that i can not, under any circumstances at all, tolerate...im not going to say im perfect, because im far from it, as you can probably tell by the fact that my overall careless facade has quite obviously cracked, but i will say that im no hypocrite when it comes to stuff like this!!
finally, i want to end by saying that this could well be one of the most important decisions of your life...i dont usually show my emotions, so you know this has to be something big, at least in my mind!! again, your choices are an equal balance, or just stop even claiming to be a member at PBBC because last time i checked, you had to show up to be a member...and before you make that decision, try to take into account whether you can stand to lose God AND your "best friend" all at once, because if He goes, i go...
chew on that while youre slowly fading away
as i was saying, you now have a choice to make, but im not going to make it too too hard on you...im not going to force you to quit band or anything because A) even though i hated it, you seem to like it for some odd reason and although i have almost zero tact, i would never strip someone of something they really cared about, and B) i have no influence at all over any of your decisions so even if i had wanted you to quit (trust me i dont!! i really could not care less about your extracurricular activities!!), you wouldnt have listened to me...so anyway, back to your options...theyre actually quite simple and straightforward: you can either find some kind of balance in your life between your current status and your love for God, or you can just forget about Him altogether...im not trying to sound like some bible nut or anything, but it even says that He'd rather you loved Him or you hated Him; there is no in-between!! dont get me wrong, i mean im not saying you dont love God or anything like that...im just saying that He only asks that you spend a bit of your time each day thinking about Him and what He's done for you...if you cant even take ONE DAY A WEEK from your busy schedule to show other people that you care for Him, i hardly doubt youre going out of your way to show Him!! and trust me, this is NOT just about me anymore...sure, it stung a bit when you first stopped going cuz that was the only time we ever hung out, but i got over that quickly enough, and now youre lucky that i care at least enough to stop you from giving up entirely on your faith...
i think that probably one of the things that ticks me off the most is that we've witnessed this kind of thing in other people, but you cant seem to see it in yourself...or if you do, youve obviously chosen not to act upon it!! like a certain person we know who stopped coming to church after her first mission trip for reasons i never really understood...maybe she wasnt really as committed to God as she claimed to be; i have no idea, but the fact is that it happened, and its happening again...you even compared her to "Slow Fade" by Casting Crowns...you would think that you could at least see part of that in you, but i guess not...also, remember last summer when another certain person we know decided she wasnt going to go on the mission trip because she just didnt enjoy it anymore?? i remember getting into quite a heated discussion on the matter because we both knew it was wrong to go on a mission trip just for the enjoyment of the trip...but now you seem to have the same mind set as she had!! i have a direct quote from a texting conversation we had a few weeks ago in which you clearly stated that "church isnt something i enjoy anymore"...sound at all familiar??
i think it takes a lot of nerve to go from dissapproving of someones behavior to acting just like them!! its so hypocritical, and i can honestly say that hypocrisy is something that i can not, under any circumstances at all, tolerate...im not going to say im perfect, because im far from it, as you can probably tell by the fact that my overall careless facade has quite obviously cracked, but i will say that im no hypocrite when it comes to stuff like this!!
finally, i want to end by saying that this could well be one of the most important decisions of your life...i dont usually show my emotions, so you know this has to be something big, at least in my mind!! again, your choices are an equal balance, or just stop even claiming to be a member at PBBC because last time i checked, you had to show up to be a member...and before you make that decision, try to take into account whether you can stand to lose God AND your "best friend" all at once, because if He goes, i go...
chew on that while youre slowly fading away
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