Hey everybody. I got the images uploaded from my camera and here are the pictures that I'm proud of. Dave will especially like the second one because it is a picture that he took. Originally I was going to put it out on Hartley but I gotta shoot for the sky. this project is due tomorrow so everyone please pray for me through the night because I will be working through it. As of right now I have a C in phisics and a B in Form-Z. (It's like a different language; no complete words, just letters) However a near perfect final in both of the latter could bring me up a letter grade. 12 more days, Dave.

Hungry

Please don't read any of what you see here as arogant or, "ooh, look at me", because that is not the way I write it.

I have fasted more this past month than ever in my entire life, combined, and what's more, I have wanted to. my spirit is so hungry right now. the human "being" hungers for God from the moment of birth to the last breath, however during that time we seek out every sinful desire imaginable. "Blessed are you who hunger now for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now for you will laugh."luke 6:21. God blesses those who are hungry right now and promises them satisfaction. Those who wait untill He is returning will go hungry for they were unprepared.

I believe that God will not only satiate us but will in the times of our near disastrous hunger prepare for us a feast that even the sight of which will overwhelm us. but that will require of us more than our strength alone can muster. the strength that we have alone is not enough to carry us one day. but God gives us the strength to fix our eyes on him and follow his lead forever.

But it is not easy. Though we may find ourselves in places of spiritual freedom from time to time, the way to God is through meditation, prayer, and fasting. none of that stuff is particularly fun, but all of it is necessary for a closer life with Christ. It is painful, even agonizing at times, but it will be so worth it when we are ultimately satisfied at the end of the age.

Hey everybody. I just wrote a song last night in the midst of form-z and studio homework. I don't think it's going to be good for congregational worship, but it's good for me. Up until 5 seconds ago I was going to put it on this blog, but then it occured to me that anyone could find it and steal it. That would not be good. I would be thoroughly disapointed, so you'll just have to wait untill it comes out on CD.

Due to requests from various people I have decided to post a few pictures. I don't have any of myself on my computer at this instant but Dave requested that I put some of my Form-Z drawings on here. They are pretty large files so I don't know how many I will be able to fit, if any.

I'm not sure how this picture thing works yet but there you go dave. Pretty cool, huh. I'll have some really awesome ones in a couple of weeks because I'm going to model a building of a famous architect. Google "Fay Jones, Thornecrown Chapel" love ya

Fourth of July Weekend

Now that I have that last one off my chest I can tell you about my weekend. Me and Doug went up to Hartwell lake for three days and had the most fun that I have had in a very long time, like 1 year. we managed to ski on pretty much every thing we had access to. For starters, we ripped it up on the more conventional products. Skiing, wakeboarding, kneeboarding, and tubing. Then we got kind of bored, so we got out the crappy wakeboard with no bindings and played around on it. then we tried wake skating on the kneeboard. that was kind of fun, I got air on it. Then we tried the craziest thing I have ever tried on the water. We got out the boat paddle from the shed and after many many tries and then finding out that we were trying it with the paddle turned the wrong way we slolomed on a "paddle". Did you hear me? A Paddle.

We also had a lot of fun with fire works. however, I'm tired of writing and I don't want to any more.

Something New

Can you ski on a paddle? I can. How about get air, while standing on a kneeboard? Easy. I can do a lot of things;fairly easy I might add.

But the things that I remember best and am most proud of are of a different nature. Have you ever felt the touch of Gods arms wrapping around you as He presses your head to his cheek? Have you put your hands on someone in prayer and had them collapse under the power of God? Or been so into His presence that others could feel heat radiating from you from a foot away?

I have put forth so little effort into my relationship with God and He has blessed me with so much. Just think of what I would experience if I searched diligently for His presence in everything I did.

I'm startingto catch a glimpse of this. It's not actually about recieving anythingfrom God. The blessing comes from the searching. The people you meet, the people you help, the people you lead to Christ. I am happy that I have been at Southern Poly for this past year. I know that God has used me to make a difference in the lives of my classmates. Though I may never see that difference, I know that God has a plan for everyone, and maybe I'm simply there to open the door. I do admit that I've screwed up. I'v missed God's prodding on several occasions and tried to ignore it on many others until the prodding ceased.

Obviously, there are some things that I have to work on, but I am learning. I am exploring every medium I can to learn more about God and the way He wants me to live and tell others about Him. I'm praying a lot more than I used to, as well as reading the word. I'm reading other books as well, like the Left Behind series and the movies. I find that movies that exhonorate the Christian Life are very helpful in teaching us. Also I'm to the sermons of Billy Humphrey. He's the pastor of IHOP Atlanta. Just listening to him has changed my view of God over the past 2 weeks, from distant and uninterested to very close and very powerful, and very loving.

The way this guy talks about God is so far beyond me. He gets so excited when he's preaching. I can't even imagine how much of Gods love he has recieved, and how much he has had to search for it. But I don't care how much it takes, or how much it hurts, or how long it takes, I will search for His longing.