Every night, I’m finding myself more and more unable to articulate the experiences of the day. Perhaps it’s the culmination of late nights and early mornings, perhaps it’s the massive amount of teaching I’m receiving, perhaps it’s the overwhelming greatness of God, or perhaps it’s the combination of all three and some. Continue reading “Harvest U 2014 Day 4: Pretzels and People”
I am overwhelmed and at a loss for words because of the greatness of my God. How He speaks to me. How He knows me. How He has already won. How He is always with me. How He is in control of my life. Continue reading “Harvest U 2014 Day 3: Christ In Me”
At 2:30am this morning, I was rudely awakened by the ear-splitting beeping of the smoke alarm in our apartment. In addition to the high-pitched beeping was an automated voice proclaiming “Fire, fire.” So naturally, I kept my eyes closed, assumed someone else would take care of the problem, and went back to sleep. Continue reading “Harvest U 2014 Day 2: Kick-Off”
Today began with a terrifyingly loud alarm at 4:30am. Today continued in a van full of conversation that often went over my head. Today ended with a discussion about the finer points of Cars, Planes, and How To Train Your Dragon with a pastor’s two kids. Today a team from my church, Harvest Bible Chapel Lancaster, drove twelve hours to Chicago in order to participate in Harvest University, which kicks off tomorrow evening. Continue reading “Harvest U 2014 Day 1: Chocolate Cake Shake”
Using a real-life situation as a guide, I’ve devised a seven-step plan to getting hired in under 6 hours! If you follow these steps exactly, you are sure to land the job you’re seeking–or perhaps not seeking! Continue reading “How To Get Hired in Under 6 Hours”
Life is complete when your name is etched in green peppers in pizza. The pinnacle of my existence has been reached. God, take me now.
As much fun as it was writing my name in a pizza, alas, that was not the sole purpose of my existence. And speaking of which, I’m still trying to figure that out. I’m not any closer to concrete answers–other than to glorify God…but in what capacity?–but God’s provided some cool opportunities for me this fall. I’m excited to see how God will use these opportunities to reveal His will for me.
I bought a car.
I lost two siblings.
I found a job.
College starts without me.
I have now sufficiently proven to myself that I am able to provide an update on my life in only a few four word sentences. Might as well end the post here.
I don’t know about you, but when I turned twenty I felt the hand of God descend upon me and my entire life’s direction was revealed unto me.
If only.
Actually, the most important thing that happened on the day I turned twenty was that my mom could no longer complain to other people that she had four teenagers. It had been getting really old to be lumped in with a fifteen, fourteen, and thirteen year old.
The second most important thing that happened was that my family spontaneously decided to sing Happy Birthday to me in the Chinese restaurant we were eating at and our waitress was all like “Oh, we have birthday cake in the back” and she gave me a huge free piece of cake.
On Saturday, July 5th 2014, my cousin got married. She was the first cousin of mine to get hitched, thus having the honorary role of being the turning point of familial change. Aka, my family is getting older.
It was a beautiful wedding. Her sister and I played music for it, and I was honored to have arranged Canon in D as well as have written an original piece of music for Carmen (the now-married cousin) to walk down the aisle to. It was an outdoor wedding and I jokingly said to Carmen, “God must be smiling on your marriage” because the weather was literally perfect.
On Tuesday, June 10th 2014, I watched a video by a popular YouTuber: Matthias (he’s pretty cool, you can check out his vids here). In the video, Matthias asked his faithful viewers to delete their Facebooks. The primary reason being Facebook’s steadily increasing infringements on personal privacy. It’s actually a bit frightening.
But, can I be honest for a second? I don’t really care. I don’t have anything to hide. I try my darnedest to live in a way that is transparent, without hiding or burying secrets. Not that I haven’t failed at that before. But commentary on government conspiracies to spy on us and the such don’t really get me all worked up. And by no means am I accusing Matthias of whipping up some conspiracy theory—he knows his stuff, he’s got facts to back it, and he has every right to warn people. I appreciate it. A lot. But not for the invasion of privacy reasons.
Watching that video about Facebook got me thinking. Like, really thinking about Facebook, my reasons for using it, and it’s affect on my life. Essentially I had a DTR (Define The Relationship) with Facebook. What I concluded wasn’t all that encouraging.
Continue reading “Why Me and Facebook are Never, Ever, Ever Getting Back Together”
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