Where have you been?

I've been here.. but haven't been blogging. Just not in the mood lately. If you know where the find the 'easy life' let me know.. I still haven't found it.

Dear Dad--Thank You

Dear Dad,
I want to take time to write you. Because lately we don't talk like we used to. You see, I was thinking about all the things that we've been through. And I wanna say right now that I really miss you. And you used to tell me when I was a little dude, that there was nothing that we couldn't get through. So after it all I want to take the time to thank you. And let you know that everyday I try to pray for you. See I appreciate everything that you did. You were there for me ever since I was a little kid. You taught me to be a man and just how to live. And when I needed it you always had love to give. The tears are running down my face as I write this! Cause you not being here is what I really miss. And one thing that I just really wish, is that you know I really love you so i'll tell you this. Daddy, thank you for being my Daddy, I just want to thank you Daddy, thank you for being my Daddy.

We might blame ourself for you and Mom goin 'Up', but i want to tell you 'we don't beat ourself up'. That's in the past now, what's done is done. You'll always be my dad and I'll always be your son! Sometime the most important words, we don't say enough. Sometime love hurts and hurts way too much. Sometime we act the very worst to the ones we love. It don't occurr but sometime we just want a hug. And mom I just wanna thank you for everything, for all the times that you were there to provide my needs. And I thank you for always just helping me despite all the trouble sometimes that I know I used to be. You've shown me just what a mom's supposed to be. And it still means so much to know you'd be proud of me. And just to be your son is what i'm proud to be. So just in love I say thanks and all your kids sing; Mommy, thank you for being my Mommy, I just want to thank you Mommy, thank you for being my Mommy.

For awhile Mom we really didn't talk much. And even lately it's kinda hard just to get in touch. You wouldn't believe just how much your little boy's grown up. It seems like yesterday that I was so young. Time passes so fast but you know what? It's words like 'I love you' I never said enough. And everything that you've done means so much. Thank you mom, and that's love from your loving son.

And Lord I want to thank you for what you've done. You're my Father in Heaven and i'm your son. Your the source of where my peace comes from. And you can still be my Father if I now cease to have one. I was lost but you changed the outcome, you put your Son on the cross where He just bled and hung. You laid down your life, and there's no greater love for someone.... And that's exactly what you've done! Jesus, thank you for being my Jesus. I just want to thank you Jesus, thank you for being my Jesus.

"words were changed from a KJ song"

Hightlights? Resolutions?

Well it does not seem like one whole year since we threw our last New Year's Party!! I cannot believe it is a new year. But believe it or not, it is here, 2005 ! I've been thinking,, what are my highlights, my lowlights of 2004 and what are my goals for 2005?

Here is a list of things that I have learned in the past year:

1. To have a good time all you need is family, they are the best friends and when really thought about, they rock the world!
2. Death sucks
3. The Huf side of my family far out-rocks the Myers for being able to have fun just hanging out with each other!
4. God WILL provide; God WILL heal; God WILL protect; IF we give him a chance and get out of way.
5. My sibs are the best friends I have.
6. Aonch has no limits when it comes to obnoxicision.
7. Actually im tired and can t really think of alot of things

im going ot bed.. more later

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! if you are in the area. stop by our loud humble party!

Warning!

The great Tsunami that hit Asia must have been an awesome sight! Logesh Monoharan my sposored child lives right outside of Coimbatore which is really far south in India. I have heard that they got hit pretty hard with the deaths. The death toll has reached 50,000 today and is expected to keep rising by the tens of thousands. If Logesh is still alive it is only by the mercy of God!
Something that I have noticed over the past few years is this: that people in general refuse to believe that anything is a sign of the 'end of the world'. They refuse to believe that the prophecies in the book of Revelation may actualy be coming to fruition in our lifetime. The Bible speaks of "wars and rumors of wars" "violence will increase" and "natural disasters will increase". With the Tsunami taking the lives of so many people with little warning and tens of thousands of men and women getting slaughtered daily in what we justify as a war, what's next? So many Christians want things to change as far as fighting, wars etc. But they still think that we should go to war! It seems that they will justify war with what the warriors did in the Old Testament and how they prayed for victory over thousands of soliders.. AND got their answer to prayer! Jesus Christ was born and changed all that! He gave us a simple list of "COMMANDMENTS" not suggestions.. commandments.. and they are written very very simple so that even the most un-educated could understand them.. and they do.. It is the elite well educated, with their own agendas that twist it to allow them to do the things Jesus said "NO" to. For instance.... very simple.. "Do Not Kill" ... how much more simple could he have said it? When Jesus gave that command he didn't give any loopholes and their is none now. If you kill for any reason... you blatently disobey the Word of God! But people will ask,, What if it is in self defense.. we have a right to protect ourselves.. right? we have the right to decide our own fate too.. Jesus also said the following.. "Love your neighbor" "pray for those who persecute you" "If anyone 'takes' your hat,, give your coat also" "If someone strikes on one cheek,, turn the other.." So after hearing what Jesus had to say to us.. where do we find the right to kill someone else? There is none.. God's Word says "do not kill" anyone who does will face judgement.. simple as that!!
It seems so easy to be a Christian if we are able to only follow the parts of the Bible that we want to and to just make the other part say what we want it to say.. or to do our best to find a loophole in the Word so that we can do our own thing and still feel like we are in the center of God's will. But the horrible fact is that we are only fooling ourselves and that we will be sorry on the day of judgment where the God who made the universe will judge our lives on earth against the Holy Word that He wrote himself!
People seem to try to push to the back of their minds.. the things that are happening in the world so they do not have to face the fact that the end is coming and it is probably closer than any of us think it is! The thing is, we go on with our daily lives and because are getting steadily worse but at a relatively slow pace.. it is constantly normal to us to have these things happen all around us.

My sib got engaged over Christmas.. but I didnt win the bet

Last Christmas I bet about an engagement.. one of my sibs got engaged over Christmas.. but I didnt win the bet

Merry Christmas

I just got done reading some blogs that I read regularly. I chuckled at one and out right laughed at another.. was it yours? you'll never know! Anyway.. I wrote this time for one reason to say:

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!

And speaking of which, some people would get offended by me mentioning the Christian holiday and not the Jewish or African holiday.. My opinion on that.. Get offended and get over it. Anymore it seems that people think they have a constituional right not to be offended and if they are offended by something they have the right to sue! FOR WHAT? You now get money if someone offends you? Insane! I heard a black man on the radio tonight talking about how the white man had done his people wrong for hundreds of years in slavery and made no restitution for it. He said that the white man has been doing it ever since the beginning; taking what they want from who they want. And he now wants restitution for what our ancestors did to his ancestors.. I think at this point it's time for him to get over it. That is in the past.. blacks are not a minority where I live. It is a fact that in Philadelphia, whites are the minority. But who cares who the minority is.. we all bleed red blood, the same color that Christ bled for us. And for that matter we are all brothers! People think that because they are a certain race or color they have more rights that other people. I heard in church tonight that 'what Jesus told us to do is so simple, it is amazing how many people refuse to do it' Love thy neighbor, but no, even Christians argue with neighbors and sue when their neighbor causes property damage or hurts them. Pray for those who hate you, turn the other cheek, if they take your coat give them your other garment too.. last time I heard the thing to do when we are robbed or our car is stolen is to call the police file a report and use our self efforts to get our property back and totally forget about the Lord's commands!! I guess the Bible has become just a book in our bookcase to all too many 'so called' Christians. What about our body? In the life of Christ on earth.. how many times did he seek the assistance of a doctor to 'help' him with his miracles of divine healing.. I counted them all up and go ''' NoNe! "" But today almost every person I know that calls themself a Christian, if they feared for their life because of a sickness they would seek the help of a doctor or medicine.. and then still have the nerve to ask God to heal them! Isn't that little mixed up? It's not both, it's either or! But one thing.::: If God CAN heal,, why medicine and docs too? The simple deciding factor of whether a person really has faith in God is when they get sick do they put their faith for healing in God alone or in medicine too? Speaking of offending, if this blog offends you,, refer to what I had to say about the black man wanting our generation to make restitution for his great grandparents slavery. "get over it". In America we don't have a right of not being offended. Or you could always sue me! But no need for that.. Just ask and I will follow Jesus command on that.. "give to those who ask" so no need to sue if you are offended.. just ask


Oh and since I probably got off the subject there:::

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!

I dont like titles

I get these times when my mind is so full of ideas about something that I feel like ... idk what i feel like. but i do. anyway, Friday @ work I had an idea, shared it with Phil, he loved it, shared it with my sisters, they loved it, shared it with my cousin, she loved it, shared it with my uncle, he loved it , shared it with my pastor, he loved it, and I kinda like it myself. Am I gonna share it with you? No, well actually yeah. I posted it on the forum which is linked from Vision Fellowship. We decorated our tree tonight. It was fun, even though they took pics and I was in my pajamas. the horrors. I've decided that I am not throwing any big NYE bash this year, there was no enthusiasm from anyone and no one else stepped up to offer assistance and a whole lot of other factors.. but i'd love to be invited to yours this year. I may not come, but the invite would sure be nice!

Christmas

A man went to his pastor and told him he couldn't get into the Christmas spirit. He said, "I've tried all the things you suggested, lights, a tree, buying gifts, caroling, everything.. i just can't get into the Christmas spirit. The pastor said,"of course you cannot, it's not about that at all, all those are just distractions". I heard that and thought how much I along with everyone else misses the meaning of Christmas for most of the season. Caught up in buying a tree, decorating, shopping, parties, food, friends, gift exchanges, what I want, what I give, and most of the time forgetting what the season is all about. That sounds sounds familiar doesnt it. Like we hear it in church every year? Yeh I think it does, but none the less, true.

Delete Delete Delete

I just went through my bookmarked blogs and deleted a few that havent posted in months! I may not post faithfully but I read yours faithfully!!

Disagreement

I found this on a link. It is thought provoking and created some good dialogue for my bro and I.

What if I strongly disagree with someone who professes to be a Christian?
Disagreement is a fact of life. There is no family, and certainly no church family, free of disagreements. The question should be, "How can I strongly disagree in Christian charity?" It is how we handle disagreements, which makes all the difference. As in a healthy family relationship, so long as we respect the person(s) with whom we disagree, so long as we accord them the privilege of holding their own views, we may disagree productively. We all know that disagreements can be destructive, especially if people who disagree aren't honest with one another and show little or no respect for the other person(s). When honesty and charity abound, people find that disagreement can deepen dialogue, create new understandings, and promote growth.
St. Paul in a number of his letters (epistles) compares the church to a human body with many different parts cooperating in the same work. Uniformity and complete agreement are neither part of Paul's analogy nor even ideal for the welfare of the body. We need people with different understandings so that together, working together in love and respect, we can grow in faith, respond to new opportunities, and come to new understandings. Yes, Christians are expected to come to new understandings.
Ours is a living faith. While we cherish many traditions and need to build on the understandings of the past, in every age the Christian Gospel has to be reinterpreted in light of what is going on in our world and in our lives. We face challenges unknown to our ancestors, and we are called to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to bear on the problems and opportunities of our world. No one individual at any given time knows the mind of Christ. Together as a community, we are led by the Holy Spirit toward knowing the mind of Christ. Disagreements, even strong ones, are a necessary and often productive aspect of living into the challenges of Christian community with the intent of discovering the mind of Christ for our own day.
The famous 13th Chapter of I Corinthians is one way in which St. Paul attempted to explain how Christians could productively pool their differences and work through their disagreements. In a word, we do this in love. The love he envisioned is not "warm, fuzzy feelings" about those with whom we share church life but genuine respect, forbearance, kindness, and a willingness to listen to others, forgive them, and work with them no matter how much we disagree. Sometimes in Christian community we need to even agree to disagree about some things so that the mission of the church can move forward. In other words, our unity needs to be built on something more basic and lasting than agreement; it needs to be built on love and respect for every other child of God.--
The Right Rev. Robert W. Ihloff
Bishop of Maryland

Paintball

Been really thinking about gettin back into paintball. It was a great adrenaline rush. The only thing is.. like anyone who knows me knows.. When I get into something.. i dont just get what I can get by with.. I go all out.. get it good and get it all. So im considering.. will prob wait till spring. But I can handle that wait.

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7 years
4 months
16 days
53 minutes

Same feelings

Now, what was my complaint?

In 1636 during the Thirty Years War--one of the worst wars in the history of mankind in terms of the sheer number of deaths, epidemics, the economic results--there was a godly pastor whose name was Martin Rinkert. In a single year, this pastor buried 5,000 people in his parish--about fifteen a day. He lived with the worst that life could do.
But if you look in your hymnal, you'll find that in the middle of that time, he wrote a table grace for his children, our thanksgiving hymn:

"Now thank we all our God
With hearts and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done,
In whom his world rejoices."

If I'd spent the year holding 5,000 funerals of the people I served, could I write for my children a song of thanksgiving? It's an unusual thing that in history many who have the least to thank God about thank him the most.

Inventory

Oh right, it's been a long time since I blogged. And judging by the other times when I lacked bloggability, there is a reason. It's now time for me to take spiritual inventory of what my life consists of and what to keep and what to discard of. At this point, life is good and life is bad. It just depends on what part I think about. I've been thinking of playing paintball again, that has to be the biggest adrenaline rush i've ever had. I've been told that snow boarding is better, but I don't snow board. My apologies to anyone i've ever insulted or hurt, I now know what it's like. And from the experience, i've found out that I had never really been insulted or hurt that I could remember. But anywho, my apologies! Power is a good thing and a bad thing. Thinking of New Year's Eve, not sure if I will coordinate anything this year or not, not so much of not wanting to. It's just the biggest hassel is finding a venue/hall/warehouse to have it at! There is nothing around this area.

PC///t

FS

Yes Katie, there is someone else in your generation who likes Sinatra. I love his songs. If you are looking for a Sinatra lover and im not availble.. Mr. Nissley Heilman is always a good choice.

you know that feeling?

You know that feeling after your first shower in 3 days of work.?

Things I've Learned

1. God is real
2. I am stubborn
3. I piss people off
4. Sinatra is dead
5. I am emotional
6. It is possible to be overwhelmed with laughing and pass-out
7. People praying for you, is good
8. There is no control w/o God
9. If God is not in control of your life, it is out of control
10. A lady doesn't leave her escort, it isn't fair, it isn't nice
11. Friends are a priceless treasure that is usuall overlooked at treasure
12. The Supertones sound like an oldies band
13. Mark P. is getting married on Saturday
14. And his fam is snubbing him
15. My boss can immitate a train whistle
16. When I have kids, i'll love them
17. Jimmy Wayne sings a sad song (I love you this much)
18. The video is even sadder
19. Even if you hate country you should listen to/watch it
20. I like every style of music except opera and a few others
21. I'm listening to Sinatra
22. Most people do not understand me
23. Music is the best invention
24. Besides things that are better for the occasion
25. I like killing things
26. I have interest in going to the police academy
27. I'm getting fat
28. Sorta
29. I'm going to be in the parade on July 4
30. I was nominated for Vice president of LCTW (elections in Dec.)
31. I do not keep interest in reading books
32. Some people dont get it
33. Word of the day "Culture"
34. Crossmovement's new album got the same exposure @ the store as Nelly's album did
35. Jon (@work) is absolutely the most annoying person in the world
36. seriously!
37. Phil & Tool's band rocks
38. Jessica tears it on drums
39. The summer wind came blowing in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
all summer long we sang a song
and then we stolled that golden sand
two sweet hearts and the summer wind
like painted kites those days and nights
they went flying by
the world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind
the autumn wind and the winter winds
they have come and gone
and still the days those lonely days
they go on and on
and guess sighs his lullabyes
to nights that never end
my fickeled friend
the summer wind
the summer wind
warm summer wind

Is a good song...

40. The end

Repubs won

Well Republicans won, Democrats didn't win. I like what John Kerry had to say about no one is a loser because no matter the outcome, we all wake up the next day, AMERICANS! I also thot it funny that all the Democrats celebrated before the election about the victory they were gonna win.. but the others waited till they won and then celebreated. Also, I think that third partys are a joke! they are stupid and that we should only have 2 parties in our country.. If you want to make a difference, join one of the two partys, and actaully have a chance of being elected. Not some lame party that gets less than one percent of the vote just to make a point that isnt even heard! Unless of course you are just stupid. the same goes for anyone who voted third or fourth party.... insane... If you want to protest, just don't vote.. but "Oh no, you can't do that it's our american privilege to vote, I think its just as much a waste to vote third party as it is not to vote!

Peace.

We now pay for pizza boxes?

I bought a pizza tonight. the sign said $3.99 the total was $4.80. When my brother inquired about the $.81, they said, "Oh, that is $.50 for the box". Hahah.. I told him to dump the pizza in the back seat and ask for our fifty cents back!! We now get charged for the box!