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Name: John
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Metro: Starkville
Birthday: 5/8/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: What a list to fill. A lot of things interest me, and most deal with people. I like to be around people. But that sometimes comes back to bit you in the rear.
Expertise: I can make copies! I like to make videos in my spare time, but who has enough these days. I would say I'm good at listening, but not at remembering.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  johnny6079
Member Since:
11/21/2005
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| So it's been soooo long... I miss the days of Xanga. I'm sitting here with the biggest smile on my face just thinking about writing in here... I love it. Oh Xanga... It took me forever to figure out how to post again. And I also had messages... Messages?! Xanga has messages?! Of course they were from skanky girl sites... No one wants to talk to me. Or more of, no one on xanga wants to talk to me. All my friends have left... Or have they? Peanut! Oh, how I miss writing Peanut, the fun-loving weasel! Maybe he will make a return in my life. Or maybe a new character. Maybe Bob the turtle will get his own series... I 'ope 'o. 'Hat 'ould 'e 'mazing... Oh my goodness... I'm going nuts!!!!!!!!!! BAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Steep and Cheap!!!!!! And I can publish it to Facebook TOO!!!!! | | |
| No matter what advise you're given, no matter how wise it seems, no matter how much you trust the person who gave it to you, you have to make the decision to follow that advise. For every decision you are confronted with, the power to choose lies within you, and only you can make the decision. | | |
| This past Tuesday night, I attended the Summer Wesley gathering for a study that covered John 10:1-18. These verses are of Jesus speaking on Himself representing the Good Shepherd and us as His flock. Several interesting points and notions about the scripture that night grabbed my attention, but towards the end of the study, our director, Hugh Griffith, posed this simple question: "what is abundant life?" I pondered the question quickly over and over in my head, but it was pushed around by all the thoughts and problems already moving in my mind. And it was right then that it hit me; my immediate responce to the question would have been a simple life where no problems existed, where the present problems I face with love and family as dissolved into nothing. It was so ideal and totally impractical and improbable. While looking at this ideal, I realized that abundant life that Christ gives does not come when no problems exist. No, such a time would most likely bring one to lose faith in God for there is no need for a God, for we have conquered all that scares us. I concluded in these short moments that abundant life is being pleased with where you are in life but also continuely seeking to know the Father more. I am not one for all the "if you believe you are happy, you'll be happy" mindset or whatever, but this simple truth of knowing God will take care of you in your problems as long as you have faith brings you to abundant life! So abundant life is not a prefect life where no one opposes you or you face no problems; no, it is where you ambrace the Father for who He is and what He can do in your life, then letting Him do it. | | |
| I don't know the use of this site any longer. Most of my friends no longer post, so the probablity of anyone reading this is very little. The semester is finally over. One filled with pains and wounds I had never experienced, and I hope to never experience again. I didn't much believe what was happening throughout it, but towards the end I only wished the summer could come sooner and the freedom it granted. Well, the summer is here, but it's freedom is withheld from me. Summer time was the goal for so long, now that it has been reached, I don't know where to go. I had so many plans and goals, but the distractions of the world have reached up and taken hold of me, holding firm to that which is not their to take. It's time to decide.
My birthday was this past Tuesday, and thanks to several friends, it was very pleasant. Now I look forward to May 26th, my brother's wedding. It will be stressful, but enjoyable visiting with all of our family and friends.
I'm going to try to write some new peanuts soon. I have lost my ability to write them after some events, but hopefully with some concentration, he will return. | | |
| The Easter holidays are here, but how many of us are approached with the thinking that surrounds the church at this time of the year. We all celebrate the day off from classes. We look forward to all the candy that we can eat, and oh so much chocolate. But during this Holy Week this year, I was approached with something that not many face. As my pastor said, she thought it interesting that I be faced with such a dilemma during such a period of time, a time where we remember The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit in their conjoined sacrifice because "we are their business." This past Thursday, Maundy Thursday, was the celebration of the Last Supper. In Latin, Maundy means "command" and represents the command Jesus gave not just the disciples, but all of us, to love our neighbors. Within hours, Jesus was crucified on what we call Good Friday. The ultimate sacrifice ever made. Now we await Easter, the day in which Jesus will rise from the dead in new life and offering new life.
This season has been bittersweet for myself. In such a crisis, I have realized what sacrifice I have had to make so I might receive new life. It has been unwanted, and it has been painful, but the Lord has already been at work. I pray that you as well might find what holds you back from a new life with Christ. May He rush upon you and hold you dear in these next few days. Soon we will be marching back into a world of pain and hurt. But if God is for us, who can be against us? | | |
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