2007/ Clarity/ Lately -- Pain, Joy, Faith

i guess lots of people write "end of the year blogs" so I'll write one and try to squeeze a year of memories into a couple sentences.

2007- was one of the best years I can remember, and probably the most eventful. Spring break I did lighting for vacation bible school and spent some time with Emily (my cousin) which was really fun cause i don't get to see her much, then went to Nashville to visit Belmont and got to see one of my best friends,Elizabeth, while I was there. I found a new hobby. (along with Brad Brubaker) we started biking a lot, and even looked into biking to the keys over the summer. well summer came and me and brad were riding around a camp ground late at night and i didn't see the turn in the road and found myself slamming on my hand brakes but i have two brakes on my front tire and none on my bike so i went headfirst into a ditch and dislocated my shoulder. the doctor told me a dislocated shoulder hurts worse then a broken bone, and i wouldn't doubt it, although i've never broken a bone... So the bike trip was canceled and i was stuck in a sling for 2 months. I went to Vancouver with Jubilation with my sling. did some soul searching and tried to find focus on my walk with christ. I saw some stupid whales swimming around (OOO...) although i did have some good laughs with Brittney, Elyse Laura nad a couple other girls that went, so it wasn't all bad. the main reason i didn't want to go wahle watching really comes down to i wanted to go eat lunch at the market with Courtney ...2007 also brought the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, along with my first kiss with someone I'll never forget. I got to go to Georgia for a couple days after Christmas and spent some time with my cousins, and got introduced to some awesome music that I'm listening too right now.


Clarity- (student life) brought some things into perspective for me. I enjoyed David Platt more than any pastor I've ever listened to. His philosophy on life is exactly what I needed to hear. I loved his list illustration: make a two colom chart on one side list all of the things that you have, good or bad. your family your money idols school possessions, everything good or bad that you have. at the top write worthless. wasted. nothing. On the other side at the top write Priceless, everything and put God under it. because everything on this earth is wasted wether your a Christian or not it all goes to waste. God is everything, he is all that matters.
Not that everything else cant be good and/or right, just that it isn't what your living for.

Lately- since clarity I've been trying to break some of my bad habits and trying to bring into focus for myself how powerful and important God is. We serve a God who when he steps upon the earth at the end of Armageddon an entire mountain range will split in two and the entire earth will shake so violently that every mountain will fall and every valley will fill and every island will vanish. He is so terrifying and magnificent that if we were to look at him we would die. My favorite thing and what i look forward to most is God's voice. It is described as the sound of a piercing trumpet and of many rushing waters. I love music but all of the music in the world could never match up to it. So here is this powerful being that I serve and yet I turn from him constantly and focus on other things. giving humans or things the worship and attention that I should reserve for God.