Mistaken

How can I be alone when the world surrounds me ?
How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me ?
How can I know so many never even knowing anyone ?
If I seem superhuman
I must be mistaken...


-Dream Theater

Quote of the Day...

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home..."
-Ken Olson,president,and chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.

HAHAHAHAHAA-Oh man that was so funny I gotta catch my breath
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Star Wars Novel

I have just finished another Star Wars novel. I loved it!It was awesome! The story takes you back to the old Republic way before The Phantom Menace era. During this period,The Sith and the Jedi/Republic are at an all out war.Des,a young miner trying to escape a hopeless life discovers a power that leads him to the Brotherhood of darkness-the elite Sith order comprising of trained Sith Lords.Through his training,he discovers that the current order is flawed and he is the one to finally bring the Sith back to the two rule leadership-Master and Apprentice.

"One to embody the power,one to crave it..."
Des finally becomes Darth Bane and overtakes the order and wipes out the ruling factions to bring the Sith back to where it was.In this book,Bane makes Palpatine and Vader look like a bunch of pansies.The Sith Lords of the old era were just plain evil.
Reading the book,it gives one an idea of how a person with the best intentions to survive can meet devistating and dire consequences if you trust yourself and lean on decisions that can toatally alter a life regret.
Bane lived a life that knew nothing but hate-pain abandonment.He was beaten by his father-repeatedly.He never knew his mother.He wound up on a mining colony enduring horriffic labor.In all this he then recognized that he had "abilities" He then got hooked up with the Sith army.And then his journey down the dark path began.
"Peace is a lie.."
Do you know how many people tread a dark path looking for good intentions to redeem themselves only to end up in a catalcysmic ocean of pain, sorrow and evil?
"For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,and seeking to establish their own righteousness,have not submitted to the righteousness of God."
Romans 10:3
The world is filled with people looking in the wrong places for redemption.For a sense of belonging.Using personal tragedies to fuel angst instead of birthing triumphs.
Beware of the path of destruction.

Quote of the Day

"The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient;the work of progress is so immense and our means of aidingit so feeble;the life of humanity is so long,that of the individual so brief,that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

Robert E. Lee

Tut,Tut

Yesterday,I went with Jean,Leah and Keller on a field trip to the Field Museum at Chicago.The trip was sponsored by the Coal City Public Library.I had alot of fun. It was so cool..The museum had the King Tut exhibit going on.The show was cool.If you grt a chnce,go see it. The only bummer is thst you got to see his great granmothers casket and not Tut's.Although they had a cool holographic display of each level inside Tut's tomb down to his mummified remains-cool.We got to see some of the other exhibits to.There was these two LARGE Inuit totem poles near the entrance hall and they had a Inuit Native chant and dance by the display for the public that was cool to.All in all, it was a cool trip.
Oh,I just forgot,Kel and I went to see the Native American exhibit.that was awesome.We got to walk inside an actual Pawnee earth lodge.They're actually very homey inside.It's incredible to see how intricate and detailed ancient workers were on their stuff ! I am amazed how accurate they're measurements were on the tools ,weapons and furniture they constructed.
A good time was had by all.

Being Used Up

This is going to be a big one.
The idea just came inti me at about-oh 1:43 in the morning.
Being Used.
Finding your purpose in this life.
In Toy Story2,That theme kind of runs behind the scenes in the movie's plot.
Woody gets damaged and then begins to fear that he will cease becoming Andy's plaything and end up being discarded forever decomposing on a landfill.
In the end,Woody is saved,restored and comes to the conclusion that he is not afraid of whatever happens.
Woody will be there for Andy as long as it lasts until he is no longer played with-he is not afraid.
Not afraid to be used up-to the end.
It didn't matter what outcome he would face.He was going to endure with Andy and Buzz and the other toy friends by his side.
Woody found his vision.His focus.
In my class on Wednesday nights at church,we looked at Romans chapter 9 .In that passage,the apostle Paul is addressing the Jewsish Christians on questioning God on who receives and who should receive.
who has the right to serve,
Paul stated that it is not our place to question who receives salvation and mercy for Christ died once and for all-all meaning Jew and Gentile.
Mercy for all-that's how God planned it.
Salvation for all.
Yet the Christians in that early church felt they had the right to advise God in that area.They got stuck in the law missing the boat and God used Paul,one of their countrymen to knock some sense into their mindset.
" can what is made say to the one who made it,"Why did you make me like this?"
(Isaiah 29:16)Isn't the potter free to makedifferent kinds of pots out of the same lump of clay?Some are for special purposes.Others are for ordinary ones."
Discoverer's Bible NIV
Who are we to question or advise God on wether we should be used in this manner or for any rate,to be used at all.
We were created for His purpose-to glorify Him in our lives no matter how hectic or mundane it can get.
No matter what situation or circumstance befalls us.God can use us,
No matter what the future holds-God will use us to the end.
To question the Maker of the Universe,Creator of mankind,earth water and sky-Job tried to advise God but failed.
God in His divine wisdom knew what is best for Job at the time and eventually was blessed more than what he had before-interesting-he was scraping his boils with a piece of broken pottery.
No matter what,God loves us and wants to use us for whatever purposes He sees fit-in the end it brings Him glory and joy.
When we're injured,He doesn't leave us abandoned or discards us-He uses our infirmaries and shortcomings to achieve His purpose-look at Moses,Jacob,Esau-men with flaws yet God completed His plan for them to the end.
Be like Woody,let God use you until the end
To Infinity and Beyond.

Quote of the Day

"I'm Barf."
"Half man,half dog."
"I'm my own best friend..."

"Barf"-Spaceballs

Back for more

I am so pumped!It's official!George Lucas says they are going to do an animated series based on the Clone Wars era. Weeeee!!!!!!

You know,that means more action figures and lightsabers-cool!

Sharpe rules!

If you get a chance check out the Sharpe series on video or dvd.You can probally get it at your local library-there's a plug Leah hope you like that.
anyway the series is based in Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction series centering around a man named Richard Sharpe serving in the British army during the India/Napoleonic wars era.
It rocks!I just started reading the series this summer.Bernard is an awesome writer.Sean Bean is great portraying Sharpe in the series also.
If good historical fiction is your game,then Sharpe's the name.

Fun,fun,fun...

Here is some summertime fun Keller and I had.
We got out his Revolutionary War soldiers I got some sticks and we made a cool little battle layout complete with a fort.
Too cool.
In the computer age, you never outgrow playing with toy soldiers!