a man's soap opera.

for the longest time i thought women and people that followed soap opera's were rediculous when they would talk about the characters like they just finished having a heart to heart with the person. i know there's going to be some girl reading this and be like:

"joey, that is just not true! you are a heartless, narscisistic, ignorant boy who knows nothing of what kenny and bebe are going through right now. someone has just kidnapped their [illegitament] kid and is threatening to sell him to some guy down in cuba if they don't come up with 20 million or if bebe doesn't give herself up for the child. but she can't because she's been "doing the deed" with kenny's brother so that her she-boss thinks she's cool enough to keep her job. she's just caught between a rock and a hard place, so you just don't know and if you don't know then you shouldn't say anything about it."

i don't even understand who you should feel sorry for in a situation such as that but i have come to a gripping reality recently that somewhat bothers me. i have come to realize that men have their soap opera's too, we just don't call them soap opera's cause ours are on during primetime television. i hate to admit this but i am the worlds biggest fan of CSI. csi: miami. csi: ny. csi: crime scene investigation (that's the original). i am! and not only that, i talk about the characters like i'm on a first name basis with them. especially with csi miami. it's sad i know but it's true. i...in a way...watch my own soap opera. 

now you will never hear me say "i'm going to watch my soap opera so shut up or go to the other room" but i will refer to the characters in csi miami in first person such as horatio, or eric, or calleigh, or wolf.  i just thought about that just a bit ago and thought i'd share that with you.

now everyone go read Jeremiah 29:11.

it's one of my favorite verses ever.

it's so comforting a reassuring to know that He, Yaweh, has plans for me. and to know that i can't do anything about it because it's in His hands is even a better feeling because i don't need to be worrying about it. God's got it under control. i am so thankful that God has given me His word so that i can read the plans he has for me and know that he loves me unconditionally!

have a blessed and happy thanksgiving!

i am thankful for all of you guys!

more than just a mission trip.

i have been thinking alot about jamaica the past couple of weeks. really since i came back from the trip, but more recently since i came back from my visit to south carolina and saw all the wonderful people that adopted me for that week and made me a part of their group with no strings attatched. 

by the second day they had renamed their group Westside Church and Joey. how's that for special! that week was the first time i that i can remember when i was shown Christ-like love. a love that was unconditional, no strings attatched, i was accepted for who i was and was loved because i was me. yes i recieved that from my family but it's a different feeling when the non-relatives who don't know you from adam welcome you and make you a part of their group in less than a day. if you've ever experienced this you know what i'm talking about. and if not, i can't wait for you to! it will change your life. they had made me one of them so much that when they went back to their church after the week was over, i found out that they'd talk about me and how i was able to be a part of their group. i was in every single one of their pictures haha and when i visited the church earlier this month all the other members already knew me. seriously. they came up to me and said it's nice to finally meet you, and i had NO CLUE who they were.

God does some incredible things with people. and He definately works in mysterious ways. yes i went on that trip to jamaica for missions but God had some other plans. because of that trip i learned about the power of prayer. i learned about His faithfulness and love for me and others. i heard about north greenville university where i am now going to be transferring to in january to finish up school. i met a man by the name jon lyles who totally and radically changed my outlook on what a youth/stutent minister should be (if you want more details on that one just ask). and because of this trip and God callling me to go back i have made some serious life-long friendships that i am so thankful for! 

there's still a need though! in jamaica, in romania, in greece, in london, in the usa. are you going to be the one to go tell the world? i love you all and thanks for readin the blog. i'm not the best one and i hardly ever use capital letters and since there's no spellcheck my errors are far more than on a research paper but thanks anyways!

*if i think of somthin else i'll blog it today too.

KEEP THE SON IN YOUR EYES!

lord of lords.

Lord of lords.

by Brooke Fraser

Beholding Your beauty is all that I long for.

To worship You, Jesus is my soul desire.

For this very heart, You have shaped for Your pleasure,

purposed to lift Your name higher.

Here in surrender, in pure adoration,

I enter Your courts with an offering of praise.

I am Your servant, come to bring You glory,

as is fit for the works of Your hands

Now unto the Lamb who sits on the throne,

be glory and honour and praise.

All of creation resounds with the song.

Worship and praise Him. 

The Lord of lords.

Spirit now living and dwelling within me,

keep my eyes fixed ever on Jesus' face.

Let not the tings of this world ever sway me

I'll run til I finish the race.

Now unto the Lamb who sits on the throne,

be glory and honour and praise. 

All of creation resounds with the song.

Worship and praise the Lord.

Now unto the Lamb who sits on the throne,

be glory and honour and praise.

All of eternity echoes the song.

Worship and praise Him.

The Lord of lords.

Holy Lord.

You are holy.

Jesus Christ is the Lord.

Now unto the Lamb who sits on the thrown,

be glory and honour and praise.

Call all the sinners to join in the song.

Worship and praise Him. 

The Lord of lords.

Lord of lords.

*go look it up on youtube or itunes or something...definately a must have for your musical collection.*

10 Turkey day festivities

1) eat turkey (obviously that's numero uno)

2) give thanks to God by thanking him by eating more turkey

3) MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

4) plaza lighting

5) getting your game face on for black friday

6) having your annual "how's life" conversation with your uncle howard who won't remember a thing after he's had his nap

7) pumkin pie. pumkin pie. pumkin pie. *chant it with me* 

8) cool whip

9) enjoy your family and the break from life

10) read my blog :)

so you had a bad day...

I don’t know about you but when I have a bad day I become really ticked off. You know what I mean? The whole day is ruined. And I don’t get the joy of going through the whole day having a chip on my shoulder. No. The little catalyst that sets off my bad day doesn’t come until around the middle of the day or later. I know that you know exactly what I mean. I’m a walking whoopie cushion that’s just waiting to be sat on and all the “whoopie” let out the rubber opening leaving me flatter than a two-year-old bottle of grape Fanta. Let me ‘splain.

You wake up just like any other happy morning (which between the ages of twelve and whenever you mature and grow up and act like an adult—which for some is never—is usually an oxy-moron, only on rare occasions is it vice versa). The sunbeams caress your face and that lovely mechanical device that sings sweet melodies in your ear—a radio for those who aren’t following my alliterations—soon becomes handicapped as a result of the nearest hard object being hurled at a velocity that can create a sonic boom; amazing the power one possesses in the morning under the right conditions.  The birds and squirrels that were waiting to sing a cute and charming little song with you flee for their lives as they quickly realize that Cinderella is the only one that enjoys a wake up call from things with feathers and fur.

After you have been conscious for about five minutes you decide to do the roll over. “Oh no, not the roll over,” you say. Yes my friends it’s that time of morning; it’s roll over time. It is really ashamed that the rest of your body cannot wake up in congruence with your eyes, it would save a whole lot of problems and maybe even some “choice” words blurted from your mouth. So as you are rolling over the lower half of your body--meaning the neck down--is still asleep and the mercy of the pillowy cushion beneath it; it doesn't know that that it's not awake until it's too late. Because your body is still asleep there is a zero reaction time once you have realized that you were not a safe distance from the edge of the bed. Not only do you continue to roll, but you roll right off the bed onto the cold, hard, uncomfortable, bruising, abrubt floor; an immediate unwanted body/floor contact has been made. Right from the start your day has been miserable and will continue to do so because you have lost all faith in your own ability to get through the rest of that day positively. In fact you skipped your yoga class because you didn't feel like channelling all that negative energy into a warrior pose. No. You wanted to put on your angry eyes and let the rest of the world know that you are fed up with this (whatever this is)! We are so bitter and angry at the world the rest of the day when it's really no one's fault that you are having an aweful day but yours because you are letting it get to you instead of turning it over to God.

There was a man who had the epitomy of a bad day. The guy had seven sons and three daughters, 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 donkies, and a gigantic number of servants. This man loved his children and took great care of all these things that God had given him and in one day it was yanked from him. A messenger came to this mand and said that this man's oxen and donkies had been taken/stolen and all the servants tending them were killed. Before that messenger was finished telling the man all that stuff another messenger came to the man and interrupted the first messenger and told him that his sheep and servants had been burned and killed by "fire of God." Guess what happened next. That's right before the second messenger had finished telling the man all this a third one came to the guy and told him that all his camels were carried off (you'd have to be super buff to carry one of those let alone 3000) and all the servants tending them had been killed off. It didn't even stop there. A fourth messenger came to this man before the third one had finished his story and let the man know that the house collapsed on all his children and the rest of his servants. 

This man lost everything in a matter of minutes. He lost ten offspring, 7000 heads of cotton, a rent-a-camel service, 5oo oxen and 500 donkies, and all his hired staff. I know if that happened to me I would definately go off and pout. Well I would probably do more than just pout to be perfectly honest but this guy didn't do that. No. As soon as this man heard about all this stuff that just had happened to him he fell on his face and worshiped the creator! "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away, may the name of the LORD be praised." Do you look at your bad day as something to worship God for and look to him for the strength that's needed? Or do you start condemning the name of the Lord, and try to take it upon yourself to do things? It's a hard choice and I struggle with it everyday but I want to be able to be in those situations and say, "the Lord gives and takes away." I want to worship him in those situations no matter when they come. How bout you?

If you want to be strengthened and humbled all at the same time here's somthing for you to read. Job chapter one.

KEEP THE SON IN YOUR EYES!

bowties and tucked in sweaters.

i was laughing and thinking to myself today while i was in my car going to work at what sunday mornings used to consist of. you know. the kind that you thought baby Jesus had abandoned you in your time of need because your parent's made you wear that blue bowtie, the red suspenders, blue oxford short sleeve shirt, and osh kosh kahkis (made in taiwan) and then those little church shoes. 

i will say however that i did beg to wear those bowties and i even tucked in my sweater's and would wail like no one's business when fasha or madre would make me untuck the tucked. that's right, you heard me. i had to untuck the tucked sweater.

but not to get off topic to much, those times when you had to dress up to go to sunday school and eat those saltines (or in my case, rice cakes, cause i was allergic to every single solitary thing...even my bowties) and "take a nap" on those little pint sized muslim prayer rugs were nothing compared to drive to church.

everything is going swell that morning, your parents finally chase you down to comb your hair so you don't look like calvin (which by the way was mostly done in vain because by the time you would get to church that little...ginormous cow lick would make it's presence known like a woopie cushion in a library), they finally buckle you in the seat after spanking you for deliberately kicking your shoe across the yard to see if it would fly, and you are off to go talk about God. 

now the problems start. you walk your fingers across the seat to where your sister is sitting, singing/practicing her sunday school song for the old sunday school teacher. sister sees the fingers. purposely bumps her arm into your hand and yells at the top of her lungs, "HE HIT ME!!!!" now as you can see i was not in any way at fault but that's not what mom/dad bought. no. i was the problem child for that 30 minute drive to church. the happy little family is now playing tag with open fists which really just add to the madness. the father is using his periferals to drive and the rear view mirror as an aiming tool. mother is advising in a rather elivated voice to watch the road while fishing for sister's flailing arms. sister is flailing the arms claiming she's been attacked by an army of one. poor defenseless me is cowering in the seat with my bowtie and combover occaisonally swinging my arms in "defense" and trying to push myself as far back in the seat as i could so as not to be reached by father's arm of correction. and the two younger siblings are sitting in the backwards seat of the red station wagon taking bets and choosing sides. what a lovely picture of a typical family on sunday morning.

haha you know it's the truth. and then there's the, "don't make me pull over!" and yelling through clinched teeth (if that's possible) "we are going to go to church to learn about jesus!" and as soon as those front tires hit the asphalt of the parking lot we are that picture perfect family walking into church that you see on all the gospel tracks and christian literature.

it is sooo funny to look back and think about what the routine family does on a sunday morning when little children are involved. and only on sunday does the devil himself possess the child during the carride to put his finger on the sister's side of the car. only on sunday. 

thank God for giving me a sense of humor! and while some parents might be mortified for these things to be shared. deep down they know it's so true and they know how funny it is to sit back and remember all those things. and i know this didn't just happen with my family cause i spent the night at friends houses before and rode to church with them and the routine is the same. so after all that this is the point i'm trying to make. sisters just need to not be so petty about what part of the car is their side hahahaha! naw i'm just kidding...but really. 

hahahahaha i LOVE family bonding moments like those!

*there will be a break from 10 things for this posting.

p.s. love ya mar!

turtle's playing twister

why can't it make up it's mind. don't you hate it when your mind can't make up itself? it's like a turtle that play's twister--it doesn't matter what colored circle it decides to put itself on it's going to take fooooooooorrrrreeeeeeeeevvvvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrrr for it to get there. thank God for people with pretty decision making skills. it's right up there with the best--like bow-hunting skills and numchuck skills and shading the upper lip. i guess that's why God gave us smart people, and stupid people. smart people need a stupid person like me otherwise they don't look smart, they look average-and we all know what that means, "if everybody is special, then NO on is special." 

did you hear that? it sounded like a whole bunch of people wailing and gnashing their teeth. everyone wants to be special, but no one wants anyone else to be special. admit it. deep down inside our human nature tells us to think about numero uno (me, myself, and i). that's why there are smart people and stupid people, smart people couldn't be smart without stupid people running their mouths like they know something, and stupid people couldn't look stupid without the help of smart people pointing out their immature behavior and saying, "you don't even know." haha and we all know every single person on this planet have said that at least once in their life, you don't even know. hahaha i said it again. it's kind of catchy. 

(now i promise this is going somewhere, i'm just not quite sure where yet. cause i'm definately not going to stop and ask for directions, that would be against the man code.)

as a disclaimer i do have to say that i was exaggerating about the whole smart/stupid people but it is a logical and very valid alliteration for God and his people and the depravity of man. if it were not for God man would not know that they are in bondage that they are stupid and that they need to be saved. but because we have a God he shows us our stupidity and then we see who the smart one really is. no it's not dr. phill, it's not oprah, it's not joel osteen, it's not david letterman, or martin short (although i find the last one to be hilarious most of the time) it's God and God alone. i think it's soo cool to see how God planned everything that has ever happened. just think about it all. even the really bad stuff. and why he did it. SO HE WOULD BE GLORIFIED!!! THAT BLOWS MY MIND!!! i can't even keep track of  a pen long enough to use all the ink out of it and yet God planned all of..everything to bring himself glory. i'm in awe.

now just cause, there is another category that i would like to classify myself under and it is the category of DORK. a dork know's they're stupid so they decide to play the part and act stupid just because. it's not a bad thing but sometimes you need to be sure not to cross the line. i would like to know how many people are stupid and how many people are just bein dorks. i think the statistics would be very intriguing. 

*well i'm not sure how much this little blog thing helped yall but i felt like i needed to share it so i did. 

**we're kicking it into gear and gonna try to post daily for a week. haha we'll see how it goes.

KEEP THE SON IN YOUR EYES!

10 PUNCH LINES

1) can i have that cheese?

2) those aren't my buttons!

3) to get to the other side, duh.

4) got any gwapes?

5) thumb like it hot, thumb like it cold!

*THESE ARE JUST KILLING ME! ...seriously i can feel my organs failing..*

6) very funny scotty, now beam me up my clothes.

7) the cow jumped over the moon, and racked itself.

8) the big yellow one is the sun!

9) scuba team, 3511

10) i want your hair...extentions!

thank you for your willingness to read all the way through number 10. bless you. your crown in heaven will be ginormous for enduring all that.

stalkers unite!

mk this just came to me and i'm not sure how i feel about it.

you know on facebook how there are advertisements on the sides (some inappropriate..well actually most i would say are inappropriate) so when you are scrolling you get  your week's worth of spam email that's not even email flashing in front of your eye balls? well there was this one that came up and i'm not sure how i feel about it. it's the "Do You Know John Mayer?" one. now that's not what disturbs me. what disturbs me is how many people i hear talking about those advertisements and then discussing their scores. here is the sale's pitch, "Take this fun quis and test your knowledge about John Mayer now!" haha i laugh at that. what was meant to be an "in-depth study/questionaire" of the person is really just a place for stalkers to see who's the better stalker. it's like they are starting a club- STALKERS UNITE! they make it sound like it's some sort of game.  i am being a tad bit facetious but seriously. how do people have time for those kinda things! i'm on facebook 23 hours and 55 minutes of the day and i don't even have time for that! i think it's funny how facebook can consume so much of your life and you don't even know it (i should prolly just insert the word I and my for the "you's" in this sentence cause idk about you) actually it's not that funny but it is. it's kind of like those awkward moment's with people where it's really quiet then everyone gives the awkward laugh and then the sigh and it get's quiet again ALL AT THE SAME TIME! and then they do that short little laugh again. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!! haha i know that all 5 of the people that read this have done it cause i've done it with every single one of you! HAHA! don't feel bad about it, embrace it!

no but in all seriousness, how much time do we invest in things such as facebook, myspace, youtube, blogs, vlogs, world of warcraft, final fantasy and such. now i know everyone of you LOVES the last two things i mentioned so i won't say how i feel about those but i'm sure you could fill in the blanks about those, most utterly boring, gag me with a rusted spoon, time consuming things. but back to the topic at hand. how many of those things do we invest our time and attention and sometimes even our passion into compared to investing our time in growing spiritually. to better know the creator of the universe. i will be the first to tell you that I AM SOOOOOOOOOO GUILTY OF THAT!!!!! all the resources and opportunities that we are given to get to know our Lord and Savior and we don't jump on those. even those people that may not know Christ, or have a relationship with Him, how will they see that they can be free and the relief and love and comfort they can have if they see us using all our time to be on things such as those listed above (the list is really endless)? i want them to experience and feel that peace that passes all understanding! 

i think we should all put down our WoW for a while and stop being stalkers of celebrities and maybe regroup/refocus on what we should be. just a thought. you know where you stand.

keep the SON in your eyes!

1) ABC 123 - jackson five! listen now.

2) tell everyone you know about my blog.

3) Isaiah 59:1

4) turkey day is officially next week! 

5) after you listen to ABC 123 listen to Jitterbug

6) tis the season for Barry Manilow

7) burt's bees

8) brit lit has officially gotten on my last nerve

9) can't wait to see all his buddies during turkey/christmas break and then in january!!!!

10) Rocket Man the movie. that is all that is needed to be said.

the more i seek you.

haha well folks sorry bout the wait. i was outta town for a week and tryin to get back in the swing of things. i am going to try to do this on more of a daily basis though.

these are words to one of my favorite songs.

The more I seek You,

The more I find You.

The more I find You,

The more I love You.

I want to sit at Your feet, 

drink from the cup in your hand. 

Lay back against You and breathe,

feel Your heart beat.

This love is so deep.

It's more than I can stand.

I melt in Your peace

It's overwhelming.

i just wanted to share that because until this summer i can't remember ever feeling like this about my relationship w/ my Savior. in fact my desire was sooo NOT THERE that when my eyes were opened to what i was missing out on and i began to embrace the love of Christ that i became soooo OVERWHELMED and wanted everyone that i ran into and came in contact with to experience that love too! 

it's sooo amazing and reassuring and im' just in awe that God, the giver of life and creator  of the universe would want to have such a deep personal relationship with me.  i mean have you seen any of the pictures that like the spitzer or hubble telescopes have taken? they take my breath away! if you ever wanna be humbled just go look at some of those pictures, or watch the planet earth dvd's....out of all the amazing things that He has created he choose to have the deepest  love and affection towards us. a love that we can't even fully comprehend.

that's incredible! but the sad part is so many people choose not to accept that love that need to be set free! and there are people that keep the love of Christ to themselves and "don't feel the need to go and tell the world!" that makes me mad sometimes but i've been trying to look at it as an opportunity for me to step up and share my faith and encourage others to share theirs. i'm not the poster-child for doing this though. i have been so lackadaisical when it comes to sharing my faith w/ those in need of a savior. I am going to make a conscious effort from this point on to not be shy in sharing the life-changing/life-giving love of God. how bout you?

"Lord, I pray my heart would be broken for the weary and the lost. That your unconditional love would be demonstrated in my actions towards others and that they would experience You and know that You are God."

on a side note.

1) South Carolina is the place to be

2) Cheerwine is the stuff to drink

3) God is the one to dwell in

4) everyone needs to buy or at least listen to the Living for You album by Gateway Worship

5) fall weather is fantastic

6) PE next semester is going to pown (the letter p and the word own) me

7) everyone needs to go to the carolinas during the fall at least once in their life

8) CHRISTMAS MUSIC IS PLAYING!

9) THANKSGIVING IS JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!! -can anyone say turkey cause i can EAT one!

10) God is in control of everything! even your problems! just give em over to Him

KEEP THE SON IN YOUR EYES

will the real driver of the pinto please stand up.

so i'v been thinking about this frequently the past couple of days. 

Try contentment on for size. Doesn't always fit so well does it? You might say "Yeah, I'm content. Duh!" but as soon as someone drives up in their brand new shiny off the showoom floor lexus, or mercedes, or what have you I know most people don't go "Ah that's just swell! I'm so happy for that person I could cry tears of joy!" no. it's more like "Man I wonder what he does. What do you think he does? My luck he probably makes whoopie cushions. that would be my luck wouldn't it? I work just as hard sa he does and what do i have to show for it? hmmm? a beat up putrid aweful green pinto! A PINTO! and this guy's drivin' around in a luxury machine cause he makes whoopie cushions." And immediately we start comparing ourselves to the individual in the luxury sedan.

this example proably sounds cheezy, and cliche, and lame because it is...but let me try to put it into perspective and let you know exactly where i'm coming from.

How content are you really? right now?

if you made a list of every thing that got you brownie points and then a list of all the things where choice words and "eye-darts" were employed or where you had to restrain yourself from hurling your body mass at another body mass for doing/saying/thinking/breathing something you didn't appreciate, which list would be longer?

i was reminded on halloween of all nights how grateful and content i should really be.

I'm a caretaker for a teenage boy with autism and a 22 year-old guy with cerebral paulsy.  on halloween i took the 22 year old to his annual halloween dance. this guy is wheelchair bound; very little control over movements. he's drudgingly slow "motor skills wise" (speaking, moving arms, legs, philanges (fingers/toes)) but his thought process is considerably clear for the condition that the rest of the body is in. this guy is tatally dependent on other people. 

when i took him to the dance i was greeted overwhelmingly by bright smiling kids and adults with special needs. there was not a single time when any of them at one time or another were not smiling. they could win the smiling contest if they wanted to. 

but it didn't stop when i walked in the door. everysingle one of the people that were attending that dance were all smiles and perfectly content to be there. they were wholly satisfied with the way that they had been made. it was one of the most humbling and surreal experiences i've ever experienced. To be in a room full of people with disabilities and not a single one of them think of themselves as different, challenged, "special." i felt very convicted by the end of the night. it seems like i am always thinking of a way to make myself more comfortable or you could even put the word content in there, when really i have all i need. He loves me. He saved me. He's my everything. only He can satisfy and we have to be reminded of that from time to time.

the best times for that remider is when it feels like all the "WHOOPIE" was let out of your whoopie cushion. 

i'll never forget the looks on the faces of all those kids at that halloween dance. pure joy and happiness and contentment.

1) NO MORE POLITICAL ADS!!!!!

2) "Strangers like me" is the best song ever!

3) numero dos is a courtesy of phil collins

4) i'm a fan of phil

5) every one needs to watch Crusoe on NBC on Friday nights at 8pm

6) leave for South Carolina tomorrow for the rest of the week/weekend

7) gonna get some Cheerwine

8) i have eaten probably 200 pounds of candy since friday

9) GOD IS SO GOOD

10)Fizz Mountain here I come! (it's in north carolina)

wat-a-question!

lately i've been pondering this verse...you might have noticed it on my facebook since that tells everyone about everything whether you like it or not haha but anyway here it is:

"Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this." - Job 38:18

*in the passage God was talking to Job after one of Job's friends was telling him what all needed to happen and why things were happening to Job. God quickly came to Job after that "friend" and started going through a list of questions that started out with this one "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?" (Job 38:2) 

i mean seriously...SERIOUSLY! how would you like to be talking to God and seem to be "working out your problems" -- which really we all know it means you're flappin your gums at God telling him what you don't like about you, your friends, your friends new haircut, the bad breath chatty cathy person that was sitting next to you that had a crying baby left a horrible present for mommy so mommy decided to change the diaper in the seat right next to you on a plane back to K.C. or wherever, how you think that you could solve world peace/globalwarming/and make first class affordable to everyone all at the same time if people would just give you a chance and God just patiently listens to every complaint, every griping, every bitter word, every word full of contempt and when you've finished your ranting and raving and hating and "verbal eye-dart throwing" and so on and so forth until you think that you've come up with an answer then God just asks you a question and you are immediately shut up because He is the answer to everything. He is Yahweh! He is I AM! He is!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow...i'd feel stupid. but God was patient and listened until all the accusations were done, all the "eye-darts" were thrown and then He spoke. i can only imagine how small I would feel. How insignificant i would feel at that very moment.  God just starts going through a rigorous "interigation" of Job and shows him that God is the answer to all things! Everything! and after he finished the repremand he blessed Job beyond all measure! incredible! there are so many things that make your brain hurt (well prolly just my brain cause i'm not a huge critical thinker...haha or a thinker in general for that matter) that i could go on and on and on and on about the love of God and His patience and His mercy and His grace and all the things i've been blessed with but i figure this post is long enough and i will probably end up sharing in a future post...it's just a guess.

10 things for people to lobby for:

1) barry manilow to be played all over the streets of kc

2) just make number one ↑ to be the "streets of EVERYWHERE!" (you can never get enough of   good ol' barry)

3) "I write the Songs"

4) 30 Rock to start a week early so i can watch it already!

5) Tina Fey to write political speeches from here on out cause politics are a joke anyway as of this point in time

6) pumkin bread to be available and any and every establishment that is public for FREE

7) bring back the 80's

8) parachute pants

9) no more political ads ANYWHERE!

10) more ideas to lobby for