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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:20:53 GMT

I never use this because I never know what to say. Right now I'm locked out of my dorm. I think I know how to get back in- i called a roommate and he was off-campus but he told me how to use a card to get back in. I don't have a card but I have a reasonable substitute. I just don't want to leave the library because I'll need my id to get back in...

And I have a bunch of papers to write, so maybe I'll just get a couple done here at the library before I go back.

The move...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:37:21 GMT

So I'm at Spring Arbor University now. I moved in on Labor Day. My roommate's name is Justin, and he is also a transfer student. We joined a "Transfer cellgroup" and got to know some people that night. I'm really glad for all the cheesy games and silly get-to-know-ya things. It stretched me a little bit, but I got to know quite a few people. One of the guys in my group is from Malaysia, which has many similarities with Indonesia, where I lived for 5 months. So we had a lot of conversations about South East Asia.

My classes/teachers are really good. I even have last year's Teacher of the Year for two classes. He's a young prof named Brent Cline who is very friendly, very intelligent and I would prolly say kinda (unless you're tardy- then there is no mercy). I really love his class and I will try extra hard to be there on time.

Life is good, God is good.

Life as usual

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:16:17 GMT

This is the first summer which feels sorta "usual." I have been home for a month and I'm working on the farm for my dad. Soon I'll be going back to the college which I miss so much and counseling camp there. And then- Conference!! My brother lives there, so i'll be staying with him. I'm pretty excited about that. Haven't seen Jeff & Rhonda in a while. Does anyone that I know read this? I guess I don't post ever, but I hope someone has it in their little feed thingy.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:18:26 GMT

I got up at 8am today. I went out to the field at 8:30 and didn't come back home until 5:30. I am a little burned and really pooped after walking up and down and up and down the field, picking up stones that we don't want to break our tractors.

I think I may go to Spring Arbor University in the fall. If not, probably back to CMU.

I miss speaking in foreign languages...

Life

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:12:26 GMT

I hurt my leg playing soccer- not too bad, but I'm limping a bit.
I'm graduating in 16 days.
I'm turning 22 in 15 days.
I have exams in 15 days.
I have 11 pages worth of papers to write in 15 days.
I have only 15 more days to spend with friends whom I have rgown close to this year.

Soon I will be home, and then I will be in Virginia, and after that Columbus, OH, and after that- Israel? Maybe. (REACH)

Selections from Isaiah 45

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:34:49 GMT

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
       apart from me there is no God.
       I will strengthen you,
       though you have not acknowledged me,

6 so that from the rising of the sun
       to the place of its setting
       men may know there is none besides me.
       I am the LORD, and there is no other.

7 I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.

8 "You heavens above, rain down righteousness;
       let the clouds shower it down.
       Let the earth open wide,
       let salvation spring up,
       let righteousness grow with it;
       I, the LORD, have created it.

9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
       to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
       Does the clay say to the potter,
       'What are you making?'
       Does your work say,
       'He has no hands'?

10 Woe to him who says to his father,
       'What have you begotten?'
       or to his mother,
       'What have you brought to birth?'

11 "This is what the LORD says—
       the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
       Concerning things to come,
       do you question me about my children,
       or give me orders about the work of my hands?

12 It is I who made the earth
       and created mankind upon it.
       My own hands stretched out the heavens;
       I marshaled their starry hosts.

18 For this is what the LORD says—
       he who created the heavens,
       he is God;
       he who fashioned and made the earth,
       he founded it;
       he did not create it to be empty,
       but formed it to be inhabited—
       he says:
       "I am the LORD,
       and there is no other.

19 I have not spoken in secret,
       from somewhere in a land of darkness;
       I have not said to Jacob's descendants,
       'Seek me in vain.'
       I, the LORD, speak the truth;
       I declare what is right.

20 "Gather together and come;
       assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
       Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,
       who pray to gods that cannot save.

21 Declare what is to be, present it—
       let them take counsel together.
       Who foretold this long ago,
       who declared it from the distant past?
       Was it not I, the LORD ?
       And there is no God apart from me,
       a righteous God and a Savior;
       there is none but me.

22 "Turn to me and be saved,
all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.

23 By myself I have sworn,
       my mouth has uttered in all integrity
       a word that will not be revoked:
       Before me every knee will bow;
       by me every tongue will swear.

24 They will say of me, 'In the LORD alone
       are righteousness and strength.' "
       All who have raged against him
       will come to him and be put to shame.

Spain Group has a Blog!!

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:43:45 GMT

For those of you who haven't caught on, I am in Spain for 6 weeks, a study abroad term with Rosedale Bible College. There are 6 of us students, and we have a blog. rbcinspain.blogspot.com
It will have movies, pictures, and stories about people, places, and things we find interesting here in Spain.
Please feel free to read it and ask any questions/make any comments you'd like to. ;D

Enjoying the sunny seaside of La Cala del Moral

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:07:30 GMT

Hello everyone back home. Sorry to those of you I have not written too, I´m sorry. But as those have written me can tell you, I do respond to every letter I get, and usually within a day´s time. I´m staying with an Argentinian family under a bridge in a suburb of Málaga called La Cala del Moral. It is a beautiful town, and we (Morgan from RBC and my family) live right on the edge of the city where there are horses dogs, mules, and even a flock of goats. The house is in a dried up river basin, and there are small mountains ringing it in. I have some great pictures of it on facebook. My family moved here from South American because the boys are both hemophiliacs and they needed medicine, They´re really great, they are Boris (12) and Branco (10). They are very patient with me and my poor Spanish, as are their parents.
The food here is amazing, fresh meat from the market, and of course fresh seafood from the Mediterranean, and fresh olives from the trees of Spain.
Anyways, if you want to see pictures, here are my albums on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2184779&l=b51ac&id=21716008

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2185835&l=8d4d3&id=21716008

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2186955&l=7b3f7&id=21716008

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:50:03 GMT

Another camel has come out. the link in the post below this one will take you to it.

An interesting semester at Rosedale... not what I was expecting and, frnakly, somewhat disappointing. I have continued to learn many things... about grace, about submission/humility (especially my lack thereof), and especailly about friendships. I found myslef desperately wishing for a close circle of friends, and I kept spreading myself thin, trying to keep in close contact with so many people that i simply couldn't maintiain more than surface depth relationships. Then I realized that any of the groups could be close, if I just dedicated more time to one than another. I decided to spend more time with my roommate and a group of friends that we shared (well we shared some of them). I feel like I kind of pushed my way in, but I'm glad I did. I sitll get really sad when i see other people pass by on campus, wishing that I knew them better, that I knew how to be one of those charismatic, charmign people who everyone talk to. I'm struggling with jealousy with those people. It's been disturbing to see my own shallowness this year... my pettiness. I'm trying not to beat myslef up over it, realize God's grace and embrace it.

Ahhh, and now to another problem, one that has been discussed a lot recently. Rosedale is lacking in prayer. I don't know how the parent's are praying at home, or how our other supporters are praying, but I DO know that at Rosedale we have dropped dramatically in output. No more breakfast meetings, no lunch meeting for fasting or praying, and no litrugical services. Several leaders in the studnet body have mentioned that they are desiring to set forth those goals again winter term. I won't be here to see it happen (I'm going to Spain with RBC) but I hope to keep them accountable.

New rant: I'm terrible at keeping contact with people. It seems like, because I don't have a cellphone, my friends drop off the earth the moment I move. I don't want to let go of some of the people I've known. So, if you're reading this, keep in contact. I'm going to e-mail people (or facebook them) for the next 10 weeks, and attempt to keep up on campus life, and let my friends keep updated about my own.

Pray people! God is listening, pour out your hearts.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:14:07 GMT

Another Camel has finally come out!! I can relax. It's so nice to see people reading it after a stressful day of layout and snipping and adding to the newspaper.

Go check out the camel - http://www.rosedale.edu/publications/camel/camel.html