Everyone's Home! (Joke at the end)

It is so weird going to college locally when a lot of your good friends go to college in another state. It's great to see them in the summer and hang out, but you always have that thought that as soon as the school year starts up again, they are gone and you're still here. I'm not disappointed in the choice I made. I love MTSU and I know that is where I am supposed to be. I have great friends here, a place to serve, I can always come home to a family that loves me, and I have a Church group that helps feed me spiritually and keep me accountable. Please don't get the wrong impression, I am very thankful and blessed where I am. I guess it's just the realization that you must accept change and know that we were not meant to live a life of comfort. Feel free to disagree with that statement, but I stand behind it.

My Sister just graduated...what a weird thought! She will probably be working pretty soon and in two or so years, I will be in the same situation! When did life come this fast? I guess it's all part of that "Growing Up" thing. I am looking forward to my 21st birthday in a couple months. Not for the reason you people are thinking. Well...I've always wanted to know what Irish Coffee tastes like :-)

Anyways, this post was kinda a vent. I'll leave you all with a little joke to make up for it! Enjoy!

One night a burglar is trying to break into a house. He's sneaking across the lawn when he hears a voice - "Jesus is watching you!" He jumps, turns around, but he doesn't see anything. So he starts creeping across the lawn again. "Jesus is watching you!" He hears it again. So now the burglar is really looking around, and he sees a parrot in a cage by the side of the house. He says to the parrot, "Did you say that?" The parrot answers "Yes I did." So the burglar asks, "What's your name?" The parrot says "Clarence." The burglar says "What kind of stupid idiot would name his parrot Clarence?" The parrot laughs and says, "The same stupid idiot that named his Rottweiler 'Jesus' "

What happens when you listen?

You know what happens when you listen? You hear things. Isn't that a crazy concept? I thought so too but apparently when you listen, you hear things. You hear your dog trying to tell you that they have to do their business, you hear a car horn beep when you don't go at a green light, and you even hear some of life's fun lessons that you refused to listen to earlier.

I have a couple examples from what happened to me recently. During Jay's sermon, he talked about how God came to Jacob in a dream. He then pointed out that God would come to us in any way necessary when we need him the most. Well, God came to me in a dream last night. Not kidding! I can't tell you what he said, because it's kinda personal. I will say a couple of things though. He was in a white suit and looked almost exactly like Michael Caine. I guess it was the whole older and wiser thing about God that I envisioned. Plus Michael Caine is the man! The other thing was while I was walking back to my car, I had a conversation with Kim Tone (she is a girl in my College Class). We were talking about our semester and everything, and I told her that I felt there was something telling me that I needed to teach in a Rural setting. She reminded me that might be the "Quiet Voice" we need to listen to which was part of our Bible Study lesson.

Who would have thought that these things were applicable to our lives?!?

(I have moments of sarcasm in this post...I thought I should tell you in case you think I'm a Heathen or something)

I can't say, "What the Crap?"

I have one more exam to go! It's in Regional Geography, so it shouldn't be too hard. I just need to look at some maps, my notes, and then I should be fine. I just keep finding excuses to study later. Have you ever put something off for silly reasons? Here are a list of some of my reasons from this week: I can't study on an empty stomach, I'm too full to study, it's nice outside, it's too hot, I need to mow the lawn, I need to do the dishes, Major League is on, King of the Hill is on, Scrubs is on, someone may have updated on Facebook, I may have gotten an e-mail, I need to check You Tube, etc. I did get some studying done though, so bully for me!

Here is a life lesson I learned recently. Apparently if you are in Leadership, people are looking at you to set an example. Who would have thought?!? Because of that, I need to have a talk with my Lifegroup this week about what is inappropriate to say and act. It was kind of interesting because I knew I had to give this talk and when I looked over the lesson that I will be teaching this week, guess what it's over? Ephesians 5:1-21! Which for those of you who don't have that memorized (shame on you) is about being imitators of God! It talks about crude jokes, bad language, idolatry, immorality, all that fun stuff. I guess they are going to get the holy smack-down this week!

That does mean I have to watch myself though. The parents of one of my guys says that,"Crap" is a bad word to say, so I am going to try to stop saying that. I say Crap so I don't have to say the word $%!#. Maybe from now on I'll just say Poop. "What the Poop?" or "Oh Poop! Look what happened!" or "What in the Poop are you talking about?" Ha ha ha...i just said Poop five times now! :-)

Maybe I should practice maturity too.