SLACKER

I know I have been slacking. I have just been sick... and tired. On top of that I am tired of being sick. So I am going to be a slacker and just blog some cool picks that make me smile for random reasons.

One place I want to see before I die.

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey

I think the watercolor below is beautiful plus it has my two favorite colors in it.

Grey and Teal

While I think it would be cool to have two setting suns like the fictional planet Tatooine.

The 100% authentic images from the Hubble telescope take my breath away.

Penguins are the coolest animals in the world PERIOD. But I can't have one for a pet,

 and I am too afraid to become the Cat lady to get a kitten so I just go without.

I went to Disney World when I was 3 but I don't remember it. So when I went as a 21 year old

it was like the first time.  I cried when I saw Cinderella's Castle.

Snowflakes amaze me so naturally I googled them; this picture came up.

It made me smile so i am sharing it with you.

As cheesy as it is I want world peace. Meaning I wish the whole world knew the peace of Jesus. Below is the 1040 Window an area of the world with great poverty combined with lack of access to Christian resources. - I Love them.

And lastly my families always bring large smiles to my face!!!

This is my Mom's side of the family.

ME, Debbie (my mom), and Cody my lil bro

This is my Dad's side of the family.

Terry (my dad), ME, Nick (my step bro), Jennifer (my step sis) and Stevie my little sis

Now that my slacking is done for the day... I promise to lay off the couch medicine. No more slacking.



Glory in "Sympathy"

Stranger than your sympathy
And this is my apology
I killed myself from the inside out
And all my fears have pushed you out


And I wished for things that I don’t need
(all I wanted)
And what I chased won’t set me free
(all I wanted)

And I get scared but I’m not crawlin’ on my knees

Oh, yeah

Everything’s all wrong, yeah

Everything’s all wrong, yeah

Where the hell did I think I was?

And stranger than your sympathy

Take these things, so I don’t feel

I’m killing myself from the inside out

And now my head’s been filled with doubt

We’re taught to lead the life you choose

(all I wanted)

You know your love’s run out on you

(all I wanted)

And you can’t see when all your dreams aren’t coming true

Oh, yeah

It’s easy to forget, yeah

When you choke on the regrets, yeah

Who the hell did I think I was?

And stranger than your sympathy

And all these thoughts you stole from me

And I’m not sure where I belong

And no where’s home and no more wrong

And I was in love with things I tried to make you believe I was
And I wouldn’t be the one to kneel before the dreams I wanted
And all the dark and all the lies were all the empty things disguised as me

Mmm, yeah

Stranger than your sympathy

Stranger than your sympathy

Mmm hmmm mmm

-Goo Good Dolls

I wonder who they are think they are talking to in this song. Because I am sure it is in refrence to some girl who broke one of their hearts, but if you read deeper they are crying out for a true "sympathy."  Not that God's motives to redeem us were out of sympathy for us, they were obviously for his Glory because who could have "sympathy" for the human condition but the one ture God. Glory in his Sympathy. Thanks Goo Goo Dolls, I pray you find what sympathy you truely seek, even if you don't think it's what you are seeking.

Nerd Alert - There are things I cannot do.

"There are things I cannot do. I cannot watch while people suffer, I cannot sit when something must be done, I cannot judge those who are different. There are things I cannot do. Run, hide, ignore. There are things I cannot do. But there are certainly things I WILL do."

So I have been having a nerd fest this weekend watching the commentary from some of my favorite movies. If anyone can tell me who said that quote, I'll give you 50 Galactic Credits, also known as Republic Dataries, later knows as Imperial Credits. No takers... well credits are hardly of any use outside the Inner Rim any way.

HAHAHAHA It's Star Wars. And while I know it is only a story, a sci-fi fantasy story at that, I still drew much inspiration from this quote. Now for you hard core nerds out there who actually understand this wordy jargon. I know you are scanning your brain to figure out what Episode this is in and who could have said it. Well let me ease your troubled mind and explain that it was Queen Padme Amidala... Yes I said Queen indicating it was Episode I - The Phantom Menace. But in fact it was not. She never said this in any movie, it was a poem she said in a short featurette as a pre-release teaser in 1999.

I am not nerdy enough to know how to put the feturette in here because I can’t find it on you tube so I would have to do some fancy stuff to get it from my DVD to the internet… and it’s probably illegal anyway. You’ll just have to take my word for it: It is awesome!

All that being said I am very encourage by Queen Amidala. Pastor Paul said a few weeks ago that it makes him sad when the secular world of fairytale stories got things right and showed the Christians how it should be. When he said this he was actually referring to the movie Avatar when the Na’vi humanoids on Pandora say Oe-l Nga-ti Kame which translates to I See You. Even though he was talking about Avitar it still it applies to Star Wars as well.

Anyway back to Queen Amidala who was also a senator for the Chommell sector in the Galactic Rebuplic. I wish I had her courage, confidence, and status to just do the right thing even if my life or the life of the ones I loved were in danger. She liberated her people and the entire planet of Naboo from the evil attack of the Trade Federation. The truth is I am not a queen or senator, but I have every ability to be just as courageous and confidant as she was and liberate not just a people but the whole planet.

The same Holy Spirit that lives inside me brought Jesus back to life after his dreaded death on a cross. The Force, which Padme didn’t have because she wasn’t a Jedi, doesn’t hold a candle to the power of the Holy Spirit. That Spirit dwells inside me, it is who I am. But here I sit, to scared to harness that power and liberate a people, a planet, who suffer. I wish the words of Padme were my battle cry.

"There are things I cannot do.

I cannot watch while people suffer,

I cannot sit when something must be done,

I cannot judge those who are different.

There are things I cannot do.

Run, hide, ignore.

There are things I cannot do.

But there are certainly things I WILL do."

-Queen Amidala