its the most wonderful time of the year!

It's the monst wonderful time of the year! with the kids jin-gle bel-ling and ev-ry-one tel-ling we'll be of good cheeeeer!!! I'm so excited about this holiday
Thousands of people flocked to the malls and department stores in search of the perfect gift for their family members, stressed about getting the right gift but perhaps excited about their own? who knows. Though this time may be stressful for some, I'm super excited about Christmas carols, lights and the celebration of Christ as King!
Found this radio station that plays Christmas carols 24-7. Whoohoo!

Just some random thoughts today

I’m really loving Blogger right now! It’s seems we could do just about anything... creativity-wise, you know.

<--This photo was taken in Lagos, Portugal. aBsoLuTeLy RaNdOm, I know!

Anyways, on a more serious note...

Lately I’ve been going through this phase. This phase were I just feel outside of myself. Not depressed necessarily. But just outside of myself, like I’m just letting life pass me by. Again, I promise I'm not depressed! lol

Just just that life's funny. Because now I realize that my life isn’t really about me. My life is in Christ and what he has done for me. Now I can't help but to want to live for Him, glorifying God the rest of my days. Doesn’t mean I can’t sin anymore. Like we were talking about in my small group today, our sinful nature is innate--something that we are born with. I realize that lately I have been pretty selfish.

And that, my friends, is a sin in itself.

God must always be at the center of our lives if we call ourselves “Christians.”

I want to write books, articles, design and all these wonderful things, but what for? Well now for the glory of God.

I was reading this article at SetApartGirl.com.

It was talking about coffee shop Christianity--what a concept. This defines what Christianity means and is for a lot of Americans today.

We’re comfortable. We go to church on Sundays. We start a Bible study. We’re in a small group. We serve at the church. And the list goes on…

We’re stuck, very comfortable where we are. Every so often we’ll go on a missions trip for a week to the inner city and feed the homeless, but then return snugly in our beds the next night back to the comfortable “norm.”

How many times have we really been stretched? When has life not been about my struggles, and my worries and my pain? When is it about others? When is it about Christ?

I’ve been somewhat outside of myself lately and unsure what to do. I beat myself up a lot about abilities that I don’t have, and how so many others better than I am, and ask myself, “will I ever be great at anything?”

To answer that question would be a disservice to the God that my mouth proclaims that I’m serving. In other words (I’m not quite sure if I’m making sense yet), it’s about making God great and not myself.

Not only does this take the stress away, at least at this moment, but requires that we lean on Christ because we can only be like Him through Him who gives us strength.

That’s it for today.

THIS IS cRaZy!

This is bananas!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504179.html



What are we coming to these days? If CNN is doing this now, then what's next?

Also, check this out: there's an Obama, Japan. It's a real city. Isn't that bizarre? Who would have thought that man with a white mother from Kansas and an African father from Kenya would have a name that could be a city in Japan?? Like, it's in Japanese language! lol crazy huh
The Obamaians want him to visit.

Here's the article about it on Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUST8454820080305

WE DID IT!!!

It's official: BARACK OBAMA IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
It's so crazy to think that a country which once fought a brutal civil war over slavery...
a country that once thought Blacks were nothing more than property...
that once did not teach African Americans how to read and write (perhaps out of fear, I don't know. Or perhaps that something quite like this--a Black man could be elected to the highest office of the United States, and could inspire many toward hope for the future)...
a country that once hosed my ancestors for marching down the street to vote...
To those who took beatings, lynchings
and endured ridicule so that I could vote,
And to those who could not live to see this day:
OUR votes are in.
America's votes are in.
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I believe people have been waiting for a leader, some one to stand up and say "enough is enough" and that every person in America matters. Their vote matters. Their life matters. and Their hard work makes a difference.
Obama's inspiring words of hope surpass colors of all kind.
I am ecstatic to live in a country with people who are looking past differences and elevating what really matters at this time of economic crisis, war and confusion: UNITY.
We are, after all the UNITED States of America.

We need a country that can back the president, and a president willing to back America, ALL of America.

That is why I believe Barak Obama deserves this office, and why he is now the president of the United States of America.

Image is from: http://www.freshnessmag.com/v4/2008/03/12/obey-barack-obama-diy-paster/

Yes, i've voted!!

It's the best feeling to know that you've taken up the responsibilty of a citizen of the United States, and voted. Just knowing that so many died and risked their lives just so that I may have this right and responisbility...

What a weight lifted off my shoulders!

One thing i have to say, though, that disappointed me this year about the election is how difficult it was for me to find information about local candidates.
Yes, the president has one of the most powerful positions in the world and our vote does count there, but to see the local affects of their policies, you would need people similar to him or her on a local level. It's just so hard to find information about these people....

I had to dig and try and find a balanced source as someone not knowing anything about these peoples' track record, policies and beliefs along with their actions. I finally landed on the League of Women voters, which would seem to have a slant on womens issues, i thought, but in fact all they have done is asked 3 pertinant questions to the different candidates from the different parties running for a particular office, and dispayed their information on a pamplet for anyone to have access to. This is what I used to make my decision about the local officials.

If you have the same struggle I did, just know that I feel your pain! lol I would recomend the League of Women voter's pamphlet for a fair & &balanced view of all candidates running for the Senate, House of Representatives, and district judges, etc...

S.E.E. Retreat 08!

This is a fun thing I made with a few pics I took from the S.E.E. Retreat, it's "Seeing Everything Eveternally" through the lens of Gods's Word and as a believer in Christ.
The theme this year was "The Great Divide", talking about the sacred versus the secular areas in life. Sacred meaning God, and secular meaning everything but (and things displeasing to him.) Because like Crae said, God made everything good, but it's man's evil intent that makes things evil. It's actually a way I never thought before because, I just thought certain things were just plain evil. Take a skelaton--now, some scary movie may have just come to mind, or maybe even 'death' (esp. wit Halloween creepin up soon), but did you ever think the skelaton could be used for good? Like, if it were in a biology lab, it would be perfectly fine & probably considered 'good' because it's being used to study humans' anatomy in order to help cure people...
Yeah, so...some things in life are redeemable. This is really getting long, and too deep to get into, but if you wanna know more, holla.

Wat u know bout that 'SILVER 66'!!

Words: Watch what you say cause these saints stay packin, sixty-six bullets 'quiped with the ONE phantom, they aimed at me, and they aimed at you...so what you gonna do with these Biblical truths? so holla bk!

La alhambra

This is just something I'm experimenting with....