The more time you try to find that perfection in people, the more meals you will eat alone. -Pixil Perfect

http://bible.us/Gal6.4.MSG Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

http://bible.us/Gal5.19.MSG It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

http://bible.us/Gal3.11.MSG The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: "The person who believes God, is set right by God—and that's the real life." Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: "The one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live by them."

For if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by this time.

http://bible.us/Gal3.7.MSG Is it not obvious to you that persons who put their trust in Christ (not persons who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith?

Goodness, going to the barber is hard enough to pay money. I can't even IMAGINE coming in when you are almost bald. Learn to cut that baby at home!!

I believe the true Christians have nothing to hide. Yes, we all have privacy concerns, but taking up the cross is giving others permission to invade your life trying to judge you. Anybody should be able to come up to you and address a concern or ask a question. You can answer it with what you want, but a true Christian will not be found faulty. By choosing Christ, we are allowing others into our lives. We are allowing people to question, Christian or not. Using these standards along with the Bible, personal conviction, and the Holy Spirit leading you, we should be striving to uphold a higher standard. When sin is brought into the open, and the guilty gets angry that the sin is found out, this is a first sign that he/she is putting on a face for others. Back away. Do not give into that trap.

AWESOME DAD QUOTE: 


Dylan Mee: Where are you putting this?
Benjamin Mee: I don't know. I was thinking maybe, everywhere.
[Dylan laughs]
Dylan Mee: I'm your fan, man. Don't you know that by now? 

-We Bought A Zoo


You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it. 


-We Bought A Zoo

So here is my conundrum....I love a girl. Simple enough, right? This girl loves someone else. Ok, I can go with that. This girl had led many people I know on, and yet I still fell in love with her. Ok, stupid, but ok. Now, she is inviting me to the wedding, and I am thinking about going. OMGosh what are you doing?!!? Yeah, I, yes, I allowed myself to be vulnerable. Great job...go me! Where I dropped the baton though is that I fell in love with the same girl everybody else did also. FAIL. Ugh, now I know I MUST break this emotional attachment. I really saw us having a gay-ole' time too! lol, wellllll, so much for that fantasy! With dropping this branch that is attached to the tree, I must back far behind. Honestly, I will need to do something to do during the wedding time. (It's in another state, but none the less....haha, thankfully, I can safeguard myself from running into the ceremony and telling the Reverend to 'Stop Everything'.) I have allowed myself a few pity party days in the past; there comes a point where I need to stop because I am building a bank account of pity. Still.....boy did I get giddy and joyful with this dream.

Here are the choices decided in this stanza:

1. Wedding invite: Send a blender
2. Wedding Day: I'll be at work, but maybe I can watch movies with a friend or something. SOMETHING to
                          do something other than moping around.
3. Limited time for moping this time around. Yes, I may mope, but seriously, it is not the end of the world.

http://bible.us/1Cor6.12.MSG God honored the Master's body by raising it from the grave. He'll treat yours with the same resurrection power. Until that time, remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master's body. You wouldn't take the Master's body off to a whorehouse, would you? I should hope not.

http://bible.us/1Cor6.12.MSG Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my whims.

http://bible.us/1Cor7.17.MSG And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don't think I'm being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.

http://bible.us/2Cor7.11.MSG And now, isn't it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You're more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you've come out of this with purity of heart.

The family gawking at the lightening storm.

McCook Pavilion with All Stars got Region Five event.... This was pre spring game before it got rained out.

Les just told two old men to grow hemp and boil it to relieve cancer stress. There are many reasons to why I appreciate this man. 

there is something to say about apartment tenants as opposed to  neighbors in a housing area.. its like camaraderie is formed because you take trash to the same place. Lol

i am going with Les to Missouri to look at a scooter in a few hours. if I get it I'm seriously considering boycotting my car for the summer and using either a scooter or a bus except for emergencies.

All old people have a smell to them. I hope my smell is rockin'.

Middle aged people who text for show crack me up. They usually proceed to verbalize the task he has just completed. Often, but not always, this is proceeded with worried looks from the rest of the table to see if he is going to get a tattoo next.

Continual flaws can come from the absence of love.

Everything you say, how you move, the choices you make, OWN. IT. Do not make excuses for the things you do! Own your mess-ups; own your mistakes.

As seen on tv store.

I get tired of things only working out when I put it together. I feel like many of my friends are too much enjoy themselves and back out of commitments forcibly, forgetting Rhett they said they will do. Doesn't matter; this project will go on.

The term  'fun nuggets' scare me.