No Facebook

The community of people now days that use social networking is enormous.  For me personally, facebook has taken over my life.  It has gotten to the point where if im not out with friends i will sit on my computer all day on facebook with my guitar in hand.  The past two days i hat rock bottom.  There were plenty of things i could have done like read a book or do something outside, but instead i chose to stare at a computer screen all day.

At this point i decided i needed to make a change.  As of yesterday (wednesday) i have de activated my facebook and am attempting to go 2 weeks without facebook.  ideally i would just stop using facebook completely.  this would give me so much more time to get into the word and also to persue activities have have stopped like parkour and maybe some bouldering with some friends?  I always talk about how kids spend too much time playing video games, but who am i to look down on that when i do pretty much the same thing except on facebook?  Im going to try and walk the walk and not just talk the talk.  But the question now is what exactly WILL i do.  i dont see myself training for parkour anymore.  At least not by myself.  Maybe if i got a buddy to go with me i will but maybe not.  Something i want to do more of is ride my bike.  like ride it in these mountain trails just a little bit from my house.

There are a couple rational reasons why i would want to stay on facebook though.  One being that it is such an easy way to share pictures and find pics of your friends and yourself.  You can upload hundreds at a time and same with video.  It is cool to post something you recorded and get almost instant feedback from friends and stuff.  I guess if i record anything i could just post it on youtube or on this blog for like the one person who reads this to look at.  another good thing is all the invent invites.  facebook tells you info on stuff going on like shows, times, addresses.  Also the band pages help you stay in touch with what different bands are doing and you can find tour dates and listen to music and whatnot.  The only reason i have not deleted my fb earlier was because of the event and band pages or else i would have a long time ago. 

In a nutshell, facebook sucks and drains your life away.

Tuesday Nights Are Legitttt

So the past 3 weeks some friends and i have been doing this Tuesday night bible study.  It was an idea my friend TJ had when we were hanging out one day.  We wanted to get together and do devos together and then a couple days later he told me he invited two of his friends.  Then i got one of our other friends to go so in total five of us got together.  The whole thing went a lot smoother than i really intended.  I figured it would probably be really un organized and off topic but everyone remained really focused pretty much the whole time and we got through the book of James in two weeks.  One three of us met the 3rd week and we went through chapter one of Romans.  Hopefully  we are able to keep this up and maybe get through Romans.

I Go To Camp =D

So working at 5:30 am has its advantages.  For one, it gets me out of bed early and i have a longer day.  On the other hand, having a long day makes me so bored.  I got off work at ten this morning which gives me until 12 before i have class.  There is not point in driving all the way home just so i can drive all the way back an hour later.  I decided to go get del taco for breakfast.  Their 49 cent burritos are not that bad.  By the time i get to school. i still have an hour and a half to kill.  This leads me to the computer lab mindlessly wasting away an hour on facebook and now writing this.  It is nice though how on mornings i don't work i can get up earlier and read my bible and pray before the day really starts though.  There has been a lot on my mind to pray about lately so this extra time is really helpful in that sense.

I got back from winter camp last weekend with the junior high.  It was pretty awesome up there.  All the kids were really cool and pretty fun to hang out with and eat with.  On the last night we had wrestling in our cabin, and although i was very tired from the day, i put up with it for a while and jumped in for a match.  I don't think God really used me so much in any of their lives (and if he did i am completely un aware of it), but i think it would be sweet to get to work with them again.  I met so many awesome people up there that i hope i will get to see again and become better friends with in the future.  I love how coming up for camp and getting together for the sole purpose of growing in our lord also grows us closer together as people.  I love meeting and making friends with other guys and girls that can share in there love for jesus with me.  That is something i have not had most of my life, but now that i have had a little of it, i want more.

I am so happy with what god has done and is doing in my life right now.  I don't remember ever being as satisfied in him as i have been for quite a while.  I pray every day that he does not let my fire go out and that he keeps filling me with his spirit every day.  There are a lot of things i would like to happen in my life right now, and maybe some of them will.  But i have full faith that if they don't, it is for the best because my god loves me.