Old Habits Die Hard... or You Can't Teach a Dumb Dog New Tricks!

So it is 2:15 am and I just finished a paper that is due by 5 pm tomorrow. Here is the problem with that, I have to be at the church in less than six hours for our winter retreat, and I still have not packed!!!! For some reason I decided to take my sweet time and write my paper as slow as possible, letting every little thing distract me. In my adventures of procrastination tonight I found a cover of Brittany Spears' Womanizer by The All American Rejects. They dress like hillbillies and claim that they did it better so I watched, and they did ha! 

I am part of the worship team this weekend at camp and I know it is going to be an amazing weekend, even with no sleep! I will be joining the Third Format team for worship, which makes me happy because I love those guys and tara (the girl drummer). It will be a fun time. I will also be leading a small group. which makes me happy because I miss the guys that were in my small group.

Please keep us in your prayers as we do camp in the Cold. Pray that God does amazing things this weekend! I will tell you how it goes when I get back!

Kansas City to Denver to Phoenix!

I am currently in Kansas City sitting in the airport, the smallest airport in the world! For those of you who do not know, I am a student at Manhattan Christian College in Manhattan Kansas, but I now live in Mesa Arizona. I took an internship position last May and they asked me to stay longer. So, after a whole month of prayer I felt that this is what God wanted me to do, so I stayed. From time to time I fly back to Kansas to take a class or to knock out some school related hurdle that stands in the way of me getting that amazing piece of paper that will get me my dream job with low pay! This has been a difficult year though because my I am doing something that my school has never done before. It is actually a huge pain in the butt!!! I have about two classes that the school doesn't think I can do long distance. But you know what they say, "Doing God's will is usually not that easy!" I can hear in the administrations voices, how much of an "inconvenience" I being for them, but to that I say change is never easy. I am single handedly changing the future of my school and it is tough but they will end up thanking me for being the inconvenience so that this can be convenient for students of the future! In thirty years I will have finally graduated and then will have school paid off when I hit the age 85, but I know it will be well worth it ... I hope! 

So, I am now waiting to board my flight and I have about an hour and a half. I got here so early because I have been conditioned to the chaos that is Sky Harbor Airport security and baggage check. The airport in Kansas City is about the size of your grandma's trailer park, and I forgot, so now I must wait. However, I am extremely excited because after I fly to Denver and then to Phoenix, I will get to hug my amazing girlfriend!!!!! Happy six months Kristen!

Hero or Villain?

I am 23 and I still have the desire of every 10 year old boy: I want to be a super hero in the worst way! I have always wanted to be part of this amazing world where people can do things that make them anything but normal. But my dream, after so many years of waiting, might be coming true, and I find my self at a cross-road! Here is my story:

This past fall I started watching seasons of Smallville and began having strange dreams at night. I would dream that I had the powers of Clark Kent and people were always after me. I would always wake up right taking care of a bad guy or two, and these dreams started to become addicting. After a while I found myself turning into Lex Luther (the villain in the story); I found myself wanting to get back into the story. But this lifestyle started to leak into my everyday life. I would find myself in staff meetings trying to get a pen to slide across the table into my hand, only to feel defeat. Well, as Smallville went downhill after season 6, I started to watch a show that introduced me to the hunger, leading me to my crossroad. That show was Heroes! If you have no idea what this show is about, all I can say is PLEASE WATCH! 

Watching this show introduced me to the hunger, the hunger for power! There is a character in this show known as Sylar, who for some reason I developed a liking for. Sylar is the villain of this story, who has a hunger for other people's abilities. After watching this show and being introduced to the hunger, I went to my girlfriend's house. While jumping on my girlfriend's trampoline I decided to lay down and relax. All of a sudden I started to notice something: I could hear static electricity surges building up while the hair on my arms started to stand up, then I felt the charge. After feeling this energy coarse through my body, I decided to try something that I had attempted before. I put out my hand, focused, and then it happened. There were a couple of leaves and after hard concentration, they slid across the trampoline and floated to my hand. NO JOKE! I finally had it, the power was mine.

Keeping this secret to myself, my girlfriend and I went to Wal-Mart. While we were walking around, and thinking about what had happened, I reached out my hand again to touch my 

girlfriends arm and thats when it happened. ZAP! I shocked her and I saw the charge leave my finger and she let out a loud OUCH! Was this because of the trampoline? I wasn't sure, so I tried again....ZAP ZAP! She yelled again. It wasn't a dream, I had a power... I could produce electricity! We walked around Wal-Mart for almost an hour, and every time I touched her or anything metal I could see and hear a shock. Then when I explained what had happened to me, she touched me and she was shocked as well. Sadly, after we left, my power was gone.

But now I am in Kansas, and it's back!!! I touched my friend's washer and dryer at the same time and I could feel electricity pulsing though my body... this time, it hurt. Soon afterward, the zaps started again. Now the hunger for power has returned, leaving me with a question: What is my destiny, Hero or Villain? I guess I will just see what happens.