AHNA MAE morning, JAMES was on a walk on the WOODs to find an AMBER ROSE to give to his darling sweetheart. A few yards off he spotted a DORA MAEd of WOOD, and when he knocked, a WOODCHUCK poked he head out and said,
"MAE I help you sir?".
"Yes, I AMBERning to know where I may find this rare type of rose," JAMES replied.
"Of course you WOOD be, ANDREW would think it is easy to find, but don't bee fooled Sir JAMES.
"AH NAthing can stop me from finding it, for this is true love," declared JAMES.
"Then carve her a heart out of mapleD OR Another sweet WOOD. Bake it into a loaf of bread, but make sure to let the DORAise for three days, or you will have to CHUCK it out"
Sir James did all the WOODCHUCK commanded, ANDREW her a lovely picture which he placed AHNA silver platter with the heart filled bread, with small bowls of JAMES and butters on the side. He went to the well ANDREW a pail of water, which he found to be unsatisfactory and CHUCKed over his shoulder AHNA to the ground. It was from this very spot that a ROSE arose, springing forth like a PRECIOUS JEM so he picked it. Seeing how he was vase and CHARLES he laid it carefully beside the meal he had MAEd and like a STRONG and MANLY man delivered it to his lady love.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Swing Dancing with Peter Strom
This past week at Tapestry (a dance studio in Minneapolis) I participated in the weekly "Birthday Dance". This is a dance for those who, as the name implies, had a birthday that week. All the "birthday people" go to the middle of the dance floor and others from the crowd take turns cutting in and out during the song. It's quite fun actually and you get to dance with people who are usually pretty good. Well I got to dance with Peter Strom. I know you don't know who he is, but let's just say he's really good. Like world class, won national Lindy competitions, etc. Below is a link to a video of him on youtube.com. Anyway, he's here in the Twin Cities for a while and is teaching a beginners level class downtown on Wednesdays during February. I've signed up to go. It's going to be fantastic and it's super cheap. Classes start on Tuesday!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv9m9WaPorA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qnjIMqqpGk (this one is here at Tapestry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv9m9WaPorA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qnjIMqqpGk (this one is here at Tapestry)
Am I Being Israel?
This morning I've been working on my application to be an RA here on campus next fall. Part of the application process requires that I write a 1-2 page essay about main things or people who have shaped my life. Being the semi-slacker that I am, I though I could pull up something from my past and perhaps use parts of it in my essay. In the process of doing so I began to realize something about myself and my life. My time here at Bethel has been a struggle, my whole college experience in general has been, but the beautiful thing is that God has been here in it all. Below is a clip from something I wrote freshman year...
This fall when I arrived at Bethel University, I thought I had my whole life planned out and knew what I was supposed to do with my life. Within weeks it all crumbles away until I was left searching for the very meaning my existence. It was then that God taught me that I needed to trust him in all things. Even though I had no major, no idea how I was going to pay for college, very few friends, and was homesick, he showed me that I wasn’t in control and if I surrendered everything he would take care of it for me. I just had to follow. If this is where I’m supposed to be (at Bethel), He’ll provided the money, and I believe He will. He also gave me the most amazing group of Godly friends that are so beyond what I could have imagined. They’re not just close friends, their family, brothers and sisters in Christ.
Money has been a constant struggle. I came here not believing I would stay more than a year. I distinctly remember sitting in the Great Hall while the president welcomed new freshmen who in four years would be graduating in that very same room, but even as he said it I "knew" it wouldn't be true. Now here I am 2 years later, back at Bethel despite my "wanderings". I just now realized something mightily important. I've been struggling with being Israel. How is this you might say...well let me explain. I often read the story of Israel and just can't understand how they can keep missing the point. God delivers them, they show disbelief, he provides, the build an idol, he shows them a miracle, they do things their own way. Why can't they just see what God's doing! Why do they forget every two seconds. I'm not going to get into the theology behind it all, but I do want to relate it to my current situation. Bethel is the wilderness, it is a place where God has led me, I don't know where I'm "going" on this journey, but I do know that a promised land (the rest of my life and hopefully a job) is on the . Why is it then than every time I get hung up on finances it seems like the end of the world, and I wish I was "back in Egypt". He delivers me, then a few weeks later I'm crying out for manna, it falls from heaven, and by the next semester I'm dry and thirsty, so he pours forth streams from a rock, but I forget after summer rolls around and...here I am again. God has proven himself so many times in my journeyed at Bethel-even just this week. I don't have any money-I mean none- to be able to pay for next semesters tuition. Logically that = no school, but I know this is where I need to be, this is where I'm called, and if I just get out of my own way God will have room to work like he always has. So this is me, leaping with faith, into next week. To the world it isn't wise, but I'm in the world, not of it.
This fall when I arrived at Bethel University, I thought I had my whole life planned out and knew what I was supposed to do with my life. Within weeks it all crumbles away until I was left searching for the very meaning my existence. It was then that God taught me that I needed to trust him in all things. Even though I had no major, no idea how I was going to pay for college, very few friends, and was homesick, he showed me that I wasn’t in control and if I surrendered everything he would take care of it for me. I just had to follow. If this is where I’m supposed to be (at Bethel), He’ll provided the money, and I believe He will. He also gave me the most amazing group of Godly friends that are so beyond what I could have imagined. They’re not just close friends, their family, brothers and sisters in Christ.
Money has been a constant struggle. I came here not believing I would stay more than a year. I distinctly remember sitting in the Great Hall while the president welcomed new freshmen who in four years would be graduating in that very same room, but even as he said it I "knew" it wouldn't be true. Now here I am 2 years later, back at Bethel despite my "wanderings". I just now realized something mightily important. I've been struggling with being Israel. How is this you might say...well let me explain. I often read the story of Israel and just can't understand how they can keep missing the point. God delivers them, they show disbelief, he provides, the build an idol, he shows them a miracle, they do things their own way. Why can't they just see what God's doing! Why do they forget every two seconds. I'm not going to get into the theology behind it all, but I do want to relate it to my current situation. Bethel is the wilderness, it is a place where God has led me, I don't know where I'm "going" on this journey, but I do know that a promised land (the rest of my life and hopefully a job) is on the . Why is it then than every time I get hung up on finances it seems like the end of the world, and I wish I was "back in Egypt". He delivers me, then a few weeks later I'm crying out for manna, it falls from heaven, and by the next semester I'm dry and thirsty, so he pours forth streams from a rock, but I forget after summer rolls around and...here I am again. God has proven himself so many times in my journeyed at Bethel-even just this week. I don't have any money-I mean none- to be able to pay for next semesters tuition. Logically that = no school, but I know this is where I need to be, this is where I'm called, and if I just get out of my own way God will have room to work like he always has. So this is me, leaping with faith, into next week. To the world it isn't wise, but I'm in the world, not of it.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Chocolate and New Years Resolutions
This year I made many more resolutions than normal. In the past I've given up gum successfully for one year, but that's about the only thing I've resolved. However, this year I gave up chips (except tortilla chips), pledged to read my Bible EVERY day (I've missed a couple already, but have been thus far fairly good), and to memorize a verse every month. For the month of January I've been fasting from Chocolate, which isn't too hard if you set your mind to it. I'm actually thinking about continuing it indefinitely.
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