Hahaha, man that's funny. Reading my older post from my thoughtful self I find it increasingly ironic that I am finally deciding to toughen up and improve my character. What happened to February and March? Ah anyway it's fun to look back and see that sometimes you get what you ask for... Hard times--well sort of--check. I also love being right, 2011 is all about character, getting tough and staying tough. 2011 is also going to be a great year! Er, School year.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Red Peppers and Humus
So I slept out on my roof with just my sleeping bag and a pillow last night, not the best night of sleep I've ever had but the stars were out and the night was a fragrant spring night. The kind of Spring night where you know everything is going to be alright and God is in control of the universe. Anyway not the most adventurous thing but hey baby steps.
My little escapade last night gave a greater idea of getting lost in the woods and find my using the stars. oh yeah it's going down.
HA! Take that taste buds! I made war on my pickiness and ate red peppers with my salad--I loved them--and ate humus on baked pita chips--humus is alright, not the best dip but it was good. Shocking my mouth, I drained all five ounces of coffee followed by three glasses of water. Go ahead laugh. I find it funny too. Anyway, not anything too exciting but like I said, baby steps.
Peace Out!
Josiah
Muscle Watch:
Muscle Watch:
Daily pushup monitor 50 in a minute...improvement Daily situp monitor 30 in a minute....fatty
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Let's Try Somthing New
For years and years--17 to be exact-- I have been held back by the fear of only being average at things. I have never been one to explore or take risks, but I feel like now that I'm so close to becoming a man I must make an endeavor to do things that I wouldn't usually do. The creativity must start somewhere so why not here in my room?
First on the things to try is sleep on the roof. Ok not that adventurous but it's a start. Hmm if anyone reads this feel free to make suggestions!
Oh how I long to be free from the chains of normalcy and comatose. The burdens of worry and fear encompass my being. It is time for change. A time for doing things out of the ordinary and making my way to becoming extraordinary.
Now that I have spoken my peace, time to prepare for a night on the roof!
Peace Out!
Daily Muscle Watch.
Oh and the daily pushup monitor is at 46 pushups in a minute....Whew got of work to do! The daily situp monitor is at 28 in a minute....fatty.
First on the things to try is sleep on the roof. Ok not that adventurous but it's a start. Hmm if anyone reads this feel free to make suggestions!
Oh how I long to be free from the chains of normalcy and comatose. The burdens of worry and fear encompass my being. It is time for change. A time for doing things out of the ordinary and making my way to becoming extraordinary.
Now that I have spoken my peace, time to prepare for a night on the roof!
Peace Out!
Daily Muscle Watch.
Oh and the daily pushup monitor is at 46 pushups in a minute....Whew got of work to do! The daily situp monitor is at 28 in a minute....fatty.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Lazy........
Why I am so lazy? Why do I say that I am simply not going to do an assignment because I just don't want to? Where does this attitude come from
I admire the man who looks at his todo list and is jazzed about checking it off, I thought I was like that but the cold blooded truth sets in when Mr. Minick assigns a work load that I'm simply uninterested in doing...But why am I not interested in working? Can't a man do anything through Christ?... Hmmm guess that shows how much faith I have... But really how can I make myself interested, jazzed even, to get up and go about my work as a student.
Or how about Spanish? Why do I look at the work to be done and already dread the work I'm going to have to put forth? WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME? .....ok don't answer that..... But really I don't know where this lethargy comes from, it is like one of those huge axes that fall down on an unsuspecting victim in a haunted it house. It kills you... from out of nowhere.
I often respond to work by griping and complaining about how much stuff I have to do, I should go at my list with ferocity--like an angry rhino-- and conquer it but instead I spend that time complaining. So why don't I conquer my work? Why don't I attack it like a charging rhino? Is it just my personality? Was I made to be lazy? Nope, the Bible says otherwise; it says that if you don't work you don't eat and a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like an armed robber. So no it can't be that I was made this way. Can I blame it on sin? That would be the easiest thing to do, to blame my lazy butt on sin, this is a cop-out if I ever saw one! I am dead to sin and alive in Christ, no longer does sin control my life, so sin may contribute but it can be conquered so I wouldn't blame it entirely on sin...What is it then?
Spiritual warfare is a thing I've heard of but never really cared to know about, demons and angels sound a little too dangerous for my all but impressive frame, but it is real folks, and whether we like it or not we are in the trenches. Being lazy is right where the Devil wants me. He puts his scope at my head and goes for the kill. He wants me to want to give into the temptation to do nothing but sleep or play mindless games. He wants me to fall away from reading my Bible and praying out of my unwillingness to do anything with my life. The Devil wants nothing better than for me to sit on my rump and do nothing. Think nothing. Just mindlessly wander about my day without purpose. This makes it easier to tempt me with things that will further expand the chasm between myself and God.....
I love the fact that the Devil doesn't get it. Try as he might he will never get me for good. I belong to God and God will never let me stay down in the pits of laziness or sin but he lifts me up. Like Audio Adrenaline song Get Down "I get down, He lifts me up"--Great song check it out it's a classic.-- Silly Devil! You can't have me.
My conclusion is this: that while feeling lazy is something that happens to most everyone, we must fight it, but not by ourselves, when you get down go to the one who lifts you up....
I admire the man who looks at his todo list and is jazzed about checking it off, I thought I was like that but the cold blooded truth sets in when Mr. Minick assigns a work load that I'm simply uninterested in doing...But why am I not interested in working? Can't a man do anything through Christ?... Hmmm guess that shows how much faith I have... But really how can I make myself interested, jazzed even, to get up and go about my work as a student.
Or how about Spanish? Why do I look at the work to be done and already dread the work I'm going to have to put forth? WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME? .....ok don't answer that..... But really I don't know where this lethargy comes from, it is like one of those huge axes that fall down on an unsuspecting victim in a haunted it house. It kills you... from out of nowhere.
I often respond to work by griping and complaining about how much stuff I have to do, I should go at my list with ferocity--like an angry rhino-- and conquer it but instead I spend that time complaining. So why don't I conquer my work? Why don't I attack it like a charging rhino? Is it just my personality? Was I made to be lazy? Nope, the Bible says otherwise; it says that if you don't work you don't eat and a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like an armed robber. So no it can't be that I was made this way. Can I blame it on sin? That would be the easiest thing to do, to blame my lazy butt on sin, this is a cop-out if I ever saw one! I am dead to sin and alive in Christ, no longer does sin control my life, so sin may contribute but it can be conquered so I wouldn't blame it entirely on sin...What is it then?
Spiritual warfare is a thing I've heard of but never really cared to know about, demons and angels sound a little too dangerous for my all but impressive frame, but it is real folks, and whether we like it or not we are in the trenches. Being lazy is right where the Devil wants me. He puts his scope at my head and goes for the kill. He wants me to want to give into the temptation to do nothing but sleep or play mindless games. He wants me to fall away from reading my Bible and praying out of my unwillingness to do anything with my life. The Devil wants nothing better than for me to sit on my rump and do nothing. Think nothing. Just mindlessly wander about my day without purpose. This makes it easier to tempt me with things that will further expand the chasm between myself and God.....
I love the fact that the Devil doesn't get it. Try as he might he will never get me for good. I belong to God and God will never let me stay down in the pits of laziness or sin but he lifts me up. Like Audio Adrenaline song Get Down "I get down, He lifts me up"--Great song check it out it's a classic.-- Silly Devil! You can't have me.
My conclusion is this: that while feeling lazy is something that happens to most everyone, we must fight it, but not by ourselves, when you get down go to the one who lifts you up....
Friday, January 7, 2011
Snowing..........again..........
Ah wonderful snow, how I love you...until I want to come down off my mountain, then you get in the way. But snow is good. It is a whole lot prettier than rain, and you can play in it, sled in it, eat it, make angels out of it. It is so awesome....
Snow also gives me a chance to slow down, and forget about life outside of my home. After spending my whole Christmas snowed in with the family, I've decided that my family is probably the best thing that could have happened to me. In no other environment am so known or so loved or so teased. These people that make up my family make my up my life. And while some of the worst slander comes from those who are closest to you, so do the best laughs.
Family extends beyond the word "relative" or "relation" but rather it is group of people who may have no blood "relation" at all. For instance, in Ice Age--yeah you know you love that movie-- Sid the Sloth, Manny the Woolly Mammoth and Diago the Saber tooth tiger, have no "relation" whatsoever. But by the end of the movie we see a family, full of care, teasing and laughs. Now as silly as this example maybe, it does not take away from the fact that we should not limit our families to "relations" but instead look beyond blood lines....Look heavenward.
God has a perfect family waiting for us. A family so closely knit by Him that it will be an eternal joy to be with them forever. Yeah that's awesome. So stick to your church, your relationships within the church and the Body of Christ are eternal.
I don't know about any family but my own, and I do know that some families are not close at all...but what I do know is that even the most ideal earthly family cannot compare to the family we will have in Heaven someday and that is an exciting thing. a very exciting thing indeed.
Snow also gives me a chance to slow down, and forget about life outside of my home. After spending my whole Christmas snowed in with the family, I've decided that my family is probably the best thing that could have happened to me. In no other environment am so known or so loved or so teased. These people that make up my family make my up my life. And while some of the worst slander comes from those who are closest to you, so do the best laughs.
Family extends beyond the word "relative" or "relation" but rather it is group of people who may have no blood "relation" at all. For instance, in Ice Age--yeah you know you love that movie-- Sid the Sloth, Manny the Woolly Mammoth and Diago the Saber tooth tiger, have no "relation" whatsoever. But by the end of the movie we see a family, full of care, teasing and laughs. Now as silly as this example maybe, it does not take away from the fact that we should not limit our families to "relations" but instead look beyond blood lines....Look heavenward.
God has a perfect family waiting for us. A family so closely knit by Him that it will be an eternal joy to be with them forever. Yeah that's awesome. So stick to your church, your relationships within the church and the Body of Christ are eternal.
I don't know about any family but my own, and I do know that some families are not close at all...but what I do know is that even the most ideal earthly family cannot compare to the family we will have in Heaven someday and that is an exciting thing. a very exciting thing indeed.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
2011
Ok, so here I am and you can probably guess why... yeah, my New Year's resolutions got the better of me and my blogging, and decided that I needed to blog more.....(I am skeptical that I will update frequently though, seeing as my work load has been increased by 10%--not really I have no idea of percentages...)
2010 is over....History.....never coming back. I will miss it and look back on it as one of the best years of my highschool life....It was rough, but no pain, no gain, growing pain I guess you could call it. I used to think that I was mature and knew more than my peers, that I was wiser than my peers, that life was pretty simple and hard was not a word I used very often. But this year showed me how far off I was and still am. Boy do I have a lot to learn about life... I laugh now at my old mindset that being called a teenager was a bad thing, nah- it really isn't. It's really fun actually. I mean what other time in my life am I going to have barely any responsibility (come on, doing the dishes is not that big compared to raising a kid, loving a wife) and so much freedom at the same time? Hmm well I suppose that's what college is, but you know what I mean.......I hope. 2010 was a year of learning about how little I know.
I also say good by to the old year also with great joy and good riddance. I won't miss the harrowing experience of failing my first math test at community college or the rigors it took to bring the grade up to C ( I still think I deserve a B Mrs. Caldwell--you......meanie) and pulling my hair out over how much work there was to be done. Throwing hissy fits becuase I couldn't do it all--yeah I did it, not proud of it, but I did it-- sheesh I was a wimpy kid.
On the upside it's time to start afresh and anew. Get stuff done. Get tough and stay tough. 2011 is going to be great, I can feel it--seriously it's rubbing my shoulders and singing promising songs...or is that my dog...or niether..-- It isn't about home-runs, A's, making money, getting the girl, or scoring the points, 2011 is all about character. Let the hard times roll and the character flow.
Happy New Year and may it be a fresh start.. Grace and Peace to you
2010 is over....History.....never coming back. I will miss it and look back on it as one of the best years of my highschool life....It was rough, but no pain, no gain, growing pain I guess you could call it. I used to think that I was mature and knew more than my peers, that I was wiser than my peers, that life was pretty simple and hard was not a word I used very often. But this year showed me how far off I was and still am. Boy do I have a lot to learn about life... I laugh now at my old mindset that being called a teenager was a bad thing, nah- it really isn't. It's really fun actually. I mean what other time in my life am I going to have barely any responsibility (come on, doing the dishes is not that big compared to raising a kid, loving a wife) and so much freedom at the same time? Hmm well I suppose that's what college is, but you know what I mean.......I hope. 2010 was a year of learning about how little I know.
I also say good by to the old year also with great joy and good riddance. I won't miss the harrowing experience of failing my first math test at community college or the rigors it took to bring the grade up to C ( I still think I deserve a B Mrs. Caldwell--you......meanie) and pulling my hair out over how much work there was to be done. Throwing hissy fits becuase I couldn't do it all--yeah I did it, not proud of it, but I did it-- sheesh I was a wimpy kid.
On the upside it's time to start afresh and anew. Get stuff done. Get tough and stay tough. 2011 is going to be great, I can feel it--seriously it's rubbing my shoulders and singing promising songs...or is that my dog...or niether..-- It isn't about home-runs, A's, making money, getting the girl, or scoring the points, 2011 is all about character. Let the hard times roll and the character flow.
Happy New Year and may it be a fresh start.. Grace and Peace to you
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thoughts From Ely Minnesota
This past week I was fortunate enough to spend a week in the Boundary Waters up in Minnesota. It was a very memorable experience that I would gladly repeat a hundred times over.
Up there in the lakes where nature is barely touched by man made me look at material things in a new light. When I was younger, I disliked the outdoors, couldn't stand bugs (still don't like them all that much) or animals and trees and flowers I could really care less. No the outdoorsman I was not, and I still am not a rugged, bearded, rough and tough outdoorsy type but I have learned that the wilderness is a great place to meditate, pray and think about what God has done and in today's materialistic world it helps to get away from plastics, metals and all other shiny things that entice us everyday here in America.
It could just be my opinion, but I do believe the average teenager today is spoiled rotten. Not all of us but a lot of us have more than we could ever need. We have more food, clothing, toys, gadgets, social interaction, and distractions than any other previous generation. And is just me or do we seem to be on the brink of a horrific downfall? How close are we to being forced over the edge, and into a world with no modern conveniences? That might be a little bit to gloom and doom but indeed I have this feeling that we are getting way too comfortable. Going camping in the Boundary Waters where you have to carry everything you need with you in a canoe is a great in giving one a sense of what is needed and what is not. And so in camping I found a great way to just live off of a minimal amount of comforts and pleasures.
Our campsite had this huge rock known as pride rock, that you could sit on and look out at the lake it was a great view and was absolute perfect for sitting and thinking. One day alone on pride rock I thought to myself how everything that God was so beautiful and so ingenious and then I compared this lake and its islands to Man's greatest cities, and I thought how finite we are and how ugly man's creations are compared to God's! It hit me that God's wilderness is infinitely better than man's cities and how much better it is to be out in the untouched wilderness than the filthy and trashfilled city. Don't get me wrong I understand that cities are necessary and I'm not some tree huger but I do now realize what I've been missing in not getting out and enjoying God's creation.
Well folks I'll try to write more and think about this stuff more and get it out there for whoever is reading this if there is anybody still reading this. And so I leave you with the encouragement to get out and discover God's creation! Go Camping!
Up there in the lakes where nature is barely touched by man made me look at material things in a new light. When I was younger, I disliked the outdoors, couldn't stand bugs (still don't like them all that much) or animals and trees and flowers I could really care less. No the outdoorsman I was not, and I still am not a rugged, bearded, rough and tough outdoorsy type but I have learned that the wilderness is a great place to meditate, pray and think about what God has done and in today's materialistic world it helps to get away from plastics, metals and all other shiny things that entice us everyday here in America.
It could just be my opinion, but I do believe the average teenager today is spoiled rotten. Not all of us but a lot of us have more than we could ever need. We have more food, clothing, toys, gadgets, social interaction, and distractions than any other previous generation. And is just me or do we seem to be on the brink of a horrific downfall? How close are we to being forced over the edge, and into a world with no modern conveniences? That might be a little bit to gloom and doom but indeed I have this feeling that we are getting way too comfortable. Going camping in the Boundary Waters where you have to carry everything you need with you in a canoe is a great in giving one a sense of what is needed and what is not. And so in camping I found a great way to just live off of a minimal amount of comforts and pleasures.
Our campsite had this huge rock known as pride rock, that you could sit on and look out at the lake it was a great view and was absolute perfect for sitting and thinking. One day alone on pride rock I thought to myself how everything that God was so beautiful and so ingenious and then I compared this lake and its islands to Man's greatest cities, and I thought how finite we are and how ugly man's creations are compared to God's! It hit me that God's wilderness is infinitely better than man's cities and how much better it is to be out in the untouched wilderness than the filthy and trashfilled city. Don't get me wrong I understand that cities are necessary and I'm not some tree huger but I do now realize what I've been missing in not getting out and enjoying God's creation.
Well folks I'll try to write more and think about this stuff more and get it out there for whoever is reading this if there is anybody still reading this. And so I leave you with the encouragement to get out and discover God's creation! Go Camping!
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