Yogurtlando

I do not do so well with goodbyes, but I really loved hanging out with Madoka and Asuna this semester!!!  We will certainly meet again someday...anytime I visit Japan or they visit America!

a great friend of mine...

A great friend of mine says that "his dad, brother and [him] think the five motifs of rap are women, money (which can include cars), sports (basketball), drugs (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana), and violence (firearms)." Initially I was in strong disagreement, since the majority of my music is Christian rap. However, he pointed out that even my favorite artists use these themes...

"Jesus did walk with women in a special way
This was odd for men in the first century
Look at God callin' women to the ministry
Jesus did walk with the ladies"
-Flame, L.A.D.I.E.S

"Got money, got whips, got ice
Still broke homeboy! No Christ
Got a debt to pay, some real heavy wages
And the payment for his sin is pretty outrageous
I seen him park the car, suicide doors
Without Christ he walking through a suicide door
The dollar bill say in God we trust
Its funny cause money is the only God we trust"
-Trip Lee, Cash or Christ

"Small things can produce much,
like the good news that can reach hood dudes like a toothbrush
God loves that, loves the upset
loves to beat Jordan with a measly Spud Webb."
-The Cross Movement, Big Things

"No matter who you are, tonight is open bar.
Propose a toast:
So get you cups up, get your drink on,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
Get loose if you wanna get loose,
‘Cause we got that juice to make you choose truth,
Over there they pop Busch,
Over there they got Goose,
Over here we keep it grade-A 150 proof."
-Gritz, Open Bar

"Ever since I been sworn in, born in
put through boot camp, it's on
ain't got no time for no nuisance
it's three squares a day
PT, study, pray, little play
'cause what soldier got time for blasé?
specially when Yahweh is bringin D-Day
without M16, rocket launcher, or AK
cause this ain't Vietnam
the Enemy's more vicious than the Vietcong"
-The Cross Movement, Civilian Affairs

Pictures are with The Ambassador (Cross Movement), Trip Lee, and another great friend of mine who invited me to the church where they go!

"'Come now, and let us reason together,'" says the Lord, "'Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'" Isaiah 1:18

Overbrook High School

This is where Will Smith went to high school!!!

deserted island

You know how people sometimes ask what one thing you would want if you were on a deserted island. I decided tonight that I would want sunscreen.

Japan

I really love when things in America remind me of Japan. Except recently I was reading about "inverted homesickness" and I feel that way sometimes. Life is funny!

do not worry

Jesus' words help me to see how wrong my thinking is and how amazing my life is because I have Him:

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?" ("Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch?") "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore, do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:25-34