End of May update and randomness

hello readers,

apparently I should post again, so I will!
I am sitting here waiting for my Laundry to finish so I can put it away and go to bed.
anyways heres the latest. My Flag football season starts this monday! I am excited about that, it should be great. we play 15 games, mostly on mondays, and I am playing Cornerback.
I also started spring school, which has been ok. its a whole semester packed into 5 weeks of school. I had a group meeting today (a saturday!) at the Uni and it seems I have projects/assignments due about every week. midterms start the week after this week.
Also I started at TransCanada a few weeks ago. I am happy with the new job, and the people I am working with, which is important. right now I am working a few days a week.
hmm, what else?
oh I went to YC with my youth group last weekend, and it was awesome. of course I was really tired and sore after. sore from YC? yep thats right. I guess it was getting a few hours of sleep each night on a hard church basement floor, doing 100 pushups saturday night, and jumping and waving my arms etc for a bunch of concerts. the weekend was great, a few great concerts, a few dissapointing concerts and a few suprises. Relient K was a bit of a dissapointment, one of my favourite bands, maybe it was the sound in the arena, maybe I wasn't in the mood for Relient K, I think they played alot of thier slower songs though. the ones i knew were good though. Red was fun because some of the youth and I made up dances as we didn't know the songs. Thousand Foot Krutch was great as expected. Pillar wasn't great and niether was Grits. Family Force 5 was fun and NewWorldSon was probably the best (and suprise for me, I hadn't heard them before). Reggie Dabbs spoke and was great and the worship was alright (the songs I knew, or at least that we could see the lyrics for, were good...but that wasn't many unfortunatly). anyways it was a fun weekend as it always is.
Big news this past week was for my brother-in-law Ryan. He got a job as the Youth pastor at a church in lethbridge! the job search is over! I am happy for him and the family to get the job, but it will be sad with them leaving. It will be wierd not seeing them and the kids all the time, but it is a great opportunity for them. of course they need to find a place to live there now.

also, i bought Grey cup tickets this morning, for my dad and I. Grey cup 2009! whoooo. Go Stamps Go!

so some random thoughts....sometimes we try to fit God to terms so we can compare him or so that we can figure out who he is. God can't be put into a box. trying to put God into anything is like trying to put a backpack inside itself. you can try and try, but you just can't. there are many words we use to describe God, but a few words can't be used to define who God is. God is love as many say, but theres so much more to God. God is everywhere, everything, inside us. his Holy Spirit is inside us and flows out of us when we let him. Athiests try to prove God doesn't exist, how can they do that, aside from personal judgement and opinion. they even try and force their beliefs on others, that sounds alot like the thing they are fighting against. Often people try to fight against things either because they think it is wrong, or because they are scared it might be right and want to wipe it out so they don't have to worry it is right.

Jesus would tell us the only things harder then hate is love, and harder then war is peace. Love your neighbor as yourself, one of the biggest things Jesus stressed was love. Love. do you love yourself? What does that mean? maybe its that you care about yourself and want the best for yourself. Now even though you love yourself, you may not like yourself at times. how does that work? lets say you do something and immediately regret it, don't want to face the consequences, maybe you don't like yourself at that moment. "stupid me." but you still love yourself, you still want the best, that is why you are upset, you know you could do better etc. this works the same way with other people, or at least it should I guess (sometimes we need God's help to start to love even the most annoying people in our lives).
Think about the people you don't like, why don't you like them? because of something they did or they are doing. Maybe you still love them, not in a "love=marriage" sort of way, but in a way that means you care. You want the best for them, you see what they are doing and that they would be better off doing something different. sometimes I run across people who are difficult, I should care that they get better, not hate them for who they are. its like loving someone who beats thier kid. That person is hard to love, but think about it this way. You want the best for that person, you may not like thier actions ( I hope...), but you know they could be better off, and you hope they can change, you may do something, say something or pray for change, bottom line, you want the best in the situation. then again, maybe you don't always feel this way, you think the person should be hanged, shot, whatever. but think about that, should we lose hope in anyone, where do you draw the line...

heh. well there was some ranting for you. comment if you have any thoughts, i hope this at least got you thinking, whoever is reading this.

thanks for reading,

Adam

January 2008...wait, 2009

Hello and welcome to 2009....

Maybe thats a bit late, 2009 is almost a month old already.

As I mentioned in my previous post, 2008 was quite a year. the last few days of 2008 were good and bad, the 29th was fun but painful, then tough after that, the 30th was cool and the 31st was totally awesome.

2009 has been fun, but i found out more bad news from school....I got a 56 on my marketing final, meaning I was 4 marks short of getting the grade i needed for the course. I got a D+ and will have to take it again! oi. I did manage to change my school schedule for this semester though, and it is going to be an ok semester. I'll still be working at Nexen and still helping out with the youth group at my church.

This month was a time of change for the youth ministry at my church and for my family. My Brother-in-law Ryan, the youth pastor, was laid off and January was his last month of ministry at Bonavista. He will be moving on and looking for work elsewhere. I won't go into all my feelings on this on here, but it basically sucks. God is at work though, and we dont know what his plan is. Ryan and Nat are certainly going to move out when they find another youth pastor job, and that is a big change in our house. the youth ministry will continue with the leadership team until June, then a part-time pastor will be needed. crazyness.

hmm what else to talk about...
I finished up a book by Rob Bell called Velvit Elvis, its a really good book and i would reccomend it. its like a post-modern look at spirituality and faith, with lots of stories and great insights. Ive started reading Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, and am enjoying it, but it takes alot of thought.

I downloaded Relient K's newest CD, "the Bird and the beesides" around Christmas time, and have been enjoying it, also a Sanctus Real album, fight the tide. still listening to Switchfoot as usual though.

The Chaplain of the Calgary Stampeders (essentially the teams pastor) goes to our church, so on his day with the Grey Cup he brought it to church, so I got a few pics with it, really cool.

I've been listening to podcasts from westside kings church, and have really been enjoying it. lately they have been talking about change. heres the link...http://www.wkc.org/community/sermons.asp

anyways I hope you are enjoying this new year.

thanks for reading,

Adam