Great Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301S7NgAkLs

    This song is one of my favorite songs, I could listen to it over and over again and I would never get tired of it. It constantly reminds me that my best efforts are not good enough. The good news is that God's love is good enough and for the whole world.
    When I get down on myself or am having a bad day, I can turn  this song on and it will remind me that my God loves me no matter what I did or done or will do. My God is strong and he is my helper He is the same as he was at the beginning and He will be the same when he rolls up the world.
   Even when the mountains crumble and the sun is gone I will be found in Him.

Arriving in America

    When I returned from my mission trip from Peru  I carried more home then just my baggage, I carried home emotional baggage. My trip was six days but it felt like six weeks. I realized when I was serving people who needed much, my heart grew. I originally went to Peru knowing that the Lord wanted me to go, so I went, but I did not know what it expect.
   I found people who were searching, not just for physical needs but for Christ. On an average day in Peru I would walk the streets of poverty looking for hurting people, but what I found most of the time was the hurting people were seeking me. I would have people approach me asking why I was there, or who I am, then I would explain I am here from God to help and then a smile would appear on there face and then they would say "come with me". Showing me their children who couldn't see because of blindness or elderly who had major back problems, I would lead them to Christ, who is the healer of the heart and not just body. I would also take them to our medial clinic sometimes a long walk away.
  What I found that surprised me was, it wasn't me who was loving on these people it was God inside of me reaching and yearning for their hearts. A God who desperately wants to set things right , just as it was at the creation of the world. A God who wants a relationship with His creation, not religion. The same God who made the world was yearning through me for these people and all I could do was give myself to Him and let Him work.
  I found at the end of my trip that I was not the one giving the blessing, but I was the one who was being blessed.

Peru

I leave for Peru tomorrow and I am not sure what to expect. I am told that there will be  poverty and for the most part I will be in the slums. I am excited to experience a new world and that I get to aid people that cannot aid themselves. In James, a book of the Bible it says "true religion is this, that one would help the orphan and the widows."
I am a bit nervous, but I know that God is always with me and He's not going to leave me in the hard times or even the good ones. I know that Peru isn't the safest place in the world and the fact that armed guards will escort me to the city has me on a bit on the edge. I realize though that my life is short and I live in a world that will perish, in a Psalm of the Bible it says "Our life is like the a vapor, here one day and gone the next."  I realize that life is short and that I will choose to live for my home that is not here, but with the Lord a home that never will perish and that doesn't disappear like a vapor. I feel investing in that home is more important than investing in one here that will pass away.
In time I will be forgotten, no one will remember me in a century from now, no one will know I went to Peru or that I attended Oklahoma State or anything in my life. My life in this world is meaningless in that sense. I find joy thought that I have a heavenly father that takes in account what I did for him on this earth and does not forget. He will not remember my bank account number or my retirement plan, but he will remember what I did for Him, and that is worth more than gold.
So I choose to live a life style that will never fade as this world does, I choose to live one that will last, it may not be glamorous to the eye of the public, but it is the richest life one can live. A life that will never end exist in Jesus, He is life.

Halloween

       Tomorrow is Halloween, though I am not a big fan of it I do enjoy the tradition. I grew up going trick or treating and carving pumpkins, all the things Halloween has to offer. On the other side of the argument I hate scary things such as haunted houses', scary movies and so on. So Halloween is a bitter sweet for me, I enjoy the fun things like eating pumpkin, having a pumpkin spice latte and carving pumpkins.
       I love making memories, I took my girlfriend to the pumpkin patch in Perkins last week and we picked and carved a pumpkin together, these are the reasons I love Halloween, not because of the scare factor, but becasue of the memories that are made. Of course she carved a better pumpkin than I did  because I am horrible artist so I managed to carve a cross into a pumpkin, which I liked, but it was not artistic.
      The Important thing is that Halloween did not just bring delicious candy and an excuse to be your favorite super hero, but it brings bonding, memories and traditions that will last a lifetime. I plan on enjoying the rest of the Halloween season and I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving.

The Best Game that Never Happened .

        This year Oklahoma and Oklahoma state were going to match up for one of the best bedlam games this state has ever seen. Dec. 3, these two teams were supposed to match, Oklahoma sitting at the number three spot and Oklahoma State at four. The game would have decided who would be in the national championship, but that dream died yesterday when Oklahoma fell to the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
        Oklahoma was supposed to walk over Texas Tech but the fell over them instead. Oklahoma has not lost a game on their home field in six years the team they lost to then was also unranked like Texas Tech. Now the game of the century is now just another bedlam game, though for the Cowboys it still huge but for the Sooners it's just another bedlam.
        Hopefully it will be a good game to watch like last year, but I am not sure what to expect seeing that the that Landry Jones has better hands than his receivers. I hope that it will be a good match up though as long as the Cowboys don't mimic the Sooner's behavior they will be alright.
       My predictions this year is that the Sooners will recive the victorty. I feel that the Cowboys have a hard time getting over the mental stumbling block of bedlam. I do know that the game will be close all the way to the end of the game,but I feel that late in the fourth quarter the Sooners will triumph.
       

Must Love Dogs

For the past few weeks I have been watching my sister's dog and my girlfriend's dog. My sister, Bri, has a pit bull puppy that is four weeks old, my girlfriend, Meagan, has a lab/hound mix that is four months old. Although I do love dogs taking care of them is more than I thought, for example the lab/hound just jumped on the couch and is trying to push me off to get comfortable and I'm trying to type. This week I am watching the lab/hound, which is my personal favorite,nhe is a cuddler and is much more calm than the pit bull.  Today I left the him outside and it rained while I was out to the stor , when I get back he is soaking wet. As I fumble my groceries to get through the door he finds his opportunity to get inside. Dashing between my legs he heads to the place that he loves the most my bed, so now I have a handful of groceries and a wet dog in my bed, lucky me.
     Prior to this week I was watching my sister's dog the pit bull, he is even more of a handful. He loves to be my alarm clock, which I am ok with, but not at 6 a.m. I enjoy him because he is a puppy and is playful but I am not sure how my sister can live with this dog. It will not stop whinning, I tried to ignore it as long as I could but it's like trying to ignore a foghorn.
     Overall I do have a soft spot for dogs, I just would not be a good owner at the moment. I feel I could keep one alive, but as far as a good owner not so much.

Strategic Communications

    People always ask me what my major is and I always get the same response, it is hard to describe the response I get because it's a head gesture. After telling someone my major is strategic communications they give me like a backward head nod. What is funny is I know exactly what they're thinking, they're thinking I have no idea what that means and I don't care that you tell me. Strategic Communications is a mixture of advertising, public relations and journalism. I have figured out a way to avoid the apathetic response, I tell them that my major is one of the three I listed. So one day I'm an advertising major and the other I am a public relations major. I find this is a better approach to the, what's your major question.
   This was on my mind because as I was logging on to a computer at the library someone asked me what my major is. I don't know why I do this anyway becasue people don't care what my major is they're just trying to make small talk. So actually, I'm double majoring in architecure and chemical engineering. :)