Deturming the Good From the Great

NO... A strong word but sometimes needed. Some people find the word "no" so easy to say, though others find it so difficult, I am one of those people I hate to say know when someone ask me to do something at church, some club or anything at school, I give in so easily. I look up to those who know when they have enough on their hands and know when to say, sorry I cant do this or help you with that I am to busy, they know what their limits are and are not afraid to say it.
Today during our youth leader meeting we were reading about how people who are always busy get asked to do more because they are know for doing things, those who are the "couch potato" type are unlikely to get asked to do much. The people, like me, who are so busy and they have no free time need to learn haw to say no I am too busy with other things and i cant do_____ (insert thing here). My dad said at the meeting that we, who are booked, are usually doing something good but maybe we need not to do that and do what is great. For example I have just started going to a thing called "Hang Time" and though it is a good thing where christian high school students hang out and talk about God it may be a good thing for me to do but not a great thing.
Almost everyone has the sort of things like "Hang Time" that are good but not great. The people who do have those things in their life have to realize it and maybe instead of doing what is just good find something that is great.

Those People

Those People

Everyday there are those who serve, give and live for others and go unrecognized for their actions. They don’t ask for glory for what they do or for any acknowledgement, they do it because it is the right thing to do. In the article, The Man in the Water, there is a man who is this type of person. He serves because he knows it is right and he would not ask for anything in return. Down in L.A. there is a large group of people who act in just the same way; they live to serve, not for their self but for others.

The Man in the Water shows us how important it is sometimes to put others before ourselves, even if you have never even met the person. The article tells the story of an aircraft crash into the Potomac River. Four men jumped into the water that day to help rescue the people who were in the plane. Three men reviled their identity to the public but on did not. The man who did not revile his identity chose to be humble that day; he saved peoples lives in return for loosing his. The men in the water realized that if they did not get out of the water on the next helicopter they would die. The three men who reviled there identity got out of the water but the on mystery man stayed and tried to rescue more people, even though he knew that he would die. This man truly sacrificed his life for the other people who crashed; he did not claim any glory for who he was. Through his acts people recognized him even though they did not know who he was. Not many other people are willing to serve in this way those few that do are the real hero’s in our world.

I found some of those invisible hero’s down in L.A., there is an organization in the old L.A. hospital called the Dream Center. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day they are serving the oppressed communities, and people of L.A. They do not try to make it about them at all but they make it about the people and about God. The staff and Short Term Mission groups (S.T.M.’s) work with no pay, and the S.T.M.’s pay to come and do anything that is asked of them, mainly with no complaints. The Dream Center does not ask for anything back from the people of L.A. They’re so many different ways to serve, and to help others through the Dream Center. Two of the opportunities out of more than 200 are, going into the projects to have fun with the children and to hand out food and items that they need. The second is a group that goes throughout L.A. all day and tries to help stop human trafficking, and take some people who are so far in human trafficking that they are in danger, and give them a place to say. Some of the different service projects; such as going into Watts can be life threatening but they still go there are serve because it is making a difference. None of these people volunteering ask for acknowledgement. The Dream Center is know as The Church That Never Sleeps, because they are always doing something all the time. The people live for everyone else and God, putting themselves in danger because the feel that they are doing what is right.

We need to be like the unknown man in the water, and like all the volunteers at the Dream Center. We need to be the kind of people who are going to serve others around us and don’t for anything in return. We always say that we want to change our world for the better but we don’t act on what we say. We need to not just talk about what we want but we need to go and act on it. If we did this imagine what would happen and to us as people and to the world.

It's Just One of Those Days

I have finally realized that even if I put on my "good face", my everything is going fabulous i have nothing wring in my life face, that really even though every one thinks that I am ok I am still all beat up inside. I have been thinking about a challenge that my sister Trinity gave all of our youth group for lent, and that is to remove our masks, the things we hide behind or how we act differently around certain people. I tried to think of all of my different "masks" as we call them and I came up with a few and i knew that there were still some that are there but I can not see them because I have grown so accustomed to them that I just think that they are really me. I went to R.A.W. tonight and i just let everything I had been holding inside go, I broke down and just cried even though I tried not to, I know that sometimes you need to just cry no mater how much you don't want to.I picked up a journal while we were praying and just wrote what i was thinking to God. I wrote that I was confused that I want to be who I really and on the outside not what other people want me to be, that I need to trust that if I let my feelings go that I will feel better, trust that everything will be ok. I yelled in my writing because i did not know how else to express myself and I just let it all go! I have decided that it is time that I really try to be who i am on the inside, that I need to live from the inside out. I challenge who ever reads this to do the same thing.

The Picky Eater Approves

I know what you are thinking, what is the stuff on that plate. Well, there is fruit salad, (top), and an open face tuna sandwich, (bottom). Another thing you might be thinking is why did I title it "The Picky Eater Approves," well that is because my little brother, Jordan is one of the pickyist people I know and he actually ate this.
I made all of my families meals today for a school project and this is what we had for lunch. For breakfast we had, whole wheat pancakes, strawberries and eggs. For dinner we had stir fry with whole grain rice and a salad. All of the food tasted great and now I just have to hope that I will get a A on this school project.

A poem of mine

You're in a forest.
Listen there is no sound.
No talking.
No nothing.


You're in a forest.
Look around.
There is one person.
No sound.

You're in a forest.
You and the person.
The only person for miles.
He will not talk.

Is he scared.
Does he hate you.
What is wrong.
Why dose he not love me.

You're in a forest.
You're not alone.
But you feel that you are.

You're in a forest.

School

School can be great a lot of the time, but some times it can be a real pain. Most everyone has experienced it, you know what I am talking about. When your good friends turn around and go talk behind your back. This is a hard thing to deal with all the time but the hardest it seems like in junior high. Any person that went to any school would probably agree with me.I know plenty of people that do this to people my age all the time. This even happens to the most popular kids in school, mostly because the people who they talk about get annoyed with it and start to talk to.

9/28/07's School dance

School dances are so boring yet so much fun! At the dance I got asked to slow dance, but I told him no because he is rude. All in all i had a great time.