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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Detasseling
For the next few weeks I am enslaved to detasseling corn.
I am leading a bus of detasselers (The Force). Since I have my camera everywhere else I go, why not bring it into the corn fields as well! Here are a few photos from the morning. In the midst of all the tiredness and suckage it really is beautiful out there.
The fog is just lifting
The fog is just lifting
A few from my crew
A lil different but I really like this one for some reason
A wheat field near by
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Levi's Wedding
Levi and Kelsey got married 6.27.08, so these pics are a lil old, but I still have to post them. Even though I was in the wedding I still had to snap a few from the evening. It was a great time. Congrats guys!
Only four manly studs left in Perlend.
Get em while there still left ladies...
The bride and groom
AND THE PARTY BEGINS...
Only four manly studs left in Perlend.Get em while there still left ladies...
The bride and groom
AND THE PARTY BEGINS...Sunday, July 13, 2008
Learning
What is it with all the questions...
Today at church my pastor (Bryan Clark) had an amazing sermon that made me question how I live each day. Jesus was hated and crucified because of His beliefs. In India several of our pastors are being persecuted terribly because of their faith. One of my friends in Kenya was excommunicated from the rest of his family because he decided to follow God. I went to church today with a couple thousand other believers and what happened to me? nothing. I have no persecution from people around me, but yet my brothers around the world are being beat because of it. How am I supposed to sit here and forget about that. Is this another one of those things that i sleep off every night. Something that I don't deal with? Something that doesn't effect me so I just forget about it... this sucks. Yeah, just cuz we aren't persecuted doesn't mean we are in the wrong. We are blessed to be in the nation we are with the freedom of religion, but on the other hand does it mean that it is right to be sitting here with all our freedom and knowledge of God and not be bold and courageous with it. It is a decision we must make.
So what am I doing? I am finishing school. Why? So that I will not have anything that can hold me back from missions. Most missions organizations require a degree so that is my main reason for getting one. This may be one of the hardest decisions I have made for my future. To know there are helpless, dieing people who have not verbally heard the message of salvation while sitting in a class at the university just about kills me. I have to trust God's timing though. This part of my life does not make sense to me and seems like a waste of precious time, but I have talked to many pastors who have told me that I should stay the course and finish school. I have to trust that God is speaking through them.
I got some more pics... enough of me talkin ;)
I can't take full credit for these pics...
one of them isnt mine
but it was on my camera...hmm ;)
Today at church my pastor (Bryan Clark) had an amazing sermon that made me question how I live each day. Jesus was hated and crucified because of His beliefs. In India several of our pastors are being persecuted terribly because of their faith. One of my friends in Kenya was excommunicated from the rest of his family because he decided to follow God. I went to church today with a couple thousand other believers and what happened to me? nothing. I have no persecution from people around me, but yet my brothers around the world are being beat because of it. How am I supposed to sit here and forget about that. Is this another one of those things that i sleep off every night. Something that I don't deal with? Something that doesn't effect me so I just forget about it... this sucks. Yeah, just cuz we aren't persecuted doesn't mean we are in the wrong. We are blessed to be in the nation we are with the freedom of religion, but on the other hand does it mean that it is right to be sitting here with all our freedom and knowledge of God and not be bold and courageous with it. It is a decision we must make.
So what am I doing? I am finishing school. Why? So that I will not have anything that can hold me back from missions. Most missions organizations require a degree so that is my main reason for getting one. This may be one of the hardest decisions I have made for my future. To know there are helpless, dieing people who have not verbally heard the message of salvation while sitting in a class at the university just about kills me. I have to trust God's timing though. This part of my life does not make sense to me and seems like a waste of precious time, but I have talked to many pastors who have told me that I should stay the course and finish school. I have to trust that God is speaking through them.
I got some more pics... enough of me talkin ;)
I can't take full credit for these pics...one of them isnt mine
but it was on my camera...hmm ;)
Friday, July 11, 2008
Keep Movin
I'm sitting here at 3:30 AM and cannot sleep. There is too much on my mind or maybe life is going too fast and i just refuse to let sleep take my thoughts and suppress them until another day. I could do that every night and never really deal with anything... wierd. I wonder how many people there are out there who have so many problems and things that they need to deal with, but every night fall asleep on that same pillow and let the nite take thier thoughts away. Or here's my problem. How many people are there who have opportunity knocking at the door or have decisions to make for the benefit of their future, but almost lack the desire to finally just sit down and take steps for themselves because they feel like there is always more time. I guess I never doubt very much. I feel confident of my future. I feel confident that I will succeed. I am in school so technically I have the "i am building my future right now so i can sit around and do whatever i want when i get my homework done because everything will just fall into place when i get my degree" card. BUT I really don't want to fall into that hole. That mentality will leak into my whole life if I let it at this point.
So I have to ask myself... What are my next steps. Well. First I need to keep my focus on God's plan for my life. I still have the burning passion for missions. It has been so encouraging because I have made another friend who also has the same desires. Good one God. So I am still pretty confident that I will be doing missions, but I don't know where and when. I like it that way. ;) If I can just keep growing in my relationship with God then His path for my life will be perfect. Now back to what I was saying earlier... He has a plan, but I must walk. I must take risks and try new things and see if that is where God wants me. When I can't hear Him I walk and wait for doors to open or close. I just need to keep moving. Satan wants me (and every other college student/people who have no real responsibilities or areas they are tied down to in life) to just be the "whatever" people. The people who are just waiting for success...or waiting for someone to ask them to get involved at church...or waiting for someone start the business...or maybe flat out waiting for God to use them. What a waste of time. Yeah we must wait on God's timing, but He definitely doesn't just have one area in our life that he is planning for us. I just pray that I am not sitting around waiting for God to lead me somewhere or to give me success when all along He is waiting for ME to take a few steps of my own.
So I have to ask myself... What are my next steps. Well. First I need to keep my focus on God's plan for my life. I still have the burning passion for missions. It has been so encouraging because I have made another friend who also has the same desires. Good one God. So I am still pretty confident that I will be doing missions, but I don't know where and when. I like it that way. ;) If I can just keep growing in my relationship with God then His path for my life will be perfect. Now back to what I was saying earlier... He has a plan, but I must walk. I must take risks and try new things and see if that is where God wants me. When I can't hear Him I walk and wait for doors to open or close. I just need to keep moving. Satan wants me (and every other college student/people who have no real responsibilities or areas they are tied down to in life) to just be the "whatever" people. The people who are just waiting for success...or waiting for someone to ask them to get involved at church...or waiting for someone start the business...or maybe flat out waiting for God to use them. What a waste of time. Yeah we must wait on God's timing, but He definitely doesn't just have one area in our life that he is planning for us. I just pray that I am not sitting around waiting for God to lead me somewhere or to give me success when all along He is waiting for ME to take a few steps of my own.
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