Well, I've been doing some praying and asking God about what He wants. I've really been feeling a call to do a Multi-Media fast. That would be a fast from fiction books, internet and non-work related computer, and music. He's been drawing me to take that time and really focus on Him. I've been really lax on my relationship and it's time to put some work into it! I'm a little hesitent... Going without those things for at least two weeks, if not more, is going to be hard.

Books

Now there are certain books that I could definitely take a break from easily... Star Trek, Star Wars, and like minded sci-fi are easy, but books like Piercing the Darkness, Threshold, and Redwall are harder to keep away from!

Computer Related activities

This will be hard. ALL my friends are on-line and contact me through there. Cut off the Internet, and you bbasically cut me off from my friends. Hmmmm... Multi is right. I'm going to be fasting from my friends as well... Interesting... Also, working on my website and other tech type stuff as well will be cut out. Am I going to survive? I dunno... I'm going to move the computer into the other room so I'm not tempted.

Music

This is going to be the hardest. I always have some sort of music going. While it's Christian, and uplifting, it's also a distraction at times when I should be listening to God. So I'm going to have to hide my Cds...


So this will be quite interesting... Please pray for me as I start this on Monday and Tuesday.


*assumes an at-attention position* Sir! That is the important news! The not-as-important-but-still-important news is that I will be driving at 6:30AM Sunday morning. My friend, Anne, is graduating and my bro and I are heading up there to watch. The goal is to get to Wilbur in time to go to the Presbyterian church for service. I do not know if that's going to happen, but we shall see. That's all, Sir!
*relaxes*


Man, I wish I knew what was going on in some of my friends lives... Josh I haven't talked to in almost a year... Ryan hasn't talked to me in over a year. John emailed me alittle bit ago and I need to reply to him. Kris has dissappeared off the face of the Net (wonder if I can track her down...) Nika... I really wonder how she's doing. She was rather down last time I talked to her. Jen... I don't even have her email. Chels I'll be seeing this weekend. Same for Melissa, Grady, and Anne. Seth... Man... I wonder what's up with her! Cassie would know but I haven't received a reply from her in a month. Kate... hmmmm... I wonder if she'd write me if I tried writing to her. Kali I haven't emailed in ages and I need to do so... Lisa, man, I wonder what ever happened to our english girl? Sneff, I miss you, girl! Come back.. Lord, touch my friends. Pour Your Spirit on each of them and bring them closer to You. Touch Samuel, Anna, and family as they are in Knoxville. Bring them closer through everything there. I lift Nika up to You, You love her and hold her. Just remind her of that. God, I thank You for blessing me with so many good friends. Even though I don't know what is up in a lot of their lives, I know they are my friends and that they love You. Give them a hug from me, will Ya? Thanks, Lord. I love You. Amen.

I've been having a good time at work. We've been going through a lot of training while we have this low call volume. Most of it is review, but yesterday I took an OSI Layer class. Wow! everything I do is based on that model. We had a round-table discussion on it today and it clicked even more. Totally cool!

Greg (one of my tms) taught that class yesterday. I asked him if he had some sort of OSI material I could study, and he said he'd get a Cisco CD for me. That would be the material that you study to get Cisco Certified. I hope to get to that point one of these days. I was quite thankful that he is going to do that for me.

Well, Time to go to bed. good night, world!

*smiles happily* I just received two emails from the two people that I really enjoy getting emails from! I'm in heaven!

We went to the Whitman Mission today with my Grandmother. She's visiting from Butte and we decided to take her to a historic landmark. Having never gone there before, it was a new experience for us as well. They had a little display and a 10 minute movie in the Visitor's Center. That was interesting. I never really have studied them much so I didn't know the story very well. After watching the movie, we went and looked at the mission. There aren't any buildings, they disappeared a long time ago. However, they have the outlines of the buildings laid out and a very nice lawn planted. It's rather interesting how a place of such tradgedy can be turned into such a peaceful place. One of these days I might actually take a book out there and sit on the lawn for awhile. Very cool place.

She stood, listening to the flames devouring her house. The house was going up in flames and she was powerless to stop it. She heard the children screaming... She had lost so much, first her husband, now the house and kids... As the flames inche in, a trumpet sounds and she hears a quiet, yet powerful voice. "Welcome Home, My child

Jim reached out his hand to take Victor's hand. As he did, his foot slipped and he fell... He hit the rocks below and a trumpet sounded. Welcome Home, My Child

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Those are scenes out of my dream... It started out with a group climbing a mountain. There was some interaction and I believe that Jim was the youth leader. Then it switched to the fiery house and it was like I was reading a book, and there were those two paragraphs at the end. Jim's falling was implied as a flashback. I believe Jim was the lady's husband.

Very interesting... Sometimes I wonder at the dreams I have...

My life is interesting, and that's all I have for this entry.

BTW I got the California trip up. [..trip..]

for those of you that saw my rant that was here, ignore it. I didn't know what I was talking about.

Good morning America!! JC is up and about on his day off! I woke up at 8 and devoured my cereal, then I went for a walk with my dog. I followed a deer pat until it got too narrow and then I went straight up the hill. That was work! I am way out of shape. I'm sitting here with my legs weak and trembling and I'm thinking that I definitely need to do some exercise!

Since I'm not going to Portland today (Dr. Terry busted his foot somehow) I am going to try and get some chores done. Dad had taken a day off so he'd be with us in portland, so he's off today. Thus the car is home and I can clean it out! I'm off to do so... Ta ta!

How in the world did I post twice? very strange...

Thank God for Sundays! There's something about going to church and worshiping God with other believers. I was refreshed! Pastor Tim talked about what our values are in life and how God should be top. I was honest with myself when he told us to write down our top values. God and my spiritual life was at 3. Ouch. Family was first and friends was second.

So that's got me thinking... Melissa's comment down there and just the way things have been going, have given me a lot to think about. Where are my values? What am I doing to meet those values? How important is God to me?

I dunno... Ever feel drained, sucked out, totally without drive or energy to do anything? That is what describes me this week. I haven't wanted to do a thing this week. I sit down to write something about my weekend trip -- nothing; I sit down to read the Bible -- nothing; I have several emails and letters to write -- nothing. I'm even chatting right now and I'm afraid I'm not being very interesting... I feel empty and desolate, my drive is gone and I'm adrift on the sea.

My lunch is almost over, but I wanted to post this before I for got.

Do you realize that Arwen was 1700 or so years older than Aragorn? What an age gap!
Aragorn was 90 or so when he set up shop in Gondor. I believe he lived to be 200 something... The Dunedain are a hardy race!

~~ Empty am I
~~ Why do I feel so alone?
~~ The world goes by
~~ And I stand
~~ Where is my Lord?

Today has been slow. I've taken only just a few calls this morning with lots of time in between. I picked up the Lord of the Rings again and am really enjoying it. I am now at the defense of Minas Tirith (I think that's the spelling) and Rohan has come to the rescue. For the life of me, I can't remember what happens to Faramir. Must get back to reading....

You'll get to read about my trip soon. I'm working on describing it slowly but surely every evening.

Yup. It did what I expected... Now, though, YACCs is open again and I've set it up for commenting.