new look; same great taste

Gave the blog a new look, but it still has the same fabulous content ( ha ha )

and

I got tired of having little pictures on here.. so now its big :)

From COOL pics

thoughts about.. thoughts

Our thoughts can glorify God. Thoughts affect you alot because you act on thoughts, make descisions, etc. And our actions and descisions can glorify God. So thoughts are important, what do you spend time thinkin about?

My thoughts are really one tracked for the most part, usually I think about the things I love, God, Jeeps, Friends, bacon, etc. But I have been infatuated with things before, infatuation is a short-lived EXAGGERATED passion for something. And what I noticed about being infatuated was that every single track my mind ever went on i was relating it to how it was associated with what i was infatuated with. So in every thought, no matter what, i would think about this infatuation (i litterally cant get it out of my head unless i pray that God will get it out). It could even change the decisions i made, for example if it was a girl, i might be considering something and i would make a different decision because i thought it might impress the girl or something.. silly yes, but its just an example. Im sure you've experienced this and know what im talking about cus its a really weird thing and kind of hard to explain but

it can happen. Any way its the only way i can relate to the way i WANT to think about God. The main difference in infatuation and love is that love last forever. If I love God with all my heart then the result is gunna be that I relate all my thoughts to Him, I wont be able to get Him off my head. It will change the descisions i make. I will go out of my way to glorify Him. with every last thing i do i will think about how to please Him. I wouldnt be able to get enough of Him, of His word, of prayer and talking to Him and building the relationship.

so that would be great, how do i get that? Good question.. im not really sure but im gunna be thinkin bout it

HERES A PICTURE

RANDOM pics

Sorry these pictures are real random...

heres my sis

doug..

Collage of the trip

caving pic..

J e e p

Seahorse bacon

Seahorse

A leaf fish, for those skeptics out there. I've seen one in person, floating right atop the bay..

And a side note, if yall dont have the program picasa on your computer, you need it, its a great way to organize photos and it has PICNIK built into it..

there might be a link for it in the ad below this post if you wana check it out (and i make money if you click on it) plus its a good program..

just had a thought (good gosh no way?! i had a thought?)

OK, i was praying and i thought about this right smack in the middle of it so i wanted to rite it down

It has to do with being genuine, so many times in life we do stuff just to get something out of it, wether it be a response to some situation that we make for a laugh, an action that we do for something, whatever it is, the motive is usually to gain something for ourselves.

this is an indication of self centerdness i believe.

If we really want to be a GOD centered person with christ shining thru us, the result would be that we are very genuine. Our comments and actions and what not will be directed towards, NOT what can we do for ourself, but how we can GLORIFY GOD with the comment or action.

Its my goal to process thoughts like that, before any comment i make or response i have to a situation, i want to think, "how can i glorify GOD in this???" and that will really help clear things up because that NEVER CHANGES. but when i think about how to get glory for myself it changes, it is always different. when im at work and i respond to something and i want glory from it (sounds bad but its the way it works) i may respond in a certian way, but then my response to the same thing at church to get glory from it will probly be different. and different at school probly, and at home. But, if i were to respond to the same smethin in a way to give God the GLORY (not me, how pathetic is that but its what i do) then its gunna be the same response whether im in church, school, home, work, bar, playground and so on and so on.

So i dunno if the way i put that made sense but i think theres some good thoughts and life applications in there..

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thoughts

Im bored and i just got home from work and i want to take a nap but im not tired so I figured a good way to get tired would be to write some stuff.. and I figure its about time i write some stuff because i never write on this suckr..

So anyway..

I guess ill write about some of the stuff ive been thinking about lately (i've been having a lot of thinking time at work), I've been thinking alot about (click: Romans 12:9-21, I've been attempting to take one of the little life applications found in it and work on it. The problem is I really stink at it. The first one was let love be genuine, I prayed that I would have oppertunities to pick up somethin for some random person or something and i actually did multiple times but later i found myself getting real ticked off at some guy for something real little.. And the next day was Abhor what is evil. And that was so hard for me.. i need to ask somebody about this, how do you manage to ABHOR what is evil at the same time as LOVEING the people?????? I understand it theoreticly but i can't for the life of me figure out how to apply it practicly. I def need someones wisdom on that cus i failed miserably on many levels, the guys at lunch were talking about girls and asking me all this stuff like they always do and it was pretty evil but how do i still show them love in that moment? i dunno. i was so close to just telling them why i do stuff so different but i didnt. I will eventually, if anyone is reading this then yall can hold me to that. But anyway, the next day was 'hold fast to what is good' and i feel like i did ok with that, i cought myself blowing off good things which was good.. and the next day, today, was love one another with brotherly affection, similar to the first day, and todays not over yet but i havent really useed it yet, at least not consciencly, which is probly a bad thing.

Anyway, those are the things ive been thinkin about.. and im a little more tiered now haha (there was a Monster energy drink rep. at work today givin out drinks..)

Picnik

I figured out my computer has a fun program called picnik... so i picniked:

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Coolest BYG Trip Ever 2011