Makes you think....

Rich Young Ruler

(vs. 1)

poverty

is so hard to see

when it’s only on your tv and twenty miles across town

where we’re all living so good

that we moved out of Jesus’ neighborhood

where he’s hungry and not feeling so good

from going through our trash

he says, more than just your cash and coin

i want your time, i want your voice

i want the things you just can’t give me

(vs. 2)

so what must we do

here in the west we want to follow you

we speak the language and we keep all the rules

even a few we made up

come on and follow me

but sell your house, sell your suv

sell your stocks, sell your security

and give it to the poor

what is this, hey what’s the deal

i don’t sleep around and i don’t steal

i want the things you just can’t give me

(bridge)

because what you do to the least of these

my brother’s, you have done it to me

because i want the things you just can’t give me

Take Note:

This is just a little note to those who may actually pay attention to my blog. As you may have noticed, I was bored so I changed the colour. However, when I did that I lost all the blogs of my friends on the sidebar. So, if you would like yours to be put back on, please let me know! I'd love to keep track of your blogs, which is why I put them there... so I can easily click and see if there's anything new. So, let me know!

Best Birthday EVER!!

I know this is a little bit late. My birthday was actually November 13th(those of you who didn't know, take note for next year... haha jk). However, due to computer difficulties, everything has been made a bit more difficult, including blogging. Anyway, enough of that and on with the story...

So, little did i know that I had no longer gotten to Saskatchewan, but my mom was already plotting a birthday surprise! I had no idea.... I hoped for a card and a relaxed evening with my friends. Little did I know, as I was preparing a few goodies for a couple hours during open dorm, what was going on in The Well!

My mom had sent money and cards and stuff to Amanda who then got my roommates involved. So as I was going around inviting my friends to a quiet evening... they were going around plotting against me. I could mention the many lies: Chantals VERY long walk by her melancholy self (really a trip to Moose Jaw for supplies in which Jeff's car broke down making them hours late!); Mel not being able to go to the airport with Amanda to pick up her friend(a ploy to get me out of the way while they set things up); or the biggest lie of all: Chantal going to a little get-together for for worship team in The Well, which she really didn't want to go to but had no choice and needed help carrying food over to(the part where they get me where they want me and then shout "Surprise" and then I cry when I find out that my parents were behind it!)

I can't possibly include every awesome detail, or enough pictures to give you the proper idea of how great it was! But I'm pretty sure it was my best birthday party ever!! Thank you to my parents for getting it all started! (It meant more than you'll ever know to me!) And thank you to my friends here, especially Amanda, Chantal, Jacquie and Ann, who pulled it off amazingly! I had absolutely no idea and it meant the world to me. Thank you to the rest of my friends here that showed up! I love you all!!

Oh! And I'm now anxiously awaiting my present! A Brian Reagan DVD and CD! How amazing is that?!!! Thank you all!! We will all enjoy them together I'm sure! (Or maybe you'll just get sick of me quoting them! haha)

Seeking God

O God, teach me to seek You, and reveal Yourself to me when I seek You,

For I cannot seek You unless You first teach me,

nor find You unless You first reveal Yourself to me.

Let me seek You in longing, and long for You in seeking.

Let me find You in love, and love You in finding.

- Ambrose of Milan, 339-397

Long Live the Bean?

So, I got to thinking the other day about my future in life. I'm sure you know how it is... You get to November, everything is due at the same time and discouragement sets in. Questions start to pop up in your head. Questions like: What is my goal in life? What am I going to do when I'm done school? Where is this taking me? Why on earth do I work at a place that is spanish for "long live the bean"?!(Viva Bica) and sometimes Will I be the one "keeping the bean alive" for the rest of my life?? Some days it feels like that.... Like today when I dropped a bottle of cranberry juice on the floor and it shattered. Or the time I almost charged a guy $33.95 for his chips and pop! Or the time I took some guy's money and wondered why he wasn't leaving until he asked me when he was going to get the chocolate milk he paid for!!

So, my questions are still not answered. I don't know what I will become in life or where my schooling will take me. But this one thing I do know.... at least I have moved beyond my longing to spend the rest of my life going door to door selling chocolate bars.