Yes, it's what's currently playing. I just had to share that. (I also have my Bluetooth earphones on (around my neck) and turned all the way up. You can actually hear it quite well. )

Yeah, I'm not really sure why I'm updating. I just got bored on the Internet (nothing new really) and decided this would be a bit worth my while. And yeah.... That's pretty much it.

Life interesting (as always), but at the same time amazing, God is (as always) AWESOME! and I'm just plain excited. But I say that a lot, so it probably didn't actually need repeating at this time. But oh well.

Umm... Not much going on this week. Yesterday I helped to get the gym at church totally cleared out (except for one chunk of the stage and the chairs/tables for AWANA) so it can have the AWANA lines painted on the floor and then be waxed on Thursday. It will be sa-weet. But on that note: We'll actually have morning service up in the sanctuary for the first time in a long while. (Little note: We have been averaging around 185 to 190ish a Sunday, and that sanctuary can seat around 200 comfortably. The record is just shy of 300, but that was with extra chairs in the isle and people standing and yeah. lol I'm looking forward to it though. Nothing like close fellowship.

I think I'm best off just stopping now. I'm just rambling. So yeah: Have a great day alls!

I usually don't do these thingers, but I've been considering this one for a while (And also haven't written an update for a while), so I thought it would be worthy enough. For now.

'Ze steps of procedure:

1. Put your iTunes into shuffle/God control mode (Make sure you are in the "All Music" list, and not just one particular playlist).
2. Press the next button to get your answer for each question below.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Thou shalt tag friends who might enjoy doing the game as well as the person you got the game from. [This is optional.]

• If someone says "Is this OK?" you say:
  God Believes In You - Jill Phillips


• What would best describe your personality?
  A Rose Is A Rose - Susan Ashton


• what do you like in a guy/girl?
  It Is Well With My Soul - Jars of Clay


• What is your life's purpose?
  Song Of Reconciliation - Susan Ashton


• What is your motto?
  On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand - Jars of Clay


• What do your friends think of you?
  Searching For A Savior - Building 429


• What do you think about very often?
  Show Me Your Glory - Third Day


• What is 2+2?
  Prelude - Big Daddy Weave


• What do you think of your best friend?
  Show You Love - Jars of Clay


• What do you think of the person you like?
  Enough - Chris Tomlin


• What is your life story?
  Friends [2003] - Michael W. Smith & Company


• What do you want to be when you grow up?
  Together - Krystal Meyers


• What do you think when you see the person you like?
  Silent Night - MercyMe [This one made me laugh for some reason...]


• What do your parents think of you?
  God - KJ-52 Featuring Rebecca St. James


• What will you dance to at your wedding?
  God Will Lift Up Your Head - Jars of Clay


• What will they play at your funeral?
  More Than A Friend - Jeremy Riddle


• What is your hobby/interest?
  Angeline - Building 429


• What is your biggest secret?
  Sunshine - Stellar Kart


• What do you think of your friends?
  One Time - Earthsuit


• What's the worst thing that could happen?
  Cordial Greetings From Alfred - Veggie Tales


• How will you die?
  Healing Rain (Live Version) - Michael W. Smith


• What makes you laugh?
  Here I Am To Worship - Phillips, Craig & Dean


• What makes you cry?
  Wait For The Healing - Amy Grant


• Will you ever get married?
  Silent Night - Ralph Carmichael [Waaaaait a minute....]


• What scares you the most?
  Stuck - Stacie Orrico


• Does anyone like you?
  Jolly Old Saint Nicholas - The Chipmunks


• If you could go back in time, what would you change?
  Arms of Love - Amy Grant


• What hurts right now?
  MySpace Girl - The Afters


• What do you say in the morning when you first wake up?
  One Of These Days - Wayne Watson


• What will you post this as?
  With All Of My Heart - ZOEgirl

That was sure interesting... I wonder what's up with the Silent Night's-slash-Jolly Old Saint Nicholas... Anyways, I thought a few of those could have fit better had I constrained my playlist to "The Goods", so... double-treat: Here they are again, but from the playlist I'm usually in:

• If someone says "Is this OK?" you say:
  Getting Into You - Relient K


• What would best describe your personality?
  Get Down - Audio Adrenaline


• what do you like in a guy/girl?
  Something To Believe In - FM Static


• What is your life's purpose?
  Corinthians - ApologetiX


• What is your motto?
  There Was Another Time In My Life - Relient K


• What do your friends think of you?
  This Could Be Our Day - Addison Road


• What do you think about very often?
  Word Of God Speak - Kutless


• What is 2+2?
  Boulevard of Both Extremes - ApologetiX


• What do you think of your best friend?
  Dying To Become - Kutless


• What do you think of the person you like?
  I Lift My Eyes - Kutless


• What is your life story?
  Loud - Kutless


• What do you want to be when you grow up?
  Beyond The Surface - Kutless


• What do you think when you see the person you like?
  Revolution - Worth Dying For


• What do your parents think of you?
  Run - Addison Road


• What will you dance to at your wedding?
  Leap Of Faith - Sanctus Real


• What will they play at your funeral?
  Ammunition - Switchfoot


• What is your hobby/interest?
  No One Like You - David Crowder Band [If that doesn't remind me of camp... lol]


• What is your biggest secret?
  Scream - ZOEgirl


• What do you think of your friends?
  Deathbed - Relient K


• What's the worst thing that could happen?
  Life of Praise - Casting Crowns [This fits: 'cause the worst is still awesomely awesome.]


• How will you die?
  The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot


• What makes you laugh?
  Smile - Kutless


• What makes you cry?
  If We Are The Body - Casting Crowns


• Will you ever get married?
  Whatever It Takes - Nate Sallie [I like this one... lol]


• What scares you the most?
  Is Forever Enough - Hawk Nelson


• Does anyone like you?
  American Dream - Casting Crowns


• If you could go back in time, what would you change?
  I'm Pretty Good - Stellar Kart


• What hurts right now?
  The World Is Alive - Casting Crowns


• What do you say in the morning when you first wake up?
  Let The People Praise - Aaron Shust


• What will you post this as?
  Weighted - Casting Pearls

Enjoy!

They are pretty sweet, and I have no biff with them. That is, until they block me in from going to Church on Sunday... Hopefully I'll still be able to make it to the evening service and the Gathering tonight. We'll have to see.

So yeah. I'm kinda stuck at home right now. I'm taking the moment to stare at my Mac's background, which is that picture of Ao-Wa-Kiya's lake front on Stony Lake during last summer. (2007) It's warm and helps make up for the coldness that currently occupies my room. Although the snow does come half-way up my window, which, I must admit, is pretty sweet.

So I've been working on moving my e-mail and stuffs over to Google Apps from my personal server, mainly for kicks and giggles. I already moved all the Church e-mail and such over, so now everything is on one universal platform. I'll probably just rebuild my server pretty soon here (It's so low on disk space that it can't even send an e-mail) and then it'll be more apt for hosting random peoples' sites and such. And yes, it's free. Inquire if you desire a spot to host your jazz.

I went "sledding" a couple times yesterday. (Was actually more bike skiing, but still.) Micah and I went up to Ao-Wa-Kiya (which, might I add, is very different in the winter) and had some fun on the hills up there. For those who are familiar with camp: You know that hill you have to hike back _up_ from the zip line? You do? Ok, now picture somebody on a bike (that has skis instead of tires) going DOWN it. Yeah. It was that awesome, and got so fast that we stopped. (Hitting a tree would have killed, possibly literally.) Then after we got back I went to Charlie's Dump in Jenison to bike ski some more. Managed to land on my left after a jump a couple times; Now I've got a nice sore spot on my thigh too. Totally worth it, and I know you were all just dying to know that.

Oh, and as fair warning; If you are having trouble heading down the trail that goes by the paintball, zip line, archery range and such in Pastor Mike's golf cart in the snow, then it might be a good idea to back out while you still can. Yeah... Don't worry, we got back out; Thankfully his cart has a nice winch on it. With a very long cable. But still... Think it over, and just walk. It's faster in the end.

Anyways, I think I'll just top typing now before this becomes much more of a novel. After all, I could go into detail on my past few week's adventures (or however long it's been since my last post), but I guess I'll spare ya'll of the details. Have a great week alls, and if I don't update before then, have a Merry CHIRSTmas!!

So I'm pretty sure I'm just going to give up on trying to write that post I've been talking about it. It's just plain not going to happen, or at least sure isn't seeming like it.

But yeah. Life is great and God is indefinably better. And I'm just waiting for whatever it is he has in store for me.

And $5.59 for 5 feet of 3/4 inch Velcro seems a little steep to me. Not sure about you, but that's gotta be a bit on the just-for-price's-sake line. But oh well. At least the 100 pack of Meijer push-pins was only 99 cents. Much more reasonable in my mind. (Perhaps it's because I got the industrial-strength Velcro though... lol Oh well.)

What's all this for you ask? Well, I recently bought myself a corkboard and a whiteboard (beyond the whiteboard I got from Grandma Ambrose) and I need to hang them. The two I bought are light enough for Velcro, but the one from Grandma needs actual screws and stuff, so it'll be waiting a couple days.

I also bought dry erase markers, an eraser and the new After's CD (Never Going Back to Ok), which is pretty much the rockage. (Track 6 especially.)

Hmm.. So yeah. Right now I'm just typing this.. Waiting for a response on IM from someone who probably wouldn't be totally enthralled if I said her name in this post, and debating the worthiness of attempting to recall my calculator from my bro. Fun stuff, right?

I think that's about all I'll babble on about for tonight. I could go for a while (My brain is ready to do so), but for your sakes (and the sake of my keyboard), I won't.

Have fun alls!

Ok, so I was wrong. Renae doesn't mind if I mention her name in a post.

So yup. I was waiting for Renae to reply in IM.

...I thought I'd share a few tid-bits and attempt to keep ya'lls up to date on the happenings in the life of John. (Well... kinda.)

So the song that just came on is "Hello" by Hawk Nelson, and if you don't know what that song is just go ahead and YouTube it. But anyways, moving on. (Good song by the way.)

I had decided when I read my devos this morning that they were worth the time taken to type them up and share them, and so, without further ado, here is my morning devos. (They are from The Ransomed Heart by John Eldredge, page 274.)

What is it that God wants from you?

He wants the same thing that you want. He wants to be loved. He wants to be known as only lovers can know each other. He wants intimacy with you. Yes, yes, he wants your obedience but only when it flows out of a heart filled with love for him. "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me" (John 14:21). Following hard after Jesus is the heart's natural response when it has been captured and fallen deeply in love with Him.

Reading George MacDonald several years ago, I cam across an astounding thought. You've probably heard that there is in every human heart a place that God alone can fill. (Lord knows we've tried to fill it with everything else, to our utter dismay.) But what the old poet was saying was that there is also in God's heard a place that you alone can fill. "It follows that there is also a chamber in God himself, into which none can enter but one, the individual." You. You are meant to fill a place in the heart of God no one else and nothing else can fill. Woah. He longs for you.

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and mundane, the meetings and memos, the laundry and lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you poor yours into his. He wants your deep heart; that center place within that is the truest you. He is not interested in intimacy with the person you think you are supposed to be. He wants intimacy with the real you.

Yeah. Pretty awesome thought, right? I sure think it is.

I might give my full update yet today. We'll see what becomes of that idea though.