Yesterday was a first for me... my friends Lindsay and Annie decided we should hold our own church service outdoors since it was such a beautiful day...
So there we were, dressed in nice clothes, lugging a guitar and a backpack, hiking around Moss Lake looking for a good spot to settle down. We found a beautiful spot with dappled shade not far from the water's edge to hold our little worship service... What an amazing experience to sing praises, read the Word, and pray together out in the wonderful creation God has surrounded us with, and on one of the most beautiful days of the year... The Lord hath truly blessed us :)
Monday, April 23, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
No More Secrets
I finally came clean... Everything is out on the table and its in God's hands now... what a relief!
Friday, April 13, 2007
Beauty
OK... this may seem a bit strange... but I feel motivated to tell it nonetheless...
So Wednesday morning I'm sitting in my Pentateuch class staring out the window thinking about and dreading all the work I had to do in the coming days/weeks (and much of it still to do) and feeling pretty much rotten sorry for myself. When suddenly, I realized the beauty of the world outside that I was staring at... It was so incredibly gorgeous that I had to blink back tears of joy at the wonderful creation God has made for us all...
Thank you Lord for brightening my day and reminding me of the importance of a positive attitude.
So Wednesday morning I'm sitting in my Pentateuch class staring out the window thinking about and dreading all the work I had to do in the coming days/weeks (and much of it still to do) and feeling pretty much rotten sorry for myself. When suddenly, I realized the beauty of the world outside that I was staring at... It was so incredibly gorgeous that I had to blink back tears of joy at the wonderful creation God has made for us all...
Thank you Lord for brightening my day and reminding me of the importance of a positive attitude.
Secrets
I hate secrets. I hate not knowing them and I hate keeping them. And there seem to be a lot of them in my life right now. I did manage to get one off my chest Wednesday night... only to have more appear last night... Grrr. But, for those involved, I would just like to say I respect your feelings, attitudes, and right to keep secrets even though they may frustrate me sometimes... and that will never change no matter what I know or don't know. As for me, I will admit the only reason I keep secrets is that I am afraid that the actions and attitudes of those I know may change for the worse if I open my mouth... perhaps I have too little faith... but y'all will know sooner or later, I promise.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
On a slightly more mystical note...
177 days. Flew by? Too fast? Eternity? Yes. I think not. I think so. I've never. I'm sure. How? How long? I don't know. I can. Crater, trees, marsh, island, terrestrial or extraterrestrial? All of the above. Language? Math? Opposite? all have meaning my friend. Two phrases, eight words... and... complete?
The author would like to thank God, Chris Cagle, Rob Thomas, his friends, and a four-letter word.
The author would like to thank God, Chris Cagle, Rob Thomas, his friends, and a four-letter word.
Here is thine update Miss Chloe:
Once again, Miss Ackerman takes partial credit for the existence of this post... mayhaps I'll get into this thing on my own again sometime in the near future...
Anyway, I am currently celebrating being ALIVE. I have had just a hair over 5 hours of sleep on average in each of the last four 24-hour periods, and the first three 24-hours' average was even more impressive: 3.75 hours. At no time during the last 96 hours have I had more than 5.5 hours of sleep consecutively. Thats what happens folks, when one never reads in his classes and then has 7 yes thats right SEVEN quizzes and/or tests in 5 (FIVE) class days! Yeah. Oh and add in regularly scheduled homework (thanks Bradshaw) and homework that comes due test day (thanks Bobby) and a presentation (thanks a million Bates). Conclusion: I am STUPID! When will I learn to do my work ahead of time?? But its all over and done with... thank you and goodnight, here we come Easter break! Hallelujah!
Anyway, I am currently celebrating being ALIVE. I have had just a hair over 5 hours of sleep on average in each of the last four 24-hour periods, and the first three 24-hours' average was even more impressive: 3.75 hours. At no time during the last 96 hours have I had more than 5.5 hours of sleep consecutively. Thats what happens folks, when one never reads in his classes and then has 7 yes thats right SEVEN quizzes and/or tests in 5 (FIVE) class days! Yeah. Oh and add in regularly scheduled homework (thanks Bradshaw) and homework that comes due test day (thanks Bobby) and a presentation (thanks a million Bates). Conclusion: I am STUPID! When will I learn to do my work ahead of time?? But its all over and done with... thank you and goodnight, here we come Easter break! Hallelujah!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Bowling... and other stuff
So here it is 2:45 AM and I just finished up my homework for the coming day... yeah yeah same old, same old. Funny thing is I just finished writing up an assignment on procrastination haha...
So anyway what I really want to write about is bowling Friday night :)
It was a dark and stormy night (this is pronounced breathtakingly wonderful winter scene and tremendous driving fun) and Annie and I had to do a little persuading to drag Lindsay along since she wanted to get some sleep in order to get a head start on homework Saturday (imagine that!...). We arrived just before 11pm, and found several other Houghton students were already there. The three of us decided to join Chris Cole and Chris Morris on a lane and we quickly got down to business.... sorta. The music was loud, the black lights were on, and everyone was just having to much fun to even care about bowling scores... well mostly. (I am in a sarcastic/funny mood right now can you tell) Second frame of the first game I had two gutter balls. First frame of the second game I had two gutter balls. Both games I had over 100. Third game was cut short for lack of time but I had 94 in the 8th frame. So not a bad night for me. All 5 of us did decent actually, with the low score first game being 88 and second game low score was 96, with none of us pro bowlers or all that concerned about getting good scores. The trip home was a bit slow because of 2 inches of fresh snow since we had arrived... and the fact another car was in front of us driving slower because of the conditions (imagine that!...). I really should get over my impatience on the road... but anyway with such wonderful conditions I could not resist some late night sliding fun in Fire Hall when we got back hehe.... I would zoom down an alley 25 or 30 miles an hour and then at the empty end of the lot spin the wheel and grab the ebrake... zoom back the other way and do it again... throw it in reverse get up to speed and whip the wheel/stomp on the brake for a 180 the other direction... then mix it up with a few wildly careening S curves on the carless side of the lot... Needless to say, I had a grin a mile wide plastered to my face and Lindsay was enjoying the experience nearly as much as I was. Annie did not seem to enjoy this quite so much so I cut short the fun to bring the girls back up to Gillette... where Lindsay refused to get out of the car and Annie refastened her seatbelt after discovering there was a lack of motivation amongst us to go to bed lol. So back down to Fire Hall for more crazy driving :)
So anyway what I really want to write about is bowling Friday night :)
It was a dark and stormy night (this is pronounced breathtakingly wonderful winter scene and tremendous driving fun) and Annie and I had to do a little persuading to drag Lindsay along since she wanted to get some sleep in order to get a head start on homework Saturday (imagine that!...). We arrived just before 11pm, and found several other Houghton students were already there. The three of us decided to join Chris Cole and Chris Morris on a lane and we quickly got down to business.... sorta. The music was loud, the black lights were on, and everyone was just having to much fun to even care about bowling scores... well mostly. (I am in a sarcastic/funny mood right now can you tell) Second frame of the first game I had two gutter balls. First frame of the second game I had two gutter balls. Both games I had over 100. Third game was cut short for lack of time but I had 94 in the 8th frame. So not a bad night for me. All 5 of us did decent actually, with the low score first game being 88 and second game low score was 96, with none of us pro bowlers or all that concerned about getting good scores. The trip home was a bit slow because of 2 inches of fresh snow since we had arrived... and the fact another car was in front of us driving slower because of the conditions (imagine that!...). I really should get over my impatience on the road... but anyway with such wonderful conditions I could not resist some late night sliding fun in Fire Hall when we got back hehe.... I would zoom down an alley 25 or 30 miles an hour and then at the empty end of the lot spin the wheel and grab the ebrake... zoom back the other way and do it again... throw it in reverse get up to speed and whip the wheel/stomp on the brake for a 180 the other direction... then mix it up with a few wildly careening S curves on the carless side of the lot... Needless to say, I had a grin a mile wide plastered to my face and Lindsay was enjoying the experience nearly as much as I was. Annie did not seem to enjoy this quite so much so I cut short the fun to bring the girls back up to Gillette... where Lindsay refused to get out of the car and Annie refastened her seatbelt after discovering there was a lack of motivation amongst us to go to bed lol. So back down to Fire Hall for more crazy driving :)
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Water Polo
I am immensly enjoying Houghton's intramural water polo. The only damper on the fun is our record. Our team is now 0 and 4 ... sigh... I have decided to quit keeping score as it is only getting more depressing each time... we had a particularly good routing tonight loosing 13 to 1 ... total points for the season we have let in 33 and only scored 6... oh right I was gonna stop keeping score! But really it is a good time :)
More updates soon I promise Chloe ;)
More updates soon I promise Chloe ;)
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Where is the snow?!
This post is dedicated to Chloe - without her constant pestering this probably would not be here right now :-D
What happened to winter in the northeast? When I got home for Christmas break there were only patches of snow on the ground at my house in northern VT! This is unheard of in mid December and it made me very depressed since I was looking forward to some good skiing over break... but nope, we had a green (or should I say brown?) Christmas. Then the day after Christmas we had a few inches of slushy snow... enough to send my brother Seth and our old red mazda into the ditch on its roof... oops! ... then Saturday following we had about 4 inches of that good soft fluffy powder which made me very happy... and on Wednesday the 3rd I finally went skiing with my brother and my friend Lindsay and her brother Josh and her friend Ryan. We went up to Jay peak which had some very good conditions and had nearly all of its trails were skiable even tho supposedly half of them were closed... haha who pays attention to those signs anyway? Well I was glad we went when we did because Friday another warm spell hit... 50 plus degrees in early January?! what happened? and holy cow talk about POURING rain... bye bye snow :( .... here at Houghton there was no snow when I got here Sunday but then a blizzard Monday (which I got to drive through hehe) and more snow Tuesday night left us with a good covering until Thursday when it went and got warm again... Humph. I don't care about all you Floridians, I want COLD and SNOW... LOTS OF IT!!!
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