Tonight I was watching the NBC Nightly News when they did a segment on a school district in Washington, D.C. that was paying its students for good behavior and good grades. The lady who was heading up the push for this program said that her school at one point had only 8% of it’s eighth [...]
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26 Dec
The Saddest Christmas
Christmas to most is a great time of year with family and friends and food and gifts and for some snow. This year though my heart was broken. I had the family, the food, the gifts, and the friends, but I witnessed something that was just so surreal.
So after we did our Christmas gift opening [...]
7 Dec
Tagged
So, I’ve been tagged it seems. And by “tagged” I mean that I have to share with the readers of the world wide web 7 random things about yours truly. SO without further adieu, here I go.
I once hiked 110 miles in 11 days through mountains in New Mexico carrying everything I needed, [...]
16 Oct
Through Your Own Eyes
One thing I really enjoy doing, or at least trying to do, is making and editing little short videos. My capabilities are currently limited because I dont really own a video camera which makes it rather difficult to make a movie. So far the videos I have are either done in stop motion or in [...]
11 Oct
Thorns and Roses
I went to a summer camp a year or two ago with my Boy Scout troop. It was a two week back packing trip through some of the most beautiful landscape I’ve ever seen and it was probably the best time I’ve ever had too. Each day we would wake up early and break camp [...]
9 Oct
The Promise
I really like this cartoon. I find it real neat that cartoons can be used to tell God’s story and what not.
8 Oct
Life is all about learning it seems…
Well, today I’ve come face to face with the fact that I hate being wrong and therefore hate having to apologize. I dont know if its true for all guys or just for your’s truly here, but my pride hinders me from doing alot of things I need to do. Tonight when I was at [...]
5 Oct
Compelling Part Deux
Yesterday I made a post about how in awe I was of the passion this one man had to serve God anywhere. I was amazed by the quote he has saying take everything from me God and send me to anywhere I am needed, even if it means I might die, I dont care because [...]
