so apparently you can get a free ipod by signing up for an offer and refering 5 friends to do it as well... so being bored as i am i decided to go ahead and give it a shot.. .i mean what do i got to loose?... and i was going to post this on xanga so you guys...my friends... can get a free ipod as well... how cool would that be... so go here

so it's been awhile since i've updated this thing... it's kinda hard to keep it up... life is going... good... just for all who care... i hope your life is going well and maybe when i have more time i will update again...

Picture this:

"A senior angel showing a very young angel around the splendors of the univers. They view whirling glazies and blazing suns, and then flit across the infinite distances of space until at last they enter one particular galaxy of 500 billion stars.

As the two of them drew near to the star which we call our sun and to its circling plantes, the senior angel pointed to a small and rather insignificant sphere turning very slowly on its axis. It looked as dull as a dirty tennis-ball to the little angel, whose mind was filled with the size and glory of what he had seen.

'I want you to watch that one particularly.' said the senior angle, pointing with his finger.

'well, it looks very small and rather dirty to me,' said the little angel.' What's special about that one?'

To the little angle, though, earth did not seem so impressive. He listened in stunned disbelief as the senior angel told him that this planet, small and insignificant and not overly clean, was the renowned Visitied Planet.

'Do you mean that our great and glorious Prince... went down in Person to this fifth-rate little ball? Why should He do a thing like that?'...

The little angles face wrinkled in disgust. 'Do you mean to tell me,' he said, 'that He stooped so low as to become one of those creeping, crawling creatures of that floating ball?'

'I do, and I don't htink He would like you to call them 'creeping, crawling creatures' in that tone of voice. For, strange as it may seem to us, He loves them. He went down to visit them to lift them up to become like Him. 

The little angel looked blank. Such a thought was almost beyond his comprehension."

Just a little thought from  J.B. Philllips...

Yeah we know about it and how He came to save us... but just take a minute to "think" about it... and give thanks... sometimes we forget... I forget...  to give thanks and how great He really is...

much love,

bjoe 

so it's been awhile since i've last updated and now i'm sitting here watching pelfrey during the prayer vigil and i have quite a bit of time on my hands so i decided to update.

things in life have been going pretty well. not much is really happening. My relationship with God is getting better, i'm reading my bible and praying more often. so that is a definite plus.

(some things that have happened since i last updated)

• I had a week long class... It was pretty good... I enjoyed it.
• Cooper and i hung out. We went bowling with Shion and Mose. I was canada, cooper was usa, shion was japan, and mose was china:). i think the us won. It was a good time.
• Lauren Belzar and i went to see the movie Jarhead. It was hands down a bad movie. i don't recomend anyone seeing that. it was a bad movie morally as well. but we did go the artisan afterwards and to el vaq before so that was a good time. Lauren and i have a good time hanging out.
• Becca and Kc's birthday happened. they were some good birthdays. we went to beccas mom's for her birthday and she made us some food (it was awesome) there was cheesecake and then we went to a park and played sardines and had a good time. that is until i found out i lost my keys in the park. but becca found them. Then on KC's birthday we had cheesecake again and went back to the park and played sardines again and it was a blast; again. Becca and i hid for like an hour and they didn't find us so we started making noises... it was a blast!
• There was a guys night out and we went to gumby's and then to coldstone. then aaron, tyler, and i went to the mall. and then we played tennis for like 4 hours. it was great.
• Then clarence (my twin), sean, kyle, lauren b., shannon, and i all went shopping on sat at osage beach and then at the mall in colubmia. it was a good time but that night we went to the skating party. it had been a long time since i had been skating. it was so much fun.

well those are just of the few exciting things that had happend and none of them would have been any fun without my friends. thanks to you guys, i love you all, you really are amazing.

well thanksgiving is coming up and i'm not for sure what i'm goin to be doing. i found out this week my bro isn't going to be home and that he's going to be gone on the weekend i was planning on going down there so that's sad, but i guess he's got other things to do (like be with his fiance?) remember dave "bro's before... girls"

well lately i've wanting to quit my job. it's really boring, but i guess i'm thankful to have a job so i'm going to stick with it. my song lately is "i don't want to go to work; i'm a college student; there's thousands things that i can do at cccb!" sung to the tune of the kb toys song :)

well pray for me in my decision about what i'm going to do this summer. they are choosing camp teams soon, so if i need to decide soon. and also pray that my walk will continue to grow because i am far from where i need to be.

i love you all

bjoe

so i went to the world's largets corn maze yesterday... it was a good time, but only because of the people that went. weiner, anne, jaala, nick, jc, brock, jordan, kayleigh and others. our group of about 7 decided to start pushing people into the corn and that was pretty fun. we also wrestled on the top of some hay and played in a pit of corn. and there was this big slide made out of p.c. pipe, it was ok. heather and anne thought it was a blast.  then in the corn pit jaala and nick thought it would be funny to put corn down my shirt and pants... not so much fun. then that night we had a fire and roasted hot dogs. then we drove home.

so things are going well... they could be better. some things just happen and you can't really explain them. there seems to be a bunch of things running through my mind at the present moment, more than normal and it's just really frustrating me. i just need to stop thinking bout things so much and move on. right now in my life i just need to get my relationship right with God... that's the number one priority.... after that i'm sure God will take care of it...

thanks twin for being a friend and caring. i love you buddy

thanks heather for listening and keeping me in line. i love you also.

thanks to everyone else for the encouragement... and sorry for being a jerk to the rest of you...

i miss those nights i use to sit outside my door and talk to my friend about life and our problems and then pray... maybe i just miss the friendship...