I took a vacation from cyberspace

not really, i just have been really busy. and kinda forgot to update my blog. i also fractured my elbow and hyperextended my ucl (tendion in my elbow) 3 weeks ago. i have 5 weeks left in this brace before i either have surgery or start physical therapy. its slightly annoying because i cant use my right arm for almost anything.

anyway, so i am on thanksgiving break in wisconsin. its fun, i am visitng friends.


i had a very interesting trip on the way here. i came here with another friend named andrew. we left for wisconsin at 5 pm in the evening. we didnt leave york until 5:45 because we spent half an hour at a gas station. around midnight in iowa, his windshield and windows fog up in an instant, as he trys to defog, he accidently ends up going waaaaaaay to fast. he got a ticket. as well as a person (unbeknownst to us) who had been trying to pass him and sped up as well.

then at 1 pm, he notices that his car has been sitting at empty for a while. so we take the next exit in iowa to find a gas station. we find it after driving 5 miles away from the expressway.

it was closed.

so, along with a few jokes from me about getting out to push, we drive to the next town 5 miles away. it had two gas stations. one was closed.


one was an amaco station. amaco was bought out by bp years and years ago. that gas station summerized how sketchy the town was.
we drove 11 miles at 25 mph with our hazards on on this highway. find a city whos name i have forgotton. and we got to the station before the car breathed its last. it was a close call because the car had started to die 2 miles before.


we get back on the expressway and proceed to get to an amish store next to a gas station. he pulls over the car and takes a half an hour nap. i sit there wondering why the "amish" store has security cameras and lights. we finally get into black river falls wisconsin at 4 am. i didnt want to wake up the people i was visiting, they live at wisconsin christian youth camp, so i plop (it was a very quiet plop, i was trying to make no noise) onto a pew in the great hall. i woke up around 9 am with the knowledge of why pews are for sitting and not sleeping. i then knock on the door. i proceed to head to rhinelander that day.



its so nice not having to pay for laundry.

If you die tomorow, will your possesions miss you?

Instant gratification.

A phrase that defines my generation in a lot of ways. Although i dislike generalizations.

we hear so often from teachers and adults that "you cant take it with you!" or "he who dies with the most money.....still dies."

So many things of this nature drain time from our lives, i was playing a video game for 2 hours today and thought afterwards, "why?"

i did it during a time where i could have hung out with friends, read my bible, or worked on a different blog post.

but i chose a video game.

the original deciples of Christ spent so much time towards fighting (figuratively) that others would hear the messege of God.

Video Game Vs. God

not much of a match up.

people at york college like to gossip, a lot.

Who so and so is dating Vs. God

Still not a matchup

i could look forever and not find a match, and i would probably be dead and have had my sole accomplishment in life being that i proved God was above all else.

That would be similar to announcing to the world that 2 + 2 = 4.

Duh!

I want to challenge all who read this (including myself) to think about how we spend God's gift to us.

Please dont waste it.

Jerome Taylor is a stud.

Jerome spends a lot of time working to help people, to do Gods work, and to help people (he does a lot of that). he also has a really cool blog.

Check it out at,
http://jerometaylor.wordpress.com/

good news

york college won  its first game of the season today against grace college. we won 6-1. it was also my first collge game ever played in.

it was fun.

It takes something special to be a goalkeepeer.

im starting my first soccer game for york college tomorrow, im excited.

as a goalkeeper i have one of the most fun jobs ever. and if its done right, one of the most rewarding.

to be a college level goalkeeper you have to be willing to get in the way of the ball, this includes throwing your body around and sacrificing it to save the team.

sometimes life requires this to.

there are times in life where others need help, and you need to sacrifice for them.

i say "need" and not "could" because we have been given these bodies and lives by God for God.

if we spend our time helping others, it can be the most rewarding experiance. if we invest in people(especially people who arent considered "worth it") we will not be disapointed, because God will work through us.

i was one of "those people"

i was at a point in my life where i had given up hope, i was homeless. and i wanted to sit down and die.

mr ferber asked me one night after i picked myself back up and was satying with a friend, if i wanted to live with his family. he had never met me before that night.

i lived with his family for 1 month, and had started going to church. and at the end of the one month i made the decision to be baptized. i never before had wanted something so much.

and after i moved in with another family, who i was friends with their son. i began to think about my decision. i wasnt prepared, i wanted it but i didnt quite understand. and now i realize that God knew what i meant by it more than i do now. and he knows that i just want to be near him.

the whole reason im able to discuss this now, is because the ferbers and the hinkleys took that chance and made that invetment. and i will never let God down because of the sacrifices they made for me.

there is a parable in the bible about the sheep and the goats, and it has one of my favorite verses "what you have done for one of mine, you have done for me" (paraphrase).

Help people know God. Its a wondefull thing when you do.

A lot can change in 8 months.

I took this in march. i was taking photos with a friend of mine. this is one of my favorites. i love photography, and i wish i still had a camera. This picture comes with a thought about seeing God around us.

I don't see God everyday in the nature around me, but rather the people. Because the trees only give beauty, people give hope.

sports talk

I love sports. sports make me smile. I have played every well known sport in america (including water polo). when i watch sports i get really into it. people around me disappear and i become envoloped.

super bowl parties are bad for my health because of this. (because people dont like being "ignored".....i cant help it....sorry)

sports are a passion of mine.

God is something else i try to be passionate about. Sports are temporary, one day i wont be able to step onto a soccer pitch. But every minute of every day, i can be doing the good work of God.

When it comes to passion, it has a key element that is often left out of things we do in our everyday life. (including church)

Its called feeling.

and not just in the moment feelings like, happy, sad, mad, tired, upset. But more importantly ones such as; Joy, Hate(not a good one), depression, and love.

But so many people fall into a catagory that is so empty of feeling. The apathetic group.

A lot of people live their lives, but are not really alive. they do things without much thought as to "why?".

and they dont consider the potential their lives have.

i dont want to be that way. i want to have purpose.

i want everyone to live with purpose and passion. because its sad to think of lives wasted.

and i want everyone to love God the way he loves us.

I want us all to be passionate.