dark comedy + minnesota + no money = blog

i just realized that i do NOT like dark comedies...just for the record.

they confuse me more than anything.

i miss my FFI family and especially my minnesotan roommate that helped me improve my northern accent.  

i hate money and that we need it so much.  i should just walk to colorado to go see her...but i would STILL need money for food.

nevermind...i'll just show you a picture instead...ok a few pictures...

this is when buddy got sick and had to take shots of robbitussin

this is in class...this one still makes me laugh hysterically

this is when we dressed up for one of the first parties thrown at the Omega apartments at Focus...this is when we didn't know anyone

fun memories (haha...look at ash's face in the background)

stupidness

you know when you do something but forget about a certain detail that alters what you did into something that you didn't want to happen AND then you just feel stupid?  ya...just did that.

hell and penn

so i have been talking about blogs lately and i had lunch in the caf with my friend rachel the other day...and she says that she reads over 300 blogs or something crazy like that.  what??  wow. i don't even know what to say to that except....wow! :)  she is awesome.  you should go visit her blog.  

a couple things i've been thinking about lately:

hell.  i've been reading a lot about hell in dr. morgan's class (Christian Doctrine) and really trying to understand the concept of eternity separated from God and His just rule.  i get into this circular fairiswheel that i can't get off.  i start thinking about eternity and then i think of how it is going to be when we aren't living here on the earth anymore.  i won't have to worry about the silly things i worry about everyday.  eternity. wow. how do you even think about that? foreverness...what do you do forever?  what does forever look like?  it hurts my brain.  but then i think about eternity without God, suffering more than anything i can ever imagine. then i watched this video of Penn:

"how much does it take to hate somebody to not proselytize? how much does it take to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?"

then i start thinking about the gospel and what a preposterous thing my salvation is. because of sin, i am against God. i am not a friend of God and i deserve death. i am unworthy of any mercy or grace because of the acts that i do against the Lord. i am made in His image and yet I am an enemy of Him.

the glorious God has made us in HIs image, giving us His glory. But Romans tells us that we have exchanged the glory of God, falling short and have made ourselves the center of the world, wanting to pursue our glory instead of His. And through pursuing our glory, we lose the glory of God that we once had.

YET!!! He sends His Son to bear all of the stuff i have done that goes against God's character and Jesus dies the death that i was supposed to. He pays my price. He does it, not because He is passionate about me or is obsessed with the idea of me, but He does it to exalt Himself. He does it so that I can come into a relationship with God, and act in response of His deliverance of me. Jesus does not fall shourt and because we are tied to Christ's death, we are becoming what we were supposed to be. We are being made into the image of Christ.

wow. dr. morgan (in his book, Hell Under Fire) says, "...the central 'problem' of the Bible that the gospel solves is centered on how God can be holy and just and still forgive rebellious and guilty sinners who trust Him".

wow.

back to penn...i think he said it best.

why don't i love well enough?

66

that is the number of how many blogs i read...addicted maybe??

some of them are my friends here at cbu,

some of them include blogs of professors,

some of them are photographer's (i love pictures...out of a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, definitely an 11),

some of them are pastor's blogs/scholar's blogs,

and some are fun style/design blogs.

i really like blogs...sometimes they distract me from homework (maybe i should fast from them one week...hmm) and sometimes i think about how crazy it is that this "blogosphere" has caught on so fast.

what are your favorite blogs?  what kind of blogs do you look at?

walkin around

hey thanks for stopping by...hope you had a wonderful friday.

it was such a beautiful day here in riverside that bryce and i decided to go for a walk...here are some of my fav pics of the day...

i feel like this one should go on some cool colorful inspired blog

this picture attests to the beautiful day

and this is a fun one of us...

i really want to be a photographer...

tines

ok so i know everyone is dying to know what i did for...what i like to call...tines day (i just made that up right now).  anyways, i got a box of cookies in the mail from my paka and tay (my grandparents...i made up those names for them when i was little...don't ask)!  they always send me yummy cookies but i think what i like the thought behind the cookies more than the cookies itself.  my grandparents are the best.  love you paka and tay!

well, i had a lot of reading to do for school (i know....who assigns reading on tines weekend??) so bryce and i went to huntington beach and sat on the beach for a while.  it was fun.  it was a beautiful day and it was fun to just watch the waves.  we started to take some pictures and then my battery died (isn't that only what older people do??  no offense)!  so this is one of the only pics we got that day...and i must say that we are pretty hot. 

then we walked around the beach and bryce got a cool shirt for practically free and we went to jamba juice cause i had a gift card...we basically tried to spend the least amount of money...and i really loved every minute of the simplicity of the day.  then we came back to my apartment and made breakfast for dinner (one of our favs...bryce makes some mean pancakes.  he gives my dad a run for his money) and we watched a movie.  fun times.  

also....ethan was gone the entire weekend, so as soon as he got back, sunday night, we went and got another puzzle...this time...yes, we chose Jesus!  yes, folks, we are putting the Last Supper puzzle together as we speak.  ethan found Jesus' face right away amongst the pieces and so we decided that those pieces would be the last to go in.  they are sitting on a bible (of course, where else) in the living room.  

in other news, i get to go to ISRAEL this summer!!!!!!!!! so excited about that.  the Lord provided in HUGE ways for the money for me to be able to go with my parents and my sis jill.  we are leaving may 4th (which i graduate may 2nd!!! and then have to move all of my stuff home and then pack to leave the next day!).  the Lord has lavished so much blessing on my this year already that i don't deserve.  He is teaching me so many lessons that i can hardly keep up.  hope you all are doing good!  

oh ya, and i would love to know what you did for tines day...so let me know!

friday funnies

ok, so valentines is just around the corner...tomorrow actually...and you know how I feel about vday (or if you don't you can go here)!  

the greatest thing about vday is that they had chocolate covered strawberries in the caf!! MY FAV!!

if you didn't get any chocolate covered strawberries, hopefully this will help...here is a gift from me to you:)

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

thursday funnies take two

I don't know what happens on thursdays...but it just seems to be a funny day:) Ok, so if you watched the guy without a shirt saying that he doesn't have a job...and thought that it wasn't funny. Here is something you are sure to enjoy:)

Maybe you thought..."holly, I just can't take a creepy guy who let's his dog kiss his face"...then you are in luck (unless you don't like adorable little children)!

My friend Kenton (who is a great photographer I might add...his website is coming soon...but for now, go here to see a daily picture by Kenton:)) sent me this video the other day to a response to the "creepy i don't have a job" video. enjoy!