Round 1: Brad's lack of undershorts -1, Dan's wedgie wake up-0 What will round 2 offer?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, of all ages... LLLLLLLLLLLet's get ready to rumbllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

For many of you that don't know, there are som personal problems going on with my family back in Cincinnati. I recently found out that I'm going to have to extend my Christmas break by one week. Pushing my return to Chicago back from January 8th, to January 13th... Which means that Fiji might just be available for something I like to call and LCC youth group overnighter. I will be holding a small vote on this post to decide whether my presence is desired. Please leave a message voicing a yay or nay vote. If you say nay I will call you a horse and punch you in the face.
Love you all and can't wait to see you! I'll be in Cincy starting on December 23rd!

Thanks

Thank you God for today.
Thank you God for the opportunities you've put in my life.
Thank you for supportive family and friends.
Thank you for strength and wisdom.
Thank you for love, from Heaven and on Earth.
Thank you for opening my eyes to new things.
Thank you for hardening my mind against bad things.
And thank you oh, thank you for Canadians.

Thank you for a weeks worth of thanksgiving leftovers,
Thank you for the guy that calls me a "vice lord" down the block.
Thank you that most of my neighbors can't pronounce "Langdon"
and once again, thank you, oh thank you for my Canadian

You may have just laughed a little, but with thanksgiving ending remember that we have everyday that we should thank God for. All the blessings that I've just listed truley mean more than I can explain in a blog. Thank Him daily.

Who am I

once upon a time there was a freakin genious that wrote, " everyone is simply a product of the relationships that they have held." That genious was of course, me when I wrote my final paper for "theories of psychotherapy" at CCU. Living with 5 strangers on the west side of Chicago definately supports this theory.
It amazes how a group of Christians, even ones that have taken their faith to this extreme, can have such different view points. It's led me many time to ask myself, "who am I?"
You see, it's hard for people like me. People that see past a lot of the "other stuff" People who see past the cultural significance of certain things and strive to see correct way. Today many of us have "pet peeves" or what not that we attribute to rightiousness. But most of the times we just like things done a certain way because that's what we like, that's what we're comfortable with. This year I've seen that God finds MANY things pleasing, he has created a vastly diverse world so that he can recieve ALL kinds of praise. My encouragement to everyone that if you see some one who is doing things differnetly than you, don't shun them. Don't try to correct them or force them to conform to your style. Just remember that whether they seem legalistic and closed-minded, or whether they seem like a rebel without a cause, they may be just as pleasing to God as the rest of us. Just in a different way. Respect God by respecting those differences.