New Picture

What I saw tonight at the youth church.

During the worship service I began listening to the kids sing instead of trying to sing myself. Instantly when their voices raised above the music I saw the room go dark and a giant heart appear at the center of it. All the light seemed to come from the heart, in a warm sort of humming way.

And hovering over the kids were two white curtains on either side of the heart. Except they weren't hanging down like normal curtains but floating sideways, like in the movies when the people wave handkerchiefs to farewell trains or boats and such, and in extremely slow motion.

So the curtain/handkerchiefs orbited counter clockwise while the room orbited clockwise. Every thing moved around the heart. And it was emitting like a steady buzz of warm and orange red light, kind of filling up the room with almost tangible light.

This image is one of my favorites so far. It may not make a whole lot of sense but there is definitely something to it. The kids were singing "Heart of Worship" its a very powerful song.

What I got from this vivid picture was Jesus, the Father's Heart, proudly basking in the love of His precious children. Also there was a bit of a lingering feeling like when a parent kisses their child good night when tucking them into bed.

the end.

P.S. this recording doesn't do justice to what happened tonight, but just in case the reader hasn't heard the song.


"Heart of Worship"

odd sense

The other night I returned home from possibly work, but I can't quite remember at this time, and parked my car in my usual parking spot. Upon exiting the vehicle I spotted a rather offended looking deer standing behind me. A strange sense crept up inside of me to apologize to it but I didn't because at the moment there was no reason too. So I turned my back on the accusing stare and went inside.

Less than five minutes later the giggling band of sisters that are mine returned breathless with an excited story about chasing a deer through traffic trying to keep it safe from the speeding cars. All three of them, (Puddingface, Icca Chou, and Theodore) were telling me of the event at the same time and growing louder trying to talk over each other.

From the collected words I was able to translate out of the noise, I gathered that as they were coming home, Icca Chou spotted the deer and pointed and screamed. Not out of fear mind you, but simply because that is how she proclaims her awe and excitement. The other two followed with much screaming since it was dark and Icca screamed.

Then when all three realized the helpless animal before them, and out of the goodness of their hearts, they charged at the poor thing fearing it would be hit by a passing car. Of course the deer failed to see how this was an act of kindness from the girls and leaped into traffic. (it was around 10 pm so there really wasn't traffic in our residential area) Seeing nothing else to do, the girls gave chase.

There was some more giggling and talking over each other and I gathered that the deer vanished into the next door neighborhood before my sisters gave up and came home. Anyways I thought that was fun to write and now have run out of things to say. Except these are my sisters and Theodore is rather illusive so I actually have no picture of her.

THE END!!

Epic...

You could hear it even from a distance, the sound of rushing water like many waterfalls. Upon entering this fact is very true. There are four great waterfalls pouring in from all sides forming a shallow pool on the floor. As the water rippled out across the smooth surface it would splash against the walls and leap up in licks of flame and a puff of smoke. Against the west wall where one of the falls was gushing, magma crept up against gravity and disappeared in a haze of smoke, crackling and popping.

The people mingling about were conversing and laughing and many shuffled their feet in order to splash others. The music gave a start and the people began dancing. As water splashed about, zaps of electricity would bounce about from person to person. Some angels wandered in and stretched out on the ground heaving sighs relaxation as the many pounding feet massaged their great backs.

The ceiling suddenly turned black like space and then shredded in two as another fountain rained down. Up above the heavenly host laid on their belly’s at the edge, they set to smiling and waving. And then the music began to boom making the vertical fountain form into steps. In time with the music a pair of great feet, belonging to someone taller than a building, descended the liquid steps. He stopped at the foot of the steps and surveyed the scene.

Amidst the crowd Jesus sauntered too and fro high fiving and hugging bystanders as people swarmed about to wish Him congratulations. The mob sent up a great cheer as the song came to an end.

And that’s what service looked like today! Church was great!!!

English Class!

One of my dear amazing epic friends, known as Penguin, is such a wonderfully caring person. She created a whole class, teaching English as a second language for free, for any one in her neighborhood that wants to learn. It's amazing! she's put all the lesson plans together and the class keeps growing. I believe now there's about fifteen students in total.
Penguin is also nice enough to let me volunteer once a week. Since her students are family folks I get to keep an eye on all the kids while their parents learn one of the hardest languages in the world...it truly is. I have such a hard time with it and its the only language that I know.

The other day we all went outside to take advantage of the lovely amazing weather, and I saw a most wonderful sight. At the far end of the play ground stood one of those giant trees with little white blossoms all over. Every time there was a gust of wind, the blossoms would float off in a snowie manner, and as a game the kids were running all over trying to catch the petals. Also I saw some of the little girls pulling the branches lower so as to reach the flowers and dress up each others ponytails.

At first I was thinking of how much like a fairytale the whole scene was, but then it occurred to me how much like heaven that was. That's what Jesus lives for, is to make His children blissfully happy enjoying His creation. I pictured the giant soldier angels posted around the playground making sure the children played undisturbed. And the ones by the trees were shaking the branches and laughing as the kids skittered and dove after the petals.

It was a wonderful day and I'm glad to have been apart of it. Hope this post blessed the reader.

THE END!

Farewell to Old Reliable!!

Yesterday was the day that I acquired a shiny new car! TA DAAAAA! I'm sooo excited because last Sunday my friends prayed for me that God would get me the perfect car at the perfect price and every thing and it happened! Ha ha ha not that I'm surprised or any thing cause God likes to pamper His princesses with shiny gifts but still I can't get over the fact that it's actually mine.

Its a small little 2005 Suzuki Reno, and as long as I keep my fantastic job that I love so much the car will be paid for in no time.

So one of the epic funny things that happened on our adventure to acquire this speedy bean of a vehicle, because my wonderful Mommy went with me to ensure I didn't buy something stupid, was that after signing all the paper work we actually drove away with out handing over the cash down payment.

Now being a car thief wasn't on the immediate to do list, it was very much an accident (and not on the list at all mind you), and the sales men were very nice and had a no worries attitude. We just put the money back in the bank and did a wire transfer of some kind, because we were already half way home and it was a long drive.

Now as people are asking they tend to tell me that going all the way to Corvallis for a car is silly. It is an hour drive after all. However it was an amazing drive through the country and completely worth it for my new shiny baby.

THE END!!!

Friends like these

You know that saying "who needs enemy's when you have friends like these?"

Tonight when the Rixxi Raph and I met up to say our goodbyes yet again, there was an incident. Our place of meeting was the gray hound parking lot, and when we got there the Rixxi had to use the restroom. So I waited with the car till Raph showed up and she mentioned the use of a restroom as well. So we went inside the station in search of the desired facilities and Mikey (Mikey and Rixxi are the same person).

Now upon entering the lobby there was a woman security guard blocking the way to the restroom. That is odd all in its self. Aside from that Mikey had previously told the guard that she had been waiting in the parking lot and asked permission to use the restroom. It was granted and them a few minutes we come dawdling along and get halted by the guard.

"What can I do for you ladies?" she asks. "Are you taking the bus? Waiting for a passenger? Looking for a bathroom? because this is not a public bathroom and you have to go down a couple blocks to the public-"

We interrupted her... We thanked her for the directions and asked if she had seen our friend, while giving a description of our companion. The woman stopped.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and every one looks at you cause your guilty but you seem to have amnesia about the crime you're being accused of?

"You mean that young lady wasn't truthful with me? She lied to me?!" and then she got a really serious look on her face. "I'm gonna let you two through just this once but you make sure and tell your friend that lying is not okay and she is no longer welcome here."

......."Sure." we said and scooted by. The woman was just a tad intimidating. Needless to say we felt a little bad for blowing up our accomplice's scam while single handily giving her description to the guard. Rixxi felt the same way. Yet we all made it safely back to the car with no more reprimanding from the vanishing ninja lady security guard.

Well that was one of our adventures for the evening.

THE END!

Yesterday!

Yesterday was an epic day! I met up with my dear Penguin whom I haven't seen since our tragic last day of school two whole years ago! And I met up with her and our plans were to have fun for the day, but an epic adventure filled with much fun was something that we could not have predicted.

Penguin leaped into the car...(this is my friend Penguin, I call her this because before I met her people thought she looked like a penguin and she liked the idea of being a cute swimming bird type thing, and when we met I asked her if she had a nick name and she told me the story and thus she is known as Penguin) So Penguin leaped into the car and we chattered while driving out of the neighborhood.

Still we had no plans of what to do for the day, so I asked her. She mentioned an animal shelter just down the road and we could go look at cute animals for a while. That sounded like fun. Off we went! As it turns out however Penguin had motives for going. three weeks prior, Penguin's dear mom lost her cat and so my friend being a good daughter wanted to see if the cat had shown up at the shelter.

Sadly the kitty was not there, yet we still had fun playing with the kitty's. I saw this one and had to take a picture. While I was doing that, the volunteers had struck up a conversation with my friend and were talking about a specific fluffy white cat, residing in the corner. After a ten minute conversation it was proclaimed that the giant fluffy white cat was just what Penguin's mom needed! we raced back to the car and drove back to the house to spirit away Mrs. Penguin.

She socialised with the monster fluff ball known as "SuperBowl" for a half hour before paying the twelve dollar adoption fee and taking him home. That is the happy story of how my penguin family adopted a new kitty yesterday.

And before I end this post let it be known that amidst our adventures yesterday i also pulled old reliable into a parking space and had to push the car out myself...but that didn't work cause I'm a feather weight but not unlike epic musicals a crowd of people appeared out of no where and helped us out. It was FANTASTIC!!!

THE ENDNESSSSS!!!!

Train Ride!

Last week was spent visiting Mikey and Raph in Seattle. This is us in the car.

It was a most relaxing and epic vacation. We might have marathoned(yes its a word) Bones the tv show, for two days straight. Best week ever! But alas on the dreaded Thursday I was forced to part with my dear friends and go home. Never fear though, there are many ways for friends bordering that level of insanity to remain in contact no matter how many states separate them. Whoot for facebook! and that is the only time ever that I will say that...social networking...there are better things to do in my opinion, like read a book. although blogging does fall into the networking category doesn't it?


So I was on the train txting tearful goodbyes to my lovelies, when I fell asleep. The entire trip from Seattle to Portland was originally estimated to be three hours. Originally. I awoke just a while later when the train jolted to a halt. In my sleepy daze I failed to hear what the conductor said over the intercom and dismissed the matter entirely. Till a half hour later when it was noted that we still hadn't moved and were in the middle of no where. It was very dark outside.


To make the situation worse, the dude across the isle from me was very upset at the squalling baby sitting behind him, and in a very mature manner showed his frustration by cussing and storming to the dining cart. Its interesting the people you meet when on a train, or an airplane, or a bus for that matter.


I must confess that worry did start to creep in just a bit as the staff working on the train paced up and down the isles whispering into their talkies. I'm not one for conspiracy theories or jumping to conclusions but it did occur to me that the angry man that didn't like babies might have been a terrorist, and the conductor and his staff were actually CIA, but suddenly the train lurched forward about fifty yards and we were at Olympia station. Apparently there was just snow on the tracks that had to be shuffled off. That guy wasn't a terrorist, he was just rude.


Our trip ended up being about an hour and ten minutes longer due to frequent stops and snow shoveling. That wasn't too bad. The only bad part was when we pulled into the station in Portland and a freight train was already pulling through so we weren't aloud to get off till it passed in case someone was goofy enough to get to close to the freight cars. That was the moment time slowed.

No one thought that time could slow that much, but indeed as the freight cars rolled by one by one at almost five miles an hour, some teenager spoke aloud that we got there at the beginning of the train! Teenagers are interesting, they also express frustration in the form of swearing. Every one else on the train gets props, they just continued napping or reading their books.


When I started writing this post I don't think it had a point, still...I fail to see a point. At least something has been written! For those of you who have read this entire page GOOD JOB! and CONGRATULATIONS! this is the end.







THE END!!

Old Reliable

My car has character, only unique people acquire vehicles with character. Just like only unique families get strange animals like the ones we have. None of these photos are of my car. I should probably take one for show and tell.

Last weekend my car decided to add to its list of quirks, no not only does it over heat, die, and blare a fog horn in weather hotter than 65 degrees, or sound an airbag alarm whenever the key is turned (even though there aren't airbags in the passenger sides), or sound the airbag alarm if driven for more than 40 minutes, which are all fantastic little quirks, now my car has decided that reverse shall no longer be one of its functions. Yes now we are aloud to only parallel park and never go down dead ends or pull into driveways, or parking spaces.

I forgot this last Friday. I drove the Pudding, myself, and Ninja Bell, to the dentist office and parked in a parking spot. As soon as this happened I instantly slammed my forehead into the steering wheel and groaned. The Pudding and Ninja Bell were most concerned at my apparently "not normal" behavior. I was under the impression that when i act "normal" it is a rare occasion and cause for alarm. There fore it was funny that my "normal" "not normal" reaction to parking a car that refuses to reverse in a parking spot blocked on all three sides by other cars, was cause for alarm. But I am fairly certain that "Normal" people are prone to slamming ones head on the steering wheel in frustration.

that was a rabbit trail. So nothing was to be done except that when we were finished with our dentist appointment I climbed in the car and put it in neutral while my two little sisters, who are both fit and trim yet still very much featherweights, attempted to push the car. I almost cried from laughing. Happily though the car parked next to us moved and we were able to turn sharply and not have to back completely out of the space.
I like these pictures cause they make me feel better about my car.

TA DAAAAAAA!
THE END!

The Day I Met Paco

Today I was with my mom and the pudding at walmart. We happened to be walking through the auto parts isle when I noticed a man with a fuzzy creature nestled into the crook of his elbow. So I pointed at the man (as is you know the polite thing to do) and he handed me a squirrel.

This is Paco the squirrel. I didn't catch the owner's name because he couldn't speak English, but he was very nice and thought it was cool that Paco liked me.

God has a sense of humor and I think He enjoys expressing it in the random things that make us smile through out the day. Like today I smiled because squirrels are hard to hold due to their short attention spans and skittering about. They also tend to be a tad bit suspicious of strangers and will throw pine cones at you if you get to close. Or in other experiences they will sit on you for a while to eat potato chips.

This little Paco was different, he was tired of being at the store and just wanted to sit with me for a while. He was soooooo cute curled into my arm! He just relaxed as I pet him. Another reason that I smiled was because I wasn't expecting a random stranger to hand me a small woodland creature in the middle of Walmart, especially with the obvious language barrier.

Yet another reason that I smiled, was because of all the random pets to run into, I was expecting a skunk because I've ran into people who have pet skunks before...I've met people with pet skunks before, running into them would make for a much more interesting story.

Any ways enough of rabbit trails, I'm talking about little Paco that I met today and he was very sweet. Handing someone your pet squirrel is a fantastic way to start a conversation even if there is a language barrier. Now I know that there is a fun loving person out there around town who gets a kick out of brightening every one elses day. Isn't that amazing?

Well I hope that Paco has made you smile as much as he made me smile.

THE END!!!

stress releiver

Let it be duly noted that the greatest cure for stress is to take one's mace and mp3 player then to dance around the neighborhood listening to worship music. The mace is obviously just in case you run into any unpleasant characters but usually the dancing to Jesus frightens any one away should they happen to be out that late. I don't know about any one else but when I feel too stressed or overwhelmed I also tend to start feeling insane and unhinged. The best way to feel sane again, in my opinion, is to tell God whats going on and then find something to laugh at. Today I laughed at this picture that my dear Pudding sent me.

This is a fantastic picture!!

THE END!!!

Burning Barns

Today the neighbors barn burned down. It was sad cause it had been there for so long and went so quickly that the firemen got there just in time to drowned the surrounding houses so they wouldn't catch fire from the rubble. And I know that fire draws attention but I just don't think I'd like people taking pictures of my ancient burning barn should I ever have one. That just doesn't seem nice. Like preserving someone else's misery just so you can have something to show your friends. I know people don't mean to do that its just that bad news is more interesting to talk about than good news.

I suppose the only way that is going to change is if good news becomes more interesting.

Well we shall see.

Hmmmm some good news, Good News like God in Heaven, the Star Breather, created people and He doesn't make junk and He only makes what He likes. So the good news is all those annoying people taking pictures of the burning barn are fantastic works of art that God personally approves and likes. So even when they go home and talk about bad news cause its more interesting, they are still amazing and wonderful because God made them.

And other good amazing news is that the barn was empty of fantastic works of art personally hand made by God. That means that an empty barn burned, and drew all those strangers together to oooh and aaaah over, while stopping traffic for miles.

If an empty barn can do that, just imagine what one fire-ie holy spirit filled amazing work of art could do...

THE END!!!

Poetic Post

I was cleaning my room today and found a piece of paper full of scribbles. Upon closer inspection the scribbles were actually genius rhyming and i have no idea what so ever who wrote it, but for the reader's entertainment (and my own) here is what has been discovered.




"Oh proud left foot, that ventures quick within, then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke. A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! a wild release from heaven's yoke, blessed dervish! surely thou canst go, girl! The Hoke, the Poke--banish now thy doubt verily, I say, 'Tis what it's all about'."



What a fantastical version of the Hokey Pokey!!! hope this reader has smiled today...



THE END

Wake Up!!!!

This morning my poor daddy was just trying to help and it was dark so I understand the mismatch. Five minutes before my alarm was set to go off Daddy came busting in worried that I was going to be late for work. He had a wringing phone in his hand causing us to think that my alarm was left elsewhere in the house rendering it useless. As it turns out it was my sisters phone and I don't have to be to work for another hour yet. But the upside is I got lots of Daddy hugs before he went back to sleep to enjoy the rest of his Saturday.

THE END!

Yellow Submarine

Once upon a time my siblings and I stopped at a burger ville during one of our excursions. After munching our food and joking for a bit we dared the Pudding, (the youngest) to push some buttons on the music box. Happy to bravely fulfill the dare she glanced through the song listings a minute before finding one she was happy with. Unfortunately for every one in the building the machine was broken due to unforeseen circumstances. The chorus of the Yellow Submarine rolled around with a crashing halt causing every one to flinch and cringe while sinking lower into their seats. Then the yellow part of the song insisted on going through a loop followed by a crash, so for the remaining five minutes of the song we all heard




"Yellow! *crash* Yellow! *crash!* Yellow!" and so on. Poor Pudding refused to try again and the burger ville employees were sending us dark looks, but if they didn't want us messing with the machine they should have put a sign on it or something. At least it wasn't something obnoxious like the credit commercials.



so any how



THE END

Never Board

Last week me and my dear Donnie took a train to Seattle to visit Raph and Mikey. (we gave each other the names of the ninja turtles. They were the only foursome cool enough aside from the four musketeers and we like having nick names)
Any who, one evening we embarked on one of our many adventures and wound up at the mall. We were there for about forty five minutes before it closed and on our way out we happened to notice the Red Robbins restaurant attached to the food court.

Cheese sticks sounded amazing so we tried the door but it was locked. The establishment was still open just locked. It was an odd paradox. So a helpful security guard told us hooligans that we had to go out side and use the other entrance. We thanked him and went out side.

The building was a bit confused because the mall appeared to be on the second floor and we had to take stairs to return to the side walk. We found another entrance further down the street and happily it was an elevator. (we like elevators) Unfortunately when we exited the contraption we were right next to the locked entrance of Red Robbins again and right behind the security guard who had his back turned to us.

Like ninjas we scrambled and shoved our way back into the elevator. We went to the ground floor and then the second again a few more times just for fun before looking for the ghostly entrance of the restaurant we wanted food from. It seemed to be just that, a ghost. We even stopped an employee who happened to be wandering the vast empty parking lot with us and she pointed back at the main entrance now guarded.

Raphael proclaimed that the security man was just board and wanted us kids out of the mall. So we settled for a burger place before going to see our movie which was a bad idea. It was a horrible movie, I suppose the name and actors should have given it away. (Never see Season of the Witch!!!) And before the movie we got lost in the theatre that had multiple levels. Finally the evening was over and we returned to the bus stop around o'dark thirty in the morning.

Unfortunately the driver saw us coming and left before we could get on the bus. This made Mikey most upset and Raph stood forlorn with her arms in the air out of shock. Me and Donnie kept laughing though. I think it made the morning worse for Mikey.

Eventually another bus took pity on us and then another and after a bit of a walk we returned safely to the apartment in the basement of the mansion. It really is the setting for a fantastic story or maybe an epic movie. Any ways I am never board with my wonderful ninja friends! Even a simple evening at the movies can turn into an adventure.



THE END!!!

Animals

I think that my family is good with animals because the animals can sense the Jesus in each of us. Animals have that extra sense that can tell if a person is sincere or not.
And then there's the other effect my family has on animals. Even if the pet starts out like an average dog or cat or bird etc. Being around other house hold members will certainly turn them into a one of a kind personality quirk of unusualness.

This puppy here is little Conguito (Kon Geet Oh), and he gets confused allot. When he runs around the house its always in a bit of a confused panic like he's lost or something. I remember one day I was putting towels away in the bathroom when I sensed a presence behind me. Upon turning there was Conguito frozen with one paw up in mid step. He stood there in the door staring at me with wide eyes and one ear standing straight up.
There was about a minutes pause before I got up the courage to ask him if he was alright. In reply and while still staring at me, he slowly tilted his head. He waited just a moment before licking the wall and running off like something from the little shop of horrors was chasing him.
That made me laugh for quite some time so here it is on my blog. Ta daaaaaa!

THE END

Fantastic

Today I received a reply to my two weeks notice...

My former employer and I tend to have very different opinions on things and I was having a hard time, but God who is ever in control has found me a new job with the hours I need WAHOOOOO!

Well the reply I got and was expecting to be a huge insult and question of my character was actually a praise and encouragement. They said "Thank you for working with us and we are sorry you had a hard time, Please use us as a positive reference and good luck with your new job we hope its wonderful."

God so cares about every thing!!!!!

THE END

Heavenly Places

At one point during the Jesus Culture conference, Pastor Jake was showing us how going to heavenly places is so easy. He instructed every one to close their eyes, take a deep breath, and just let Jesus take us where He wanted to go. It was crazy FUN! instantly all over the sanctuary young people and kids got pictures and ideas and amazing stuff and every one was feeling the effect of Jesus being in the room.

I had been standing on my chair due to the shortness of my stature and I really wanted to see what was going on, on stage. So every one closed their eyes and waited. I think the room might have developed a vacuum since every one took a breath at the same time. When my eyes were closed I could still see the place we were in only there was one addition aside from being clearer. Jesus was standing at the other end of the room walking in the crowd. it was so vivid that I opened my eyes but the room was dull again. still something was itching at my brain so I jumped off my chair and went to where I saw Him standing, but there nothing. So I returned back to my seat and closed my eyes again.

As every thing became clear again I saw Him and He stood still but the teenagers around Him, one by one each person turned into a flaming red orange mass like lava and flew towards the ceiling. it looked like flaming upside down rain. they slapped through the ceiling and shot into the sky, zig zagging about like rockets.

Then the United States was before me and one of the lava raindrops landed in New York and there was an explosion. Fire came out like big red arrows and flew West South and East. Then I saw myself coming to a landing in Africa and there were children running. When I landed some of them stopped and began giving me hugs and i was telling them that every thing was okay.

I think that's enough for one post.

THE END

Jesus Culture!

I'm at the Jesus Culture conference in Redding California, well we actually just finished tonight but happily its Saturday so we still get an awesome church tomorrow before we go home. Jesus Culture is a youth conference that happens a couple times a year. It was originally the youth group from Bethel Church having an extra extravagant party but now its morphed into something so big that it takes the Convention Center and the whole Church building to contain it.

Young people have come from all over to party with God this weekend. What the teachers have been instilling in us these past two days is how we are a supernatural revivalist generation. And that God wants us to have His presence all the time in our homes and in our city's. There has been a lot of praying against fear because that's a last resort trick of the devil, and we have inherited what our Daddy God has that's His favor and authority. He likes to pamper and love His kids, so when we ask that cancer be gone, God is so happy to make that happen.

Also we learned that the Holy Spirit has called us to live our lives with a shout (we are after all generation extreme). Live with a shout and show that with our time, money, energy, attitude, encouragement, and forgiveness. Church should be a party all the time because Jesus is in our midst. And Christians should be the most forgiving loving people because we have been the most forgiven.

The teacher we heard from today is called Russel Evans and he talked about the part in the Bible where Jesus was crucified for us, and in His last breath He said the words "It is finished." at that point all of hell cheered because the devil had his fill of blood and the man that had caused him so much grief was dead. But on the third day, in the midst of hell Jesus appeared in Satan's face causing much fear and panic. Jesus took the keys of our inheritance from the devil's petrified hands and said "What I meant by its finished, was their death is finished and your reign is finished."

The crowd was going absolutely wild at that point. Just before Teacher Russel had shared about what he imagined Jesus raising from the dead to be, we had been learning how to make a joyful shout. 11,000 young people in a room learning how to shout is definitely something to be seen and heard. When he got to the "Satan your finished" part, the sanctuary erupted with a powerful Ruah (meaning to sound an alarm). We meant to shake the earth and I'm pretty sure we did.

There is so much more to say that I can't put into words at the moment, but I most certainly will later. For now THE END

A different kind of gaggle adventure

For quite some time now it has been a joke among the gaggle to always say we are getting tattoos. Whenever we vacate the house for some spur of the moment reason, one of many parents would say "Don't talk to strangers!" or "Don't drink and do drugs!" or "Drive on the right side of the road!" etc. etc. And our response would be "Don't worry we're just going to all the bars and all the tattoo parlors." All in good fun of course, the parents would laugh nervously and mutter amongst themselves. For added effect every time a tattoo parlor would pass us by someone would crow "Hey guys lets go get tattoos!!!"

Well finally two of us did it. After much debate and thinking on my part (it was spur of the moment for my friend), Two gaggle members have permanently art worked their epidermises. There has indeed been much grief from our circles of friends, I think the entire world has been split in half for every other person says that tattoos are okay and every other person says that tattoos are evil! we're just going to leave it at that because if every one had the same opinion it wouldn't be very fun.

The gaggle that went with me for my permanent marring of the skin were fully supportive and willing to hold my hand no matter how hard I squeezed (I'm very strong). Also they were there to catch me should fainting occure but the little machine barely resembled a needle at all, it actually looked like a cross between a pen and a glue gun.

This is what I decided to put on the inside of my wrist. We left the leaves out of the picture so its just the dove. My other gaggleite got a dove as well but it wasn't planed that we have similar tattoos and we got them at different times at different places.

For me though I like the dove, in the bible when Jesus gets baptised the holy spirit appeared in the shape of a dove and whats shiny about doves it that their eyes can only look straight ahead. Most birds their eyes are on the sides of their head so they can see in front and behind them. (That's why crows have issues is cause their looking in to many directions at once, it makes them grumpy) Anyways I like the fact that doves can only look forward because I want to only look at Jesus and not be worried about whats behind me.

Another little ponder as this comes to a close, if the gaggle finally went and got tattoos...what else is actually going to happen in the future?

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I am going to try and put my musings into blog form and see how that works for a while. This here is the Blog of Pippin/Sparky/anybody, colonel of the infamous Gaggle Squad and since most of us are getting quite busy with this thing called growing up, I have taken it upon myself to manage my own blog! heh heh heh we'll just see how long this lasts.

This picture here is of me, icca chou, and pudface, taken on the event of Christmas Eve and every thing wonderful! For Christmas we had the privalage of going to grandma's house and being with the entire family. The whole evening was spent munching on food, opening presents, and enjoying each other's company.

As the hours began to roll towards the A.M. we found ourselves sprawled on the floor, staring with glazed eyes at the sparkely christmas tree or what was left of it anyways. Nana our great grandmother has had the joy of beading little ornimate bells just for the fun of it. And as the years have gone by we seemed to have aquired more bells than tree. Really what us young adults were staring at was a giant glowing bell that reached to the ceiling.

By now we were giggling in our overtired state of randomness and we were so impressed at the great acheivement of turning our tree into a giant bell at long last, that we began to sing Melekalikimaka (the greatest christmas carol ever). To acompany our singing, Evarella danced a lovely hula to our labored caroling. It was truly a hallmark moment. For the finally dear uncle lept to assist her with a walts and they finished with a tripping bow.

The crowd went wild with aplause!

This is the conclusion of my christmas memory and my first blog post.

Ta Daaaaaaaaaaa!

-Pippin