i gotta remind myself to go to worshiptogether.com later; supposedly maybe good stuff for worship leaders.

i am drawn to the fact that david danced before the Lord with all his might, half naked(based on 2nd Sam) THAT is how i should worship God; with everything i've got(not the half-naked part, well, maybe, but it depends which half).
oh yeah; btw, if you've ever seen me dance alone to worship songs, it looks funny... sorta like a mix between an air guitar played by a punk rocker and a hip-hopper, not to mention i occasionally rap along to the lyrics. but yeah, that's with "all my might," isn't it?

GIYA- Give It Your All

am i the only guy formally(or currently) in my youth group who has a healthy stomach? everyone else is either lactose intolerant, or has stomach problems, or doesn't like eating certain types of food(such as beef(WTF), cheese, milk). or just doesn't like eating. no wonder i'm the tallest person. (not that i guzzle milk by the gallon or anything... i just make sure i get my 3 cups per day, and then some if i feel like it. i'm about one inch away from 6 feet).

be grateful for what you've got, and USE IT TO YOUR BEST POTENTIAL.

once again, thanks for all the memories friends... the chapter closes, but the pages won't be sealed(if you get what i'm aiming at)

time's run out. the question now is, will i still be standing after i face my fears? and will i be able to STILL be more on-time than those 2 SoCal girls? but most importantly, will i NOT BE SHAKEN? (cue intro riff into drums, then add piano and acoustic guitar... oh man, i've known our worship team style a bit too much blindman ;D)

ok, i promised that i'd write that thought i had on prayer actually working, because God granted a request to me once... here's what i wrote down later about it after it occured on a sheet of paper(it's not that amazing, BUT it is proof nevertheless that prayer does work, at least according to this circumstance):

"Prayer does work; at 8:39, 7/14/02, after exiting 85 at Evelyn Ave, I prayed that all the traffic lights I encountered until I reached Farley St. would be green(if not for my sake, then at least for the ones on the worship team) because I was 10 minutes late and I knew if I encountered any red lights that would delay my arriving by 5 min.
Not only did God honor my request, he even turned the traffic light turning into Farley St. green, something I hadn't expected. So you see, God does answer prayer, but he looks at your heart, your intentions, and most importantly, your faith before deciding. In addition, he also looks to see if he knows you or sees if you're trying to get to know him."
at the bottom, i also noted that there were 8 traffic lights; one following a stop sign and right before a RxR, and one right afterward. with 8 traffic lights, that was a HUGE oppurtunity to get a red light, but... i zipped through all of them. it still sounds minor to a bunch of you, but to me at the moment(because i had travelled this path MANY times, and NEVER gotten all of them green), this was big. praise God, and I hope I can expect even greater things from him as i take off.

almost always a downside to everything....
i'm thinking davis is an abundance of cows... that's good for dairy products and meat... but i'm also thinking, by that same token, there must be a lot of anti-cow activists around there.

me: we should just one day go to chili's, order a fajita and try to pile as much stuff as we can onto a tortilla
tomato: or home depot
every1: ????
tomato: i mean hometown buffet
tk: build your own tortilla

i need an AC adaptor for my dist/od pedal... and i hope to God that what i studied for chem will be enough this time... (fingers crossed really badly)

i hate it when i get a mental lull...
i hate it when life seems dull...
i feel like i'm in the dark night of the soul or something like that.

i'm thinking, fortune cookies and horoscopes probably won't be able to tell you what your future is by itself. but i believe that God uses the circumstances around you to show you his will(or at least suggest it), according to "Experiencing God." so in that sense, sometimes God may use fortune cookies to tell you what he wants to do. one time at Tsing Tao(their #160 is SOOO good), my fortune cookie read,
"Sell your ideas, they're worthwhile."
another time,
"You have a deep appreciation for arts and music."
combining the two, is God telling me something? maybe he DOES like my idea of the possibility of becoming a Christian rock artist.

Soul Calibur 2 is very fun... too bad i got used to TTT-style blocking(not to mention VF4 Evo costs 3 tokens to play), so when some guy joined in, i got whupped... forgetting how to block.

i'm thinking of maybe moving my favorite songs section of my site to another blogspot... i spend too much time updating that page, as i find too many good songs too quickly.