Workouts and Saturday nights

First off, I just worked out and it was Fantastic.

I love Jillian Michaels, She makes me smile. =]

But on to my real saturday night.

My Brothers Got baptized this evening at church. It was phenomenal, I'm so excited to see what those two are going to do for God.

Aside from that I hung out with Russel and Brandon, and then went to Samantha and Chelsea's house and that was fun too.

The End.

75 DAYS TIL' GRAD.

WOOH. =]

Wow...

So, I was doing my Daily Blog Check and as I was reading Deb Strandberg's Blog, this video really caught my attention and I thought it needed sharing. It was pretty much a smack in the face for me.

This quote is from the mouth of Penn Gillette (a famous atheist--who said of himself "I am beyond atheist"):

Here's Penn's quote about Christians, "If you believed that there’s a Heaven and Hell, andthat people could be going to Hell, or not getting eternal life, or whatever, and you think that, well it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward . . . How much do you have to HATE somebody to know that everlasting life is possible and NOT tell them that?

I mean if I believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe it, and that truck was bearing down on you -- there is a certain point where I tackle you --and this is more important than that."

I don't know about you, But I definitely agree with him. (on most things anyways)

Still Alive, Just Busy.

Hello Blogging world, 

I have been incredibly busy these past few weeks and will probably continue to be busy up until Graduation. Blog posts might be slow, but i still will post occasionally keeping you updated and with some blurbs here and there. 

Since last time I posted: 

- My Brothers Turned 12. Yay! 

- My Daddy got his screening message for 410 Cold Lake.

- Samantha turned 17! 

- Had a 1 night trip to Vancouver to see my Uncle's play "Toronto Mississippi"  

That's just the big things, but all in all it's been super good. 

I need Better blog topics. 

Bah. =]

What Is Passion?

So This is a little journaling/research  assignment I had to do for my comp civ 12. I really liked it even though it's a bit scattered, and decided i'd say the extra time of posting a new blog and just post this. it's pretty much and update of my past two weeks anyways.

Passion

“Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialized into action to put as much heart, mind body and soul into something as is possible.”

-UrbanDictionary.com

 “Passion” –

1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate

2. strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardour.

3. strong sexual desire; lust.

-Dictionary.com

“Passion. Suffering; refers to Christ’s Crucifixion and death on the cross (Acts 1:3)”

-The Student Bible Dictionary

“Passion is important. Being passionate is being willing to jump into any situation with out warning, warm up or notice; if you are passionate about something, you just do it.”

-Jason Eliason (My Youth Pastor)

The above statements really have challenged me to look back on the foundation of my beliefs about passion. As seen in some of the above definitions, passion is something that has a very broad definition; it can mean many different things. The variety is what really astounds me when it comes to this idea of passion.

When I asked some of my peers to describe what passion meant to them, a surprising amount of people answered with either intimacy of some form. Some then followed up with the statement that passion was to have incredibly strong emotions or drive for something and to really just go for it and show it; only some Used that as their first response. Now, the latter definition is fabulous, but one in particular really gets to me. Roughly 3 out of 6 people responded with “passion, like during sex” as their first response. I was shocked, purely because I have never thought of passion as a form of intimacy. Although I believed that passion being used to describe sexual intimacy would seem incorrect and saddening, I discovered that the definition of passion has not fallen far from its original definition.

While I was doing further research I found an alarming amount of Bible verses that contained the word passion. Though they were spread amongst many different translations; they held different variations of definitions and contexts in which the word was used.

Some verses that I found as examples are the following:

KJV Bible, Acts 1:3 – This verse uses the word passion in the context of Christ’s suffering on the cross showing the definition to be suffering.

NLT Bible, Psalms 69:9 – The psalmist uses the word passion in a manner to show how committed he is to the house of the lord. This shows another aspect and definition of passion; Just doing it, no matter what the cost.

NIV Bible, 1 Corinthians 7:9 – This verse uses the word passion in order to describe a deep desire and sexual lust.

These are only a small fraction of the verses that I was able to find, however they seem to really capture the variance of this word passion. From sexual desire to extreme willingness, passion is a word that covers many different things. However there seems to be one connecting factor between each of these ideas of passion; passion is strong.

In closing to all these thoughts, I’ve really re-defined passion in my mind.  Passion is simply s strong desire and drive and giving something everything you have, no matter what the circumstance.

Babies, Festivals, and Screening Messages; Oh My!

Needless to say, this week has been absolutely insane. [And Obviously By Week I Mean, Well Whatever I Remember as Being This Week Although Dates and Times May Vary]

Monday Was Pretty Regular; Just My Usual Piano, Home Work And Music History Routine

Tuesday Was pretty Fabulous
First off;; Baby Abby Was Born, And Man Is She Cute! She Was Born on the 10th For February and She Definitely Looks like her Daddy. Good Job You Two.

Then Me And Brandon Went To Love And Respect; And No One Else was in Our Discussion group so we had a fabulous evening with P. Craig And Shanda.

Wednesday Was Pretty Usual. Got Sarah In For Early Practice Session. had a Fantastic Youth Sermon; Wait'ta Go Jason!
&& I Got To See Miss Abby.

Thursday was Work And Massive Amounts Of Comparative Civilizations... Yay!

Friday Was Also The Same, Work and Comparative Civilizations Except for Some Reason I Was Also Feeling Massively Overwhelmed With Everything In My Life, So Brandon Ran Out To Saigon Noodle House, Picked Me Up My Favorites And Brought Them Home for our Valentines Dinner Plus 1 Cause Eric Was At Our House Getting Some Sleep. Then We Went Out For Coffee Like We So Often Do, It was Really Nice.



Saturday Was Valentines Day; And I Must Say My Boyfriend Is The Bomb.
He Let Me Play Zelda All Day While Eating Massive Amounts Of Lindor Chocolate And He Waited On Me Hand and Foot. Then We Went To Church And Just Hung Out. Obviously, My Valetines Day Was Amazing.
Oh; My Gifts Are Pictured And Included Roses, Lindor Chocolate, A Beautiful Card and The Sweetheart CD I've Wanted Since January.
Sunday was the Families Chill Out Day.

AND THEN MONDAY CAME ALONG.

DUHN DUH DUHHH.

Monday was super busy.
Dad Texted Me Just Before Piano To Tell Us He Had Gotten His Screening Message for 410 SQN Cold Lake. {This Basically Means, They Are Telling Us We're Chosen, They Are Making Sure Nothing Is Terribly wrong With My Family, And Then They'll Give Us The Posting Message.}
Then I Went T o Piano For an Hours, Came Home Ate, Had some Wind DOwn Time, Whnt To Festival, The Ran Right Home For A PIano Lesson. So That I Why I Haven't Posted InSo Long. I Hope You People, Readers and The Like Can Forgive Me.

Update.

hu·bris (hyōō'brĭs)
n. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Hubris, HYOOOOBRIIISS. It's just a really fun word to say. I learnded It In Comparative Civilizations today. However, Aside from that I've had a rather productive day to day.

I Have Finished A Couple Questions On My Comp Civ Assignment (It's Massive!)
I Have Done Some Correspondance With A Piano Teacher In Cold Lake, Lookin Into Lessons And Such
I Have Worked Out (Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred Is Amazing)
I Have Valentines Dayed My Cell Phone
I Went To The Love And Respect Course At My Church (It's Really Amazing)
I Have Almost Beaten Zelda: Twighlight Princess
I'm Getting Massively Geared Up For Generation Unleashed
I Have Found My New Song. Period.
Andddd; Hmm... I Really Like Music.

Pretty Exciting Hey? I was very Exciting About All Of That; However Tomorrow Should Be Also Very Exciting, Simply Because It Involves Packing, Working, And Youth Group, Oh! And More Comparative Civilizations.