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some of you may have noticed that i haven't been blogging latelyyy. sorry about that! :/ but thank you for continuing to check back on it, if anyone has been :P

i have made a TUMBLR [tadaaa!].
it's easier to use, more fun, etc. you can check it out at www.itsjubeesss.tumblr.com
two "e"s, three "s"s... ;D
xP
well, thanks everyoooonee! cya on my tumblr [:

well hullo there.

something. you're welcome, morgy.

hahaha.

weeeeeeelll. gollygee. it's been like, since the end of laasst school year since i blogged. :P so. sorry, everyone [:

haven't really got much to say, but, i do have SOMETHING. haha.

so. another video game related one. cause i'm such a nerd like that. in life, something may happen, and you just break down and feel like you can't go on anymore, right? maybe you moved, or your parents broke up, or you failed a subject or something. well. i'm here to say that it's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD :D and the video game connection?

well. let's say your life is mario kart. (ha, ha.) you're doing great, you're first place, then OUT OF NOWHERE comes this blue shell (flying shell, idk what you guys call it...) and knocks you, maybe even pushes you off the track. what do you do? do you give up, and just let everyone pass you? no, you keep going as if nothing happened. right? you pick yourself up from the situation and go on. sure, you might have gotten a better time or whatever if that hadn't had happened, but if you race with items, it's almost impossible to not get hit SOME time during the race ;D

plus, that's what makes it exciting. hahah. maybe not in real life, but, idk. :P

another one. brawl. (ha.) if someone hits you, and you fall off the course or something, you don't just forfeit and kill your remaining lives. noooo. you fight back, even harder. you make them PAY for it. hahha. well, maybe not in real life. i actually don't know where i'm going with this. but if like, something bad happens, you might take some damage, and your percentage'll go up. right? yea. so you're more vulnerable. more likely to be crushed. but you won't let people bully you around! yaaay! stand up for yourself! :D

yeaup. when life gives you lemons, make lemondaaaade <3

anyway. just some thoughts of mine.

cya soooon. (aka in like, 5 months ;D)

Mario Kart...?

a few days ago we got Mario Kart for the Wii, and Joseph said, "What if everything was nothing?" what an ironic statementt... but he was referring to the kart/bike's stats. like, what if all the stats were empty was what he meant. anyway. i kept repeating what he said in my head and came up with this...

what if everything we were doing in life was really nothing? i mean, i learned of te statistics recently that ten out of ten people die. ha. well anyway. i think we all knew that, but really think about it.

yea, i know, we need to enjoy life and stuff...but have you ever thought about what your purpose in life is?

i don't know. i guess i could say more, but just think about what/who you're living for =]

Walking into walls...

got this idea from haram, so give the credit to her :)

alriiiiigggghhhhtttt. more thoughts on us Christians being not of this world :)
as humans, we have sin, one of those sins being stubbornness. we'll want to do things our way, we'll always think we're right and won't want to accept anything other than what WE want. right? society is all "me, me, me". they think they're the center of attention, that we're "all that".
anyway.
we want to do things the way WE want to, want to control our OWN lives right? you wouldn't want to hand over all you're working towards, all that hard work you've invested into your life and just hand it off to someone saying "you run my life. i'll let you control me from now on"
most of us wouldn't do that.
so what we're doing is walking into a wall.
Jesus is chasing after us, trying to bring us into the light. offering us his love and eternal grace. his mercy, his kindness.
and what're we doing?
running away from it all.
we're walking into a wall. a blockage. we don't want to accept into our live what jesus wants to give to us.
we want to do things our way.
what Jesus is saying is "look. you're going the wrong way. you're walking into a wall. you won't get anywhere like that. let me help you."
and we shy away from him, continuing to run away from a better life we could be having because we're too stubborn to turn around. we keep thinking to ourselves, "i can do it. i'm going the right way. I can figure it out."
but all we need to do is turn around, and run back to The One who made us, loves us, died for us. all we need to do is say "Lord, come into my life. i've been going the wrong way all this time, wading in my sin, doing what I wanted to do. But it's not all about me. i want you to take over my life and transform it into what you want it to be. make it a life of peace, joy, and happiness. take away my sorrows, my pains, my hurts, and replace it with everlasting, true genuine peace."
and that's it.
it will be just that if you just surrendur all that you have, and all that you've worked towards.
pull away from that wall you've been so desperately trying to fight. you won't be able to walk though it.

and as Christians, we're fighting the flow. we're running away from the wall, running towards an abundant and happy life. but the rest of society is pushing us back towards te wall, tempting us, taunting us saying, "you can run your own life. do what YOU want. you don't have to listen to anyone." and there they go, just pushing against the wall, looking for a way out. but they're too prideful to turn around, and admit they've been going the wrong way.

just turn around :)
there will be someone waiting with open arms, ready to transform you into something wonderful and beautiful.
there will be someone ready to die for you, to save your life.
there will be someone ready to trade all the bad things in life for joy and peace.
he's waiting for you. he's been waiting for forever. :)

My vids finally uploaded!

here they are! from the trip mentioned in my last post:

part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnJioXwqb_s&feature=channel
the boat ride and the huyuuuuge park :) i think this one's better because, ironically, i made part 3 and 4 first, so they weren't as good as this one :)

part 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2BxD7uPdg&feature=channel
the wedding, and the randomness of fun stuffs in the car :)

TRIP

alriiiight. haven't posted in awhile. sorry guys :)

so. this past weekend my family and i went on a road trip! yayy!

and. to be consistent with my last post, i made a point to not play with my new toys ;) i looked out the window more that i normally would have, and i really paid off. i took a bunch of gorgeous pictures of the scenery, and i'm making a movie of it, which i'll post later when i'm done! :D

i have to admit though...i was playing taptap revolution with my brother (who can beat me -.-) and i missed the sunset!!! i was sooooo mad at myself. but. that's life. you'll be distracted with other stuffs, and then you'll miss things that're truly priceless. but. if you really strive hard enough to make up for it, you might catch the last glimmer of the big orange circle going behind a mountain :) which i did :D idk if that made sense, but when you keep looking for something, you could see the last part of it. i don't know. but. anyway. yes, i admiti was being hypocritical, but i can't be perfect. no one can be. so those of you calling me out and pointing to that post i made...i know, i may seem totally contradictory. but honestly, do you expect me to really be sinless? and because of that post, life has been harder(ish). several people have called me outon this, telling me to stay consistent with that post. if you want to tell me, tell me to my face. don't go talking about me behind me back, telling OTHER people how i may be being a hypocrite (which i admit, i will be at some times). as my friends i want you to help me live a life of integrity. yes, posting that has made stuff harder on me; more pressure. but it will push me to be better than who i am now. good things don't come easily.

well. now that that's out of the way, i'll tell you the fun stuff :) i visited my cousins and then went to a wedding; up further north, about an eight hour drive (and seriously, do you think i would stare out the window the whole time? even I can't do that ;]) we went to a lake, and took a boat ride around for an hour, which was AMAZING :D lot's of cute duckies, and a few turtles :D (vid'll be up soon--i promise :)) then we went to this HU-YUGE park, with like, BILLIONS of little kids... T_T okay, at least two hundred. i'm not even kidding. there was one of those rope-y towers with like, kids cleaning to it, and the thing was like, twenty five feet high...there were several playground structure thingies...and the best part. this slide...litterally CARVED into this rock hill...there were piles of cardboard boxes at the foot of it that kids would grab and run up the little wooden planks to the top of the slide...it was IN.SANE. and crazily FUN. i seriously went on that thing till i almost eroded a hole in my jeans O_o and i have videos of it :D (me sliding down, not my jeans ^^")

QUOTES that i snagged while i listened to my abnormal cousins talk, along with my own family:

Joseph: Guess what Jube? i can fart with my mouth closed!

Me thinking: (guess what? i can fart with my mouth open OR closed! -.- oooh, scary.)

you know how little kids LOVE to talk about butts and stuff? well my two(?) year old cousin was talking about butts, and my uncle was like, "enough with you butt talks!" (Say that sentance out loud, and you'll get it x])

okay, if you didn't get it: "butt talks", "buttocks" :DDD

Jacob: i squished an ant, and i can see his ears moving!!

Joseph: you mean his tenticles?

well. there were more, but they weren't as thrilling. yes, i know, they were all VERY exciting. ._.

more to come later! :D

bonjour! (<--wait, is that hi or bye?)

zai jien!

cya?

Technology...our best friend. -sarcasm-

Technology...look what it's done to us. no one gets hand written letters anymore (who still writes them?), we won't bother to hand the phone to our family when they get a call...just press a button and forward it to the phone they're closest to. Sure, these new inventions can be helpful and fun, but they make us lazy, and fat. (-.- ugh.)

tonight, i went to a graduation party, and i saw this guy talking on his cellphone and listening to his iPod at the same time. and i was like...wow. 'cmon, dude. you're celebrating your family/friend's graduation, and all you can think about is talking to someone on the phone while listening to music you could otherwise listen to some other time? and in the process, cut yourself off from mingling or being talked to?

and car trips, for example. now we can play handhelds, call people, listen to music and such. what ever happened to actually talking to your family? or maybe actually enjoying the view? the simplest things in nature are often overlooked. the sky. the trees. the mountains that form the valley. it's all so beautiful and precious, yet here we are, consumed within ourselves; our lazy, self-centered selves.

ergh. it sometimes sickens me. but hey, i'm not one to talk. i do it myself. i'll be watching a pokemon movie while we're driving through the desert, up the mountains, past the canyons, whatever. we all do it. but just think. anytime you could die, and if you could look back on your life, what would you see? would you see a screen, glowing before you, iluminating chats and emails? or would you see a canyon, with a river flowing through it, the sun setting behind the pink and orange clouds, a bird soaring overhead?

when you die, will you have regrets? of course. all of us will. but that doesn't mean it's ok.

agh, people these days. humanity, society. we're all so self conscious, so self consumed, so selfish. just worrying about ourselves.

but. that's not what Jesus did. he was willing to lay down his life for us. even though we mocked him, made fun of him, he died for us. Us, the people who killed him, the people who didn't believe in him, the sinners. the "i'm living for myself" people. He was the exact opposite. He died for allll of us. even if we've been to jail, have killed someone, have sold drugs... he died for people like them, the most selfless thing anyone could do. he even died for those of us who seem to be good people, just living ordinary lives, unaware of the price he paid to save us.

God loves us just that much.

...but. too bad we can't be like that. too bad we have to be so idiotic and blind, just living for ourselves. we are living in such conceitedness...

NOTW...and birthdays?

NOTW...Not Of This World...some of you have probably heard of it (and yes, it is the name of this blog :P). What it means is that as Christians, we are "not of the world". We have a place in heaven, so earth, or the world, is just something we pass through before we gp where we really belong.

and birthdays. today is the day i am finally allowed to see PG-13 movies without an adult :) yupp, my 13th birthday :D i realized this morning that sometimes we excpect more than we're gonna get out of somehthing. like, little kids are super hyped about being a year older...but the older you get...you just kinda stop caring. birthdays'll get less and less special. We'll often expect alot more out of something (ex, a birthday) than you'll really get.

...same with life. alot of the times...we'll look for more in life than we'll get. the world won't give us much. neither will the people in it. people will die, things will be destroyed. again. we can't trust anything uneternal.

but God and Heaven ARE eternal. they won't fail us. but many of us don't trust God to save us. or we need proof. or maybe we've never heard something like this before. i don't know. it's not between you and me, or you and your friends. it's just between you and God. He's the ultimate judge. if you turn to Him, but don't change to us earthly people...He'll know. God will know if somehting changes in your heart. <3

OH YEA.

Something i forgot. I did this this morning, before school. Just ranting and puttin gmy thoughts out, with the sudden brain blast thingie breakfast gives you :D (that made noooo sense at all T_T) so. i know some people wanted to read it, so here it isss :]

Sigh.

            I looked out the window longingly.  Here I was, trapped in a prison.  The people around me paid no attention to me.  Sure, I was fed every day until full, always had enough to drink.  But I had no freedom.  I was always trapped in here, sometimes oohed and aahed at by little kids.  Maybe smiled at by an elderly lady.

            But today there was a party going on.  I was shoved into a corner, out of the way.  People laughed and drank, completely unaware of my presence.  In my daze, I gave them the same treatment.  The curtains were up, opening to a great big blue sky.  I wished I could break free, get rid of these bars and chains that bound me.  Oh, how I longed for the sky!  I wished I could fly about in it as I used to, with not a worry in the world.  Then I had to search for my own food, but that need couldn’t stand a chance against how much I loved my big blue friend.

            Before, I could soar freely, and flap and twirl over signs, under bridges, through crowds of people.  Back then I wasn’t paid any attention either, but I could also go where I wanted when I wanted.  Back then I was free.

            Back then I was my own person.  I had space to move, real fresh air to breathe.  I was outside, living in my own world.  Back then I had rights.  I could think what I wanted.  I could live how I wanted.  I could do what I wanted to.  I could breathe.  Not physically, but I could breathe the soul of man.  I could feel the life of everything around me.  Here, I was dead.  Everyone else was lifeless, leading boring, indoor lives.  They had no purpose, no thoughts of their own.  They were unoriginal.  Common.  Everyday people.  They didn’t spread their wings and fly like they never thought they could.  They were just comfortable living as is, bound as they were.  They didn’t think there was anything out there better for them.  They just…lived.  They lived lives with no meaning, imprisoning birds like me.  They were heartless.  They let birds like me live in this way that was not living at all.

            They took away my freedom, my rights.  They chained me up, and locked me in here, not caring at all what I thought.  They took away everything I had.  I had no more air to breathe, space to fly.  I couldn’t go where I wanted now.  I couldn’t soar to the tops of mountains, or swoop to the depths of the deepest valley.  I couldn’t feel the cool water splash my wings as I flew by or the taste of a fresh juicy worm caught in the mist of the morning.  I could no longer feel the tree’s rough bark and the twigs in my nest.  I had my life taken away from me, though I was still physically alive.  Everything that mattered was gone.  Everything I cared about, everything I lived for.  Destroyed.  Smashed.  Shattered and broken by these heartless people, imprisoning me like this.

            I wanted the sky.  I wanted the freedom it could provide for me, the air it would breathe into my lungs.  I wanted to live!

My LA Movie Project :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ZLbcU5nSE

yayyy! yep, my whole family's in it...all six of us :]

I personally think it turned out really well, plus the fact that i put it together in less than five days...

i fergot what else i was gonna say...

oh.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARKAYLA :)

KIRBY! ...and other thoughts i had at the moment =)

yeauh, i know it's been awhile :) but. i was watching KIRBY, believe it or not, and Knuckle Joe was all like. kirby. do you want to die? and i was like. D'= ...but. in the end, knuckle joe threw something, kirby inhaled it, turned into fighter kirby, and together they defeated the bad guys! yay! :D so just remember, when things seem like. awful. you'll find a way out. trust me. :) or just trust in yourself. but. trust God more :] he'll never let you down. people, money, items, all can be destroyed, lost, killed, whatever. but God will be there for foreeeevah. seriously. he's BEEN here. before we were, after we are. he'll be there. he's the one you should trust. not your parents; eventually they'll die, not money; 'specially with THIS economy, geez...and not stuff...like. look at the fires. everything you own could gone like -snaps- that.

and all of you saying, "oooh no. God COULDN'T exist. there's too much suffering", etc. etc. look at a barber. if people don't go to him, their hair won't get cut or groomed. same with God. if you run away from him, pretend he's not there, if you don't GO TO HIM... you'll never be at peace. (all of you AGNOSTICS or ATHEIST or NONCHRISTIAN...this is for you ;])

Retreat! :D

some of you may be wondering what i did over the three day break...i actually went on a reatreat :) it was with my whole family, but they got their own cabin and i got to stay with the youth :P So it's basically this Christian camp kinda thing where people can just go to get away from the world. We'll do stuff like sing songs and hear messages (which were really good; i'll hafta post some stuff on it later). Just a great time to bond with the people that go to my church and such :]

Well...I made a blog.

hey everyone! yea, this is me, jubes :) i did finally make a blog, and will (hopefully) get a facebook june 10th, my birthday :D so be sure to look for me :) and i made this mostly so i could share my morals and beliefs, especially in the area of religion. as many of you (should and hopefully) know, i AM a christian, and would love it if you became one too ;) but i know many of you will need some convincing before that happens, so. here ye go :] make no hesitations in commenting and such, once i get a brilliant spark of an idea to post about :D until then, love ya all and cya <333