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 ;])