Merry Christmas

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I had a wonderful Christmas. I hope that you did as well. I remember when I was younger how I could never get to sleep on Christmas Eve. I also remember waking up at 5:30 in the morning, surely never entering any kind of REM sleep. My head would pop of my pillow and I would run down stairs with out touching half of the steps and look under the tree to see the amount of presents that were there. I never dared to touch them cause, well, my mom would have cut off my fingers. I could never open them until 9:00... It was always a terribly long wait.
This year I wasn't up at 5:30, although I did stay up late, but not out of anticipation. I wanted to get my sleep and new anything that I got would be there when ever I got to it. I was awakened by my brother at 8:15. Apparently, we aren't fallowing the 9:00AM rule anymore. I got down stairs and had a great Christmas with my friends and family.. I'll spare you all the wordy details and let the pictures do the talking...





Dressing Up

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Yes, I know your all extremely disappointed with me. I haven't lived up to my promises of posting every other day. I hope to change that, the key word is hope. I finally got settled in at home and have some time to sit down, think, and read. If you don't do this, you should. As crazy as it might sound to you, it really does help to process your life. If you didn't know already, my computer also crashed about a week ago and it took me some time to get it working again. But, I did. So that has also prolonged my little break from posting.


All that aside I have been seeing some interesting things in Isaiah. What I want to share with you for today is something I came across in Chapter 3:6 He talks about grabbing someone that has a nice cloak and putting them in a leadership position. When sin is all around the people they just look for anyone to be a leader among them, as long as they look the part. Definitely not a good thing to just put someone that "looks" right in front of the church. Looking right and being righteous can't me mixed together. I think we focus a little to much about what we look like on Sundays, and throughout the week for that matter, and we focus no even close to close enough of being righteous before the Lord. We need to being Dressing Up spiritually before anything else. Think about Jesus, He was a plain guy. But, he was righteous. People came for miles to see a righteous man, not a man that "looked right."

So, I pretty sure most people know this about me, but, I really don't think it matters what you wear on sundays. Whether your hair is pink or brown, or if you have gauged ear lobes or tattoos. None of that really matters to me, in my life. What really does matter is if we are righteous before our heavenly Father. Thanks to Jesus Christ, we can be.


Just a little something from my many thoughts coming from this amazing book.

God be praised!


-Smitty

Bird In The Cold

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My hands were freezing when I took this picture. I'm pretty sure it was about like 22 degree's or something like that, I forgot my gloves, my hands were pink as the result. I realized tonight that my life this week is just like this bird, huddled waiting for it to get warmer, or for the wind to become less blistering. The difference is this bird will be waiting a little longer then myself. I have to get thru the next week and a half a live and I will get a much needed restful break. I can not wait. But, for now I am huddled trying to withstand this storm of school work. I realize as well that I bit off a little more then I can chew this week with trying to keep the Isaiah series going, well started to be more accurate. I plan on being more consistent when I don't have 5 papers to write in 3 days.


Until then.

-Smitty

Entangled

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I have started to read the book of Isaiah. I don't know why I decided on this book, but either way, I'm reading it. I hope to share over the next month or so somethings that I have been taking from this book. I will try my best to accompany each of these short reflections on the book with a picture that reflects the message. Hopefully, this is a great learning experience for both of us.

I would like to add that I am in no way a scholar, and could be off in some of my statements. If you think this is so, PLEASE, let me know. What I am doing in this Blog is simply showing what I have gotten out of the passage in my devotional time.


Isaiah 1 & 2 - Entangled


The book starts out with sin, and lots off it. God's nation has turned away from Him, spat in His face, made Him a mockery in their rebellion. The people are injured. Their whole hearts afflicted. They are spiritually covered from head to toe in open wounds and welts, left unbandaged and uncleansed. They are, in every way, entangled in sin.
This entanglement with sin has left their worship of God unacceptable and empty. Yet, He is willing to let the sin fall into His everlasting forgiveness with the promise given in 1:18-20... What I love most about these verses is that God uses reason. He isn't saying this isn't part of the mind. It is all about the mind. Forgiveness is a way of thinking, I guess you could put it.

Light Playing Music

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Oh, where to begin. It's been sometime since my last post, I'm not very happy about, but have no fear that will all change if I have my way. I wish to post every other day this month, I hope that giving this blog a regular schedule will make both of us happier. Me because I get to write more consistently.. and You because you get to read my mind more frequently. (Look you have super powers, mind reading abilities aren't given to everyone.. you lucky duck.)


I went home over Thanksgiving break and realized that a lot was expected of me while there. I was a little more stressed for some of the holiday because of this. I wasn't sure where I was eating for different meals and so many people wanted me in different places, there was no way that I was going to be able to do it all. I wanted to please everyone, but it's just not possible around the holidays. So, you gotta pick and choose and realize that someone is probably going to be disappointed that you couldn't make it. I don't say this because I think I'm super popular or something, I'm not, it's just the two families that wanted me at there Thanksgiving dinner scheduled them at the same time. Bummer right. But I did work it out that I got double dessert. Smooth, I know. : P

But, with all that said, I urge you all to remember that the Holidays aren't about being stressed and stuff about who you are going to spend time with or what you will be buying. Come on, it's time off school and work, that means it's suppose to be stress free. So, as I like to say, Relaaaxx! Have a good time with your friends and family. and come visit me sometime... if you can.


Oh, by the way, I got a piano over Thanksgiving. Well, to be more accurate, my family got a new piano. Which is super exciting, because I've always wanted a full sized, real piano in my house. The picture above was inspired by the simple fact that we became owners of a real life piano and the music will now be running along those keys all over my house. If you (someone who knows about photography) are wondering how it was taken here you go: Shutter 15' F18 ISO200. Oh, and the blue light is a small strobing spider toy my brother had laying around.

-Smitty

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