Chapter II of My Most Memorable Moments

Now Listening to: The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot
The Summer.
The anticipation as a child of knowing the school year was almost over and 3 months of eternal play time were about to begin. The weather. If I could imagine what it's going to be like in heaven, I know if there's weather, it's going to have to resemble summer. The beach. Building mighty fortressess of sand, jumping through waves, and eating sandwhiches with little bits of sand in them. All the free time you could possible imagine. You could draw pictures all day, read a brand new book you signed up for in the reading club, go play football with other kids. Hide and go seek-- 15 to 20 kids running around 10 square blocks of houses, buildings, parks, yards, and ditches. Riding your bike across town and buying popscicles and slushies at the local 7-11 or to the secret bike jump place and seeing who could get the most air until someone ends up getting hurt. Flying kites-- hours of running and yanking with endless effort until you finally are soaring in the middle of the sky. You can fly. Cookouts-- chips, hotdogs, hamburgers, soda, and potato salad. Yum yum. Swimming and all the games, races, and wrestling matches that come with that. Sailing for days at a time and not being able to wash your body from the fish stench infested into your skin. Water gun fights. My birthday. Creation Festival-- jammin' out in the name of Christ! Getting tan and sunburned. School shopping (get those new nikes). Summer if full of happiness and life.

Sorry I have not blogged in a while (i don't have my computer here at home-- gotta use the bro's). I'm trying to make myself as busy as possible and do interesting stuff over break... and so far i'm pretty much failing... Things I want to accomplish-- pray excessively and study the Scriptures, exercise on a regular basis, read "The Chronicles of Narnia", learn how to speak French, learn piano, hang out with my friends from Meadville... I watch so much stinkin' television, it's rediculous. It's so hard, because we have a t.v. in the living room, and one in each of our rooms... everywhere I go, idleness and couch potatoing is a button away. I NEED SOME SELF CONTROL. I'm pathetic. I was thinking about it today... i've probably spent over 6 years of my life sleeping, probably over 2 years watching t.v., and probably a year and 1/2 doing nothing... That's about half my life wasted right there. So, what, then, do I do to fix this? How do I "turn a new leaf". Some may say, "ya just do it." Okay... well, here I go then.

I keep saying that I'm sick of this. And, by this, I mean not letting the awesome be abundant. I complain, complain, complain, but I don't do anything. THIS IS A FACT: I may be dead in the morning. This may be the end of my life. So, then what? When I'm with God and we're looking back on my life, I will hang my head low in shame... I am more blessed than anyone I know, yet I spit in God's face. When will I learn? Hopefully, now.
Shalom.