Random ABC's

A
- Available: Yes
- Age: 19
- Annoyance: How restless I am. ADHD.
- Animal: Arctic Foxes


B
- Birthday: Dec. 21st. First day of Winter.
- Best Friends: Got quite a few
- Body Part on opposite sex: Eyes and smile.
- Best feeling in the world: Boarding. (Snow, Wake, Long)
- Best weather: Super hot. But only if there's a pool, lake, or ocean nearby... (Preferably Torch Lake... BEAUTIFUL!)
- Been in Love: With a human being? Absolutely not. Except friendships.
- Been on stage: I've had my share =)
- Believe in Magic: Magic from God.
- Believe in Miracles: Yes
- Believe in Santa: Oh you know


C
- Cake or pie: Pie. It's more classy. =)
- Continent/Country to visit: Africa
- Cheese: Feta

D
- Day or Night: Both. I LOVE the contrast between the two. But I very much need the Day to keep me happy and alive. =)
- Dance in the rain: Nope. But I enjoy playing soccer or frisbee in it.
- Disney character: Simba.

E
- Eggs: Over medium
- Eyes: Blue
- Ever failed a class: yeah

F
- Full name: S(ummer)C(oming)OTT HOWARD MILLER
- First thoughts waking up: Brunch!
- Food: Mexican.

G
- Greatest Fear: Paper Cuts. No joke.
- Goals: Family, Job that I love, Always pursuing God and music.
- Get along with your parents: They're a few of my best friends.
- Good luck charm: Nope

H
- Hair Color: Naturally blonde, was dark brown for a while. The blonde's almost fully back.
- Height: 5'7
- Happy: Only with God
- Holiday: Christmas, Easter.
- How do you want to die: Confident.

I
- Ice Cream: Coconut fro yo.
- Instrument: Piano. It's so beautiful.

J
- Jewelry: W.W.J.D. Bracelets
- Job: Student/Composer

K
- Kids: probably 3 to 5, at least a boy and girl.
- Kickboxing or karate: karate! Ninja-style!
- Keep a journal? sorta. Just a few entries on Word.

L
- Longest Car Ride: That I can remember? San Diego to Denver.
- Love: God, Friends, Family, Music
- Letter: Z
- Laughed so hard you cried: haha yeah.

M
- Milk flavor: vanilla. It's true.
- Movies: Slumdog Millionaire, Extreme Days, A Goofy Movie, Surf's Up
- Motion sickness? Never
- McD’s or BK: McD

N
- Number of Siblings: 3 AMAZING siblings.
- Number of Piercings: Zero
- Number: 7

O
- One wish: Be more motivated

P
- Perfect Pizza: Cheese and Pineapple
- Pepsi or Coke: Coke

Q
- Quail: Never tried it

R
- Reason to cry: Sadness, Joy, Love
- Reality T.V.: Not so much.
- Radio Station: Don't really listen to it
- Roll your tongue in a circle? yup
- Ring size?: gee... 8?

S
- Song: Way too many...
- Shoe size: 8 or 9
- Salad Dressing: Red Vinegarette
- Sushi: just the california roll
- Skipped school: yeah
- Slept outside: love it
- Shower daily?: no
- Sing well?: i'm getting better.
- In the shower?: Only Disney Songs
- Strawberries/Blueberries: strawberries

T
-Time for bed: around 1, sometimes 2.
-Thunderstorms: yeah!

U
- Unpredictable: i'm not totally sure.

V
- Vacation spot: Mountains. I miss the silence up there.

W
- Weaknesses: Dimples
- Who makes you laugh the most: Oh gosh... I laugh at everything and everyone.
- Worst feeling: Finding out about dishonesty
- Want to be a model?: not really
- Worst Weather?: Bitter cold and Icy wind.

X
- X-Rays: what about them?
- Ex's: Some good, some not so good.

Y
- Year it is now: 2009
- Yellow: SUN!

Z
- Zoo animal: Arctic Fox

Would you rebuild a Buddhist mosque?

In CLFM today, we had a great discussion.

The question was:

If you heard about a Buddhist mosque that was destroyed in some tragedy, would you take a missions trip down to rebuild it? Thus enabling them to keep worshiping Allah?

Think of an answer first before you hear my answer....


I usually don't get that involved in discussions. I love listening to the different sides. But I was surprised at the answers to this question. The first five people that raised their hands and spoke, said they wouldn't. Their reasons were because, we are called to love and serve God first. So if we rebuild a mosque for another God, we are breaking that commandment. One guy said "I couldn't imagine having Jesus stand by my side and watch me build a mosque for another God".

I was super surprised. When I picture that scene, I would see Jesus being disappointed in us for sitting their and doing nothing to help. I finally raised my hand. I explained that we are called to love God first and others second. We aren't at all worshiping another God by helping them rebuild a mosque. I asked that if those aren't the people we're supposed to be ministering to, then who are we supposed to be ministering to? We are called to show the love of God.

Some people complained that if we built the mosque, we'd be saying that they're god is the right one.

The teacher turned the tables. What if our chapel burned down, and some Buddhists helped us rebuild it? We wouldn't think that they're saying that our God is the right one.

By helping them rebuild their mosque, they'd see something very different and unique about us.

After we discussed, our professor explained the best answer he ever heard. One of his students said they'd rebuild that mosque and it would be the best mosque that he'd ever seen. He'd do everything he can to make that mosque even more better than the last one. So that every time they'd walk in, they'd remember what we did for them. In our professor's 10 steps of evangelism, the first step is to do what you're good at and do it good.

After explaining this he asked how many people would rebuild the mosque, and almost the entire class had raised their hand. Many had changed their mind.

Would you rebuild the mosque?

INVISIBLE CHILDREN: THE RESCUE

Invisible Children has done so much. Their peace talks started looking good. Joseph Kony even agreed to sign the peace treaty. When the time came to come out of the bush and sign the papers, he never showed up. On Christmas day, 2008, His army massacred people in Congo. He abducted many children. It's still going on. WE NEED TO RESCUE the children soldiers.

To help Invisible Children out, sign up for this event. And watch the video if you have a spare 30 minutes.

Abduct yourself.

http://www.invisiblechildren.com/april2009/index.html

Help IC make a change in this world. I'm so stoked for this event.

Ultimate Frisbee.

I forgot how much I loved playing it. It's been WAYYY too long.

Lent

Most people love it. Some people don't like it. I've personally never done anything for it. But that changed this year.

I gave up soda. Because I've realized, I've come to depend on it a lot. I can't remember the last time I got water or iced tea at any cafeteria for lunch or dinner. I had become addicted to caffeine, and was depending on it, and didn't even know. It's only been one day and I'm getting headaches. This is so good for me.

This morning in Chapel (after I had decided to give up pop), they challenged us to try giving up something that doesn't just benefit us. Guilt trip..... sorta. I figured that pop would be way too easy. Of course I can sacrifice that. They asked what's getting in the way of our relationship with God. To be honest, It's thinking and worrying and still caring too much for my ex. And it is getting in the way with me and God. So I decided I'd try my best to give up worrying about her. And it's actually worked. Whenever the second comes that I start thinking about her, I just tell myself to stop. And surprisingly enough, it works. Now I'm not trying to forget about her completely, but I'm just not dwelling on the wrongs and how much hurt came from it. This is so good for me.

Finally, instead of giving up something, I decided to pick up something. The more I go to the prayer chapel outside my dorm, the more I love it. It's a wonderful place of solitude and silence. It's very settling and peaceful. So I decided to make a habit to go in there every day. But to be realistic, it only has to be at least 60 seconds. I did this because I know I can't spend 30 minutes in there every day, I could be in a hurry. But 60 seconds is just the right amount of time to get a prayer and some silence in. But I'll most likely want to stay for longer anyway.

Lent. Ash Wednesday. I've never really got into this season. But you can get so much out of it if you just let it.

Last Weekend

Last weekend was... interesting. LOTS of stuff happened. But the most important and coolest, was sunday. I got the chance to spend almost an entire day with someone who's coming to APU next year. We watched a few movies (Including Extreme Days because she and I both LOVE the movie, and not many people know about it). But other than that, we spent a lot of time just talking.

Pause. Let me catch you up with my life. Truths that I have known as lies keep coming to me, and have thus slowed down the process of getting over certain things, and getting more and more hurt in the process. But I believe it's done now. It's been so hard. Especially with my faith. It's really hard to see where this is taking me. It's hard to see why all this happened because I don't believe that I deserved ALL of it. It's hard to see how so much hurt could possibly turn into something good. But having something like this happen, has helped me to only try and trust him more through everything. The more things that happen, the more I realize that this life can NEVER EVER be controlled by me, or anyone else who currently lives here on Earth. I'm learning to trust Him more. But like I said, it's still rough. But he's helped me through things. Especially just seeing what I need to do on a daily basis. Then I don't worry to much about the future.

Play. I was talking with this girl about, well, pretty much everything I just told you. I told her how amazing it feels to constantly be reminded that God is with me, and when I do what he wants, It pleases him. Pretty much almost everything we talked about related back to God. She's truly a unique person and I hope that this friendship will continue on, because I love having someone to talk with about God... A person that understands me, and I can relate to.

It made me realize that we can't be alone. We need relationships. MAINLY because we wouldn't learn nearly as much about God. I learned a lot from talking to her for just a few hours. We learn about God from each other. There's a little bit of God that shows through everyone. And you just have to find that bit.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

It's my first Valentines Day alone since 4 years ago. TIME TO CELEBRATE FULL WALLET DAY!!! WOOHOO!!! =)