Thoughts

Covenant College is having its annual Neal Conference this week and the speaker is the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Uganda, His Grace Henry Luke Orombi. His first message was in chapel today and I'm very excited to here the rest of his talks. I just want to mention a few things that he said.
He mentioned that Africa was once called the Dark Continent becuase its people had never heard of Jesus. Now, he says, this name belongs to North America whose people have forgotten about Jesus.
He also said that he once thought that their were only demons and evil spirits in Africa. He now sees that they are just as prevelalent here. The difference is that in Africa the devil works in visible ways but here it is disguised.

I also want to mention something partially unrelated. As I was reading through James I came across the passage in 4:4 "Do you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself and enemy of God." What is the world? Would that not be most movies we see? Many video games we play? Some music we listen to? Idolizing sports teams? Might particiating in these things be friendship with the world? Would we then be alienating ourselves from God? Maybe we have to make sacrifices for God. Thats something we're certainly no used to. But didn't Jesus say that if we served him we would suffer persecution. Maybe this is our persecution. Its kind of light, don't you think, compared to what our fellow brothers and sisters undergo in China and other countries.

Robert Jordan died and now I will never know what happened to the Dragon Reborn. I still am not playing soccer. And I will update my blog when I am not so busy

Soccer

O that I could play the beautiful game again. I seriously wonder if it will ever come to pass that I will be able to for the Bombers. I've already missed two games and am about to miss a third. If some of you who are reading this live in a box and haven't heard my infamous story, I will expound. Over the summer I was playing Tier III soccer for the Coaldale Thunder. We entered the Cosmos invitational tournament and swept away the competition, winning the coveted gold medal. As a consequence of this the team recieved a hamson reward of nine hundred dollars. Half of these earnings went to the organization but we as players each got thirty dollars. We were professionals! At the time this was great, we got paid to play the game we love! Now I relize it was a grave mistake, accepting this money. Because I am such a honest and trustworthy guy as I was filling out my eligiblity form and came to the section that said: Since you finished high school have you won any cash prizes, accepted any money etc...for playing soccer? I said "Yes, in fact, I did make some money playing soccer. I made a magnificent thirty dollars after my team won an invitational touranment." What do they say. "Well that's to bad you are now ineligible to play for the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes, I think)." I'm like, "well that sucks but they should be able to clear it up in a few days. I'll miss one game and it will all be settled." I wish. Two weeks later I am still unable to play. My team is gelling nicely together without me and I am slowly wasting away in despair.

Back Home?... for now

Hi everybody, now that I am back at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, United States of America, I have decided to resume my blog. The internet up here is faster than at home so check for updates on my previous post as well.

My first reaction upon stepping out of the airport to find my shuttle was how hot it was. I was blasted by the humid, heavy air. With this immense humidity sitting in the shade here feels like sitting in the sun back home. It doesn't cool off at night either. It probably drops down to about twenty-five at night and gets up to thrity five or hotter during the day. Playing soccer in it is pretty brutal.

Speaking of soccer I found out two days ago that I am a professional athlete and am ineligible to play college soccer. In May we won the Cosmos tournament and we won $900 as a team I got a thirty dollar cut and therefore am a paid athlete. My coaches are working to clear it up and I should be able to play in future games but I missed our opener on Saturday which we won 4-1. We have a much better JV team than last year. Our player count went from eight or nine to 22.

Anyways I got sidetracked. I was planning on taking the shuttle from Nashville to Chattanooga, which I did, and than taking a taxi up the mountain to CC, which I didn't do. Why not? You ask. Well, a wonderful Bryan College student by the name of Nicole, I think, took me up in her car. I met her on the shuttle and I found out that she was a junior at our rival school an hour away from us. She decided to be an angel and drive me up the mountain. It was pretty sweet.

I fell right back into the swing of things. It felt like I had never left. My room's a little different and we have new people at the school and on the hall and we are missing all the seniors but everything still has the same feel about it, with one major exception. Michelle Green, one of good friends from last year decided to leave for Providence, a newly established URC college. It kinda sucks but such is life.

The courses I am taking this semester are: The Old Testament, Calculus 1, Greek, Computer Programming, and Cultural Heritage or the West 1, for a total of 18 credit hours. Greek will be by far my hardest course. Next will be Calc. I used to be good at math but since I haven't done it in two years I am a little lost. I hope to be able to catch on fairly quickly though.

I'm blogging again!!........temporarily

Instead of wasting five days and uploading all of my pics onto blogger I'm just going to give you a link to my facebook albums. They take at least one hundred times quicker, without exaggeration to upload.

http://covenant.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41874&id=863875633

As anybody who is reading this is probably aware of, I haven't blogged in a few months. Why not? Because I don't feel the need to share my mind and rant and rave like Robyn and Tim and now that I'm home I didn't think that anybody needed updates on my life, sorry Ryan and Katrina (and any other creepy Redeemer stalkers that I might have). But apparently I'm supposed to continue updating it so I will.

I've been having a great summer with lots of excitement. Once again I am working at ITB (Intercontinental Truck Bodies). This is where I worked for almost a year and a half before coming to Covenant. At this plant we make truck bodies. I got moved from my original position in special units to the finishing line. Here I install insulation, wall/roof lining and flooring.

Thus far I have been on two camping trips, Writing On Stone and Kikomun Creek. Both were great times with great friends.Sorry for the ramdonness and incomplete.ness, uploading pictures takes way to freakjobbing long

Calgary Flamers

I would like to apologize to all hockey fans for the disgusting play of my Calgary Flames, with the exception of only Kipper.

Spring Banquet

Last night we had the annual Spring Banquet at Hunter Museum of American Art. I know that it sounds like a random place to have a banquet and dance but it is a cool place overlooking the river. I took Michelle. They had a good dinner and later a dance, which we didn't do.

The Hunter from the river

This is a walking bridge that goes from dowtown across the river to Cooleridge Park.

They're making a new bridge across the river.