Monday, October 5, 2009
As of yet unnamed sprite comic project
Going clockwise from the top:
-Red Mage: Ninten
-White Mage: Emoto
-Warrior: Touri
-Ninja: Setsuken
Quote of the day:
"My plans are *always* practical! It's the laws of physics that get in my way of success!"
-Red Mage, '8-Bit Theater'
-Red Mage, '8-Bit Theater'
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Wow...there are still pictures of me on the University of Mobile's website...rocking my longer hair during that odd freshman semester!
You go young, naive, less angry and angst ridden eighteen year old Matthew!
Don't let the man, finances or the drama destroy you!
http://www.umobile.edu/admissions/default_test.asp
Wait for the picture called "Real life on campus" to pop up on the banner and in the lower right hand corner you will see me in my gray UM Rams shirt.
I forgot about that day...and I didn't realize until then that all those pictures were staged lol...>_<
You go young, naive, less angry and angst ridden eighteen year old Matthew!
Don't let the man, finances or the drama destroy you!
http://www.umobile.edu/admissions/default_test.asp
Wait for the picture called "Real life on campus" to pop up on the banner and in the lower right hand corner you will see me in my gray UM Rams shirt.
I forgot about that day...and I didn't realize until then that all those pictures were staged lol...>_<
"More Than a Man" - Stryper
It's nearly 3AM, I'm still working and have gradually become more and more loopy.
Now is the time to break out the Christian hair metal.
Tim Gaines is one of my bass heroes to boot.
Now is the time to break out the Christian hair metal.
Tim Gaines is one of my bass heroes to boot.
SBC
Someday I too am confused as to how exactly I am Southern Baptist.
Then I remember Dr.Mashburn and recall how if that man asked I would drop everything and charge into Hell blindfolded.
The single best teacher and source of inspiration I have ever had in my short twenty three year old self. And I ended up in his intro to Philosophy class simply because I misread the class abbreviation in the handbook that listed the class requirements.
I absolutely love this article he wrote back for a newspaper in the Mobile area:
http://www.theharbinger.org/articles/plural/christia.html
It is almost a word for word account for his lecture he gives about Christianity in his World Religion class.
I think one of my biggest struggles is trying not to write off other Christians (Southern Baptist or otherwise) as all being fire breathing, extreme fundamental, legalistic loonies that sick to destroy and judge me. It's this sort of attitude that breeds mistrust and destroys cooperation.
Some fundamentals of belief cannot be compromised...but me getting lost in some of the petty things is sad...it's perpetuating that which I am most afraid of.
Ironically enough.
Love God, love others...may seem overly simplified but love, true love can and will change the world. I'm trying to exercise the words liberal and conservative from my vocabulary because most of the time they are just hyperbole used to cause division and fights. It's the whole war rhetoric all over.
Christians aren't to wage a war against the culuture...in a ware you kill people, our job is to show people the live changing message of Christ so that they can know true and absolute freedom from the chains we put ourselves in every day and in so many ways.
The few things I believe in standing for are worth fighting for...but not the kind of fights that are against flesh and blood...but the kind involving a spiritual warfare.
I'm so sick of fighting the air...I want to feel Your love again...be drunk off of it...to just fall in Love once again and get lose in You and share that...show it in my life and then let it overflow.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm."
-Ephesians 6:12-13
“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"When attempts were later made to speak systematically about God and to describe His nature, men became more talkative. They spoke of God's aseity , His being grounded in Himself; they spoke of God's infinity in space and time, and therefore of God's eternity. And men spoke on the other hand of God's holiness and righteousness, mercifulness and patience. We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable."
-Karl Barth
Then I remember Dr.Mashburn and recall how if that man asked I would drop everything and charge into Hell blindfolded.
The single best teacher and source of inspiration I have ever had in my short twenty three year old self. And I ended up in his intro to Philosophy class simply because I misread the class abbreviation in the handbook that listed the class requirements.
I absolutely love this article he wrote back for a newspaper in the Mobile area:
http://www.theharbinger.org/articles/plural/christia.html
It is almost a word for word account for his lecture he gives about Christianity in his World Religion class.
I think one of my biggest struggles is trying not to write off other Christians (Southern Baptist or otherwise) as all being fire breathing, extreme fundamental, legalistic loonies that sick to destroy and judge me. It's this sort of attitude that breeds mistrust and destroys cooperation.
Some fundamentals of belief cannot be compromised...but me getting lost in some of the petty things is sad...it's perpetuating that which I am most afraid of.
Ironically enough.
Love God, love others...may seem overly simplified but love, true love can and will change the world. I'm trying to exercise the words liberal and conservative from my vocabulary because most of the time they are just hyperbole used to cause division and fights. It's the whole war rhetoric all over.
Christians aren't to wage a war against the culuture...in a ware you kill people, our job is to show people the live changing message of Christ so that they can know true and absolute freedom from the chains we put ourselves in every day and in so many ways.
The few things I believe in standing for are worth fighting for...but not the kind of fights that are against flesh and blood...but the kind involving a spiritual warfare.
I'm so sick of fighting the air...I want to feel Your love again...be drunk off of it...to just fall in Love once again and get lose in You and share that...show it in my life and then let it overflow.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm."
-Ephesians 6:12-13
“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"When attempts were later made to speak systematically about God and to describe His nature, men became more talkative. They spoke of God's aseity , His being grounded in Himself; they spoke of God's infinity in space and time, and therefore of God's eternity. And men spoke on the other hand of God's holiness and righteousness, mercifulness and patience. We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable."
-Karl Barth
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I am being mocked by my laptop.
It booted up windows normally, finally, then it shut itself down without me prompting it and now...it's stuck on the perpetual update that will never update.
Windows Vista - Still hasn't surpassed Windows ME in sucking but goodness...it is almost neck and neck at this point... ~_~
Screw it.
Back to bed.
It booted up windows normally, finally, then it shut itself down without me prompting it and now...it's stuck on the perpetual update that will never update.
Windows Vista - Still hasn't surpassed Windows ME in sucking but goodness...it is almost neck and neck at this point... ~_~
Screw it.
Back to bed.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
It's weird reading over the past couple of years...keeping this blog is encouraging...well not because some problems have persisted over two years...but because I have hope that the dawn is coming.
Thank You for Your love...and everyone, thank you for reading this, for praying, for the messages.
Special thanks to you, yeah you know who you are.
Yeah.
=)
Thank You for Your love...and everyone, thank you for reading this, for praying, for the messages.
Special thanks to you, yeah you know who you are.
Yeah.
=)
"With Pollyanna" - Bill Eager
I believe the morning sun
Always gonna shine again and
I believe a pot of gold
Waits at every rainbow's end
I believe in roses kissed with dew
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
I believe in make-believe
Fairy tales and lucky charms and
I believe in promises
Spoken as you cross your heart
I believe in skies forever blue
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' the way that I do
You can call me Pollyanna
Say I'm crazy as a loon
I believe in silver linings
And that's why I believe in you
I believe there'll come a day
Maybe it will be tomorrow
When the bluebird flies away
All we have to do is follow
I believe a dream can still come true
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' the way that I do
I believe in friends and laughter
And the wonders love can do
I believe in songs and magic
And that's why I believe in you
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' this way about you
There's not much I can do
I'm gonna be this way my life through
'Cause I still believe in miracles
I swear I've seen a few
And the time will surely come
When you can see my point of view
I believe in second chances
And that's why I believe in you
I want to believe in infinite possibilities,
that Love, eternal Love wins.
That the pain cannot last through the morning
and that the Beauty
the intoxicating Beauty
that found me will carry me
and never let me be the same.
I need You more now than ever
and more today
and will need You more tomorrow
carry me please.
I need You.
that Love, eternal Love wins.
That the pain cannot last through the morning
and that the Beauty
the intoxicating Beauty
that found me will carry me
and never let me be the same.
I need You more now than ever
and more today
and will need You more tomorrow
carry me please.
I need You.
Trigun quotes
"People who sin say this, that they had to, to survive. People who sin say this, that it's too late now to stop. The shadow called Sin dogs them steadily from behind, silently, without a word. Remorse and Agony are repeated, only to end up at Despair in the end. But the sinners just don't know, that if they'd only turn around, there is a light there, a light which keeps shining on them ever so warmly. A light that will never fade."
"Strong will can stir the heart, but a will too strong can cut off the hearts visibility. The sorrow of a man bewreathed of his family turns to hate, which eventually metamorphoses into the intent to kill. The man’s finger reaches for the trigger. Sins change people. Sin begets sin. But still, I want to believe, I want to believe in the heart, the heart that feels the sin."
"Strong will can stir the heart, but a will too strong can cut off the hearts visibility. The sorrow of a man bewreathed of his family turns to hate, which eventually metamorphoses into the intent to kill. The man’s finger reaches for the trigger. Sins change people. Sin begets sin. But still, I want to believe, I want to believe in the heart, the heart that feels the sin."
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