Angels Surround Me

Hey Friends,

I haven't actually written a personal blog piece in awhile so let me update you on the past week. As everyone knows I'm always super geeked for Halloween -- I love to dress up. I had all these awesome costume ideas

1. Cat Woman
2. Lady Gaga
3. Little Monster (Lady Gaga fan)
4. Cats the Musical
5. Sexy Astronaut

Unfortunately I wound up being a bizarre looking fairy with a pair of angel wings and a tiara. I looked a mess but my makeup was on point.

So on Oct 30 my friend Mia (she was a pirate) and I decided to hit up Munich for the festivities. I drove [her car] and we hit Kultfabrik (which is like a huge warehouse sectioned off into 40 different clubs) so we check out a few clubs; and were semi-disappointed, Germans do not know how to celebrate Halloween. Sure they were dressed up but mostly as vamps or they looked like burn victims. Not sexy in the least. Def, missed my undergrad Halloween experiences.

So skip to the end of an uneventful night and we decide to head back to Mia's house--which is like an 1hr 18mins from Munich; but were we actually live in Vilseck is 2hrs away.

Again, I'm driving. Tired but a trouper to the end. Mia lays her chair down to sleep. So I'm driving at about 85mph on the autobahn on cruise control in mens shower shoes;

I know stupid me.

One Of Us

If God had a name what would it be?
And would you call it to his face?
If you were faced with him
In all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?

*And yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that
you would have to believe
in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints
and all the prophets

Trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

Let's Talk God: Part 1

I'm watching the Preacher's Wife and I'm believing its a testament to what I'm going through. "God will never put more on you than you can bear." Love will come in due time and so will the sorority. Peace and Happiness is just around the corner. Now hopefully, I can start becoming stress free and my eyelid will stop twitching.

My two friends gave me too different points of view on how to view the above statement.

Joe: Sh..it happens to everyone. It rains on everyone.. "Christianity" isn't exempt. Now if you're talking major situations.. you (in general) should make a general assessment and ask yourself if it's self-inflicting. If it is, learn the lesson behind it and stop doing the same sh...it that's getting you (in general) in those situations. If it's not, then you (in general) should do your best to change the environment..thus eliminating the situation.

Let's Talk God: Part 3

Joe:
That makes sense and you said what I said.. but much better. I can get with that, but (for me) your argument still doesn't coincide to the famous quote christians say. You might see it differently, but the vast majority sees it literally.

To me, God "allowing" and God "putting" are two totally different things. I totally agree that God allows us to go through the things especially when we are exercising free will. i.e, the 40 years in the wilderness, but it wasn't God that put them in the desert to wander for 40 years. It was their hardheadedness, murmuring, complaining, and idol worship.

I believe it's hard for God to work in our lives when we shut him out or act outside of his will. However, when God has an end result for our lives, it's reasonable to expect hurdles and potholes along the way because the enemy naturally doesn't want you to succeed. That's when God's provision protects us as long as he is the source. Proverbs 3:5-6.

Let's Talk God: Part 2

Joe: By saying that God is responsible for some of the mess people go through doesn't make God a good God in my opinion. It's more like "God is good, but he's pretty passive aggressive..but don't worry, the mess he sends your way won't kill you." It's like we're totally ignoring that there is a devil somewhere in the equation and his whole agenda is to kill steal and destroy. I think we get through the situations because of God, but I doubt we are in the situations because of God.

Now.. if God has specifically said something to us and we choose to ignore then it's our own fault when we go through mess. When you're outside of the will of God then you're a bigger target and more than just that area that you're choosing to ignore gets "cursed"..but like I said, you're always going to get shots taken at you via Demons and whatnot.