Ideas, creativity and a Goal

     So like a lot of you guys know i lost my job recently but it seems to me God has given me another source of income (because he would never leave me high and dry) :)

     A friend of mine collects guns and was showing me this web site to show me a gun. HOLY CRAP! this website was horrible! I know how to make websites and i have experience in making them. when i looked at this website i wanted to go to the US and slap the guy who made it with a pickle.

     BUT this is where i got a really good idea (its not very often i get one).  I sent off an email saying that their website could be a lot better and if they are interested i can make them a website for 250 dollars (%50-%70 cheaper then what most people charge). A few emails later back and forth, he said if i were to show some sample websites i have done in the past that would be a start.

     So if this works i might do this more often. I can take my skills in making websites, and my skills from telemarketing (and being able to sell things to people without even meeting them) and make a profit in my own little home "business". The way i see it, i'll be working like a makeup company. I make them feel bad about how their website looks, and then offer my services to fix it.

for all of you interested, this is how the website looks right now
http://darkstarfirearms.com/
and yes... it does say "Fire arms for all occasions"

Beaten but not Destroyed

     So this week has been interesting to say the least. i have been doing well in school, things are nice and easy its going moderately smoothly.....until yesterday. i went to work and at the end of my shift i was let go.

     The thing with telemarketing is that at any time your not meeting the minimum sales per hour, they can fire you. its in the contract you have to sign. and i wasn't meeting the needed sales per hour to keep my job. BUT this is not going to break me. My boss said its nothing against me or my work ethic, they just cant keep me on if I'm not selling. so he gave me his personal cell number so that i can use him as a reference on my resume and he said he would be more than happy to give me a positive reference.

     With that being said, I'm back into searching high and low for that elusive job opportunity. What God has in store is well beyond my imagination (and we all know how big it is) and he will provide just like every other time :)

Everyday is one day closer to Ukraine. Thats what i have to remember :)

And I'm also sending a message to my friends in Belize whom i never met. you know who you are, and i know you rock :)

Genie in a Bottle

     Music, if you have known me for 5 mins, you probably know i live for music. I can't play any instruments, and i cant read music, and i cant sing. but I'm not bad at mixing a sound board and i defiantly listen to enough music to blow threw a pair of headsets in about 3 months(at the most).

     One band i listen to often is Oh, Sleeper. They are one of my top bands i listen to and ill listen to them anytime. lately i have fallen in love with one of their songs "Reveries Of Flight". I think it really depicts a good idea of how not so much God is, but how we think of God is (but really isn't that way)

     I have added a video of the song, and lyrics below. (Watch your speakers, the song does get loud). When you hear the Screamed Vocals (done by Micah Kinard) or when you read any lyrics in Orange, its literally God SCREAMING at us and we still don't listen. so enjoy the song, i hope you guys like it as much as i do.

A sound ahead from distant peaks, a song that all my brothers sing

It’s just out of reach; to join them I need the wings the heavens denied me

It’s like you’re deaf to my voice, but I’ve been here for every moment, waiting on your call to move

If you could just make a choice,

I know you would find me wanting only to be close to you

(A song I hear from distant peaks, a song that all my brothers sing)

You keep denying my lead

Because I’ve tried, I’ve never pulled back my reach,

And I’ve stayed, and I’ve died, but you keep looking for me where I’m not

I won’t be just where you want me to be

You’ve got to believe and just trust that I can be everything

It’s like you’re deaf to my voice (but I’m not)

I’ve been here for every moment (and I’ve fought)

Waiting on your call to move (just call to move)

If you could just make a choice (oh I have)

I know you would find me wanting (I just want)

Only to be close to you (all of you)

If you would just try and let free all your grips and worries

I would come alive in your life and let you find the flight you’re longing

Sticks Like Glue

     Hey, i spent like 5 mins sitting in my school hallway tring to remember what i wanted to call this blog post. I came up with the idea at Alpha, but forgot what i was going to write about today...UNTIL NOW!

     like most of Christians, we tend to have a few bible versus that tend to stick around with as, as it fits into our "theme" of life. I personaly have 2. Mathew 6:21(look it up if you want, I'm not going into detail about this one). the one i want to talk about is 1 Timothy 4:12


¹² Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.


or the Messages translation
 And don't let anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity.
(because everyone likes a little MSG in their bible)


     That verse has been with me for the past year or so, since i found out i was going to Ukraine for the first time. and its always been in the back of my mind reminding me that just because I'm young does not mean that i can't do what God has planed for me. I hope this verse can stick with someone else who reads it as it does with me :)

By the way, since my last post i have reached over 100 views and 4 countries. this is really cool. THANKS GUYS

The Changing of Times

     So for the past few days i didn't know what to write about, but just a few days ago i got my grad photos in the mail. And a couple days before that i found an old picture of me in grade 9. That really got me thinking on how much i have changed over the past 3-4 years.

     Since those very awkward days of grade 9 (as if I'm not Awkward now) i have changed a lot, and i like to think its for the better. i did go to church back then, but i didn't really enjoy it. As i look back on how much God has changed me, its really surprising on how much of a different person i am now, but at the same time being the same person.

     I have gone from looking a long haired hippy freak(nothing wrong with hippies by the way), who didn't really know how to talk to people, speak my mind, or be very social. NOW I'm a short haired stud (or at least i like to think i am), my problems tlaking to people are gone (just ask anyone i didn't used to know 5 mins ago), im getting better at saying what i think and I'm super social.

     I really am excited to see how much God Changes me over the next few years so I can look back on it 5 years from now, and see how more awesome i have become.

OH and for all those people that dont know what i look like here is a picture of me in Grade 9:



















and here is me now

A big Change, i think so. I'm also really happy i dont have as much of a turkey neck now :)