Chopstix.Off.Broadway

… I could let you know exactly how I feel. It has been a long time since I’ve been on here. Sorry all. I’ll have to get on more often.

Man, three months. I’ve been gone for too long! Welp, its good to be back at the old keyboard, spouting out random thoughts as they bounce around in my skull. Where to begin.

COLLEGE! Lets start at college. I will be going to Lee University in Cleveland TN (Not Ohio) were I will be majoring in Youth Ministry, with an emphasis on Spanish, and minoring in Bible. I’m majorly excited too! I’ll be staying on campus, and only an hour drive from Signal Mountain which is where me and my family are currently staying.

Now… What else… I will be retuning to Kentucky for the summer, where I will be working at Calvary Christian School! (Yay!) I will also be waiting tables on week nights and weekends most likely, and doing whatever other money making opportunities that come my way. Of course, when I’m not working I will be hanging with the gang! Woohoo!

Now for a quick recap of my stay in TN. I Have filled out about 20,000 applications with a 0% response rate, which is why I’ll be heading back home for the summer to work. But while I was here I was able to take care of everything I needed to get into college. I also have been spending a majority of my time out of the house with The Net Church’s youth group. They are one awesome group of kids and I’m going to really miss them over the summer! I also can’t wait to spend a week with them in Pennsylvania at Creation 2011, one of the biggest christian music festivals in the USA this summer! It also has given me lots of time to spend with my family (Who I really had missed. Promise. No lie.) and to figure things out.

Aaaaand that’s about it! you’re all caught up on the life of Jeremy! Good talking to you all again! I’ll see ya around!

In a few days I leave everything and everyone I’ve ever known and move to Tennessee. I’m going to leave all of the life I’ve lived so far and go to Tennessee… I hate Tennessee… A part of me is screaming “Why are you doing this! This is stupid! Agjdhhwwe!!!!” But I know deep down that its where God wants me to be. I’m not complaining. Its just… Why Tennessee! I mean the Volunteer state? Why not Lexington? That’s SO much closer… Or like Florida, its beautiful there! Or California,  Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Old york, China, India, NORTH KA-FREAKIN-REA! I don’t care! Just not Tennessee… I mean what does Tennessee have? MOUNTAINS!? But its where the lord calls me and its where i have to go, and the whole point of this rant is two things. One, I’m going to miss you guys so dang much! And two… I AM NOT COMING BACK A VOLUNTEER!

They even looked at each other once across the crowded bar
He was with Martha, she was with Tom
Neither of them really knew what was going on
A strange feeling of never, heartbeats becoming synchronized

It’s been that way forever but most of the time it’s just near misses
Air kisses once at a bookstore, once at a party
She came in as he was leaving and years ago at the movies
She sat behind him, the 6:30 showing of “While You Were Sleeping”

He never once looked around

It’s so easy from above
You can really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there’s nothing to be done for them
It doesn’t work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk past them every day

And it’s not like they were ever actually unhappy in the lives they lived
He married Martha, she married Tom
Just this faint notion that something was wrong
An ache, an absence, a phantom limb

An itch that could never be scratched

It’s so easy from above
You can really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there’s nothing to be done for them
It doesn’t work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk past them every day

Neither of them knew what was going on
A strange feeling of never, heartbeats becoming synchronized

And stay that way forever

Who knows whether that’s how it should be
Maybe a ghost lived in that vacancy

Maybe that’s how books get written
Maybe that’s why songs get sung
Maybe we are the unlucky ones

It’s so easy from above
You can really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there’s nothing to be done for them
It doesn’t work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk past them every day

Maybe that’s how books get written
Maybe that’s why songs get sung
Maybe we are the unlucky ones
Maybe that’s how books get written
Maybe that’s why songs get sung
Maybe we are the unlucky ones

This is a poem a wrote for my youngest sisters tenth birthday. 

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~A Birthday Wish~

All grow old as time goes by,

But birthday wishes never die.

So here’s a wish I’ll wish for you,

And pray that all I wish comes true.

As days go by and nights go long

I pray we’d keep each other strong.

Cause all the things that make us sad

And everything we think is bad

Is washed away for a short while

Whenever I can see you smile.

Then we will laugh and we will play

Until the day I’m old and gray.

And when we’re old with brittle bones

Looking back on all we’ve known

We’d laugh about when we were young

And all the silly things we’d done.

And how I wished we’d be best friends

Until our days come to an end.

So here is what I wish to do

To always be best friends with you.

I Don’t… Want to sin…

I Don’t… Want to make the same mistakes again and again.

I Don’t… Want to put my self before the Lord…

I Don’t… Want to make excuses anymore…

I Don’t… Want to fall in to the patterns of this narcissistic, apathetic, unloving, uncaring, unfaithful, ungrateful, rejective, abusive excuse for a home we call the world.

I Don’t… Want to be a hypocrite…

… However…

I Do… Want to be held accountable by those closest to me…

I Do… Want to live out John 3:30, Luke 9:23, and Luke 10:27…

I Do… Want to impact the world for my savior..

I Do… Want to follow His commandments and go where He will send me…

I Do… Want to have Him work through me…

I Do… Want to hear those words…

~

“Well done, well done my good and faithful servant”

Why do Christians say the weirdest things over the internet? Like, when someone messages or replies to another Christian, they talk like they’re elves off of Lord of the Rings wishing Frodo good luck on his trip to the Black Gates of Mordor.

“May the grace of God pour into your pores, and liven up every second of the life you live from now on. Peace be with you, and may God bless your journey in the dark world. Never forget: you have The Light. Let it shine.”

Sheesh… I have no clue why that bothers me hahaha. I’d rather have a, “Hey man, I’m happy to meet another (insert your favorite term for Christian here)! Anything you need me to pray about, just let me know! Peace!”