wow… a left handed burger…

ha! i love relevant magazine… they had a link to a page with the top 10 april fools jokes ever pulled…

Burger King, another American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the “Left-Handed Whopper,” specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original “right-handed” version….

what a great hoax…

…be all there…

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. — Jim Elliot

this pirate monk is finally done reading…

i FINALLY finished it… i know it took me like 3 weeks longer than it should have, i was just in a “reading rut” and didn’t really feel like reading that often… i’d read like a blurb every other day… anyway… the book was awesome, i say definately go pick up a copy and check it out… if nothing else it will open your eyes to the value of honesty and authenticity… 2 things i consider to be priceless… anyway… i’m out… have a great night!

ct

headache…

my head hurts so bad… all of me hurts right now… i’m just so raw, worn down to barely anything… i dunno if it’s from just pouring everything i have out in prayer tonight… praying for people i care about and situations in their lives as well as my own… i’m just sore… worn… it’s been a while since i’ve done this, but tonight after dropping Darren off at his car, the rest of my trip home i couldn’t find peace or anything in music… i tried different cds, nothing was working… so i just spent the majority of my drive home in silence… well, that’s not true, i was talking most of the time, outloud to God… something i don’t do too often though i should more… not that i don’t talk to Him, i do, i pray a LOT… those of you who really know me know how often i do, but that’s not the point… the point is that i’m desperate, desperate for a change… not only in me, but in those around me… everything… not just a few things, not just some things, not even most things, but EVERYTHING… as my friend Mark used to put it, “ALL means all, and that’s all ALL means…” we need more than anything to give up what we’ve made a mess of, and hand it over to God b/c He’s the only one who can fix it and make it work… i dunno what else to say… i’m blank and again, just really hurting… for those of you who are reading this, know that i love you, really, wholly with everything that i have, i love you, as brothers and sisters, as companions along my walk, as sources of encouragement and strength and many other things i can’t get into right now…. i love you all… please please please open your hearts and eyes to see and be open to what God is doing right now… that’s all i got… sorry for the long blurb of a mess here… thanks for reading it all… i’m praying for you

chris

Would You open up my eyes, so I can see
Would You open up my ears, so I can hear
Would You open up my mind, so I can know
Would You open up my heart, so could love You more

I want to serve You, my God
I want to give you all that I am
I want to serve You, my King, yeah
I want to serve You, my God
I want to give You all of me, yeah

Here I am with my arms open wide
Asking for You to come up, up inside
Won’t You make me new, won’t You make me true
Jesus, won’t You make me like You, oh

Will You touch my eyes so I can see
Will You touch my ears so I can hear
Will You touch my mind so I can know
Will You touch my heart so I can love You more

Won’t You open me
Won’t You open me, open me
Won’t You open me, open me
Won’t You open me, open me
Won’t You open me, open me

[Shawn McDonald, Open Me]

silver….

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver.”

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what
this statement meant about the character and nature of God.

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver
and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to
watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for
her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining
Silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the
fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one
needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames
were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she
thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and
purifier of silver.” She asked the silversmith if it was true that he
had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was
being refined.

The man answered yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver,
but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in
the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it
would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,
“How do you know when the silver is fully refined?”

He smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that’s easy — when I see my image
in it.”

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has
his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in
you.

Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to know that
God is watching over them. And, whatever they’re going through,
they’ll be a better person in the end.

“Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only
spend it once.”

just a little something i read in an e-mail recently… hope it blesses you!

 less than an hour till CharlotteONE! woo!

ct

virb….

check out virb.com… it’s just another myspace like community website but it’s more cutting edge and “cool” i guess… i really dunno, just check it out (i’m lonely and need friends…)

charlotteONE was awesome last night… you should come next week… contact me if you are interested…

that’s all for now, i’m pooped and need to watch this week’s 24 which i missed on Monday night…

ct

Mr. Alligator says “Your outrageous calamity couldn’t have been very average.”… i’m not even going to try to figure that one out… later!

mr. alligator says….

okay… let me explain this first… i have a MacBook… one of the nifty little suite features that Mac’s have is this program called Dashboard… the dashboard has other little programs that run on it called widgets… anyway… one of the widgets i have is a talking alligator named “Mr. Alligator”… no, i didn’t name him, he comes that way… back to the story, Mr. Alligator has a speech bubble and in it a random phrase of random words comes up which the computer will read aloud to me in it’s weird computer generated voice… it usually makes NO sense and is often really funny… funny enough to get me to post this random and crazy post… so without further guilding the lily and with no more ado, here is what Mr. Alligator just said to me…

“Why is Chuck Norris so fuzzy?”

good question… how about…

“Near that pickle were twenty five seducing explosives.”

wow… Mr. Alligator is a pyromaniac…

that’s all for now… time for Heroes

ct

take my hands, i lift them high…

Come like You promised You would
I want to surrender for good
I know that I need You and I don’t
want to keep living life alone

So take this heart and make it new
Make it true make it like You
Take my hands I lift them high
They’re Yours not mine to do

Do what You will
Do what You will
Do what You will

I feel like a blind man in Your sight
I know that I’m wicked in Your eyes
So wash me and make me shine like Your
Son, I want to tell everyone that You’re the only one

I’m ready now, I’m ready now
I’m ready now, do what You will

I’m ready now
I’m ready now
I’m ready now

[Desperation Band, Ready Now]

are you ready?

ct

forgettable fact: The Rubik’s Cube can be twisted and turned into more than 43 quintillion configurations in an attempt to line up the colors on all 6 sides. The exact number is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000.

“Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have.” [Billy Graham]

so what’s new?

the past week (as in the past 7 days) has been crazy… i had last Saturday, Sunday and Monday off from work but was on the go all 3 days… got my MacBook on Monday after a week of going back and forth on whether or not i should get one now… it’s pretty suite… glad i got it… looking forward to hooking it up and seeing what it can do…

this is actually my first wordpress blog on it… seems to be set up a bit differently on here but it’s all right… i’ll get used to it…

works been a little crazy this week with pretty much everyone requesting the same days off… except me of course, i never go anywhere… woo! go me… so i’ve been slammed at work and been shorthanded… long days… and i close tomorrow… but good news is i don’t have to go in until 12:30… so it’s just a normal 8 hour day…

gonna run and finish downloading the new Damien Rice cd which i’ve heard is pretty good… i’m pooped… have a great weekend!

ct