SWO9 Application

SWO APPLICATION 2009
PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Explain your involvement in church this past year.
This year I was at a new school, so I spent a lot of my time visiting different churches. I spent the majority of my first semester at Trinity Baptist in Geneva …

Because simple profoundness is what drives us to our knees over and over again

In love, in love, in life, in love
In you, in love, in death, my love
in time, in love, in place, in love
In form, in love, in death, my love
My God, my love, my life, my love
Is yours, my love, my bride, my love
This cross, my love, is mine, my love
To bear, my …

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First of all I have a confession to make. My faith is weak, and not only that but my hope hasn't really been on the radar at all. What a message to be sending to the world.

My own issues with control and having to know everything sucked me dry of having hope. Thats …

ok, so I'm a little late...or early?

I suppose I missed my "new years" blog, but better late than never, or early...in my case.

I'm hoping by the end of this I'll be trying to reach out like I usually do when I write, but this time I'm more scatterbrained and I just really, honestly, need to throw a …

Another Chris.....what?

So here's some big announcements for those of you who still might see this....

I've been dating a boy named Kale. Yeah, he's great and stuff.....but I sense alot more underneath it all...It could be just my brain, or him, but I'm not too sure yet.

I am financially …

forwarning

I don't have time to fully explain what I need to say, so what I will say is this:

expect a blog later. This could be a good thing as well, b/c I'll have even more time to pray/think about things.

The main point, as of right now I think will be.....:

There's …

something exciting may have just happened...

And I can't really tell you anything besides I'm praying about it. I promise not to jump before I look, and I promise I won't do anything God doesn't want me to be doing. And I get to go away for a week to give me and other people time to think. And I know right now you …

I'm only taking this journey.....

So this blog will be a difficult one because I can't really tell you why I'm writing what I'm writing. First I supose, because of certain information that shouldn't be publicized. Another is that it would still be just as complex.

So for a moment I was worried about …

yay!

So today I got a call from Brody and he told me to be at snowbird on May 19th. So that was that....yay!!!!!!!!!!! I got accepted! woo hoo!
Better than that, I found out that I got to go to snowbird with my best friend ever....Ryan Gilbert Malone.
For a little while …

just a thought

ok, so like a really great portion of the friends I have on facebook that I knew from back in the day are all engaged to be married.
Then I started thinking....
If I just went ahead and became a nun I could have a wedding, and pick out my own ring and just tell …

My Promise

I promise to GET REAL with God.
I promise to get real with God, so that I CAN be real with you.
For if we can't be real with God, how can we be real to each other?
Through this, I can promise to love you how God loves me.

I promise that there is nothing you can do …

wow.

So, I go to a certain someone's myspace profile, and the headline reads as follows:

"...rule one:Be comepletely apathetic to everything..."

There is something seriously wrong here.
And I feel like I'm partially(or completely) to blame.
God, forgive me for being …

you know I'm not reading my bible like I should....

So we'll just cover the random stuff thats going on.

The passages God has led me to lately are all about judgement and stuff....so maybe I'm procrastinating diving in because I'm scared of that. It's deep. Judgement can possibly come out with a bad outcome. It's …

Sometimes you know someone....

...and sometimes you don't.

I've learned that you can turn your back on your faith, but your faith won't turn it's back on you.

As bro. James explained it last sunday, "you get to a point where you come to a crossroads, and you have to make a decision about life …

Shell

Wow.
I love God.
I love the people he has blessed me with, and the things he's allowed, and is allowing me to do.
I love being thankful for all of this, and much more.

Tonight was a big night in disguise as a normal day.
I wasn't expecting to open up so much to …

SWO application...Intense

SWO Application 2008 Part 2
Spiritual Growth

1. Describe how you became a Christian and the steps of growth in your spiritual life.
Well, I was one of those kids who grew up in church. I was blessed to have parents that thought church and God was important, and …

Just me

Sometimes it feels like an empty shadow box
with crummy lighting, and nothing really to show.

And with such a small space, I am somtimes still confused with how it should be filled....
that nothingness between backbone and transparent glass.

Left to myself, the …

a few minutes...

semi-busy week.
I've been sleeping every minute I can!

I still need to finish typing my SWO app b/c it looks like they are coming here on the 29th and not the 22nd, meaning I probably should mail it in instead of waiting to hand it in personally. Besides, Bruce said …

me again

Maybe I'm just tired.
But do you ever just feel...idk...weird? Weird in a deep, mind bending, on edge kinda way, like you are on the verge of some big realization or something?

The only way that I can put it into anything tangible is this song:

FALSE …

uh oh

I sent Jason a message on myspace.
I just kinda get fed up sometimes. I immediately felt like the entire world was dissapointed in me after I hit send.

I just got frustrated with the fact that we both know there is MAJOR stuff we need to take care of. And, I'm the …