Snowboard Kids!
5 am on tuesday
why am I up so early?
drive out to santa ana 'cause i've got jury duty
no breakfast short tempered
and i cut my head shaving
ten miles out i hit traffic
some days just aren't worth saving
you know i haven't had the best of days
but i want to stop and thank You anyway
at the courthouse i waited
and waited then i waited
at lunchtime my car stalled out
i couldn't get it started
had a book by c.s. lewis
i finished the last page and
slept on my desk for three hours
just like my high school days
cuz every single moment whether sleeping or awake
is your creation
and what You've made is good
i don't always thank You for the rough days
and the hard times in my life
even though i should
got home and decided i'd be in a bad mood
my shy and quiet wife said she didn't like my attidude
got a call from my mother
forgot my sister's birthday
i'm a lousy older brother safe to say i've had a bad day
*mad guitar solo*
"This is an actual day that I had and is a lighthearted way of expressing a profound Christian concept. Do we only love God when the sailing is smooth? God says to be joyful in our trials. How unnatural that is for us. Another proof that a man didn't make it up." - Mojo
Yesterday was quite a day. The messege that our paster brought us was really good. And it just so happened that Dad wasn't there and we were having it taped for him. So we have an awesome messege on tape. In short:
Trails: Something you will run into.
Not a sin when you encounter a trial.
Not a sin when you try and work through a trial.
Not a sin when you fail at a trial. You pick yourself up and keep going, hopefully learning
something.
Temptations: Something that comes from within.
Not a sin to be tempted.
It is a sin when you give in to it.
The only thing that these have in common is that you will encounter them.
Also, God will help you through them if you ask him.
So, after church we came home and had lunch and everything. Then New Sharon got called out for an accident, a head on collison on route 2. Obviously, traffic backed up the second the accident happend. So after clearing up the scene, which took forever, and after Lifeflight left, a 2nd forever started while New Sharon got called again to another accident. Of course, since we weren't done at the first scene, Jim, John, and I were left behind to take care of traffic. John figured that since traffic was backed up for so long, we couldn't just let them all go because we'd get called right back for another accident. So we all stood directing traffic for another hour or so. It was so cold with the wind blowing accross the road. It blew so hard at times I could barely hold the sign up. So after traffic thinned out, we all three climbed into Engine 2 to head over the 2nd scene. Fifth gear gets painfull on your left theigh when there are two adults and a teenager in a two person cab. So we got to the other scene, things were pretty much wrapped up. But I got to watch another helicopter take off. Which was awesome! I was standing next to the squad when the helicopter started up. And Paul walks over and kinda grabs my collar and pulls me behind the squad and says "There's gonna be a massive wind." (Paul's awesome. He's always playing around. Great guy.) So I was like "Oh but I have to see this." So he chuckles and I lean from behind the squad and watch the helicopter idling. It gets ready to take off, and the rotors go faster and faster and faster. Snow started to kick up everywhere, and when it was ready to take off, a massive gust of wind flys toward me, so I moved back behind the squad. Paul says "I thought you wanted to see that" as he pushes me out into the crazy snow gust out from behind the squad. It was crazy. And pretty sweet, and Paul got a kick out of it. Everyone on NSFD is really great.
So after we all got back, Paul and I were looking at pictures of the day's incidents, and we got called out again to another accident where the first one happened (Hmmm, does this tell us something about DOT? Maybe?). I wasn't too bad, and we weren't really needed, so we went back to the station, then came home, after a bottle of water.
And after we helped load the 2nd scene subject into the helicopter, an EMT from the ambulance, as he's walking back to the road is talking to Jason and looks around where he's walking and says "Jeeze I can barely resist making a snowangel." I like how they have a sense of humor even on scene.
Got to see Al for like two minutes today. That was pretty sweet.
This morning I read in "Our Daily Bread" about how we as Christians should be more like children in the sense that children so fully believe, unquestioningly, that God can completely do anything. I thought that was pretty interesting.
I went down Whitewater Farms today, the local grain store, asking for a job application and looking for a job there. He said he's alreay got a full crew, but he took my name. He knows my parents and everything, so I hope that somehow helps me out a bit.
I think the reason I decided to start looking for a job is that I really want my own vehicle registered in my own name, insurance in my own name, that kind of thing. So when I turn 18, I'll pretty much be able to come and go as I please, as my brother does. I'm kind of looking forward to that.
There's gonna be a storm tonight. I was excited because the last storm we had I got to try a backflip. But that was because it was the best powder we've like ever gotten. This storm is supposed to be all wet and heavy. But who knows, maybe I'll get a chance again soon. I had so much fun with that!
Nice of Dad to let me post late tonight because Mom's been on the phone for a while with an old friend.
why am I up so early?
drive out to santa ana 'cause i've got jury duty
no breakfast short tempered
and i cut my head shaving
ten miles out i hit traffic
some days just aren't worth saving
you know i haven't had the best of days
but i want to stop and thank You anyway
at the courthouse i waited
and waited then i waited
at lunchtime my car stalled out
i couldn't get it started
had a book by c.s. lewis
i finished the last page and
slept on my desk for three hours
just like my high school days
cuz every single moment whether sleeping or awake
is your creation
and what You've made is good
i don't always thank You for the rough days
and the hard times in my life
even though i should
got home and decided i'd be in a bad mood
my shy and quiet wife said she didn't like my attidude
got a call from my mother
forgot my sister's birthday
i'm a lousy older brother safe to say i've had a bad day
*mad guitar solo*
"This is an actual day that I had and is a lighthearted way of expressing a profound Christian concept. Do we only love God when the sailing is smooth? God says to be joyful in our trials. How unnatural that is for us. Another proof that a man didn't make it up." - Mojo
Yesterday was quite a day. The messege that our paster brought us was really good. And it just so happened that Dad wasn't there and we were having it taped for him. So we have an awesome messege on tape. In short:
Trails: Something you will run into.
Not a sin when you encounter a trial.
Not a sin when you try and work through a trial.
Not a sin when you fail at a trial. You pick yourself up and keep going, hopefully learning
something.
Temptations: Something that comes from within.
Not a sin to be tempted.
It is a sin when you give in to it.
The only thing that these have in common is that you will encounter them.
Also, God will help you through them if you ask him.
So, after church we came home and had lunch and everything. Then New Sharon got called out for an accident, a head on collison on route 2. Obviously, traffic backed up the second the accident happend. So after clearing up the scene, which took forever, and after Lifeflight left, a 2nd forever started while New Sharon got called again to another accident. Of course, since we weren't done at the first scene, Jim, John, and I were left behind to take care of traffic. John figured that since traffic was backed up for so long, we couldn't just let them all go because we'd get called right back for another accident. So we all stood directing traffic for another hour or so. It was so cold with the wind blowing accross the road. It blew so hard at times I could barely hold the sign up. So after traffic thinned out, we all three climbed into Engine 2 to head over the 2nd scene. Fifth gear gets painfull on your left theigh when there are two adults and a teenager in a two person cab. So we got to the other scene, things were pretty much wrapped up. But I got to watch another helicopter take off. Which was awesome! I was standing next to the squad when the helicopter started up. And Paul walks over and kinda grabs my collar and pulls me behind the squad and says "There's gonna be a massive wind." (Paul's awesome. He's always playing around. Great guy.) So I was like "Oh but I have to see this." So he chuckles and I lean from behind the squad and watch the helicopter idling. It gets ready to take off, and the rotors go faster and faster and faster. Snow started to kick up everywhere, and when it was ready to take off, a massive gust of wind flys toward me, so I moved back behind the squad. Paul says "I thought you wanted to see that" as he pushes me out into the crazy snow gust out from behind the squad. It was crazy. And pretty sweet, and Paul got a kick out of it. Everyone on NSFD is really great.
So after we all got back, Paul and I were looking at pictures of the day's incidents, and we got called out again to another accident where the first one happened (Hmmm, does this tell us something about DOT? Maybe?). I wasn't too bad, and we weren't really needed, so we went back to the station, then came home, after a bottle of water.
And after we helped load the 2nd scene subject into the helicopter, an EMT from the ambulance, as he's walking back to the road is talking to Jason and looks around where he's walking and says "Jeeze I can barely resist making a snowangel." I like how they have a sense of humor even on scene.
Got to see Al for like two minutes today. That was pretty sweet.
This morning I read in "Our Daily Bread" about how we as Christians should be more like children in the sense that children so fully believe, unquestioningly, that God can completely do anything. I thought that was pretty interesting.
I went down Whitewater Farms today, the local grain store, asking for a job application and looking for a job there. He said he's alreay got a full crew, but he took my name. He knows my parents and everything, so I hope that somehow helps me out a bit.
I think the reason I decided to start looking for a job is that I really want my own vehicle registered in my own name, insurance in my own name, that kind of thing. So when I turn 18, I'll pretty much be able to come and go as I please, as my brother does. I'm kind of looking forward to that.
There's gonna be a storm tonight. I was excited because the last storm we had I got to try a backflip. But that was because it was the best powder we've like ever gotten. This storm is supposed to be all wet and heavy. But who knows, maybe I'll get a chance again soon. I had so much fun with that!
Nice of Dad to let me post late tonight because Mom's been on the phone for a while with an old friend.