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Name: chris
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Naperville
Birthday: 10/12/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: being on the computer, hanging out with friends, writing poetry, bible study, Final Fantasy,sports, working out, meeting new people, enjoying what the lord have blessed me with, movies, anime, and photography
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  meier183
MSN: lazy21@msn.com
Member Since:
6/9/2004
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| Having traditions with your family and doing them every year can either
be incredibly exciting, or it will bring you down that you have to do
the same thing each year. I went to Danelle's house for
Christmas. I was so shocked that their family was very welcoming
to me and wanted to share their traditions to me. I was so
comfortable being their for Christmas and I really couldn't explain
why. I really felt like I would be sitting there smiling and
being content while everyone else would do their thing, but it was so
different. Everyone made me feel so good, it's hard to explain,
but I had a great time. I did miss not having Christmas with my
family, but I understand how much going to Danelle's family Christmas
ment to her. I'm so blessed.
In another note I'm stuck in a decission on what should I do with my
summer. I have a couple of garenteed jobs and one that is up in
the air. I have the opportunity to work with disability children
which would be a great and hard job to have. This would also be a
great recommendation for teaching. I can also work at the YMCA in
naperville this summer as a camp counslor and a life guard. This
job would mean big $$$$$ I'd work a lot, but I could make a lot of
money and still have fun with kids. My last option is working at
another summer camp. I had a bad experience with Y Camp, but not
all camps are like that. This would also mean this would be the
2nd summer I'd be away from my family. Even though I lose the
safety of my family, I gain so much from stay over camps. I see
how many kids lives I change which is incredible and it helps me grow
closer to God by relying on him for EVERYTHING. I know God will
present the best opportunity for me and I just have to trust him in
where he leads me.
I'm so ready for school to start up. I didn't relize how much I
need to do this semester. I got a couple of tests I need to do
for my major, and one of them is a fitness test. I need to
re-certify some of my certifications. I have 14 hours, and I told
Danelle I would help her out with Marie-Kay selling make-up .
I'm still leading with CSC so there's a lot of stuff that is still in
my life, but it's fun. So I can't complain. That's
basically my life right now.
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| It's crazy to see how much God really protects us in our lives.
This is the longest time I've been home for a year and a half. It
feels really weird to be staying in naperville. Being outside of
the city for a long time, I've realized how sheltered I am at
macomb. I know he made western such a perfect choice for me
because of protection and the safety from evil so I can grow as a
christian. Since I've been back I've gotten calls to go out and
drink and some other activities that really turn me off right
now. I couldn't imagine how much of an impact God really put in
my life and made me so much better. I'm starting to struggle
again by just being here and I want to be back at macomb as crazy as
that sounds. I guess this is good for me. When I went to a
mega church last saturday it was so discouraging. I went to a
great service and everything, but since the church is so big I got lost
in the crowd and no one even bothered to talk to me .
I wish I had the time to go to their bible studies, but I'm not back
that long to do it. I'm going to try the mens bible study during
the summer to see how much the older men in the church can encourage me
to grow. I'm starting to get at that age where I'm getting ready
to leave college and live on my own. I still got a year and a
half, but I feel like ready. I know God tells me I'm not and I
need to humble myself and follow him to grow more as a leader and
follower before I can go out and bring people to him. I guess I'm
thankful for that because I can still be a kid for a while and I should
enjoy it for the time I have it. I guess the lesson I've learned
is not be too anxious and pray for God to have the perfect timing in
everything. God Bless
Chris
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| Well everything that has been going on in my life since the last post
has been a lot of drama. I had to quit my summer camp consoler
job because of the administration there, which was a crazy
situation. Then I started school by getting really sick and
having bronchitis. Danelle and my relationship have gone through
it's fair share of problems. Camp wasa the biggest test of our
relationship, with so many non-christians trying to break up our
relationship. Though the experience made us stronger, it make us
so weak and drawn out by dealing with that stuff for too long. School
with CSC and 18 hours was my hardest semester yet. I tried so
hard and I still didn't do good, and again this semester was a real
test for danelle and I. This was a different then camp. We
got to see so much of each other it was a problem. We had to
learn to balance the time we had together with our school work.
It got so bad at times I even felt like breaking up with her. I'm
just so greatful that I have God to pull me through on all of
this. My prair life has become incredible compaired to what it
use to be. God has really spoken to me and shown how much I need
to improve in my own life. It seems like I can never be good
enough for what I expect out of myself or God. I know his mercy
shows me that the way I'm feeling is to help me be the Man I should be,
but I feel that I can do so much more then what I'm doing. So
that's what I"m going to do. I'm going to try to become a better
Christian this semester and a better leader. I love my life as it
is right now, and I'm so excited to see where it'll go. Well I
just rambled and it felt good to get it off my chest. God bless
everyone
Chris
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| I'm off to Iowa for the summer to be a camp counselor...I'll be back August 16th | | |
| I have like 3 weeks of summer break before I head over to boone Iowa to be a camp counslor. I'm trying to relax for this short time, but I really can't cause I'm running around all the time trying to get prepared for camp or for moving into the CSC house next year. I sure hope I have time to hang out with some friends before I leave. Well a story from yesterday is that I was going to bareans book store to look for a cheap bible to bring to camp when I found that bareans was going out of business. It's the biggest christian book store I've ever seen and it's sad cause it has so much to offer. When I was going through the store, I heard this family talking extremly loud saying they had no clue what this building was, but since it was going out of business they should check it out. Of course when little kids see anything they want it. I heard this little kid run up to the bible section and go "Mommy I want a bible" and the mom goes "O this is a christian store. Lets leave kids" in a stern voice. I did not know how to react to the situation. First off I couldn't believe the Mom was that dumb when the store was called "Bareans Christian book store" and second I couldn't believe that a kid would want something like that at like 5 years old and the mom completely rejected her son to get it and leave immediatly. It was a sad story that I just watched take place and did nothing about. I wish I did something about it, but then again I was sort of speachless at the time and I still am now. Well I'm off to prepare more stuff for camp >_< God bless | | |
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