Lifestyles of the not so rich and famous

Spending time with my family these past few weeks has reminded me of what life really is about. Bogged down with school work and the desire to get good grades and needless anticipation and worry over them has sort of made me forget. It has been fun just hanging out with my sisters and my little cousin at the park, or making pancakes together, or playing that ridiculously awesome game Cranium. One day I took my little sister and cousin (she’s 7) to the Dallas main library, downtown. We got a bunch of Arthur books for her and read for a bit, while I studied some history (agh). After a while we got hungry so we drove around until we found a KFC/Taco Bell place. Though I knew the neighborhood wasn’t exactly Pleasantville or anything, I realized that it had to be a pretty rough place when they put a plastic (bullet proof?) wall between you and the cashier. Also, you couldn’t eat at the place so we took our food back to the library and ate in the car (which is not exactly the brightest thing to do when serving greasy chicken and biscuits to a seven year old.) It was fun times anyhow.

Yeah, so Tennessee pretty much kicked the crap outta us today....oh, well. GIG'EM AGGIES!

Wow, its already 2005! It seems like only a short time ago it was 1995 and I was just ending elementary school. Man, those were the days….playing kickball and cops and robbers all day, having very little responsibilities, being at the top of the intellectual ladder…for real, I was the 5th grade valedictorian, I got a medal and all to prove it. Now I got to actually work for good grades, and cook and clean for myself, and remember to pay the bills on time...though, I think I've got the hang of things.

It’s always at transitional or holiday periods like these that I think about stuff. Like at the end of the year, I think about all my friends and all the times we've shared... and at Valentines I am reminded of how I don’t have a girlfriend and so feel self-pity and the desire for one...however, after some rational and logical thinking this is soon followed by the realization of just how lucky I am that I don’t have to buy anything for anyone.

So I hope you all have a great year! And remember what our true purpose of life is: to know Jesus and to make him known. And that without faith it is impossible to please God. And that faith without works is dead. And that the greatest of these is love.

Oh, and when you hear people talking about Euthanasia, they don’t mean teenagers in China.