keeping up with the smith's

There are all these things I want,but I need to separate wants from needs,we all see these advertisements on TV,in sale papers,and in seeing what other people have .



wants...

1.a mac mac laptop

2. an ipod touch or iphone

3. a flat screen TV

4. a pair of old school chucks

The list could go on and on of wants ,but there are a whole list of needs ,don't we all have that list of want want want,and the need need gets push to the side,so that we can keep up with the smith's, the Jone's,and who ever else ...

I need

1. my eye drops for my glaucoma

2. I need to pay my light bill,my cable bill,and my rent,I am just using these as examples

I only listed two ,there are others I could list ,my want list is way bigger than my need list.Every time, I see someone with an iphone I get super jealous ,till I remember the coast per month and remember that a two year contract I am tied down to and that I can hear my mom say you want this you want that , my mom is not like oh you can't have that stuff she will tell me I wish you could have this and that.My mom doesn't just tell me that ,to get me to separate needs from wants,but also come birthday,and Christmas ,or Easter ,she is wandering what to get me ,what I would want,and what do i have already,and also the way our economy is going right now its time to pinch pennies and save.

tonight at The Ring

Josh preached more on what I call the God box sermon series , but tonight went a little further and a little deeper,the Sermon tonight wet beyond talking bout us being hidden in Christ. Tonight, was talking more on one us being called to serve in different areas, and not be like the world where your always compared ,we all serves different roles and none of those roles in God eyes are more important that the other,we live in a broken world that is constantly comparing us to one another and if we start listening to the world instead of God we will never feel good enough.The world is constantly tearing us down ,to the world we will never be good enough, their will always be somebody better,but God created us,and is saying I love you don't you see ,God does't love us because we are great athletes ,or smart and have these wonderful Jobs and all this stuff, one day all that stuff will fade away its just stuff,the God of the universe made you and I and nothing in this world could make him love us more ore less ,we are his children.

I love this time of year

Reasons I love this time of year

1. the temps at night cool off to about the upper 50s to low 60s!!

2. Halloween its nice the annual bonfire is nice and its
just a time to hang out,and not be miserable because of the heat.

things i am looking for

ok here are some thing I really need for my room and if anyone who reads my blog and is wanting just to get rid of some old bed room stuff .I desperately need a dresser,I am trying to find a platform bed because regular beds hurt my back .For the last year to year and a half I have not slept in my room ,there are many reason,my mom and i got one issue under control ,that issue was before we realized I have acid reflex and told by my doctor to just wait 30 mins after drinking or eating before going to lay down.I went to bed one night maybe about 10 to 15 mins after I had ate a snack and drank some power aid or something and woke up strangling,that was a while back , now I know what to do ok issue solved,but still even though my mom is not nervous I am still at the foot of the bed ,one because the floor is comfortable,for a while even before the strangling i slept on the couch ,but that became a hassle taking up the covers and pillows and bringing the to my room to have a cleaned off place to sit.Right now my room has book cases and a desk and a mattress on the floor and the mattress is uncomfortable just being on the floor.

frustrations

I want and wish .....

1. to back to school

2. to drive again

3. I was relationship, but it would have to be God centered and focused

4. to be an attractive man

5. I want to have surgery to straiten my back


I am thankful

1. for Gauchers Disease

2. that I work with the youth @ Parkview

3. that I have a church family that loves me for me

4 the Ring Community Church

5. for a wonderful Sister Jessica Lawrence and a wonderful Aunt Megan Kelly, and
for a group of Brothers that are dear close friend the Causey boys
Josh,Joe,and Drew

Rants raves and prayer needs

The update

ok so this week I was gonna have an MRI because of the vertigo,I can't do Regular MRI's or the new open ones because unlike open cat scans the machine is not really open its just shorter .The Lady from the Radiology clinic called my mom today and was explaining because she did not want me miss lead . the reason I can not do MRI's of the brain one because they put you in this vice and most of yall know about the Back surgery and ever thing and you would have to squeeze me in,and at the angle they would have my neck it would be hard for me to breathe and on top of that the anxiety .



The Rant


Open MRI sounds good except it does not equal open as what the word used to
Describe it no here is what it looks like




ok I just really wanna find out Answers to my Vertigo episodes I get when we have the really strong high or low pressure systems in the Atmospher,I want to address a
situation and get it taken care of .I don't mean to come across negative because, I am so happy the lady called my mom to explain,But one can be miss lead be cause of out cat scans the word open means open not shorter,But this can not just miss leading to a patient ,but also to the Doctor and I am gonna defend my doctor he did not know. My Doctor hear is a regular Doctor who is Specialized in internal medicine , but he is not Neurologist .

Open Cat scan


The open Cat Scan machine,has a bigger opening and the bed you lay on is some what flatter , and because of larger opening you can put pillows behind the persons head.

Prayer needs

I am trying to find a Vertigo specialist ,please be not only praying for me find a specialist,but also that the Vertigo won't come back period. What got us all concerned is when i get the Vertigo I get the massive headaches and I smell this strong oder in my nose , you since of smell is controlled by the frontal lobe.

what to post about

I love posting just about everyday to every other day,and it feels like blahh what to put down or what should I not put down. Ok,so here is what I am just gonna toss out is this, for the past Several weeks Josh has been preaching a sermon series I like to call the God Box sermon . “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).Christians are God’s “workmanship.” The Greek word is poiema, from which we get our word “poem.” It means “a work of art, a masterpiece.” In Christ, you receive God’s grace and become his work of art,here is the point I am trying to make we are hidden in Christ we are in Christ and Christ is in us,and after excepting him the sin pasted down from Adam and Eve was removed.We live in a broken world who needs Christ and is just broken because of sin remaining in the world.

TV shows and talk shows are pathedic these days

These days it is evident of a broken cruel world, and its obvious that script writes these days will write anything to get the public to watch the latest drama.Starting with the pig we all know as Simon cow on American Idol and now the show House.


things that are just wrong period

1. just wrong to make fun of people for their size male or female, Adult or child on tv shows.

2. as far show like American Idol just feed more into that we can never live up to the world standards ,and that if someone is better you short coming will be exposed an laughed at.

3.Big people are not just the only one ,skinny people as well the the media feeds in to its view that if you are are a man that your should be tall an have a six pack and guns bulging out your arms,just listen to all these commercials on tv and how the young ladies go crazy over us when we are what the world says perfect.

This makes it difficult for a person like me ,and trying to ignore the crys and moans of the world over these issues .The Lord sees his children that know him as perfect the way he created and blameless .

the brain

emporal lobe

This lobe controls two senses: hearing and smell. It also helps to control emotion, memory, speech and behaviour.

If a seizure affects this part of your brain:

* You may smell strange smells (such as onions being fried) and hear odd sounds that aren't really there
* You may get an odd feeling in your stomach
* Your speech may be slurred
* You may have changes in your mood and behaviour. For example, you may get déjà vu (when something feels familiar even though it hasn't happened before).So, I believe the sinuses that trigger the vertigo are agervating this part of the brain,this would explain the strange odd stong odders I smell when I get vertigo.

God is every where and in everything

God's finger prints are every where we turn ,from trees growing to the new birth of a life form, God's finger print are on us ever single day.God is al present in our deep dark hours of pain,and my question is where did you see God today,I can tell that I saw him and felt him today in the mist of my battle with Vertigo episode today. I know God was present because this episode of vertigo was not near as bad as the others I have dealt with ,I my have felt a little stomach ache,but I didn't throw up that was good and my head ache subsided quickly.So,where has God shown up today or this week or this month?I hope and pray that God has made his presents known to you,but I also wanna tell you just the single breath you take is a example of Christ being in you and present ,examine you day live a life of thanksgiving each and everyday. Also ,each day ask God to help not only be able to recognize his presents in you life,but ask him to help you be a better ambassador for him that you life would reflect Christ.

God is Awesome Read Lana's story

if you wanna story of how Gos has worked in someone life go read

http://lanacole.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/selfless-to-selfish/
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# Johny.B Says:
October 13, 2008 at 11:56 pm

yes I would love to sit down and talk with you one day about all that happened with you knee.

Lana I personally can relate in so way to your situation when you knee got injured and that put a hamper on what you loved to do ,but i can totally relate on this on to a T being embarrassed for the way a part of your body looks . my back if you have ever seen it has a scar that looks like a train track down it my back sticks out from when my bone were brittle and I had 9 crushed vertebra ,I did not like taking my shirt off i mean boys don’t normally get that way about a shirt because I was scared of what others would think.One day while out side cutting the grass and burning up I said i don’t care what others think and i took my shirt off because I knew even as a kid God made me ,and he was not embarrassed.But,what i also wanna share is at a young age of 5 I loved to workout lift weights,I had hopes and dreams of being a body builder and i still wanna walk up one day on a stage at a muscle and fitness competition and flex because I am about to workout still,but imagine being told you wont be able to workout,and imagine even before and after surgery the treat of being paralyzed is still great

God box sermon

God Box Sermon by Josh Causey

We are hidden Christ and the sin is remove because of what Christ did on the Cross.

this is for Angel,Jess and Matt

I just wanted to post a cute picture,of my family,they are blood relatives because
each and everyone of us is related in blood because of Jesus Christ!

polluted water

Just as water that has been mixed with dirt,or has had some type of waste dumped in it becomes unclean,so is the heart and mind of man because of sin,but were were born into sin,water did not start out unclean.Even after we except Christ into our live and he washes us clean it is a battle ever single day to keep out heart and mind focused on him,David a man after God's own heart struggled.We all struggle and fall short day after day,Remember in Genesis 3 Adam and Eve in the Garden ,Eve was tricked by the serpent The Devil in to eating the fruit ,and gave some to Adam and he ate so of the fruit from the Tree in the middle of the garden,that God had told them they could not eat from,and after they had eaten the fruit they saw they were Naked ,their eyes we open the bible says,and even after all of this in 1 John 3:16 ,if we except Jesus Christ we receive the give of Salvation.But,the everyday struggle is after we except Christ is to reflect him daily,I was reading a comment on Robert Terrell's flickr site on and old picture he had taken of me and some other kid and we had written I belong to Jesus and person that commented said I though they would know we are Christians by our love,this evening I got to recalling that comment that I had read,and I don't wanna one of those that walks around with the nice Christian T Shirt and I don't want the bumper sticker with the fish that says Jesus loves you ,because actions and how we tree one another speaks louder than a bunch of words,is it easy no ,its not. So, just know all who read this your not struggling alone in life and trying to daily represent Christ.