Currently Reading The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life By A. W. Tozer see related

 this was last nights sunset...

how amazing is it that the lord paints the sky like this for our eyes to see? beautiful.

i heard a song yesterday that i listened to a lot my freshman year of college and i hadn’t heard it in a long time. it brought back so many memories and it felt like my freshman year flooded back to me. isn’t it weird how certain songs, scents, and even different types of weather can remind you of a certain event, situation, person, or time period in your life?  

if you have to study for a horrible, freakishly hard test for the next day...studying outside when it is a beautiful day, drinking some mango tea (or juice...i really forgot what it was...but thats not the point...), with a good friend is the way to go.  just some friendly advice for ya...

welp...back to studying... (and since its 10pm...studying at kaldis, drinking not so great tea, with a good friend will have to do...)

so im not a big fan of the phone.  i dont like talking on it.  i dont like having deep or serious conversations on it...or funny and laid back ones for that matter.  i just dont like it.  i remember when i was younger i would sit on the phone for hours with the same person talking about who knows what.  not anymore.  i think one of the main reasons i dont like talking on the phone is that everyone always seems distracted.  people are always doing other things and dont seem to be listening.  how many times are you on the phone doing something else...computer, driving, shopping, hanging out with someone else, watching tv, etc? we are all guilty of it.  we arent really paying attention to the person on the phone.  we pay attention to everything else but who we are talking to. 

how many times are we also distracted when we are talking with God?  how often is it just us and him...with no distractions.  no computer, not in class, not studying, no other people, no music, etc.  just as we should be focused on the person we are talking to on the phone, we need to be entirely focused on Him. those times where its just us and the Lord. 

as i was thinking about this the last couple of days, i realized that in about a year the phone is going to be my main form of communication with 3/4 of the people in my life right now.  i dont like that.  i better start liking the phone pretty quickly...