Nicaragua2012 (Part 3)

*Post three of my Nicaragua2012 Posts.*
*This is partially for you, and partially so I have a place to write it all so I remember it. So pardon all the horrific details.*

At this point, you may be thinking, "Wait. He's already at the end! How can he have a third post??"
Well, this post is just for a few stories that I've thought of. So let the stories begin!


1. Imma start out with a good one.You may know Nathan Arndt. You probably don't. Regardless, this story is amazing. Picture this:
It's day four. It's 6:30 in the morning. I'm still in bed, half asleep and honestly I'm amazed I have any recollection of this. Riley Robbins is walking around. He cringes, and says something about the painful blister on his foot. Nathan, out of the blue, says "Hey, you want me to pray for it?" Riley says sure, so right then and there, at 6:30 in the morning, Nathan kneels down, and says a prayer of healing on Riley's foot.
Moment of honesty, I doubted. I thought, why would God spend His time, just so Riley could get out of a little pain? But later, Riley's is asked about it, and he says "I haven't felt it all day......but in a good way!"


2. This is gonna seem really shallow after that one, but whatever.
Thing is, down there, they don't get the luxury of lawnmowers, weed whackers, or anything of the sort. But they still need to keep a little bit of landscaping! So how do they do it??
Machetes.
They sent four of us guys out, to see what we could do. We couldn't. I actually thought we were doing decent! It only took like 15 swipes to get a tiny patch of weeds down! Then a Nicaraguan lady comes out to show us how it's done. With a piece of bread and a cup full of juice in one hand, she takes a Machete, and in THREE SWIPES gets what it took us twenty to get. Talk about an ego buster!

We were even less adept when they started throwing them. Yes, you read that right. They grabbed a few machetes, and started throwing them and getting them to stick into trees. I actually got the most out of any of us Americans! Which was two. But neither of them was as impressive as theirs! And they did it over...and over...and over again!



3. Obviously, there are people who live at the place we stayed. They prepared food, and cleaned our rooms while we were gone. Similar to a hotel. Except the food was FLIPPING INCREDIBLE! I would live there just for the food!!!
Anyway, one day we get back, and there are two piles of clothes in the middle of the rooms. I realize after look for a few seconds, that it is a bunch of our clothes! A few seconds later, I realize that its the stuff I already wore, and got all dirty! That's right. Those ladies, out of their own free will, hand washed all of our dirty clothes. Shirts, socks, and even underwear! I wouldn't even do that for myself!


Once again, I just wanna thank anyone who supported me, through either money or prayer! You don't know what a blessing you were!

So there you have it. That's the end. Until next year that is!

Roots (Pt. 2)

(You should probably read yesterday's post before this...it might make a bit more sense...)

If that is the definition of evil, then good must be simply putting others before yourself. AKA giving. "For God so loved the world, that he GAVE his only Son, so that we would not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16)
That's a pretty big gift!! After all, "there is no greater love than this, to be willing to die, that another might live."

But you don't have to do something huge for it to be good. If it is completely for someone else, (and it lines up with His word), it will be good and pleasing to Him!!

Roots (Pt. 1)

This blog is about good and evil, so I guess eventually I've gotta get to the basics...meaning good and evil. The best definition I can think of for evil i can think of is basically thinking of yourself before others. So the root of all evil is greed. Envy is wanting what someone else has. Theft is taking what they have. Lust is wanting some one's body, and rape is taking it. It seems almost fitting that the #1 promoter of evil, Satan, was kicked out of heaven because he wanted to take Gods throne.

Yup, its short, but ill be back tomorrow with the flip side!

F***ING PRAISE THE LORD!

Anyone else take offense from that title? I know I did, and I;m the one who wrote it!! How dare I put a cuss word in the same phrase as "the LORD"! Just terrible. But for some reason it's not a big deal to curse with the same mouth we use to praise the LOR Almighty. THink about it: we pray in the morning, and then go to school or work and star throwing in those words. And yes, Facebook counts. Are your 'statuses' consistent? Does one say "Praise the LORD!! Psalm 38:4" and the next say "F*** school. im done."? Pick one or the other! Representing the One who made the universe isnt a part time job!!
Another thing, These: * dont make it any better. I did it for an example and a clever title, but really, "What the heck?" or "What in the world?" work just as well as what it could be. For the record, OMG, gosh, and jeez are all using the name of the LORD in vain. OMG is pretty obvious, but gosh and jeez are alternates for God and Jesus. Look it up. That's ten commandments stuff. Number three to be exact. "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD you God, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who misuses His name." (Exodous 20:7) That's serious stuff. But it goes beyond these single words you use. What about those perverted jokes you make? or the racism? Or the drugs you take? you may think it's all on you, but it hurts Him more than you, in more ways than one. So please. Either use your mouth for good, or for evil. Don't mix.