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Name: Justus
Country: United States
State: Georgia
Metro: Kennesaw
Birthday: 3/10/1991
Gender: Male


Interests: I used to have a huge thing in this box on the Titanic. As you see, I no longer do.
Expertise: Too much to mention.... riiiiight.
Occupation: Making disciples of the nation
Industry: Using God's gifts


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Monday, February 19, 2007


Thursday, February 15, 2007

Currently Watching
My Fair Lady
By Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, Joy Tierney (II), Alma Lawton, Wendy Russell, Colin Campbell, John McLiam, Samuel Holmes, James O'Hara, Ayllene Gibbons, Richard Peel, Helen Albrecht, Peter Ladefoged
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It caused me days of pain...

Well, there you have it folks: my first day on the slopes with a snowboard under my feet.



Monday, January 29, 2007

Currently Reading
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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MORE drama?!?


In time, My eyes will grow tired and old.

And my hands will hold one another.

My logic will grow from torrents of time

and my thoughts will learn to commit no crime against a word.

In time I will reserve attempts at romance.

I will balance a mile in my hand.

I will read Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”

and learn through mistakes where I stand.

I will not die on the end of a rope

though the noose I’ve tied and will tie would hold.

I will learn to live Dickens and time.

I will not die from a scratch on my wrist

and I will sigh. I know I will sigh.

I know I will sigh because I have sighed.

And I know because I’ve never died.

The Estella or Esteĺĺa or some West Coastal state

and the breeze against my eyes they’ll all make me cry.

And time makes me want to read more of the same

and the sight of my ropes make me tired and tame.

And when I grow old I will know how to soar

to sigh and to read with Calli amor.
                                                                                                   -anonymous


Yeah, so I came across that poem and thought it was great... what do you think?

Oh God, if only I knew Your plans... Why this trial? Why these temptations and stupidities? Only You know...

This a great song, please take the time to listen:


Sunday, January 14, 2007

Currently Reading
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America)
By Robert Frost
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God's Country

It was Matthew and me again, painting. We were just finishing up on a job about five minutes away from home when the call came in: there was work in 'The Valley."

'The Valley" is one of the most blessed chunks of earth in the east, and it is Matthew's favorite place to chill. It is called the Sequatchie Valley, and is located in southern Tennessee near Chattanooga. There's a man that Matthew knows... Mr. Harold... who owns a large tract of land there.

Well, Mr. Harold needed two rooms to be painted in one of the many tenant houses on his property. Matthew and he have a very close relationship, and he gave Matthew the job for a generous price.

That was all it took: a phone call. The call came in at about 11:00 Friday morning and we were planning to leave at 6:00.

We left about on time, and the trip up was relatively without excitement. We picked up a hitchhiker, which meant I got to ride in the back.Woot Woot!

After arriving in town we headed to a retirement home. There is housed the infamous 'Old Man Charlie." Old Man Charlie is a 80-ish year-old man with a firm handshake, a bright smile, and a childish laugh. He is a retired whiskey smuggler. He made a fortune in the fifties doing what he did. This man has stories that one can hardly believe about The Valley. Car thieves, whiskey smugglers, police gone bad, indians.... you name it. We listened to his stories for about 2 hours. I loved ever minute of it.

We finally had to go, and he ended with this prayer: "Lord, we know we're filthy sinners and we're wicked; but deep down we're pretty good people."

Uh-huh. Riiiight.

So after that we checked in on Mr. Harold. He was pleased to see Matthew and enjoyed meeting me. He was just about to eat dinner, however, so we weren't going to disturb him.

Instead we headed downtown to catch up with some of Matthew's old friends.

We stayed up very late and finally drove home and stumbled into bed at about 2:00 at night.

We woke up at about 10:00 next morning and started working on the rooms we were to paint. It was a large bathroom and a laundry room. We knocked them out in a whopping two hours! After that, it was four-wheelers for hours. Then horses.

We rode both until it was about time to head home. We loaded up, got payed (as if a day on the farm wasn't enough payment for two hour's work), and headed home. On the way home we stopped at Mrs. Polly's antique bookstore where I got a book on English and American literature and a book by Robert Frost. The only thing rightful to wash this wonderful prose down with was coffee, which we picked up at Greyfriars.

Then home sweet home.

Here are some pictures... no one had better make fun of my posture on the horse, I'm not very experienced! lol

Matthew on the 4-wheeler:



A cute colt



Me on the good horse, Blue


Again, Blue and me
 

The house we stayed in on Harold's property


So yeah... The moral of the story is that we were cowboys.

This doesn't mean you have to ride a horse (which we did), listen to country music (which we did), drive a pickup (which we did), or tawlk like dis, y'all (which we did). It just means we worked hard and played hard.

That is what God wants. He wants responsibility along with enjoyment. My relationship with God grew while I was up there, with the hills, horses, and heaps of manure. I was there with Him, in His country, in God's Country.




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