Today was fun....hung out with Dustin, Phil and Josh....ate some spaghetti and played some Halo 2!  We should do something like that every saturday...see ya guys around!

It's the weekend....and I'm at work....

*edit*  I just bought a book on my break....things are looking up this weekend~!

Oh the trials.....

So...my car door lock is messed up and I can't unlock it....hence I can not open the door.  Hmm...so every time I want to drive somewhere...I have to crawl in through the passenger door!  Let me tell you...that get's old real quick!  Oh well...

The past couple of days I was hanging out in the MK office working with Grant stuffing envelopes so we could send out the communique...so that should be arriving soon for some of you....

Well I gotta go...I need to go on break so I can go buy some rats...

P.S. Quick...check out my pictures of Europe down below before they are banished forever to the archives....

mmmm....death by meteor.....hey I wouldn't complain if I got atleast one wish....even if it was the end of human life everywhere....

So...yeah I was watching this show on the history channel about alcohol.  (don't ask why...I'm not sure) Anyways....I learned that Nascar evolved out of moonshiners and bootleggers jazzing up their cars to be faster so they could outrun the law....(somehow I wasn't surprised)

I have nothing really to say...

I'm bored....maybe I'll do something this weekend....

At last...the long awaited pictures of Europe.  Paris, Rome, Venice and Florence...Here for a short time only....

Got pictures of most of the places I went...sadly don't have any pictures of Brussels or the people I was hanging out with.  Anyways....

Hanging out with Lucia Skinner in Venice.  This is a big famous bridge with lots of shopping on it...over the canal.  Those are boats in the canal...

Arch of Constantine and the Colleseum in the background.

The Colosseum....

Um...some cathedral on the left and Giotto's Bell Tower on the right....it's huge..and yes I did make it to the top.  This is in Florence, Italy

The Louvre in Paris...I hung out here for a few hours while I read and people watched..fun times.

Notre Dame in Paris.....no...I didn't see the hunchback...so don't ask!

This is a view of the Roman Forum from the Palentine Hill where the Imperial Forum lies...

Couple pictures of the Vatican....

The Grand Canal in Venice....I didn't go on any gondola (sp?) rides this time...they are like 100 bucks for 30 mins.  Someday....maybe on like a honeymoon or other vacation when it's actually romantic.....hmm...I wonder if they do those at night?

That's me considering taking up "Gondoling" as a profession....and that's Lucia's finger at the edge of the camera....

Continuing on a similar thought pattern....

First:  This is in regard to all military conflicts everywhere...so...disregard the current conflict on going in Iraq and keep your politics to yourself.

Second:  These statements are directed towards those that would hold the Bible as the standard for which they live their lives...my following comments would hold little discussion value without the Bible as a foundation.

My thoughts this evening:

It's interesting the balance of the importance between the gift of salvation and the gift of life.  The gift of salvation is by far the most important.  However, the balance is that you can not even attain the gift of salvation without the gift of life...but the gift of life holds no eternal value without the gift of salvation.  So...essentially you need to be alive to be able to even find Christ...and you need to find Christ to make it all worth while. 

So, as a Christian is it moral to stand by and do nothing while hundreds of thousands of non-believers kill each other and condemn each other to hell. Or is it moral for a Christian to attempt to pick the "best side possible" resulting in only thousands dying  so hundreds of thousands may have a chance to hear the gospel one day.  Or option number 3...is it moral for Christians to follow either of these paths according to their own personal conscience?

Human life is precious and valuable...but how valuable is it truly without Christ?

What does it mean to "lay your life down for someone else"?  How exactly do you lay your life down for someone else?  Just one comment before answering this....

The "laying down of one's life" must result in the other's life being saved.

So...what situations in life actually exist where you are able to lay down your life for someone else?

Spent a couple of nights at my grandparents' in Texarkana...drove back today...started back at Evangel security...however things are different this time.  Benefits..more pay..and they will still give me time off to do the things I wanna do.  Anyways...it's just been a long day of driving..kinda tired...now I'm in the security office.  Working hard ofcourse.  I will get back to posting pictures later...I have a bunch from Europe!  Ciao

Interesting...a week ago I was hanging out with the crew in Brussels...fun times!