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Name: Phil
Birthday: 3/12/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: I love to read, write, and take pictures. I am always looking for that angle no one else has seen, and I love to look at the other side of things. I love LEGO and Star Wars, and am a SciFi kind of guy.
Expertise: My expertise is in the English language. 3000 word papers are a joke to me. But I only use correct grammar when it matters.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  UkarumpaStrmRdr
Yahoo:  stormrider_espresso
Member Since:
8/19/2005
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| my blog is now permanently at blog.philipjoel.com
I will no longer be posting here
thanks for reading | | |
| Hello there readers.
I am sure that those of you who have been looking for updates have been a little confused as of late. Let me fill you in with some detail....about 3 weeks ago I got back from Quebec Missions Reality, and a week after that I broke up with my girlfriend.
It has been a really crazy couple of weeks, and alot of thinking and learning, and growing, and soul searching, and crying out to God. But, by His grace, I think I am coming through, with a new perspective on life, and definite goals for growth.
This whole final semester here at Word of Life has been such a stretching experiance. I praise God for it all, and though it has not always been fun and good times, even the valleys of life are good when God directs us there.
I find it hard to believe that in about 15 days I will be done with the academic part of my stay here, and be about to graduate from Bible school, done with a first part of my adult life. So much has happened, that my head spins at where I have been, and the roads I have walked.
God is moving, this is sure.
Looking ahead, not sure what I am doing for the week of break after the school year, but once I return for summer camp, I will be a tech supervisor here. That means I will be running most of the tech for the Ranch, and will be discipling some of the high schoolers who come to work for us. Alot of work, and challenges that I don't exactly feel adequate for.
So that is my life, as it has been, in a nutshell. Would greatly appreciate your prayers.
~Peace~
the StormRider | | |
| Broken pieces of the man I used to be are all that’s left of who I am
A shattered mass of all my countless broken dreams.
I wonder where I go from here
I found the one that I was always searching for
No more empty promises
I’ve come to realize what I’m worth is so much more
More than how you made me feel
This wanting more….is tearing me, it’s breaking me
But what [I] want’s not [yours] to give
You were my dollar sign, my brand new house,
My product line
When I’m done with you I’m spent.
When the smoke is gone I have to face what I’ve become…
Will [God] rescue me? Could [God] get me out alive?
I’m trying to hold on but I’ve lost the will to fight
Will [God] rescue me? Take me far away from this shattered life.
How can I go on pretending that there’s nothing wrong?
Life has brought me to my knees
This mask I hide behind is killing me,
There’s nothing left
Is there anyone who feels like me?
When the smoke is gone I have to face what I’ve become…
lyrics by Seventh Day Slumber
altered slightly to fit what I want to say | | |
| When I go, don't cry for me
In my Father's arms I'll be
The wounds this world left on my soul
Will all be healed and I'll be whole.
Sun and moon will be replaced
With the light of Jesus' face
And I will not be ashamed
For my Savior knows my name.
It don't matter where you bury me,
I'll be home and I'll be free.
It don't matter where I lay,
All my tears be washed away.
Gold and silver blind the eye
Temporary riches lie
Come and eat from heaven's store,
Come and drink, and thirst no more
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away
So, weep not for me my friends,
When my time below does end
For my life belongs to Him
Who will raise the dead again.
It don't matter where you bury me,
I'll be home and I'll be free.
It don't matter where I lay,
All my tears be washed away.
even needful death is not particularly happy | | |
| some rough things are happening right now, and yesterday, I had an opportunity to get away with my friend and tech boss/intern Joel Foster, so I took it.
We decided to just drive. So we drove by a big rock painted like an elephant, and stopped and took pictures. We took pictures by a lake.
We drove clear out of New York and into Vermont. We stopped at an Apple reseller, we went into Barnes and Noble. We stopped at Starbucks and I had an espresso brownie, and he had a frappachino. We finally ended up at Pizza Hut and ate dinner with his three sisters. And then we drove back to the BI. Lots of good talking.
Once back we watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Not a bad chick flick. It was a good day, and a good way to get away. | | |
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