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Katy Pruitt--I finally did it!  I watched Elizabethtown and you were right.  I'm glad that I thought the tone was going to be a typical romantic comedy, 'cause it wasn't and I was glad.  If my life had a soundtrack, it would be much more pretty.  Things go better with soundtracks.  But, I'm not so graceful and sweet as most people in movies.  I'm a little more quirky and weird.  My soundtrack would probably be the PeeWee Herman music or something.  Sheesh!

Sorry, Nate.  Nothing deep.  I'm at a loss for words these days.

Here ya go, Ms. Pruitt!

I can't believe it's been since November 30th that I posted!!!!

10 Things People May Not Know About Me:

1. I'm about to start a deep, boding, artistic phase where I can be weird and it's cool, 'cause I'm so deep, boding, and artistic.
2. I keep using the word boding when I talk about that, but I don't know if it's the right word or not (shhh!!!)
3. I grew up riding jumping horses
4. When I was in high school, I never went more than 2 weeks without a boyfriend.  Then I went all through college without one.  I liked college better.
5. I almost died giving plasma once.  Maybe not died... But it wasn't pretty. 
6. My favorite movie is Fight Club
7. I used to be nationally certified to teach therapeautic horseback riding
8. I've never broken a bone
9. I had a serious crush on Nash Bridges (the character, not Don Johnson)
10. I never do these things...this is only because I love my friend, Katy

7 Things I want to do before I Die:

1. Write a book
2. Work at a University 
3. Do something seriously big for the Invisible Children Campaign
4. Live in Vancouver, British Columbia
5. Talk about Jesus more
6. Own a coffee shop/ministry place/missions training site
7. Have coffee with Donald Miller

7 Things I Can't Do:

1. anything musical
2. anything artistic
3. anything athletic (i'm starting to get a self-esteem problem)
4. sew 
5. send food back at a restaurant if it's wrong 
6. get up on time in the morning 
7. pitch a tent.  belive me--i've tried

7 Things I say all the time:

1. "You're great!" 
2. "You're the funniest person ever"--but, really I mean it to everyone.  There are LOTS of funny people around me
3. Friend
4. I don't know what it looks like, but...
5. Jesss...
6. Excellent 
7. really? 

7 Books/Magazines I love:

1. Relevant (magazine)
2. PostSecret.com (not really any of these, but i wanted to put it somewhere)
3. Searching for God-Knows-What (book)
4. Don't Waste Your Life (book)
5. Blue Like Jazz (book)
6. I am not, but I know I AM (book)
7. In the Name of Jesus (book)

7 DVDs I can't stop watching:

1. Arrested Development Season 2
2. Sports Night 
3. OneDay '03
4. .... 
5. ....
6. .... 
7. That's about it.  I don't watch too many DVDs

7 Bands I Can't Stop Listening to:

1. Charlie Hall
2. Derek Webb 
3. Coldplay (since the concert!) 
4. Shane and Shane
5. Damien Rice 
6. Waterdeep, Waterdeep, Waterdeep!!!!
7. Josh Banner

7 People to do this survey:

Ummm...I think i'm the last one left to do it....

First, I'd like to say that there's no need to be aggressive, Katy Pruitt.  If you had asked nicely, I would have posted just as quickly. 

Second, I'd like to say that I surely did think this was a good idea...you know, the blogging thing, until I realized I don't have much significant to say.  So, if you want to demean me for not being as intellectually stimulating as you, go right ahead.  But, you just wait until you're old and senile and have lost your wit.  Maybe, if I'm lucky, some really mean kid will come along and make fun of you the way you've made fun of me.

Ha!  I love you Katy Pruitt.  I just needed some material, so I ran with it...

But seriously, I don't have a lot of new exciting stories or lessons I've learned from the Lord or anything like that.  I think He's just pretty much trying to teach me that I don't know what I'm talking about and that saying things and living things are totally different.  So, there's no room for new stuff.  I have to figure out the old stuff!  You know, like community is an act of worship, or love people, or take care of the poor and needy.  Things I "graduated" from in an intellectual way--I understand the Scriptural "principles"--but haven't even gotten out of kindergarten in a living way.  Hmmph. 

Favorite lines from some music I've been listening to:

"because money cannot buy
a husband's jealous eye
when you have knowingly deceived his wife"

From Derek Webb's "Wedding Dress".  I don't care what anyone says...this song is about the Church and it's amazing!  Only in Jesus can we be betrothed to Him.  Man, Hosea is amazing!

"i repent, i repent of trading truth for false unity
i repent, i repent of confusing peace and idolatry
by caring more of what they think than what i know of what we need
by domesticating you until you look just like me
i am wrong and of these things i repent"

From Derek Webb's, you guessed it, "I Repent."  Sometimes I need to listen to music that makes me border on that line between 1)wanting to run away and be depressed for years because of how much I don't understand following Jesus and 2)being told the truth in such a profound and poetic way that it changes my life and makes me want to be like Him whatever the cost to my pride or ego.

That's my news for now.  Thanks for reading.

Currently Listening I See Things Upside Down By Derek Webb see related

So, I've been thinking and writing a lot lately about the idea of "success" and how dangerous it can be to ministry and on this journey of following Jesus.  I'll have to post about it sometime soon, I suppose. 

But, here's my most current thought:  Derek Webb's got a line in a song on this album that says something to the affect of how people know Christians by the way they think they've got it down and like none of us are dirty.  And he says "but isn't that why Jesus had to die?  And not to make us think we're right?"  I flipped out when I heard it.  It's sooooo true and I've been really convicted of it lately.  More than I want Jesus to cleanse me, I want Jesus to make me right.  Which means I want Him to make other people wrong--I might not say it, but it's what i want by default.  For me to be right someone else has to be wrong.

So, I was talking to a friend today and I heard something about a person that doesn't like me very much.  And I don't actively dislike this person by any means...in fact, I was always unsure of why they didn't like me.  But, the news I found out about them was something fairly negative that they did.  And I didn't think much about it until hours later when I realized that I immediately felt much better.  I didn't care what they thought of me because they weren't even that cool.  I was pretty much excited that I heard they screwed up because it made me more right.  Now, that's messed up.  And I don't think people verbalize thoughts like these too much b/c it makes them sound like the jerks we are.  So, i hope you don't hate me.  I just thought I can't be the only person to think this way.  It's not that cool the way "success" and the need to be "right" has warped my mind to where I'm super-happy to be the "right" one at the expense of someone else.  It definitely doesn't make me want to empathize with them.  Or hear their side.  Or try to love them better.  It makes me want to be right.  I'm a sicko.  I need Jesus to help me get over myself.