I would have never thought I’d say this… but the girls basketball game tonight was really good! Great job girls! Dominate!

“Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go, or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow?” The awesome God of the universe, full of terrible power, has chosen love for us. I like that. Alot.

Other things I like

1. When a girl has real long bangs and lets’em hang just a little bit over her eyes, going across her face a little. Allie-Andy does that. That is neat.
   
2. When a girl doesn’t have time to put make-up on, comes to school and has the countenance of what’s her face in Pride and Predjudice. Just acts lovely and kind. I like that too.
   
3. Hm…That Sixpence None the Richer CD, the newest one.
   
4. Ben b/c he is a good friend. He is nice and desires God.
   
5. Love (ie.God is freakin’ sweet, and under that I would like to have a wife that would wake up on a Saturday morning with me, drink coffee and talk about the Lord [she could drink something else if she really wanted and if I was honest, I'd probably choose milk or V8 Splash or something "dumb" like that].
   
6. Mornings, because tommorow morning will remind me that I will never be able to be as romantic as I would like to be ,cause odds are that when it comes down to it I’ll be too tired for my wife and I to wake up on Saturdays until like 1:00 PM
   
7. Attempting to wake up tomorrow extra early so I can do my Bible time, but recognizing the fact that I’m going to need some major heavenly help cause I sure do love my bed.

An encouragement:

Jeremiah 9:24 (New International Version)

but let him who boasts boast about this:
       that he understands and knows me,
       that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,
       justice and righteousness on earth,
       for in these I delight,”
       declares the LORD.

You guys are smart people, so you’ll figure out when I’m being sarcastic.

So ‘m sitting here at Starbucks. I’ve been reading Searching for God Knows What, a book by Donald Miller (I read books about the Bible more than I read the Bible… hmmm). So Don, I hope he’s cool with me calling him Don, he started talking about Hosea and How God tells him to marry a whore and have kids with her and love her, all agape style and stuff. He talks about the heartbreak that this story is, about a man who loves a woman magnificently and purely, and a woman who’s ready to open her legs “at the drop of a hat.” This would be nice and all, but the one she’s opening for isn’t her husband. You see she’s stuck in her old ways. She used to be a whore and she probably doesn’t want to be one but there’s just something inside her that is comfortable in that old stuff, comfortable, but dying all the while. He goes on to talk about the fact that the reason God told Hosea to do that, to love the woman unconditionally despite the fact she’s unfaithful (Unfaithful is too nice. Don’t get me wrong when i say this, but it’s the only appropriate way to describe it. She’s a bitch… pulling the kind of crap that my friend’s dad did to his mom. I haven’t read Hosea (i guess I should), but I wouldn’t be suprised if she pulled all that crap and stayed away for a really long time causing him to wonder if she’d ever come back. But here comes the beautiful part… God tells Hosea that the whole thing with him marrying the whore was to serve as an allegory to God’s relationship with the Jewish nation, with his church. And hosea serves as God. He cares so much for his wife, that he loves her unconditionally and wants everything just to be with her and for her to be secure in Him.

So I decided to go to the restroom, a slight interruption in the reading process, and I was waiting in line. So this dude comes up behind me. The guy, about 18 to 25, had a pale face and a scab on the right side of his chin. He was wearing kind of weird clothes and had a ghetto backpack. Just trying to be nice, I invited him to go ahead of me and when he started to object I pretended like I didn’t hear him. I returned to my seat and after a while I started getting antsy. After all, I had gone to the restroom in order to use it. This is literally five or ten minutes minutes later. I went back and I could hear the sink running and the same dude was in there! I thought maybe the dude was doing drugs in there or maybe, me being the great daydreamer I am, he was planting a bomb since that’s what people do when they turn sinks on for extended periods of time.

I told the folks at the counter that Frank, we’ll call him Frank, had been in there for a while, because honestly I was concerned. He told them he’d be out in just a minute and it dawned on me that he was washing up in the sink! So I began to think upon the fact that he was a poor man because at some point in his life he had decided not to work, and that basically he is a horrible person and I’m rich because my parents are Christians and we’re better than homeless people. Homeless people are stupid because they don’t work. I’m better than that because I go to school and drive a Lexus. So after I had pondered the truth and spiritual validity of the last statement, he did indeed come out a full extra three minutes later. I was on the phone with Jim and tried to get of the phone so that I could catch up with him and see if I could buy him dinner or whatever, but by the time I got out the door he was a pretty long way off and it was then that I realized I didn’t have the greatest amount of evidence for my assumption of the sink-shower.

Nevertheless, this thing that happened around me got me thinking about being a Christian conservative republican dude, and how I believe that if somebody wants to stop being poor, they just have to get a job, and it’s their responsibility to get out of their situation. You know what, that is true. But Jesus didn’t give a poo about that. Being a social republican works in the government, but not when I see a dude on the side of the road that’s hungry. Jesus met people where they were. ‘member when he went to that lady who had cheated on her husband, reminded the dudes that were about to stone her about how their hearts were in the same place, seperated from God by their sin and saved the girls life? Frank doesn’t have a job for the same reason that I procrastinated on my homework this week, the same reason that this girl I used to know seemed to never be able to stop having sex with her boyfriend all the time. Frank has no job ecause he is sinful, because he is just like me. The point is, every sin is the same, and the man is to be pitied not judged. I’d be willing to bet, that if I spend time loving the helplessly lost in sin, they’ll learn about the love of Christ and come to him, then like Jesus, we’ll be able to say, “Go and sin no more,” and  really believe (down where the life exists in our souls) that he who began a good work in the preverbial Frank will bring it about to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Christmas break was wonderful!!! I can’t wait to see you guys!

So Dad, Mom, Pappy, Grandma, myself, Jim, Leslie, Allie, Ryan Palomo, Misty, and Ben Smiff are up here in Nuevo York and we’re going to Times Squizzle for New Years!!! Leslie wanted to highlight Jim’s hair and there were leftovers so we higlighted the tips of my fauxhawk… Let’s see what ya think!

In other news, I bought the first season of lost on itunes with this giftcard my mom gave me and it was freaking sweet! it only took me four days for 25 episodes… Good stuff, very freaky! now I need to see this season!

What is currently rocking my world in no particular order…

1) Lost
2) Sufjan Stevens (sweet music)
3) Imogen Heap (solo project from the girl in Frou Frou)
4) being in Nuevo York for New years
5) Highlights in my fauxhawk
6) Opportunity (musical)

I’ll also post some New Years pictoras when the time comes!

Well merry Christmas Eve, everyone. I had a wonderful story to tell you but I forgot it. It was very funny, full of wit and romance and ending in a Grand Finale much like that in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.

I’m going to Yorktown, Texas tomorrow for Christmas at my great aunt and uncle’s. They’re basically an extra set of grandparents. They have this freaking awesome living room that looks like the 70′s with wood paneling and such. Having been inspired by such style [mind you that you are witnessing fashion breakthrough in action as you read this] I have now decided to ditch the trendy-ish Industrial look of my bedroom and transform it into a 70′s wonderland, complete with… oh I don’t know… seventies stuff? Or maybe I’ll just chill with things the way they are.

Uhmm… If you haven’t seen White Christmas, you need to. It’s got Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney… Speaking of Christmas, Let me know if I need to come eat your milk and/or cookies… I’ve tried to make a little holiday cash by hiring myself out for such purposes but I think dads like to eat the cookies themselves. So far I have made $0 as a milkandcookiedisposer. Once again, let me know if your looking to hire. Yeah and speaking of food and all that that entails, I’ve been forgetting to brush my teeth as of late. I think it’s because I’ve been falling asleep in random places at night (i.e. the couch, the other couch, the chair, etc.). The truth is I’d rather fall asleep on the couch than go to bed. I guess there’s something romantic to me about drifting of to sleep rather than going straight to sleep on purpose. It’s a bit like what I assume snuggling by the fire with your one true love would be like, except that you’re a bit colder and there’s adequate space. It’s a trade-off, you know? When you’re in love you have to share the space, which ussualy leads you to having half of yourself hanging off the side of the couch or being squished just so the other person can fit. However, when you’re in love you don’t get cold and even if you do, whoever wakes up first is going to go get a blanket for the both of you and if he’s a gentleman he’ll leave you the blanket and the couch and head over to the chair so that you’re comfortable and no one has to wonder. I think if I get married I’ll have to buy oversized couches, or maybe a really nice loveseat. Those things really are amazing, having myself shared one with Preston (only for the pupose of… uh… sitting in). Hey, I like you. Until we meet again, Stay classy San Antonio!

Why do I stay up so late… well I guess its just 12:30, but I’m as tired as a … uhmmm… tire?

Well Anyways… Thanks to Shannah and Brittany for stopping by… It was nice to have tea with you guys. (I guess I was the only one who had tea, but it makes it sound more homie and wintery so please forgive me my little lie)

Also, tonight was incredibly fun because Ryan Palomo, Leslie, Ryan Kelly, and I had a Mario tournement of sorts… SNES style. It was crazy. We also talked about cussing, and whether it is okay or not. That was cool I guess. I just think it’s the attitude. Like “dang it” and ”damn it” can mean the same thing. But I don’t cuss because generally It distracts people from the point of what you’re trying to say… Like the time that guy came and spoke at chapel and said “bullcrap” and the administation got all bent out of shape. I don’t think the administration should have gotten angry, but the guy came in knowing the environment he was in and its a pitty that he kept his edgy language just because HE thought it was okay, because in the end it totally detracte from his sermon. everyone was talking about the scandal of it all. Whatever… It’s all good. goodnight

Well Merry Christmas and goodnight to all. You are beautiful people

                                                                                                            – Dave

P.S. I Love Cold Weather!!!

Ok guys… before you get back to studying… I was thinking that on Wedenesday night, in ceelebration of completing what is, for all practical purposes, senior year we could all what it’s a wonderful life at my house… any thoughts?

P.S. : tonight I fight my propensity for laziness and do some mad studying!

I haven’t updated in a while, and I really don’t know why that it is… Believe me, I’m a friend of xanga, but for some reason I just haven’t felt like it in a long time. But whatever. It’s pretty wierd to me how friendships evolve. before last summer, I hardly knew Allie Andrews and I didn’t know Jennifer Gately at all, and now were pretty good friends. I hung out with Ben and them till real late last night. When next school year begins who will I be friends with? I mean, I guess you never stop being friends with people, but if you rarely see them its not exactly the same. Odds are, when I go off to school next year, I’ll know practically no one. There’s not really a point to what I’m saying, but it’s just something I’m wondering about. I’m still excited about school, excited to learn music. dreaming of becoming the next Bono or David Crowder, but the the temporal nature of life (i.e. relationships) seems to keep you from ever really being home. When I look at life this way, Ecclesiastes makes sense. Everything is meaningless and people should just enjoy what they can while they live. Yeah we’re to love people, but can we truly love life? It seems like this life is not where we find life… I don’t say that because I’m a Christian. I say that because I’m a human being that is never settled. Life will only actually complete when we are met with our Father, met once and for all with our God. So yeah, I’ll continue to love people, continue to have fun, but there is this strange detachment that is echoed through all of life’s seasons, a detachment from the world because life can’t keep you happy, and a detachment from God, because we aren’t home yet.

Good night, my friends Everything feels like a night drive around here. I’m listening to the music of some guys I got the privilege of meeting at Berklee this summer, Matt and Isom. Go to my myspace and they’re on my “top 8.” Make sure you listen to Spiritless Ones. Really good song. I’m loving the Sigur Ros influence. It’s just great! I’ve got two books going on right now: Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. I already like Searching and I haven’t read much of Dorian Grey yet. LETTING GO CONTROL… This Christmas break I’ll be recording a bunch of songs that aren’t up on my myspace yet, so get excited!!! Now I’m off to do Government Homework.