I waste far too much time to be considered a decent human… Oh well… I guess we all have things to work on!

This was the title of my post but it was too long to fit in the title box. “Hello lovely people (or perhaps more accurately, “Hello again freind. I want you to know that Im home, I’m back, and I love you”).”

If you read this you must read this slowly, like a love story, like you’re wedding. (I pray to God that of any event in your life… you soak that one in (and the salvation of your children) more than anything!) then FIRST: Slow down… stop… put your PJ’s on or put them on again and congratulate yourself. By the time you’re reading this you probably just finished your last day of high school. Go (slowly) brew yourself some green tea with a little milk and honey and come back. (I guess you could do cereal or coffee if  you’re not a hot tea person).

I’ve been listening to this Nickel Creek song that says, “Why should the fire die? My mom and dad kept theirs alive. You’re shining still, behind the clouds, saying [that] I won’t figure you out. [Well] It might be true but let me try and try and try for the rest of my life. I’m not scared of being alone, I’m just happier being confused… beside the fire as long as it’s with you.Why should the fire die? My mom and dad kept their’s alive. It’s getting late, she says goodnight and falls asleep… I’ll be alright.

If you didn’t vibe with that then it’s okay. You don’t have to, but if that’s not the most beautiful picture of love and of gratitude for the frustrations and challenges of life lived in love within marriage then I don’t know what is. It just makes me want to go back to elementary school and fall in love with the girl I knew I was going to marry. The one I knew loved the Lord. The one I knew loved me too. The one I knew always had crushes on the stupid popular boys but I knew would turn around and find me again. I want to fall in love like that again. I want to fall in love with this persevering, seemingly unreasonable faith as my method. I want to fall in love and I want to believe like I did when I was “this many.” I want to love like I’ve never been betrayed.

Goodnight friends, As you plan for college don’t forget that you don’t control your own destiny. Remember the days when you were a child, believing every word he said? Live like that.

Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. See how much we depend? Do you see that deep down we are little children, children who eat without understanding the source of our food? We don’t need to know. We just need to know that Our Source gave us life and that life a more abundant life. Sometimes you  know that somethings real. You know this not because there is evidence, not because you found it fossilized, but because it works, because it makes you alive. Remember your life lived in faith. Live like you are “this many” and I dare you to stop life from bursting out of you like a cool, refereshing spring.

I dare you to stop life from feeling like the first dive into the neighborhood pool after the long, hard school year.

so about not taking the english final… I think I was wrong

Praise God! I don’t have to take my English final anymore. I have a 90 for the semester!!! i’m so happy!!! Also, just in case you were wondering… I saw Mission Impossible 3 and it was AMAZING!!! Incredibly intense! Ben and Allie and Leslie and Jennifer and Taylor and the Holy Spirit came and it rocked! Oh and after… Ben and Taylah(Taylor) and Jennifer got that new coke product that has coffee in it. It was neat.

“The novel ends with something of a Christian paradox:
life is achieved through death.” – spark notes for A Tale of Two Cities

Scott Austin (on asking the Holy Spirit to “fill” us and on looking for God) – “We’re like a bunch of people in a boat saying, ‘Guys, have you seen any water?!?!?!’”

Hey guys! Thanks for your wonderful responses. It’s interesting that no one said summer! I love winter personally. It’s tailor made for love. But like Chelsea said, I suppose any time is a good time to fall in love. So I’ve got a new song on my myspace. It’s called “Like to Know” but I think I’m going to change it to “Just Where’d I’d Be.”

Now let me give you a little tidbit about the way I wrote this song. There are biographical songs and there are songs that are just relaying a story. This one is sort of both. The song is not about me, I just play the main character. A friend and I  were talking about relationships and he brought up Mr. Biddison’s old adage about how relationships don’t work out if you meet in the middle. Each side has to be a hundred percent sold out to the other for things to work. That’s what the song is about. The character (who happens to be played out in the first person) is someone who took for granted the 100% his girlfriend was giving him and never gave her his 100%. Now he realizes his mistake and just wishes he could change things.

Have a great night and check out my new song! http://www.myspace.com/davidchalk

Just thought I’d say I hate human nature. Time to realign

So tell me. If you had to say that one season of the year was the time for love, what would it be?

God is Good… Kris is a friend. We had a good time taking pictures downtown tonight. Maybe I’ll put some of those up later. It’s been a while. And finally, “I want to give like I have plenty. I want to dance like no one’s around. I want to be the way I was meant to be. I want to be the way I was made!”

This one is really short for tonight… but it is so true for me. It’s a two-liner sort of poem or just a statement about who I am. Here goes…

ALL MY BEST IDEAS COME AS THE DAY CLOSES. TONIGHT I AM A HERO TOMORROW.  

All I gotta say is, “If you got one sandwich, cut that thing in half!” and GOD IS HUGE!!! and you’re going to want to say that with a silent H. So much bigger than my mind is God!