Ridalin Tester

It’s a sad day when you come to the realization that your life sucks and you are a dork! Today was not that day however this week led me to feel like I have no life (thus i’m blogging now), have few friends and the life I do have is filled with work and being a hermit in my apartment.

I barely even have the the will to write a blog post on one of many sites anymore and the posts I do write lack the vigour and determination of the old days.

But I have an idea…I am going to quit my job and become a professional happy-drug tester.  Give me some ridalinand put me in front of a computer…i’ll blog for days!

Stopping Time

It’s easy to see the world by a paycheck, a bill, or a 9 to 5 job.  But really outside of the 9 to 5 is an amazing and awesome world that baffles the mind and creates a suffocating euphoria.  This drug is avoided and forgotten by millions each and every day and this blissful escape grows further and further away from us.

In the matter of 5 months, my life has escaped me by 1year.  A month seems like a week and a week like a day.  Beyond the TV, internet and junk food is the world that has slowed to a crawl and grows with the grass.  Do you remember those days when all you had to worry about was what time to be home for dinner after a long day of playing.  Or perhaps those camping trips with the overwhelming smell of camp fires, hot dogs and smores.  The refreshing and re-creating dew of the morning on the tent and ground.

Don’t forget about what truly matters!

Romans 8:38-39

³⁸And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away. ³⁹Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Praise God

Random Call

I recieved a random call today from FEMA.  “How’s your medical knowledge?”  Well it was a friend from FEMA actually but it looks like this trip i was taking to New Orleans has gotten around to a few people and i may be taking more responsibility than planned.

How crazy to think the need this area is in right now yet the people that are running the scene are very calm and collected…very cool 

trade center

Here’s a recent satellite photo from google earth of the WTC spot since today is 9/11:

 

 

Red Cross seeks 40,000 more volunteers

Reuters

BATON ROUGE, La. – The American Red Cross said Saturday it needs 40,000 additional volunteers in the next few weeks to replace worn-out relief workers helping Hurricane Katrina victims.

“This is a disaster of such scope and such significance that it is not going to go away in a few weeks or a few months,� said Ken Degnan, public affairs specialist for the Red Cross. “We need more people.�

The relief agency is sheltering 160,000 survivors, has provided 6 million meals and is operating 675 shelters in 23 U.S. states, an unprecedented effort that is taxing the 114-year-old organization, Degnan said.

The 36,000 Red Cross volunteers currently working the disaster will start rotating back to their homes beginning next week, so replacements are needed, he said.

The agency is asking recruits to contact their local Red Cross, which will provide training in such fields as shelter management, public health and working through government bureaucracies set up to assist disaster victims.

“It may seem like pretty simple to come into a shelter and help out,� Degnan said. “But when you are dealing with large numbers of people in a congregate living facility you need to be trained.�

Lack of sleep…those were the days

I was just thinking about my earlier years at my last college and the days of “fun.”  One week i managed to stay awake for 4 days straight and without severe consequence.  I did sleep 16 hours after that though

 

Our real citizenship

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

-Hebrews 11:13 (New International Version)

I was reading this story about this Jewish man in the 19th century. He was one of the richest men in the world and people loved to get a sense of what it was like to be rich and look at his house. One day a group of people saw that the house was imperfect in that the trim on the house had not been finished. The rich man was asked about that and gladly answered. Jewish tradition says that every pious man Jew’s house must have some part unfinished. This was to bear testimony to the world that its occupant is, like Abraham, only a pilgrim and a stranger upon the Earth.

We love to seek money, cars, houses, jobs, clothes, etc… But will that car pass the gates of Heaven, or hell for the matter. I see almost daily signs that states the end of this life is at hand. I have Faith that any day Jesus will come for us and take us home. But are you ready? Can you answer with 100% faith that you will be going home? I hope so!

Papers, papers, and more papers

I wrote this lovely full article about school but there was a server error when i posted it and i lost it.  So the gist of what i was saying…

We spend so much money on going to college and most of our effort is spent on writing papers.  Paper after paper we write just to get a grade in return and trash the paper we worked so tirelessly on.  But the real victim here are the poor helpless trees that get cut down by the billions just for a piece of paper.

Let’s think about the trees…