| Jesus CHOSE suffering"All experiences of suffering in the path of Christian obedience, whether from persecution or sickness or accident, have this in common: They all threaten our faith in the goodness of God and tempt us to leave the path of obedience. Therefore, every triumph of faith and all perseverance in obedience are testimonies to the goodness of God and the preciousness of Christ - whether the enemy is sickness, Satan, sin, or sabatoge.
Therefore, all suffering, of every kind, that we endure in the path of our Christian calling is a suffereing "with Christ" and "for Christ". With Him in the sense that the suffering comes to us when we are walking with Him by faith and in the sense that it is endured in the strength He supplies through His sympathizing high-priestly ministry (Hebrews 4:15). For Him in the sense that the suffering tests and proves our allegiance to His goodness and power and in the sense that it reveals His worth as an all-sufficient compensation and prize."
- John Piper, Desiring God
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| Summer
Where did it go?
13 weeks:
- Week 1 - Baseliea
- Weeks 2-13 - Work
Then it's back to school. Boy summer was uneventful.
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| Go to Urbana!
Dec 27, 06 - Jan 1, 07
St. Louis, MO
www.urbana.org
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| Lost Memories
I just found out that I lost pretty much all of my pictures when my computer crashed on me the other day and my dumb back-up program failed to back-up my pictures. I pretty much lost everything from 2003 to now and probably earlier...so pretty much all Cornell pics and random pics from when I came back to Cali for break...
I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet...
Maybe I'll hunt people down to give me pics...
want to help?
goodness I forgot I lost all my YSMP pics too....
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| My body isn't used to this heat any more...how sad...
But I did get a little darker when I went to Great America haha 
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