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EMBRACE!!!

Has anyone seen the movie Stuck on You? If you haven't, it's about two brothers Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) who are Siamese ("American") twins, aka conjoined twins. Walt wants to become an actor in Hollywood, but it is made hard cause he is a conjoined twin. He makes it on a show with Cher, with the production doing camera tricks to make it look like he's not conjoined

Anyways...Josh has talked about how he looks at movies to try and learn something more about God...I didn't plan on that in this movie, but like a day after watching it a line in the movie stuck in my head

Walt was becoming this big time actor, but then the media fund out he was conjoined...his agent was telling them to "run, run, run" but their friend April (Eva Mendes) told them the answer was easy "Embrace"

That's when I started making correlations between this movie and our lives

• In the media's eyes they weren't perfect, just like we aren't perfect
• The easy thing to do would be to "run, run, run" from God
• The smart thing would be to "embrace" who we are

If they were to just run away they never would have been successful, but when they embraced it everything became a lot easier, trying to hide it from everyone

If we runaway from God when things aren't going good we'll never get to the potential God has for us...if we embrace and tell God "I know I'm not perfect, I know I will never be perfect...but God use me as I am, I love you and want to serve you, and you alone"

It's like that song...Just as I am...just worship God they way you are, don't let Satan hold you back...saying "your terrible, you can't worship God, you have too many things wrong with you, you're not worthy"

"Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead," Philippians 3:13

So...Embrace who you are and what God has planned for you

Peace

A Day for the Books

So...me and Ryan decided to go snowboarding yesterday, but to do that we would have had to wake up at 5 to get there when it opened. So...instead we decided to go up right after New Years. We left right around 1 in the morning and were just gonna sleep in the truck when we got there

Somewhere along they way one of us had the idea to hike the mountain when we got there, and ride down

We got to the mountain about 3 and hiked about half a mile or so up the mountain (which turned out to be a blue run...pretty steep). After almost dying on the way up from the hike and lack f oxygen (I gained a whole new respect for people that climb Everest...and this was only 10,000 feet), we finally got to a spot where we would strap into our boards

That was probably the coolest run I have ever done...down the mountain only lite up by the moon...definitely worth the hike

We got to the truck about 4 and tried sleeping in the bed (it was ten degrees outside, but I didn't actually get cold) but it was comfortable at all...so we tried sleeping in the tiny cab, which wasn't much more comfortable

I think I ended up falling asleep at 5:30 or 6, and woke up at 7:30...not a lot of sleep for a whole day of snowboarding ahead

Anyways, the snowboarding was awesome...I can tell I get better every time I go, I can't wait to go again

(Here's the view from one of the chairlifts; you can't really see it, but in the distance is the Grand Canyon...pretty sweet)

Peace

Random Randomness

I haven't posted in a while cause of the holidays and whatnot...but I didn't know what to talk about so...I thought random randomness would be a good one...

• Snowboarding is so awesome...I bought a board today, crazy deal at Big 5
• I'm about to eat some chimichungas
• This weekend was sooo much fun, thanks everyone for coming out
• Last week was tons of fun to, Denver was nice
• It's nice to be back home though, gotta love Phoenix weather
• I'm addicted to Mountain Dew
• Who likes Egg Nog? I love it, but a lot of others don't
  
• I can't wait to start our small group this year, the Plastic Jesus book is gonna be awesome
• I need to start working out again...I gained 5 or 6 pounds this holiday season
• I really want to get back into hockey...but it's so expensive
• I hope I can make it to Vegas for Nathan's tournament in Vegas
• Does anyone like watching the World Cup? I love watching it, but that's the only time I ever watch soccer
• There's a tight race for 2nd in my fantasy hockey league
• Cam and Logan are so freakin' cute
• These chimichungas are good!!

Th-th-th-that's all folks!!

Peace