Thanksgiving in Review

So...for Thanksgiving I went to NYC. It was a great time! I stayed with my friend Laura in the Bronx. We went to the parade, I hung out w/ the CNN camera guys and some police officers who were nice enough to let me stand by them to take pics. It was cold....super cold. But I did have a great time at the parade. And I ate Chinese for lunch. Oh...and Neil Patrick Harris interviewed the people right next to us. If I would have been from Italy or Brazil, I would have been on tv.

We also visited Time Square, Max Brenner (A-mazing!!), Peanut Butter & Co., China Town, Little Italy, Rice to Riches (A-maxing!!!), we went to see Stranger than Fiction, and to Starbucks.

Here are some pics

Happy Thanksgiving

Here are a few pics from NYC.
The parade was FREEZING but I did get to talk to a couple of very nice police men and some of the camera guys from CNN. They let me take pics up close. :)

Oh..and I think cousin Zac actually heard me scream his name

different ground zero angle

Local Hotspot...Alice's Tea Cup

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more to come...probably after the weekend :)

adios nashvegas

greetings....i'm leaving for new york city shortly....

HIP HIP!!

Ha Ha Ha :)

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Watch Out New York...HERE I COME!

It's been a little crazy lately.

Last weekend I spent in Hardin, KY w/ approximately 250 other people, mostly jr. high and sr. high school students. We had TONS-O-FUN. The Brentwood Bowl was entertaining as usual. The "Men-In-Black" finally found victory, as did the "Apple Cyders". I had great fun getting to know the students better as well as rekindling friendships.

I am busy every day until next Tuesday when I leave for NEW YORK CITY for Thanksgiving! I'm going to spend the week w/ my friend Laura. She's a missionary in the Bronx. My little cousin Zac is marching in the parade so it'll be fun to see him too.

We are going to go to Max Brenner, a cholocate resturant and SoHo, I think. We're going to paint her bedroom and either have the traditional thanksgiving meal w/ friends or chinese.

Needless to say, I'm WAY excited about the trip and thankful for my friendship with Laura.

Screwtape--Chapter Eight

In Lifegroup we've been reading through/discussing C.S.Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters"

Every time I read this book, I become more and more thankful for the insight given to Lewis. Chapter eight is slowly becoming my favorite. Here are a few excerpts (read: most of the chapter) for you.

"Humans are amphibians--half spirit and half animal..As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions and imaginations are in continual change, for
to be in time means to change."

"As long as the human lives on earth, periods of emotional and bodily richness and liveliness will alternate with periods of numbness and poverty."

"One must face the fact that all the talk about His (God) love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not, mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself--a creature whose life...will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely confirm to His."

"We want to suck in, He (God) wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy (God) wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."

"He cannot ravish. He can only woo...the creatures are to be one with Him, but yet themselves."

"Hence, the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best"

"Do not be deceived, our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's (God) will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him (God) seems to have vanished, and ask why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."

I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;

He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of priase to our God.

Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord
Psalm 40:1-3