So Christmas shopping season has begun.  This is one of the most terrible times for Americans.  The U.S. credit debt is up to 1/2 Trillion dollars.  Please be careful guys.  Tomorrow might be the day that you die.  What will all of your wealth do for you then.  Focus on God.  Luke 12:34 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."  Think about what is important to you and make sure that your priorities are in order.  Focus on our Lord... That is all that will ever matter.  Think about it.  What is important to you?

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.24]-

Kenny's funeral was today.  Not much else happened.  God has his hand on our family though.  I KNOW that!

-adam, disciple of Christ

Please keep my entire family in your prayers right now.  There is so much going on that it isn't funny.  Even in my own household.  Please pray that everybody will regain their health and also that those that were close to Kenny find closure in he fact that even thought he isn't with us, he is with a being FAR greater and more powerful that we are and that everything will be ok.  Tomorrow is the funeral and a big day for many so keep us all in your houghts.

-adam, disciple of Christ



-[2001.11.22]-

God bless America.  Happy Thanksgiving!

-adam, disciple of Christ



-[2001.11.21]-

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day...  actually, if you look at the time, today is Thanksgiving day but shhhhh....  Man!  So much has happened to me this year to be thankful for...   I am most definetly thankful for everything that I own, knowing that there are those in countries, cities, and even her in my own back yard that have so little and even nothing sometimes.  I am even more thankful for the friends that I have who are ALWAYS there for me whenever I need them.  I know that I would not be where I am right now at all if it wasn't for the people that hold me up when my legs give way.  For that I am forever in debt to you.  And for the one thing that I am the very most thankful for is the very one that gave his life for me so that I would not have to.  JESUS CHRIST is who I am most thankful for.  He has put his hand on me the majority of my life and I know that He has a purpose for me and my life.  One that I hope I can't praise His in everyday that I have left.  Thanks be the to One that gave everything up so that I could have it all!

-adam, disciple of Christ 

-[2001.11.20]-

Kenny pasted away last night at around 7:30.  We all know that he is in a better place now.  God speed, we all miss and love you!

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.18-2001.11.19]-

I have not had the chance to post for a few days.  A lot has happened in the last 48 hrs.  Its about 6:00 pm right now, around yesterday at 12 noon or so, we got a msg on the answering machine that told us that my uncle was given only 48 hrs to live.  My mom and I rushed up to St. Louis to be with our family.  There really wasn't anyplace for us to sleep, so most of us went down to our cars and slept in the garage.  My uncle progressively gets worse and worse and has come to the point that he cannot be helped at all.  They have signed a DNR order and various other forms that say they won't increase anything else so that he will be able to die peacefully.  It has been a very exhausting couple of days.  I really ask that you keep my family and I in your prayers please.  My mom has taken all of this really hard as well as a lot of the rest of us but my mom and I had to come home early because of some of the stuff going on. PLEASE pray for us.  God bless you all!

-adam, disciple of Christ



-[2001.11.16]-    //evening//

Marc hit on a very touchy subject tonight that he was upset about and I realized that I am really more agitated by it that I thought that I was.  There are Christians out there and then there are 'Christians' out there.  Ones that will flip you off wearing a Jesus shirt or a WWJD bracelet on.  And then we get people that are so turned off of Christianity because of what they see of us.  Granted we all screw up but there is a difference between then ones that try and the ones that wear the name as a show to get attention.  God doesn't go for pew warmers; you're either in it or you're not.  

It boggles my mind how somebody can honestly flip you off while plainly wearing Christian apparel!  WHY?!  Man alive!  Of all things to do to be rebellious, why in the world that.  It makes me so incredibly sad to know that there are people with their priorities that screwed up.  God bless their souls for He is the only one that is able and strong enough to save them from their destination.  God bless us all!!!

-adam, disciple of Christ



-[2001.11.16]-    //morning//

I got home to late to write last night.  I went to the play again and then I went out with a bunch of people.  Good times you guys.  I went to an art show yesterday during last block.  SMS was putting it on.  There are some pretty talented students there.  A few of them exhibits made me think of the same things that the Mary Ellen Mark show did.  We here in America are so sheltered.  I have not really figured out if that is a good or bad thing yet.  I do know that there are a lot of things out there that are horrible and that are very messed up.  It makes me really sad to think about.  It still confuses me though.  Why can't it be stopped?  There are some very depressing things out there.  I guess for right now all I can do is pray about it.  I'm out!

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.15]-

I went and watched "Kiss Me Kate" at Kickapoo this evening.  Very VERY good!  I enjoy musicals and fine arts so much... people can really express themselves in them.  It gives them a chance to escape reality for a little while and be something that they aren't.  There are so many times that I search for that.  I so need a break from it all!

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.14]-

Not really a good day.  I am not really sure why but it just wasn't.  I was really depressed.  I know this though, if I would not have had Jesus today, I know that it would have been much worse.  I hope tomorrow is better!

Somebody asked me today about Jesus.  It made me happy but then they said that they wanted to stop talking about it because they were going to get upset about it.  That made me sad but I think that a door was just opened so I'm going to try to walk through it.  I hope that God wants me too.  Keep me in your thoughts.

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.13]-

In all that has been important to man, friends have been one of the most essential for survival and happiness.  From the poorest to the richest, lamest to the coolest, and most ungodly to our Lord Jesus Christ himself, friends have been something so close to the heart that the loss of one almost always brings us to the feeble state of depression and tears.  In John 11:35, the shortest verse in the bible, it tells of Jesus weeping after the loss of one of his best friends.  Take your friends to heart.  Don't say anything to them that you would regret for they might not be there the next day.  Cherish them and their lives.

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.12]-

Today was a pretty good day.  I got some work done on a picture that I am drawing for my AP Art class.  I have needed to do that.  My concentration is reflections.  Not only reflections of physical objects but reflections of self.  This will give me a chance to really and truly look deep inside of myself and let people know what is important to me.  This will take a lot of thought so maybe I should get to it and do something about that.  Have a good one!

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.11]-    //evening//

We went over to Tony's last night and had an awesome devo.  I really enjoyed it.  Tony told the story of a woman that had saved her child from a burning building when it was just a little baby.  In doing that though she burnt and mangled her hands and arms.  As the girl got older, she was embarrassed of the scars on her mothers arms.  She did not realize the story behind the scars. She would make her mother put on long white gloves whenever they went out in public because her arms were so embarrassing.  One day when she had gotten a little older, she asked her mom about her arms and she told her daughter that she had gotten them saving her from a fire when she was just a little girl.  After she was told that she told her mother how incredibly sorry she was and that she never wanted her mother to cover her arms again because they were the most beautiful arms she had ever seen.  You guys, realize that when are you embarrassed to wear a shirt to school that say "Christian" or whatever on it, that Christ allowed his flesh to be tore from his bones for you.  It's just something to think about.

-adam, disciple of Christ

-[2001.11.11]-    //morning//

Hey, I missed last night, I was a little preoccupied.  I apologize for that.  Today during the lesson at church, Marc reminded me of a question that was asked us a few weeks ago by Tony.  'How has God changed our lives in the past couple of weeks?'  That really wasn't a hard question for me to answer because 2 and a half weeks ago i went to a Mary Ellen Mark exhibit.  For those you of you that do not know who she is, she is a would famous photographer that has been in magazines from Time to Life.  She used to photograph famous people but then decided to begin photographing who she called, the "Unfamous People."  I went in the gallery with one attitude and conception of life and came out totally slapped in the face from the images that were so real, they made my life seem fake.  We as a church sit and talk about the things that we don't agree with in our worship and make a huge deal out of it as if it is salvational and the only thing that is important, when the entire point of Christianity is spreading the word of God our Savior!   I saw, in their eyes, the souls of heroin addicts getting the latest fix and 7-10 year old children from big cities playing with real machines guns pretending to be gangsters because that is all that they know.  If anything, I have realized and God has shown me the BIG picture and told me that my attitude is wrong!  Now all I have to do is figure out what I can do about it here.

-adam, a disciple of Christ

  

-[2001.11.9]-

So far today it has been pretty good.  It still isn't that late in the day but I thought I would add something to here for a little while.  We didn't have school today.  I was going to head down to OC to visit with Derek and all of them down there, but since we hit Bambi in our car a week ago, we have to get it fixed before I can head down there.  I can't wait to go there; the atmosphere is going to be sooo great.  I hope it is the way that I hope it is.  I won't know until I get there and start living with everybody.  I hope God is more present at that school than He is at mine.  I need a boost now and then and I don't get much of a boost at school.  It's hard sometimes but I do my best.  I must be leaving now.  

-adam

-[2001.11.8]-

It makes me so incredibly sad to know what people are doing.  I sat in class today and listened to a guy announce where a party was going to be tonight.  Pretty stupid because you know everybody is going to get drunk and then DRIVE themselves home.  I'm going to be out tonight too and I don't want to be driving with some junior who has downed a fifth of vodka.  It makes me sad to see people who in order to have a good time HAVE to go out to a party and get wasted.  I don't know what they see in it to tell you the truth.  I can honestly say that I have never once had any desire at all to smoke or drink anything at all.  I really don't think i would get anything out of it other than running around being stupid. But once again that is my opinion. 

-adam

-[Introduction]-

This is my first entry into Christian Diaries.  I just want to ask that God blesses this and he gives me the words and attitude to say what should be said in order to lift others up and challenge them to live in the world and not of the world.  I hope that all of you enjoy what I have to say about the world we live in today.  Please realize that it is still just an opinion but if you have a different one, I would LOVE to hear it.  Please email me your thoughts and if you have a question or something that you would like me to answer or something, feel more than welcome to ask it to me and I will try my best to give you my opinion on it as best I can.  Everybody have a wonderful day and God bless us all!

-adam