Silly.

What be up my friends?

I'd like to talk about the powerful, but evil, thing we call procrastination.

Just kidding, I'm really only looking for an outlet to rant about my bad habits.

I came home this evening with beautiful intentions of practicing some music, finishing some math homework, relaxing, and what did I do instead? Spent an hour on Youtube watching music videos! I feel disgusting. Haha

So, let this be a word of wisdom... get off the internet, after you read this of course, and do something productive that you planned on doing, before you realize that it's time to go to bed.

Silly Colton!

On a plus side, I have had a really good week so far and I know it's only Tuesday, but I'd just like to throw that out there. I was thinking as I was driving myself to school, we have so much to look forward to every day. I can't stand when people foreshadow the day, by saying that they feel it's going to suck or be a "bad". LIES!

Everyday we have the privilege of coming in contact with other people, and either helping them out, or getting help from them, to have company, to laugh things off, to be blessed, to learn!

There is just a lot more out there to be thankful for then we think... I think. :)

You know, I have to laugh, I type in www.blogger.com thinking that I am going to have nothing to say yet here I am blabbering, hopefully about something, that hopefully, will help someone....

You know you're loved, you know there's a reason that things happen, and you know that when you keep your eye on the prize that you are going to have a reason to smile everyday, a reason to wake up and look forward to something.

It's a reason to love.

Come on, don't be shy.

Spread on the love.

Show me a smile!

-Colton

False Alarm, it's all good!

Why hello there!

So this is what is up and shaking in my life.

I just wrote out everything that was feeling pressure for, or I wasn't feeling good about, and one of the items was that I didn't blog. So here I am, blogging. :)

This is short and sweet. I felt dumb after I described everything that I was troubled by, because on the grand scheme of things, those issues really didn't matter. And I realized that those issues block me from seeing and experiencing all the incredible things God has lined up for me....

I realized that I am kind of smart when I want to be, and I know how I work, so I decided to blog, and then I would feel slightly better. I know that I have to work in order to shake off this lazy spell, and I know that I have to keep my eye on the prize in order to feel this motivation that I need every day.

So here, I am blogging, and I feel better, I feel blessed, I think I am pretty darn well looked after and I really don't have that much to worry about, in fact I have nothing. So folks, the overwhelming feeling that I had earlier today and tonight was a false alarm, simply just the world trying to screw me over. But I am all good. As always. :)

Sometimes I feel discouraged by the people around me, or the things that I constantly hear and see that people are complaining about... well what is my complaining going to do to fix that? I need to be the light in these peoples lives. I need to help these people out and show them that it isn't really that bad. In fact, it's all good. :)

Night my friends,

hope you enjoyed that.

-Colton :)

Blessed

Hello Folks!

From Wednesday until now I have been out of town at a dance competition, and it was so great, so rewarding, it was a blessing.

At the moment, I am exhausted, but I wanted to share some "brain juice", I think that sounded more disgusting then I thought...

BRAIN JUICE:

One) I think my blog is too "textbook"? I strive to write something profound, when really maybe that is not what God is calling me to do today, so instead, I write simply what I am feeling, instead of what I am trying to make myself feel. Cool?

Two) Art - I feel like God gave us the gifts of fine arts, now hold on, I'm not trying to be corny. Let's think this through, this weekend, I honestly had the time of my life performing, and I felt so good and personal with God. The beauty was that I got to share that with a packed audience. I think God created everything good. Agree with me? And sometimes, sense we are human, we ruin and spoil good things, and turn them into ugly things... like the term "brain juice"... I still can't get over that I'm using that, anyway... Yeah, so God gave us these incredible things, like dancing, performing, acting, singing, the list goes on, and this world handed it over to evil. Not cool world, not cool! This weekend just made me realize that everything is a gift from God, and he deserves those gifts to be given back to him. It's totally a form of worship, like just using the gifts he has given us and striving to continue blessing Him. Does this make sense? Because I feel as if this is almost a tired ramble. Let me know what you think. This verse in Hebrews may relate, not sure? But I love it anyway. :)

Hebrews 10:25

- Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshipping together, but spurring it on! -

Three) Being blessed - There are certain moments in my life, I'm not certain how to describe them, but you know the hand of God is on the situation you are in. You know that you are being looked after. People call me lucky, I'm not sure I believe in luck, I'm blessed beyond belief, way more than I deserve, but not lucky. I don't know, I just feel like it needs to be said that I appreciate being blessed, I love it. So God, thanks... I appreciate it. :)

I think of the prayer of Jabez, the first line of his prayer was "God, bless me indeed." And God gave him what he asked for. Simple as that. Ask for it.

Anyway people, have a blessed sleep.

Ha, see what I did there?

Night.

-Colton

Run For Your Life

Hello Folks!

Well I hope you had a great weekend, mine sure had it's moments, one of them being homeless for a few hours and living in a box. Let's just say it was a fun time!

Other than that, my weekend was a little rough, I just wrote down how I was feeling and it made a lot more sense. I guess one line that kind of sums it all up is, "I need to pull up my socks..."

Or, in the words of Paul, "Run for your life."

1 Timothy 6:11-12

- But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life. Pursue a righteous life - a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to. -

Sometimes I get this mindset that it doesn't matter what I do, life is going to go on, and in the end, there will be a happy ending, because it's God... And in my mind, God doesn't believe in sad endings.

HA! Funny! I kind of had a slap in the face moment. It does matter, it matters a lot. Yes, I am so small in the scheme of things, but the amazing part is that God cares what I do. As trivial as it may seem, my actions, my words, my thoughts have a profound effect on the people I come in contact with on a daily basis.

In the same chapter of 1 Timothy it says, "... and don't slack off." I think that is fairly straight forward. Paul is talking to Timothy when He is sharing these wise words, Timothy went on to be a great man of God, I WANT to be a great man of God. Who's with me? Yeah, you can be a woman too, no worries! Who's with me?

Instead of constantly crawling back to my Dad and asking for forgiveness, asking to be built up, asking for a way out of things, I want to be coming back to my dad with good news, with incredible love, full of joy. I want to be coming back asking for strength to take on more and more. I want to grow closer and stronger.

Psalm 92

- What a beautiful thing God, to announce your love each day break, sing your faithful presence all through the night! -

When I read that part of Psam 92, I think about living like that, without regret, I picture sweet bliss! I picture my life totally in the will of God, waking up in the morning ready to shout, and singing until I fall asleep. Now that is what life should be. Perhaps when paul said, "Run for your life, and pursue a righteous life", this is what He meant.

Let's have faith that with God's strength we can rise above anything that is thrown in our direction, shed light in times of darkness and overcome things that we seem to think are impossible. It's possible, we are called to do the impossible with help from God. Let's embrace that, let's pull up our socks and "Just do it" ... just like Nike.

-Colton

Wear Love

What's up readers?

Hope you've had a great past 24 hours.

Tonight, I just want to share a couple of verses about love.

I have been thinking about love, love for people, for things, for spouses, for children, for God. I think about how we show love, what do you do, or better yet, what don't we do?

Colossians 3:14

- Regardless of what you put on, wear love. It's your basic all purpose garment. Never be without it. -

So how do we wear love? How do we make sure that this is what we are covered in? I always figured that we can't give something we don't have, we can't show people something we haven't been shown, and a lot of the times, people go looking for love in places where they won't end up finding it. You with me here? I have been thinking that in order to really show the love that this verse is talking about we need to encounter it, God's love. A special love that can't be given to us through any other way/thing/place/ritual, then just by spending time with God, and letting Him love on us.

You know, this weekend was Thanksgiving, and my family was home from all over the country, I felt such a "family love" all weekend, and I found that because of that love that I was surrounded in, I was able to give back to my family effortlessly.

However, there is a difference between the love that humans are capable of simply showing, and the love of God. I find that it is so important to daily get that dose of God. Some people are addicted to coffee, grab yourself a cup of java in the morning and you're good to go. Yes, it's corny, but grab yourself a cup of God in the morning, and you will be good to go!

The last part of that verse says, never be without it. I think that that is a tip that sometimes we take for granted, if we listened and obeyed that little phrase, oh the places we'd be.

I'm thinking here.. if we, as a people, decided to not do anything, commit to anything, speak, act, etc., without first being built up in the love of God, we would see a change in how we treat people, in how we react in circumstances, in how we LIVE.

So, my thought is, let's soak up God's love before we dare to produce anything of our own. Once we have experienced our cup of God, or have gotten our morning hug from our Dad, whatever it is, then we are capable of letting our love flourish for the world to see, for the world to experience, and for the world to be effected...

Philippians 1:9-11

- My prayer is that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much, but well. Love appropriately. Use your head so that your love is sincere, and intelligent. Live a lovers life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus would be proud of. -

Let us love.

-Colton

Fresh Heart

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well readers, let's chat.

What is brewing in your hearts? I'll fill you in on what I am thinking and feeling and pray that you'll be blessed by it. That cool?

I've been reading 1st & 2nd Thessalonians recently, and there is a "wack" of wealth found in those letters from Paul, it blows my mind.

Here we go, from 1st Thessalonians...

- God not only loves you very much, but He also has put His hand on you for something special. -

My mind has been convulsing over the thought of how massive this God is that we pray to. Get this, He created planets, stars, moons, light, etc ... that are billions of times larger than our sun! He put together and crafted the most intricate systems, and yet He takes the time to put His hand on us for something special? I look at diagrams of how small the earth is in relation to the universe, it's hardly a speck, and I am LIVING, on that speck which seems like a massivie earth to me, and still His hand is on me for something special!

Haha, sometimes I go around demanding God to do things, or you know, trying to give Him advice on how to do things... that is when I feel the need to look up at the stars and be like, "Oh yah, I think He knows what he is doing." I think my God has things under control, I don't think he needs advice, instead I think He deserves praise and honour and thanks. Thanks for even looking in my direction, and holding my hand on a daily basis. Just, thanks.

I find myself in a place now, where instead of being in total relaxation, or in a battlefield of extreme stress, passions are taking over my life. I am reviewing who I am, and creating how I feel about myself. Figuring out where I am supposed to go, seeking daily where God wants to put me, and what He wants me to do.

I feel refreshed.

In 2nd Thessalonians it says...

- May God, who reached out in love and surprised you with gifts of unending help and confidence, put a fresh heart in you, invigorate your work, enliven your speech. -

I feel like that is going on in my life, that I am growing more and more, which has been a prayer of mine for so long. I have this fresh desire to learn from more people, and seek more new information. I want to encounter God in different ways, I want to pray and live in different places, for different people.

I am being prepared.

And, I'm thankful for it.

What are you thankful for?

-Colton

Season

Well Folks,

My name is Colton.

This is the third blog that I have created, and it is pretty interesting when you think about it.

Three very different blogs, from three very different points in my life.

I was just reading, and sifting through some thoughts, when I really felt the need to write for people again.

I was chewing over this segment of Psalms 30...

- From "Once Upon a Time" to "Kingdom Come" - You are God! -

And there was my title.

A little about myself, I was born into a beautiful family, raised well, couldn't ask for anything better. Like most children, I tripped and fell, multiple times, into multiple things. God's grace constantly was picking me up and cleaning the dirt from my wounds.

I'm in love with God, straight up, head over heels.

It's obvious that I am in a completely different season sense the last time I blogged, so it seems right that I started fresh. I hope you enjoy.

May you be blessed.

We shall talk soon.

All my love,

-Colton.