Dreaming About Providence

My life is incredible. The fact that God would place a dream in my heart & allow it to become true just blows my mind.
Before I continue this I would like to thank Abandon, Abandon Kansas, Kiros, Hyland, The Almost, House of Heroes, Uprise Festival Staff, & whoever I'm forgetting.
Anyways last week my mind was blown away. Oh dear Lord, I don't know where to start! I guess I can't say much, but God has his own timing. Sometimes you'll be surprised about how soon it will actually, so keep faith, & don't give up on hope. I probably had one of the most defining moments in my life last Saturday, & I promimse I will never forget it. Once you see the crowd from the stage, you can never forget it. Watching thousands of people interact at one time. It's crazy. You've all seen the pictures, & think "Oh wow that looks cool." Once you've seen it in real life, it's not "just cool" anymore. I know last week was just one of the few baby steps, on my road of life, but if that was just a baby step, what is a real step going to be like?
Keep dreaming.

Random Update

School has started, so I will most likely be blogging a lot less. Anyways I've been sick lately, lately being the past two days. Saying that I've been bored, because miraculously my teachers decided they would be nice and not give us an overload of homework. So what have I been doing... Nothing much. I'm a twitterer or a tweeter or whatever it is. (You can see the widget on the left hand of the page) And I follow different people from different places and one of them just happens to be Ethan Luck. Previously I was not familiar with the Antoine Dodson "Bed Intruder" craze on Youtube, but Ethan Luck got together with Hayley Williams(Paramore) & Jordan Pundik(New Found Glory), & they did a Pop Punk Version of the original autotuned song. I found this to be extremely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08EXnT0Pz0

Anyways, enough about that. This summer I really wanted to attend Purple Door. Every band that was performing there that I wanted to see I had already seen this summer, or I would have the oppurtunity to see in 3 weeks from now at Uprise Festival, except one. And that one band I wanted to see really bad is like my favorite. Ok they are number 2 after Switchfoot, so this was a pretty big deal for me. I had 2 free tickets to go to Purple Door & no ride. I was pretty bummed. No that's a lie. I was extremely disappointed. Besides the point, Purple Door was 2 weeks ago, and in 2 weeks that same band will be playing a show 1 hour away from me! Yeah this probably sounds really dumb to you all, but this is a pretty big deal to me. Jesus is who I live for, but music is how I live. So that to me was quite a miracle.

So that's pretty much the update about me. How about you?

Choose the Gladness. Join the Madness.

Yup. I gave up going to a regular public school to come to a rigorous arts school that doesn't let out until 5 pm. To be glad I had to get mad.. The schedule is insane, but to say I didn't love it would be a lie. I'd better be busy as a bee than be at home and well, just be at home.
I gotta run, I have school tomorrow!

A Chance To Say Good-Bye

"Will this be the last plane ride in your swing?
The harvest moon has come
And with her sadness brings
My mom says "It's too cold to play"
So I'm just waiting here
Thinking on our sunny days
But now there's Autumn in your eyes
I just wanted a chance to say good-bye
A final burst of Summer-time
I just wanted a chance to say good-bye
There's nothing quite as hard or easier than time
My world is coming down and no one seems to mind
Where I once played there's no sound
And all your pretty leaves have fallen to the ground
And now there's Autumn in your eyes
A sad fare-well to Summer-time
I just wanted a chance to say good-bye
From the North the icy breath is all around me
Blowing and snowing, changing you
Now there's Autumn in your eyes
I just wanted a chance to say good-bye
A long fare-well to Summer-time
I just wanted a chance to say good-bye"
~Children 18:3

Tomorrow is my last day of summer vacation. That was the song that came to mind & I deemed it worthy to post here. Sigh. Summer was great, but I'm ready for the next thing. So this is my way of giving an ode to Summer, and a way to say I'm moving on.

Go check out Children 18:3. They just released a new CD Rain's A' Comin' on June 28th. It's AMAZING!!

SUBURBA

So today House of Heroes new CD Suburba officially came out! Yesterday it was on http://amazon.com for $2.99 with an exclusive bonus track. I bought it of course. The new CD is simply amazing! This CD's lyrics relate more with the common everyday person and the middle class. Your average commercial family, with a nice home, with a nice car, in a kid friendly suburban neighborhood. The last record, The End Is Not The End(to me) seemed to be a lot about war. Suburba's music is simply amazing and this band is definatly on top of their game.
Go buy it now! It's still $2.99 on amazon!

{Hope}

Seek & You Will Find.
Cliche? Maybe.
True? Yes.
Recently I've been agonizing myself with my own thoughts. Wondering about tomorrow. Wondering about tonight. I know that my time will come. And it will be beautiful. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) I just can't help but wonder "when". "When will my time be here?" It's a common question that I think everyone in life asks themselves at one point or another.
But finding the answer to that question, or finding the patience to wait until it is answered is hard. Finding the answer will be revealed alone when time itself unfolds. Finding the patience lies within you. I myself am not a very patient person; but I found something that helped me a lot. 1 Peter 5:6-7
In those verses there is hope. Not said outright, but inside. Those words are alive and living. They may not be the word "hope", but through them hope is generated.

Jokes & Juggling

So I've been thinking a lot about life and death. Yeah deep right? Haha. It's so overlooked though. Here's what I've come up with.

1 - There are 3 types of people. I've classified them in this order

Person 1 - These people live like they are invincible. That it's ok to waste the days they've been given, but live like they've been given all the time in the world. This is because they can't handle the thought of death, or the end of life as we know it. They are honestly scared half to death by just the mention of the word. They act as if they'll live forever on this earth and that they can't die. They choose to ignore that reality.

Person 2 - These people know they will die one day. They don't care about much really because they think "Hey, who gives? We're all going to die one day, why even waste the time to help. Why bother?" These people just do whatever whenever knowing that one day in the end they are going to die and don't realize that what they do does effect society and the world we know. They choose to ignore the reality that life is worth living to it's fullest.

Person 3 - These people accept the fact that they will die someday. But they also realize that life is too good to waste. They truely and honestly try to live a healthy lifestyle and try to find a balance between both realities. They want to help and make a difference before time runs out. They realize the gift in life, and reality of death.

So basically that's what I've been thinking about lately.

~Ida