I was never a busy person.  I am the kind of person who would take the elevator to the second floor because the elevator forces you to wait. I usually pride myself on not becoming a busy person, but the last week 4 months have felt entirely different.

I have arrived at the state of being "busy", and I don't like it.  In many ways, this busyness is good. I am usually busy with events or happenings which are important and beneficial to the soul,  however some of the busyness in my life could be labeled "lazy" or a waste of time.  I do not need to constantly check my favorite video game blog every thirty seconds of the day. The same goes for facebook, email, and every weekly comic i read.  The comic is not going to have a surprise update the day after it was published. If there was a suprise comic, wouldn't it be great to wait tell the day of the next update to find two comics instead of one? 

I have a huge problem with havin extra time, but wasting it with something that will temorarily satisfy me. I am okay with watching an anime or TV Show, but when I have not read and prayed for the day and I chose to watch 4 episodes of the show (some being shows I have seen before) and forget my time with God then there is a problem.  

So my problem might not be that I am to "busy". It might just be that I am not a good steward of my time. This is a concern which is at the heart of my prayers. I want to be a good steward of all the things the Lord has given me, which includes time.

Which ever it is... I will still ride my elevators!

lvoe,
Joey

In the Xanga blog post editor the first option (If you read your options from top to bottom)  you are given is to create a title.  This is a problem for me, because I often write on xanga not knowing what I am going to write about.  Is xanga catering to those task oriented type A personilities?  Why are they leaving us type Bs in the dark?

   It might be a change in perspective.  Xanga might not be favoring any type of personality, but are kindly giving me the option of giving my blogs a name.  I however am raised in a top down society and feel the need to complete everything from the top down.  However for this post I will go from the bottom up.   Now that I have changed my perspective Xanga is no longer the enemy, and I am am no longer the victim. Hooray!

Hello all in Xanga Land.
  
    I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas! I know I am now that school is out for a few weeks. HOORAY!  :D

    I just want to share a verse that has been at the heart of my prayers this week. The verse comes from Philippians, which is an awesome book.  It is a book written by Paul to express his love, concern, and gratitude to the Philippians for sending him help in his time of need. I can't help when reading this book to think how caring Paul was to the church there. It was almost as if he really did have the love of Christ in his heart! (hehe I think he did anyways :P)   Welp here it is:

(Paul Version) -- well translated to english version
   Philippians 1:9-10 
and this is my prayer: That your love will abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ. -- to the glory and praise of God.

( Joey version) -- also in english 

This is my prayer for you, my friends.   That your love will grow with an knowledge of God that comes from your walk with him and that you will use the strength he provides to discern what is best so that you will continue to walk purely and blamelessly until Christ returns being filled with Christ's righteousness.  Thank you Lord for this is praiseworthy

What are your thoughts?  I will continue to pray this pray for you and please pray it for me as well :) thanks!

love in every bite,
Joey