I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

One of the many loves in my life is Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald, the whole gang...and any of those wonderful animated films...Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, all those movies that leave a little girl waiting for her "Prince Charming" and singing, "Some day my price will come."

These songs and stories warm my heart, all of them from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full length animated film made in 1937, all the way through Atlantis, Lelo and Stich, and others.

Walt Disney was an amazing, brilliant man, and it saddens me that I will never meet him. I would love to be able to tell him how much he impacted my life through Disneyland, and all his wonderful friends that early in my life became my closest friends.

I remember riding on a majic carpet and making 3 wishes because I found a majic lamp and a Genie to go with it. I remember running through the plains of Africa with Nala and Simba, while Zazu watched from overhead. I remember swimming through the ocean looking for fun human stuff with Ariel and remember the ground I convered while I helped Marlin look for Nemo, (so what that I was 21...the poor clown fish needed help...Dory...well she suffers from short-term memory loss) It was a doosey going through those Jelly-fish, and oh man...I've never heard a fish speak whale before. The EAC was the BEST...anyway...

I also took a trip to Hawaii where I met Lelo and Stich. Stich was an odd character but very easy to get along with.

I think the fondest memory I have is helping Chip and Dale to annoy Donald Duck...man is he funny when he gets angry.

Goofy and I went skiing and took driving lessons together...(he's not very good at either one, but very fun to watch while he tries)
Mickey and Minnie are some of my closest friends...we go on picinics, ice skating...they took me on their boat (can you believe they still have that old thing?) Pluto is so much fun...he likes to get Mickey's paper every morning. Who ever thought a mouse would have a dog for a pet?
One Christmas Mickey actually cut down Chip and Dales tree, and Pluto found them...I guess he didn't recognize them because he chased them all over the house. They didn't give him much reason not too either.

Anyway, I have many fond memories with this gang. I am sure I will have many more. What memories do you have...we were all friends...

“He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni;

I am going with a friend tonight to speak with a couple of Mormon missionaries. I am excited, yet nervous and anxious all at the same time. I am going to encounter the past and future at the same time. I am excited to be speaking with Mormons because I would love to just plant my self right in the middle of Salt Lake City, Utah. I am nervous though that I won't remember things, that I'll say the wrong things, or more importantly be so worry about it, that I won't listen to the things they are saying to me.

I do know that this is an amazing opportunity and I know this is going to allow me a little more opportunity to be around them. It has been a long time, but little by little, God is bringing them into my life.

Mormons are great people who live amazing, dedicated lives that I think in many ways put us, (namely me), to shame. I know while I was in SLC with Steven (Elder O'Driscoll) and his family after he returned from his mission, I fell in love with the family life of the Mormons. Their values and morals are amazing. There dedication to God is amazing. Their faith is amazing. I just wish they could see that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to THE heaven. I wish they understood that God was always God, not some human who had "made his way up the chain" and achieved perfection. He was always perfect, he always has been perfect, he always will be perfect. God does not change. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, all-powerful, all-loving, just, Lord, GOD, Jehovah, I AM, the beginning, the end, Alpha, Omega. What an amazing God we serve. Why should we serve someone who at one time was just like us. Imperfect, selfish, unloving. We know ourselves and our sinful nature, why would we trust someone like us?

Please pray for me as I go...Please pray for the LDS church. They need Jesus. They understand the concept of Christ and his work on the cross, but salvation through Christ is very works based. Does the LDS church believe in eternal security...huh? Something to ponder...

I'll munch on that...

Things that make you laugh harder

WINNIE-THE-POOH, WINNIE-THE-POOH
WILLIE, NILLIE, SILLY, OL'...DOG?






CAN I PLLLEEEAAASSSSEEEEEEEE?








AQUA DOG!




A LITTLE UNBALANCED ARE WE?

Things that make you laugh!

CAN I HAVE ONE OF THESE BIG KITTIES?



OR ONE OF THESE?









FRIENDS FOREVER











WE ALL HAVE A BIGGER CAT INSIDE OF US...




WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VENGENCE IS MINE SAYETH THE LORD?












BATDOG!!!!!!!





EVER BEEN TO A RODEO LIKE THIS ONE?













CHRIS ON SUNDAY MORNINGS! :)









BRUCE

hiii-yaaa

On feeling un-cool

Do you ever feel like the ugly duckling. The geek or the nerd who never had any friends? Maybe this one, you consider people your friends who would never consider you a friend.

Aren't we glad that Jesus is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. I know I am. Many times I feel like the people I described above. However, upon thinking about this I was reminded that the Creator of the Universe loves me! Who cares about the measly little people on this earth! God, my creator, sent his son to die for me! I am loved by the most important person ever!

Where I have failed to find my significance in Jesus Christ, I struggle and feel lonely and incomplete! I strive now to in every situation to find my significance in Him who created and its there that I can never go wrong!

God's Mercy

How wonderful is God's grace and mercy? Especially when we mess up. I am reminded today that no matter what I do, I am still loved by God. This obviously does not give me liberty or the right to do whatever I want, but it does give me encouragement after I have sinned to know that my God loves me and forgives me when I fail.

I think many times we take forgranted the love of God. When we are saved we are justified, and we tend to forget that thats an act of God. He could have chosen not to forgive us. This reminds me of a sermon by Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"...

"There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands.-He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. "

"They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, "Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?" Luke xiii. 7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God's mere will, that holds it back."

"They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell. And the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as he is with many miserable creatures now tormented in
hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell. So that it is not because
God is unmindful of their wickedness, and does not resent it, that he does not let loose his hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such an one as themselves, though they may imagine him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them."

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.

We are so lucky that we as Christians have God's favor. Thank you Lord for the salvation that you have given us. I pray that we would remember the sacrifice you made and we would remember that you could have chosen to reveal your full wrath to us by sending us straight to hell. Thank you for a provision to save us from that. Thank you that we can enjoy you and strive to bring glory and honor to your name forever and ever. I thank you for saving me from the pits of hell. Thank you Jesus, and its in your wonderful, HOLY, precious name that I pray.
Amen.

Relief for New Orleans Refugees

There is a lot going on in my home town, Toccoa, Georgia. Its a small town preparing to do the biggest thing Toccoa has ever done before. The US Army and Red Cross are bringing 700+ people up from New Orleans, LA.

Dr. J. Robert White, C.E.O.(left) of the Georgia Baptist Convention has encouraged the Georgia Baptist Conference Center to cancel all conferences and retreats scheduled for the next few weeks in order to feed, and house the people of New Orleans.

My dad, who is the Food Service Manager at the GBCC, said that they will be handing out water, and clothes, and all kind of stuff. The other amazing thing, is that each day they will have 2 services, one in the morning and one at night. Each time the gospel will be presented, and these people will be able to hear the Gospel, and I hope that many come to know Christ through this effort.

We are commanded to love, and serve, and care for those who are in need. This is an amazing time to help those who are in need because of the hurricane.

Please pray for the victims and their families, and please pray for Tina Marie Deliberto. She is the sister of a lady at my church. She has been unable to locate her or know where she is or if she is ok.

We like to move it, move it

Julian: Shh! We're hiding. Everyone be quiet. That includes me. Shh! Who's making that noise? Oh, it's me again.






Skipper the Penguin: We've been ratted out, boys.





Skipper the Penguin: You! Higher mammal, can you read?


Melman the Giraffe: Hey, Alex. Psst, Alex. Alex.
Alex the Lion: What is it, Melman?
Melman the Giraffe: OK, you know how I have to get up every two hours because of my bladder infection and go for a wee? Well, this time I was walking past Marty's pen, and usually I dont look in it, but this time I was walkin' past, and I…
Alex the Lion: What, Melman? What is it?
Melman the Giraffe: It's Marty... He's gone!







Julian: [singing] I like to move it, move it / She like to move it, move it / He like to move it, move it / You like to... *move it*!

Skipper the Penguin: Hey, Quadruped. Sprechen Sie Englisch?

Marty the Zebra: I sprechen.

Skipper the Penguin: What continent is this?

Marty the Zebra: Manhattan.

Skipper the Penguin: Hoover Dam! We're still in New York! Dive! Dive! Dive!

Here's some pics to go with those wonderful quotes...they are "off the chizzang" (Marty the Zebra)

This is for you Christine...

to the tune of "I can't see me loving nobody but you, for all my life. When your with me baby the skies will be blue for all my life"

so here's the version that was placed upon when Christine encouraged me to be a stalker...

"Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right to think about the girl (guy) I stalk
both day and night so happy together

I dated you for just a week
you dumped me and I cried real hard
and still can't sleep
so now I'm going to force you to come back to me
so happy together

I can't see me stalking nobody but you
for all your life
when your with me baby the skies will be blue
for all my life

I call you up at 2 am
I wake you and hang up the phone
and do it again (hehe)
that's what you get for going out
with other men
so happy together

I can't see me stalking nobody but you
for all your life
when you're with me baby the skies will be blue
for all my life

I see you, you don't see me
I'm hidden with my telephoto lense up in the tree
your walking and you look around suspiciously
so happy together

I've got your cat, don't be alarmed
as long as you come talk to me
he won't be harmed
we'll go and get a bite to eat
I'll come un-armed
so happy together

forever and ever
so happy together...

thanks for the inspiration...

Things Not to say...

For Guys...
"I would have invited you, but you're no fun"
"You don't need another pair of shoes"
"What's the big deal, you'll have another birthday next year"
"Are you sure that dress shrunk?"

Things You Should Never Say To A Judge
"You can't order me around. You aren't my momma!"
"I didn't rob anybody. The lady at the bank just gave it to me. All I said was, "I have some gum," and when I reached into my pocket to offer her a stick, she started putting money in a bag."
http://unsolvedmysteries.com/usm319427.html

Things You Should Never Say On A Date
"You're wearing 'that'?! "
"Something smells funny"
http://www.alovelinksplus.com/advice/things_never_say_date.htm

Things You Should Never Say in an Interview
"What does your company do?"
"My salary requirements are very flexible."
"Bill Gates himself offered me a $100,000 bonus."
“Sorry, I don’t know how to do that.”
“I left my last job because my boss was a real jerk.”
http://www.intekworld.com/Newsletters/vol3/5may04/interview.htm

Things you should never say if you are Dawn Wishon...
"man I really regret dropping that class now"