Red Bull
Ian: Uh, tastes oddly a lot like the previous AMP drink. Not bad, but not as good in my opinion.
Elsa: Ew!
Sara: Better…it would wake me up in the morning.
Up Next: Monster
The Chronicles of a Jesus Freak, Tea aficionado, accidental poet, student filmmaker and sibling of eight.
Red Bull
Ian: Uh, tastes oddly a lot like the previous AMP drink. Not bad, but not as good in my opinion.
Elsa: Ew!
Sara: Better…it would wake me up in the morning.
Up Next: Monster
An AMP energy drink can ready for the recycle bin
So, the local grocery store happened to be having a big sale on energy drinks. My Dad decided to go on a spree. Neither of us having tried energy drinks before, now seemed like a good as time as any! We got about six different brands, including Monster, Red Bull, AMP, Rockstar, and two others whose names escape me at the moment. First to be reviewed is AMP, flavor “Cherry Hit.” Check out the reactions of myself, Dad and sisters who (reluctantly after much prodding) participated below:
Ian’s verdict: They aren’t joking when they label it “Cherry Hit.” It has a pretty sharp, yet slightly bitter cherry flavor. I like it, though I’d put it under “acquired taste.”
Dad’s verdict: Tastes like it has an herbal undertone to the cherry flavor
Elsa’s verdict: Tastes like a really bad Lollipop
Sara’s verdict: Bleh!
Up Next: Red Bull
Dark was that day
The one I'll never forget
When they killed that Hebrew Man
The "King of the Jews" it was said
I watched them as they dragged Him
Laid Him on a tree
They drove a nail through each hand
One through His feet
I watched them gamble for His clothes
The mocks and jeers they made
Telling Him to save Himself
If He truly was so great
I watched Him bleed
A river of red it poured down
His breathing began to slow
There was no stopping death now
I began to turn away
My heart unmoved
By the dying Man on the tree
Until His eyes met my own
And He whispered "It all was for thee"
His spirit He gave up
A soldier came and pierced His side
To this day I remember that look
Those loving and tearful eyes
I may never understand
Or comprehend why
He loved my wandering soul enough,
To suffer, bleed and die
Cheerio to whoever may be reading this blog right now! It's been a while since I've posted here. I haven't exactly been bursting with new ideas for poems and other writings. My idea pool has been pretty dry as of late. So I thought I'd just make a random post about life.
Lately I've been going through this interesting thing where I'm really restless at night and procrastinate going to bed. Sometimes there is a logical reason in life why, but many times it still happens for no real serious reason at all. It's a subtle anxious feeling, as if I'm hesitant to let the day end and begin the next. Often it leaves me baffled and restless up till midnight. I'm sure the medical community has some fancy classification for this condition. For me though, my medication has been an older CD called Can You Hear Us? by one of my favorite bands, the David Crowder*Band. On this CD are some beautiful songs, among the best I've ever heard. These lyrics from one song in particular, Obsession, really captures the longing I feel on so many of those nights.
"And I’m so filthy with my sin
I carry pride like a disease
You know I’m stubborn, Lord, and I’m longing to be close
Your burn me deeper than I know
And I feel lonely without hope
And I feel desperate
Without vision
You wrap around me like a winter coat
You come and free me like a bird..."
There have been so many days where I've felt filthy and beaten down in my own mistakes. And so many days when I struggled with feelings and thoughts of all sorts that I didn't even always understand myself. It does leave me in a state of desperation, that leaves me to look to God every time. There are plenty of other sources that I've sometimes tried to look to for comfort, whether it was plunging my mind into the story of a movie or perhaps some new technical article on the latest digital cinema camera. But it never really works. God's been patiently teaching me in this time of life how to rest in Him and find my peace in His presence. And even though it can be a testing process, especially with a fidgety guy like me, we thankfully have the most loving and patient of teachers in Him.
How can I understand?
Is it possible to know
How feelings truly flow
They bend and they twist
They fly and they fall
I can’t always tell where they will go
Some days it seems certain they will burst
Like a dam giving way to a storm
Others it feels as if they’ve left me alone
Like the sun in the winter cold
Why does my mind like to disagree?
With the way my feelings go
Why do my thoughts like to clash
With the way my feelings flow
Can one really describe
What I truly feel inside
Walking through this world I’m in
My vision full of black and gray
A subtle dark perpetrates everything I seem to think and say
How did I get here, and why do I stay?
Why does the world suddenly look so bleak and gray
There is no great crisis, none this day
Yet my soul seems to almost groan, as if in pain
Perhaps the storms of life have caused a wrongful change
For they did rock me, and still sometimes come
In their wake they leave me weary,
My mind in confusion, my feelings spun
Yet all of it combined cannot stay the rise of the shining sun
For there is too much blessing, too much love for this gray to last
Like rain His love pours, His blessings shower down
With it the love of my family, my friends, also rains down
In this gentle rain the black and gray is soon washed away
And afterwards, a beautiful rainbow shines in its place.
I fight day after day
Every time it seems I lose
I gird my sword, I march to war
I try to focus on what is true
Yet my thoughts so easily fly away
They drift like a ship, broken by the sea
Shifting from wave to wave aimlessly
I wander to and fro, in the mist and the fog
Struggling to see the light, to keep to what is right
Yet so easily I seem to fall away
To search after what I think I want
Yet always come up empty
Father, I am lost, help me see
Help me remember all that You are to me
Without you I will fall and fade away with time
Take my weakness, take my frailty
Take all that would hold me back
Set me on fire, make be burn
With passion like never before
Make me run, make me race,
And never stop until I see
You there waiting, waiting for me…