The Return

So at the request of a beautiful young woman I am going to fill out this survey... Mind you!!! The rest of you are NOT getting me to fill out your survey''s!!!! :)

Three names you go by
1. Shalako
2. Shal
3. Shak

Three parts of your heritage
1. Ukraine
2. Germany
3. Pennsylvania

Three things you like about yourself
1. Mercy
2. Meakness

3. Competativeness

Three things you dislike about yourself
1. Compromise
2. Pride

3. Metabolism

Three things that scare you
1. Snakes
2. Burning to death
3. Being alone

Three of your everyday essentials
1. Orange juice
2. Some form of meat
3. Making a fool of myself

Three things that you are wearing right now
1. Football jersy pullover
2. Pajama pants
3. N/A

Three things you need in a relationship
1. Unconditional love
2. open and honest communication
3. Romance

Two truths and a lie
1. I love rassberries
2. My hair was white-blond until the age of around 10

3. I hate cheesecake

Three physical things about the opposite sex that appeal to you
1. Hair
2. Eyes
3. Being athletic

Three of your favourite hobbies
1. Video games
2. Helping people
3. weight lifting

Three things you want to do badly
1. Finish college (finally!)
2. See my father and sister come to the Lord
3. See God

Three places you want to go to
1. Japan
2. Australia
3. Scotland

Three things you want to do before you die
1. Get married and have children

2. See the mountain villiages in Japan
3. Grow old with my sister and brother

Three ways that you are stereotypically a Girl/Guy
1. I lift weights, alot

2. I eat ALOT of meat
3. I like to break things/hurt people sometimes (not out of anger, I just want to wrestle)

Three things that annoy you
1. People who have no compassion
2. My own sin
3. Inmaturity

A dear friend of mine posted this... its worth a read... alot of good truth.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’99: wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now, how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. ...

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you’re ahead; sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees.
You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. ...
Maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. ...

Dance.
Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions — even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings. They are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. ...

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old... and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia: dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

— Baz Luhrmann

Currently Listening Declaration By Steven Curtis Chapman No greater love see related

Nothing will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:39

Isn't valentines day wonderful?

For his Glory

Currently Listening Declaration By Steven Curtis Chapman see related

As I have continued to dwell on this new concept, or view of "Love" that I feel the Lord has instilled in me I have come yet to another conclusion...

I know that oft times "my love" is self seeking, critical... and all around NOT unconditional. My conclusion recently is that "my love" is flawed... it will never, and can never communicate the things that I desire, for it is about me and not about them. My long time friend, and newly aquanted Christian brother Keith Miron is a great example of what I feel it is to love people unconditionally... He loves me with a love that see's through my faults, and I believe looks at me as if there was no blemish, loving and caring for me in such a way that I almost feel as though it was God himself speaking (he corrects me at times too :) Which is love). I say down with conditional perverted love and self centeredness, and up with unconditional love.

Allow me to further explore love... and elaborate on its meanings...(From 1 Corinthians 13)

Love is... Patient  ( bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint )

Love is not.... Jealous ( intolerant of rivalry or unfaithfulness,  disposed to suspect rivalry or unfaithfulness )

Love is not... Boastful  ( a cause for pride )

Love is not... Proud   ( having or displaying excessive self-esteem )

Love is not... Rude   ( offensive in manner or action )

Love is not... Irritable ( easily exasperated or excited )

Love... Holds no record of wrong

Love... Is never glad about injustice, but rejoices when the "Truth" wins out.

Love... Never gives up, it never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Love... will last FOREVER...

Every action that I make must be motivated by this "love".

Father I pray that my self seeking nature fall down. Let there be no root of selfish ambition in any of my actions... I pray that these things be far from my life that I may love as you are instructing me. Continue to teach me, change me and mold me into the man that you desire me to be. Above all else let them know I am of you by my love for them.

For His Glory