Hello InterWebs Space World!

So lately has been very busy. I have started a manga with some friends which is drawing inspiration from our normal, hectic, insane lives, complete with demon possessed cats. Writing a manga is especially hard for me because I can't really draw that well so my friend is drawing, while a second friend helps come up with ideas, while I write the plot and dialogue. To make things a bit harder I am states away from the friend who is drawing the manga. But we are super excited about it, maybe I will put some of my horrible sketches up here to encourage any readers who think they are bad at art!

Also I am nearly twenty chapters into the novel that I am writing. This has also been a hard task as I find I rewrite more than I can add and have recently found edits that I never had the time to implement. However, I remain excited about the characters who fill my waking life and dreams with their own fears, concerns, hopes, dreams, drama, loves, and hates. Any writer will tell you that they finish stories not only for the stories sake, but because once you have developed your characters they demand that you tell their story, that you give them life, and and end. I long for the day when I can at long last introduce them to the world. 

As life would have it I am also in the middle of three four hundred level classes in college and have come to the understanding that professors think we all spend our days watching the grass grow wishing we had more books to read. I am also about to start into a fifteen day spout of spiritual disciplines (although I have to do this for class I am actually looking forward to continuing this in my daily life). But life gets hectic and then it becomes messy.

   For any of my fellow college students or even high school students out there who believe that life just doesn't quit allow me to share my recent crappy experience with you. I recently read the wrong three hundred page book for one of my classes. This was a horrible "last straw" for me and I nearly broke down in class. But recently I have been trying to look of the bright side and that bright side is that I am now more fully prepared for my class than most of my class mates, even if most of them will hand their paper in on time. Sometimes the littlest things can make our lives feel like they are falling apart. We put time and effort, energy and sweat, blood and tears into something to try to get it done, make it work, be the best, just to watch all our efforts fail. Yet we should not be discouraged. Do not let the rough edges of life get the better of you, instead move forward and learn to find your identity in something better. 

  Who we are is so much more than who we think we need to be, who we wish were were, who we were born as. Who we are is more than the life we were handed, than the family we were born into, than the wrong things we have done. Who we are is so much more than what people see when they look at us, what we see when we look in the mirror. Who we are determines our eternity, shapes our world view, and colors our world. 
  I would love to challenge anyone reading this to examine their identity, to take a deep look at who they think they are and to ask some of the scarier questions. 

Who we are shapes how we live, and who we live for.

May your answer lie with Christ the one who paid the price to erase your past. He who died to kill the wrongs we have done, the wrongs we have thought, the wrongs we have wanted to do. He who rose again to win the victories over our struggles, to be the light that would lead us to His house for rest. 
Let your hope and your identity lie with Him, because He is the one who gave you life, who wants to give you life forever. 

As always feel free to contact me with questions.


Thank you for reading if you made it all the way through,
May the light of Christ be ever at your path, 

Ross
  

My Life as of this Moment!

I know, exciting right?

Okay so not really but here it goes, I am in college, at a Christian University actually. It is funny to me how many people get away with breaking stupid rules like please wear pants, why break that rule? Is it so hard to put a cute knee length skirt on over top of your skin tight leggings? Why! Why girls is that so hard? By the way if you dress like a ho at a school where no one else does... you stand out in a bad way that says, "Look at me I have absolutely no self respect!" yeah, that's attractive.

Anyway so I am going to school, to be a pastor of all things. I know I don't always sound like one but believe it or not I am working on it. My current hero is Paul, yes Paul from the bible. If you don't know about him you should look him up. For those of you who don't know or don't remember who he is I will give you a brief summary.

Paul started off as Saul. Saul was famous for authorizing killings, and hunting down and throwing Christians in Jail way back before they were known as Christians. One day on his way to Damascus, letter of authorization in hand, Saul set out to drag back to Jerusalem any and every follower of The Way he could find. Saul was determined to throw all of the Jesus followers in jail for the rest of their lives. But on the road to Damascus Saul saw (LOL) a bright light and heard the Lord ask him why Saul was persecuting him. Saul is blinded and the Lord tells him to go to Damascus and find a dude who will heal him and tell him what to do. So Saul's companions bring him to Damascus, he finds the dude and is healed and starts preaching to everyone. He ends up being beat countless times, stoned and left for dead, shipwrecked three times, thrown in prison twice, and eventually he is beheaded. But the best thing about Paul is that he never gives up, never seems to struggle. He always sees the positive sides of his imprisonments and the riots he starts, and he constantly reminds us that to die for the Lord should be the greatest honor we can hope to achieve in our lifetime. He also tends to be a bit sarcastic and doesn't hesitate to tell anyone the truth.

So other then that I have no idea what to write that will entertain people. Also it is almost midnight and my eyes are starting to hurt. I am going to try to update this everyday so I hope someone at least starts to read this, maybe I can help someone out, or at the very least amuse them!

Live long, Love much, Stay Free,

Sarah

Book Updates!

Not that anyone is really reading this, but since I haven't written for a while I thought that I would update people. First of all though I still believe that the Author of the House of Night series is a good author, the books are full of immorality, and harshness towards Christians and they tend to lead people down paths that really aren't good. The plot started to focus too much on who the main character was sleeping with or thinking about sleeping with and how many boys she could possibly fit into her life while justifying having all of them.

Secondly I am very excited about the fourth and final Eragon book coming out on November 8, 2011 however since I am officially a poor starving college student I probably wont have my own copy till Christmas... sad face. I am rereading the series though in hopes of buying time till I can buy the new book. It's about time Mr. Paolini!(Thanks for all the hard work)

Next on the list is I read the book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt and I recommend it to anyone who is having trouble with priorities.

Hmm I guess that is all for now with books!

Ps if you are into web blog comics or American style Manga check out MegaTokyo! I'm hooked!

Begone You Filthy Labels!

The world will always find a way to label you and drive you crazy, it's what our world does best. It labels, and when you don't fit in to a certain label it means your nuts, crazy, an outcast, not normal, you don't belong.

Well I say step out of the norm, the only ones who don't belong are those who are determined to make outcasts of those who are free of labels.
Rock on my Freaks
Sarah

The Latest Book

Okay so I started this series called Marked, or the House Of Night Novels, and I got to say they are addictive. However the lead character is quite a little ho. The first book is called Marked. Its good and doesnt leave you with much of a clifhanger.

Okay so the basic over view of the story is that there is this "change" that happens when a vamp "marks" you which is really a random vamp coming up to you and touching your forhead and you get a pretty and painless tatue accrost your forehead that is supposed to be an outline until you make it through the change. Well like every main character Zoey's mark ends up fully colored in before she even gets to vamp school. Apparently she is choosen by the vamp goddess to be a messenger girl and ends up in high priestess training and head of the Dark Daughters and Sons which is like the biggest club in the school.

It's actually a good book minus the fact that everyday famous people are said to be vamps like shakespear, and a lot of actors and singers.

The vamps can go out in the sunlight but it hurts so they stay in, they don't sparkle.

However later on in the seiries you meet the sterotypicle vamps that can't go out in the sunlight or they dy.
now that i've ruined most of the books for you go out and get yourself a copy they are fun, addictive, and zoey the main charactor is a complete ho.
live laugh and eat spagetti
sarah

Welcome to the Blog

Im going to start off with my spelling and grammar aren't always the best. If this bothers you feel free to exit the blog. To do so locate the little x at the top right hand cornner of your screen and click on it with your mouse.

I'm a twilight lover so don't bash it. It works for some and not for others get over it.
oh and to all the newbies "READ THE BOOOKKKKSSSS"
And for those who are wondering my character analisiss told me I am Bella which for the most part works.

I am a book worm. I have read all of the Harry Potters. Thats Right I am a Christian who emensly enjoys everything Harry Potter. Also I have escaped into the marvoulous world of Eragon, Pendragon, and countless other novels.
One of my book heros is Holden Caufield, because we all want to know what really happens to the ducks (psss its a government conspericy they are all relocated to drive the crazies maddddd!!!!)

Just because Im a Christian doesnt mean Im closed minded it means I have made my desicion and Im choising not to change it. I would love for the world to see things my way but the cold hard truth is if that were possible we wouldnt have need for an anti-Christ and a rapture now would we. I'm not against gays I happen to have a few possitively amazing gay/bi friends and it doesnt bother me one bit, piece of my life history my uncle was gay unfortunately he died because of aids. Im not against anyones religion I just enjoy/prefer my own to yours.

Labels are for nerotics who can't stand a world that is unorginized. I am not labled. I am not a goth, a punk, a jock, a barbie (yuck), or a nerd/geek/neak, or anything else you can think of. So please if you must label then label me as a freak, freak of nature, jesus freak, any freak you'ld like because I don't fit into your catigories.

Im still trying hard to fiqure out what life is about. Sure I could give you the church answer and say its about doing Gods will which is a great and wonderful thing. But the truth is life isn't that easy. We nit-pick at our day to day lives with a numbness we can't explain and then wonder what in the world could be wrong with us. I do anyway. Things always feel numb. Like they arent real. I don't even have highs and lows anymore, its all just flat, numb, sureal.

Just another warning I tend to complain a lot. Sometimes its funny. Sometimes people would like to tie sement shoes to my feet and drop me off the San Fran bridge. Honestly if anyone is going to do that knock me out first thanks.

Remember,
Live Laugh and Be Amazing
sarah