mi casa es new casa

I just finished moving everything into a new apartment. Same complex as what I lived in last semester, just one of the suites. Yeah that’s right a suite. Two stories, a chair AND a desk. I’m moving up baby. It took a long time today. I probably left some stuff up in the old one, but no problem. I can just walk up and get anything I left. I’ll get some pictures up but I’m still waiting for a few finishing touches including: a bunk bed, small entertainment center and perhaps some cool lighting.

I really want to see the new Batman. I heard it’s off the hook. There are some awesome movies coming out including:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-One of the coolest short stories ever by Mr F.S. Fitzgerald

X-Files-May be cool. Could make up for me watching only one episode ever

Star Trek-Same as X-Files

Gonzo-Probably what I’m most excited about. “A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.” Not to be confused with the lovable, long nosed Muppet

16 days until Sigur Ros rocketh my socketh.

Currently listening to:

Band of Horses-Cease to Begin

As Tall As Lions

Dntel-Dumb Luck

The Blood Brothers-Young Machetes

Mewithoutyou(again)

back in action

haven’t put anything up for a few weeks now. I was real busy with Hillsong Conference last week and I just didn’t really want to put anything up. I have been thinking a lot and I thought that it would be better for me to figure out some stuff before I tell anyone who may read this……………which is probably like two people now that I’ve lost your hearts with no posting. Shucklesworth

One thing that I have decided and I have let some of you know (if you don’t know already, I’m sorry this is how you are finding out) is that my plan right now, contrary to what I’ve thought up to this point, is to stay in Australia for more than a year. If I would be talking to anyone about that before I would always say, “I’m just staying a year unless God makes it real obvious I’m suppose to stay for longer.” That is definitely happening now. Since I made that decision I have considered and reconsidered it tons of times already. That decision changes a lot of things and it confuses me………but most of the stuff going on right now is confusing to me. It’s good and I’m learning a lot but it’s not easy.

God just keeps proving himself good no matter how much I try to convince him he’s not really there for me that much. I am constantly having to be working things out with how I think about some issues and the way I view stuff and it kind of hurts and it’s not easy. I miss comfort. Recently my brother told me to read the July 6 entry from My Utmost for His Highest because it made him think of me and my present circumstance when he read it. Check it

Vision And Reality

“And the parched ground shall become a pool.”

Isaiah 35:7

We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

“Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And batter’d by the shocks of doom
To shape and use.”

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us with the veritable reality. Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into the shape of the ideal, and over and over again we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape.

The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be. Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don’t lose heart in the process. If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.

That really does a good job of showing me what God may be doing in me. Some of the visions I have for the future are ones I’ve had for awhile and some are ones that I am sort of just discovering. I think I may be in that whole realizing the vision is real but it is not yet real within us part now. I have some visions or hopes or whatever that I have had for awhile but I’m just now seeing that they may not be as far fetched as I once thought. But with that has also come some big time loneliness and discouragement. But as the wise Oswald Chambers said, “It is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

What a good brother I have

I’m really impressed with anyone that just read this whole thing

Viva la spanish students

The other day I went with some one of my Brazilian friends and one of my Australian friends(Milo) who was born in Chile and has a Spanish family to a Spanish dinner. It was for all the Spanish college students, be they from Mexico or Spain or Brazil or Argentina or whatever. I’ll speak spanish with Milo sometimes and with other spanish students for practice. I was kind of nervous that people would be mad I was there, I can’t very easily pretend to be of spanish decent. It ended up to be nothing to worry about and it was funny to see people’s reactions when I would talk to them in spanish and it was really good practice. By the end of the night I was pretty much back to being able to understand everything and being able to speak fluently. So that was fun, but the point of this post is that I had the best meal I’ve had since I’ve been here. I had mexican food. Real mexican food. Although I miss fake mexican food like Taco Bell, Taco Johns and Pace Salsa; the real deal is all the more delicious. We had tacos that, for you who understand this, were very similar to Po Po’s and home-made salsa that blew my mind. I think I ended up having 4 tacos. I was so inspired by it all that yesterday I made salsa and it’s amazing! A bit hot. The recipe called for 1 jalapeno and I was like aahhh that’s sissy, so I put 3. It’s still really good, just has a little kick to it. It’s good that I know how to make it because now I can always have salsa. The only salsa they sell here is in little tiny party size jars for dipping chips, but I need bulk. I am going to have the best chicken quesadillas.

doi doi doi

This last week has been a full week for me. Full of thinking. As I have mentioned before, I am in a very cool, very unique time right now. I’m having a lot of fun and doing a lot of cool stuff, but at the same time there are days where I am so homesick all I do is think about home and everything and everyone I miss.

Those days aren’t fun. I can get really confused on those days and when I get like that I can easily lose sight of what’s going on in my life right now and how awesome of an opportunity I have to live and discover God and make memories. I’ll get confused about how I’m feeling and not knowing why I feel so uncomfortable and scared and lonely and out of place. Wednesday night I had an epiphanic moment(my in-computer thesaurus is my wordpress sidekick). Here’s what I feel like God told me:

There is a good reason why I feel uncomfortable and scared and lonely and out of place. It’s because nothing in my life is comfortable or familiar or comforting. I am in a totally new era of my life without anyone to provide comfort. The only thing I have that is in any way constant, familiar or comforting is my relationship with God; and I’m still choosing to neglect it. It seems so freakin obvious now. It may not seem very epiphanic to you jerks but it really was for me. I felt a way that I haven’t felt since I’ve been here. I realized that home and comfortability are not the answer to my problems. Wow.

So anyways, I thought I would let you all what is happening on a more serious not in my life. And also, I may be writing about some big news coming up within the next week. Maybe more, I will be very busy the next two weeks because Hillsong Conference is coming up, which pretty much means a week and a half of a good amount of work. Stay tuned.

-Drizzle