Rekindle the Spark

I woke up this morning. Everything was as it should be, life was absolutely perfect with it's imperfections, and I was completely content. I began my morning brushing my teeth, reflecting on what had occurred the night before. I sat in my room, on my little spot clearing among a disastrous mess that I was trying to clean up, and after speaking on the phone with my mother, I decided to go to a corner of my room. I kneeled down to pray, and out loud I gave a long sincere prayer of thanks to my Heavenly Father. It's amazing how long we can go doing things incorrectly, even though we already know what we should be doing and that it will help us of we practice obedience. The Law of Tithing is one of those great commandments I struggle with. I could perhaps say that my parents didn't really ingrain this law in my head well enough, but I never had to deal with this type of responsibility until I moved out of the home. So I must face reality, and know that the responsibility...

Okay, so I can't take credit for this post. This is my roommate Haley's blog post for last night. But it was too funny. I couldn't resist putting it up on my blog. Quotes on nights such as this will live as long lasting memories in my mind and in my heart, I just love my roommates. They are so funny! ;) 1:00 AM: Random words of Gioconda Velez (yes, like an andaconda), Sarah Deaver (yes, like a beaver), and Haley McIntosh (yes, like an apple or a computer, except spelled different). Today sucked. All we want is to be pursued. One night with you. Why were you sleeping in your underwear? Isn't it a little chilly? Changing is for suckers. This music is too intense for me! Sarah look! This is how Haley and I stare at each other! Don't lie. You like it. And then he lied to me! He said he was at Ward Prayer, but he wasn't! I'm just happy he knows my name! Woa! I opened up my eyes and saw two Haleys! I'm so sleepy I might as well be drunk right now. I'...

I'm not so sure I've ever been a real big fan of dating, or speed dating at that matter. But then again, my dating experiences have been so few, that I can't really judge speed dating too harshly. If anything, I would practice meeting more people, spend time getting to know my friends better, and just have a great time laughing at the most bizarre conversations. So for those of you who haven't ever been speed dating, it's the funniest thing ever. Luckily, it was a combined ward activity, so there were a lot of people from ward there that I knew, and I had the opportunity to meet some new people from the other ward. On this occasion, I only had 90 seconds to talk to a person before I had to move down the line of chairs to meet someone new. At first I was like, I'm sitting among my ward member friends, and I already know them, but then I thought it will be fun to ask them questions I've never really asked them before. Some people were really interesting ...

Well, my best friend Tiffany, has been encouraging me to post up a new blog. So this is a special entry for her to enjoy, and for my favorite little "homeboy" Orion! It started out tonight when I decided to play around with different guitar tunings. This song is played in an Open D Minor. As I played it, I realized I was using the same chords I had used in a song I wrote a while ago for my sister Ligia. But this song would be entirely written for Orion. It is his lullaby. Something Ligia told me once was that she uses lullabies to put Orion to sleep. And as I was playing the chords I thought, "Heh...I wonder if I can make this into a lullaby for Orion." Then I thought of all the things that matter most to Orion...Cars, helicopters, balls, blue balls, lights, animals, Jesus, etc. And then I had an image of a star. One of Orion's favorite childhood songs has definitely got to be the famous, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." And then the image of ...