Living Rarefied

Here is a post from a wise wise man in his young years…

Amazing thoughts, see for yourself.

Letters from Paul about the Olympics

Ethan testing

We are the coldest state in the country!!

Top 10 coldest places to live

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Top 2 reasons I will never be in the Olympics.

1. I don't have the drive to get myself to the gym lately, let alone prepare for the Olympics.
2. Spending 4+ years for a 1 minute run of which I would most likely screw up 10 seconds into it, therefore nullifying my previous 4 years. Then having to wait another 4 years to redeem myself.  Its just not my cup of tea.

But skol to those who do it year after year, you inspire me.

Ethan Daily, Feeling

So I have been asked to present my thoughts on Technology in Youth Ministry at Bethel University.  I am delivering the goods tomorrow night.

Funny thing is, I think the students will most likely all be older than me.  They are all currently staffed at a church or other youth ministry organization and are in their last semester of Seminary.

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If you have seen "Lazy Sunday" the SNL Digital Short film.You
need to see this and if you are a YL'er or in other youth ministry you will appreciate this even more.

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A dad approaches his son and says, "I was talking to so and so and he
said his kid was kind of interested in going to the youth group that you go to on monday nights"

The kid responds, "ah dad, he doesn't hang out with us, we're not really friends."

To which the father responds, "well think about it"

The son goes to drivers ed. class and comes home to his dad and says "You'll never guess who i sat next to and talked for 3 hours tonight, the kid you were telling me about the other day"

"Hmm… did you talk about monday nights with him?" the dad says with a little smirk…

"Yeah, i think he's gonna come"

"hmmm" the dad says with a little bigger smirk…Last night the 2 kids showed up together after school and then the new kid was leaving I yelled out thanks for coming, his response…

"see you next monday!!!"

Ethan Feeling, testing

I am struggling if that is a good thing or a bad thing…

Dry means there isn't much drama in my life.  I also feel it means I am not growing.

This weekend 13 of us headed up to Lutsen Mtn on the North Shore of Lake Superior for a weekend of skiing/boarding and hanging out.  This was year 3 of the trip.  I think I enjoyed it the most of all the trips.  There were others I wished were there, but the number (smallest of the 3 years) of people was right on.  Got to spend a lot of time together in a small group.  This was ideal vs pockets of groups in a group of 30.

I was able to spend the car time with a friend Andy, I brought all my gadgets for the car, dvd stuff for the laptop, ipod for the car stereo, episodes of Arrested Development, a few snowboard videos to pass the time for our 4-5 hour journey.   Turned out, we listened to Lee Strobel sermon on the way back for a short time.  But talked the rest of the way.  This was way cool as it otherwise so often would be 10 hours of community building that would be deafened by music/video or other distractions.  So often I want that trip to be short, so you can get to Lutsen sooner or get home sooner, depending on which leg of the trip you are on.

Maybe thats why I am/feel dry.  Waiting for things to happen?  Looking too far down the road.  I am waiting for summer, I am waiting for Rebecca to come home, I am waiting for my sister Leah to move home, waiting for somebody to journey life with.. Since I am waiting, I need to stop waiting in wonder and start waiting in awe of what is around me now.

Ethan Feeling