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Name: Simeon
Country: United States
State: South Carolina
Metro: Greenville
Birthday: 1/17/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus, tennis, singing, guitar, trumpet, and pretty much any other sport out there
Expertise: None really!
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
9/28/2005
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| Well I head off to camp on Tuesday for the rest of the summer. I'll see my parents one more time when they drop my brother off at camp later this summer and then I won't see them again for 2 years. Kind of a strange thought. I guess I'll really be on my own now. I've been thinking a lot about the concept of slavery and how we were slaves to sin but new we have been set free in Christ. What a beautiful picture that we are now sons and not slaves. We serve an incredible God. I'm looking forward to a summer of ministry, camping, and playing sports with all different aged kids. If you think of me at any point during the summer you could shoot up a prayer that the Lord will be give me wisdom and insight to relate the the kids I have in my cabin so that I might love them and relate to them and love them with the love of Christ. It's so exciting to think that I have the opeprtunity to impact eternity with each young life that I touch. Praise the Lord that he uses fallen people like us. | | |
| I walked into a hospital room today and saw an old man laying on white bed covered with a thin sheet his spindly legs and gaunt frame made him look like a Holacost victim. His breathing was labored and his hands were shaking. He wore gloves over his frail fingers to keep them warm even though it was a warm summer. This man is my grandfather, or what is left of him as he battles the final stages of brain and lung cancer. I looked at him today and my heart broke. I feared to hug him because I might break him in half. I walked away from that room and felt the cold, cruel tenticles of death following me and I realized that I would never see him again. Death is such a sad thing. It steals away the life and hope of once brilliant and vibrant people. I have been forced to ponder what type of a man will I be. How will I live each day because one day I too may be reduced to such a helpless. Do not take life for granted, but live each day with a passion. | | |
| Hey! School is coming to an end which is exciting. I have three finals this coming week and then I'm done praise the Lord. I must admit that I haven't realy been studying. To be completely honest I really have done nothing but lay beach volleyball, tennis and basketball for the last few weeks which has been great. Oh yeah and I've hit the pool a couple times. I started working out again with a couple of my buddies now that tennis season is over and I being the over competitive idiot that I am I tried to do the same weight that they were and now my arms are so sore that I can hardly move them. I mean, I woke up this morning and cvoul hardly pull my covers off of me. But if it doesn't kill you then, what the heck. I'm going to a shane and shane concert this Wednesday. That is the day before my most important final! Go figures. I continue to ba amazed by the faithfulness and mercy of our God and am currently living life and just enjoying getting to go deeper in my walk with the Lord with few distractions. I know that eventualy the times of trial will come so I'm going to make the most of this period in my life where is all is pretty much calm. I guess that's all from me. May the Lord bless you and guide you in all you do. | | |
| Oh great is our God. That is about all I can think of right now. I received word today that I have been accepted at the Focus on the Family Institute and will be attending there this coming Fall semester. What an answer to prayer. As I have been back in the states the Lord has layed a desire in my heart to go there for a semester. Because the competition to get in is quite rigerous I figured I didn't have much of a chance, but praise the the Lord that he has opened this door for me. I cannot wait to go because I know that the Lord has much to teach me there about leadership, Christian commitment, and today's American society. I just never cease to be amazed by the way that God provides for us and when we have no clue where to go next he shows us. So I'm rejoicing tonight and I pray that God is challenging and revealing himself to you as well. May we never cease to seek him with an overwhelming passion. Let us do whatever it takes to touch the face of Christ and experience him because that is what life is all about. If we don't go to Christ and drink of him and his love then we will certainly run dry and cease to be effective minister's of his grace to those around us. So I hope that you can be encouraged and if you are in a state of wondering what is coming next take heart and know that we serve an incredible God who has a perfect plan for you and in his time he will reveal to you what you need to know. As I write I can almost feel the joy of the Lord like a blanket wrapped around me and it is so real that I want to shout with exuberance. That's all for me. Stay strong in the faith and be sure to enjoy God today. | | |
| Ok well today has been one of the best days of my life. Our college tennis team is down here for our conference tournament. The winner of the tournament goes on to regionals and then perhaps onto nationals. We came in as the 5th seed this year and were slated to play the 4th seed who we had lost to earlier on in the season. The way a match works is that there are three doubles matches played and six singles matches. Whoever wins five matches overall wins. Now that we have these details out of the way we can begin. My doubles partner and I lost doubles 8-6 and as a team we were down 2-1 after doubles. My signles match began and it was about 1 in the afternoon and hot as hades. I won the first set 6-2 and then procedded to lose a long second set 6-3. By this time everyone elses matches had finished and the overall score was 4-4. So whoever won my singles match won the entire thing and moved on to the semi-finals. I lost the first two games of the thirs set and then battles back to tie it and then again got down by two games and came back to tie it at 4 all. By this time we'd been playing for almost three hours and both of us were completely exhausted. I lost my serve and was down 5-4. My opponent had match point to win but I hit a winner down the line and came back to win the third set 7-5 and secure the victory for Erskine. It was such a great feeling as that final shot went out and everyone rushed the court and we were just practicaly dancing out there. we have three senior on the team so for them it was so awesome. My feet are completely blistered up and I'm completely exhausted as I'm writing this, but that was probably the greatest sports thrill I've ever experienced, although the volleyball match at Numonohi my senior year in PNG was pretty awesome as well. That's about it. I'm just so thankful that God has given a healthy body and the ability to play sports. Today is a day that I will never forget! | | |
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