Below are the 16 most recent journal entries recorded in jem_bo's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
1:06 am	Christmas ideas? http://www.retroduck.com/cart/shop.cgi/SID=1165989913.79910/subref=9902/display=99-0041 or this one? http://store.cottonfactory.com/cf-303.html Current Music: halo 2 sound effects (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
12:08 am	Suffering causes us to trust God because of who He is, not what He does. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
12:00 pm	I'm addicted (and annoying) Prologue 1. Where did you take your default myspace pic? the appartment 2. What exactly are you wearing right now? jeans. blue button down. socks. shoes. 3. What is your current problem? im swamped with work. 4. What makes you most happy? Jesus. 5. What's the name of the song that you're listening to? Carried to the table. Leeland. 6. Has anyone you've been really close with passed away? not really. 7. Do you ever watch MTV? Rob & Big. 8.Name something that really annoys you? messiness 9.Whats one thing you're looking forward to? Christmas (Amen?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: 1. Middle name: Steven 2. Nickname(s): Jem. Jemmy. Jem Bo. Cactus. 3. Current location: the den of the appartment. 4. Eye color: hazel --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2: 1. Do you live with your parents? Not any more. 2. Do you get along with your parent(s)? Definately. 3. Are your parents married/separated/divorced? Divorced. and married. 4. Do you have any Siblings?: yes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ther Chapter 3: Favorite... 1. Ice Cream: Spamoni. 2. Season: Fall and Christmas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 4: Do you... 1. Write on your hand: Yes. 2. Call people back: yes 3. Believe in love? yes 4. Sleep on a certain side of the bed? i used to when i could actually move. 5. Have any bad habits? probably. 6. Any mental health issues? The penguins are following me. (losers) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 5: Have You... 1. Broken a bone: no 2. Sprained stuff: no 3. Had physical therapy?: No 4. Gotten stitches: yes twice 5. Taken painkillers? Yeh 6. gotten stung by a bee? a baby bee. 7. seven disappeared, how does that make you feel? just threw up in my mouth a little. 8. Thrown up at the dentist: no 9. Sworn in front of your parents: heck yes 10. Had detention: no --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 6: Who/What was the last 1. Movie(s): James Bond. 2. Person to text you?: Greg O. 3. Person you called?: My mom. 4. Person you hugged? Jason Roy, if you count the hand shake and pat. If not... Mary. 5. Person you tackled? Bryan maybe? 6. Thing you touched? my nose. 7. Thing you ate? i hop. 9. Thing you said? yes. Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: answered in above (Comment on this)
Friday, November 24th, 2006
10:47 pm	1. Guitar or Drum Player: drum 2. Skater or Surfer: surfer 3. Brown or Blue Eyes: brown 4. Blonde or Brunette: brunette 5. Brains or Looks: brain Food. 11. Hamburger or Hotdog: burger 12. Pie or Cake: pie 13. Apple or Banana: banana 14. Coke or Pepsi: pepsi 15. Chicken or Beef: chicken 16. Oreos or Chips Ahoy: chips ahoy 17. Pancakes or Waffles: chocolate 18. Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate 19. Strawberry or Cherry: strawberry 20. Watermelon or Cantaloupe: watermelon 21. Potato salad or Macaroni Salad: neither 22. Wheat or White: white 23. Tic Tacs or Candy: candy 24. Sausage or Bacon: bacon 25. Sour Cream and Onion or BBQ: bbq 26. Baseball or football: football 27. Swim or Track: swim 28. Tennis or Golf: tennis 29. Skiing or Sledding: sledding 30. Bicycling or Jogging: jog 31. McDonalds or Burger King: burger king 32. JC Penny's or Sears: jcp 33. Walmart or Target: target 34. Trophy's or TGI Fridays: tgif Clothes. 36. Pants or Shorts: pants 36. Zip-Up or Pull-Over: pullver 39. Mittens or Gloves: glove 40. Print or Solid: solid Names. 42. Jessica or Jennifer: jennifer 43. Aaron or Erin: aaron 44. Carie or Kari: Kari 45. Todd or Tom: Todd 46. Lynn or Lee: lynn 47. Sarah or Susie: sarah 48. Jack or John: jack 49. Lisa or Linda: lisa 50. Mike or Nick: nick Music 51. Punk or Rock: rock 52. Pop or Alternative: pop 53. Rap or Techno: rap 54. Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera: christina 56. Korn or Staind: staind 57. Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park: linkin park w/ jz 58. Something Corporate or Jack's Mannequin: Something Corporate 59. Guitar or Drums: guitar 60. Piano or Violin: both 61. Dawson's Creek or 7th Heaven: 7th heaven 62. Angel or Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy 63. Law and Order or The Practice: law and order 64. One Tree Hill or The OC: the OC 65. Smallville or Charmed: Charmed for Bryans sake Cinema. 66. Bruce Willis or Bruce Lee: Bruce Willis 67. Jennifer Love Hewitt or Neve Campbell: jennifer love hewitt 68. Aladdin or Lion King: lion king 69. Snow White or Sleeping Beauty: sleeping beauty ;) 70. Comedy or Drama: comedy 71. Horror or Science Fiction: horror Computer/Video Games. 76. AOL or MSN: aol 77. Dogpile or Google: google 78. Mac or PC: PC (macs suck) 79. PS2 or N64: ps3 80. Mario Brothers or Zelda: mario School 81. Pen or Pencil: pen 82. English or History: History 83. Math or Science: Math 84. Home Economics or Woodshop: economics 85. Backpack or Messenger Bag: backpack Animals. 86. Cat or Dog: dog 87. Fish or Hampster: hampster 88. Tiger or Lion: Tiger 89. Butterfly or Ladybug: Butterfly 90. Seals or sea lions: seal I am... [] Single [x] Taken [x] Happy [ ] Mixed feelings [ ] Like someone [ ] Sad [ ] Angry [ ] Lonely [x] A meat-eater [ ] A vegetarian [ ] Crying [] Tired [ ] Age 1 - 12 [x] Age 13 - 19 [ ] Age 20 - 30 [ ] Age 31 - 50 [ ] Age 51 - 80 [ ] Older than 80. Currently I'm... [ ] Alone [] with another person [x ] With a group of people [ ] In pajamas [ ] Naked [x] Dressed comfortably [x] In my clothes from today [ ] Listening to music [x] Watching TV I own... [x ] A laptop [x] A stereo [ ] An MP3 player/iPod [ ] An inflatable chair [ ] A bean bag chair [ ] A lava lamp [ ] A black light [x] An automobile [ ] A musical instrument [x] A CD player [ ] Over 100 CDs I have... [x] Glasses [x] Contacts [ ] Pierced ear(s) [ ] Other piercing(s) [ ] Tattoo(s) [ ] Scars from accidental injuries [ ] Scars from other injuries [ ] A broken body part I've physically met... [x] A celebrity [x] A poor person [ ] The president [x] Family I never knew existed [x] Someone from another state [ ] Someone EXACTLY like me in personality [ ] Someone EXACTLY like me in looks (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
2:11 am	happy birthday james. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
11:37 pm	bryan just slung oxy clean all over my room. welcome to college. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
9:58 pm	be a conformist vote trotter j/k http://kevan.org/johari?name=Jemmy_Bo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, August 21st, 2006
5:44 pm	well, we're moved in. dorm warming gifts are welcome. Current Mood: excited Current Music: DMB (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
10:49 pm	Jesus took our place so that we could go to His. "I need to be reminded of what is true. God's Word gives me a dose of reality. There is right and wrong; there are consequences for making wrong choices; the Ten Commandments are still the standard of life; I am not trying to repay evil for evil... My morning briefing in the Word goves a perspective that I don't get in the world. I need God's commentary on my life every day. A Christian... in this society swimming upstream. Without the constant nutrition of the Word, he will soon tire and be dragged off by the sheer force of the current." -Steve Farrar, Point Man (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
9:52 am	true dawgs Taylor ain't got nothing on the true dog pound. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
8:04 pm	from Ron's mustardseeds Pretty Good Stuff. "Go in peace," the priest replied. "For the LORD will go ahead of you on your journey." Judges 18:6 NLT Doing religion leads to burnout. Living a relationship keeps our passion alive. In order to live this way we often have to make a paradigm shift. We have to move from doing religion, to living in a relationship. We have to move from the destination approach to the journey approach. The journey approach says that life as a believer is a journey. I’ll never learn all I can know about God. I’ll never get tired of getting to know Him and spending time with Him. The destination approach assumes that when you’ve learned all you can learn, done all you can do, you’ve arrived and there is nothing else to do. Life gets rather boring with the destination approach. Let me give you an example. In my house Cheryl is chiefly in charge of clothes washing. I try to help, but I’m not near as passionate about it as she is. She’s washing clothes before we get them off our body. Why? Is it because she loves washing clothes? No, she probably hates it as much as I do, but she loves for her family to have clean clothes. She views washing clothes as a part of her “journey” as a mother. Jesus said it like this, “Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.” You and I are going to love to do what we love. If you and I are really into building a relationship with Jesus Christ over a lifetime, we are never going to get bored with doing so. We’ll continue to do the things we need to do to build that relationship. I have watched dozens of marriages fall apart because they stopped building a relationship and started going through the motions of marriage. It won’t work in marriages and it won’t in a relationship with Christ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
2:52 pm	ok 2 things on my mind. 1: Rivers and Spiders (Spires for Brandon) was really good. Daniel Doss, great food on Friday night. To Brandon: i really enjoyed merced, sounded really good, cant wait to yall play with lorien this fall. 2:I graduate in 27 days. Lots of new things headed my way. College is going to be a blast and i hope that everything works out for R.J, brandon, bryan, and I to room together. All are welcome, and make sure to bring food. Current Music: Rise- Building 429 (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 10th, 2006
3:37 pm	The Life of a weed. Current Mood: enthralled (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
4:13 pm	Lately I've found myself in sort of a "spiritual slump". Its nothing new, something that happens every time after a big event where I know that God is near and speaking to me. For me, YEC was an awesome event, and I was convicted, as many of you were to actually "live your faith", and tell show Christ's love to other people. Now, it seems like I couldn't find God if He was in a paper sack. I began to question my search. Was I searching with my whole heart? (see Jeremiah 29:13). I felt that God was "absent" from my life. Most of you have experienced this feeling before of "where is God?" And we hear same sermons that God is always with us. Most of us tend to mistake God's SILENCE as Him being ABSENT. Although we tend to believe this, the Bible shows us otherwise. Consider Joseph in Genesis 37-42. He was sold into slavery by his brothers, taken to Egypt and became on of Potiphar's slaves. Then, Potiphar's wife took notice to Joseph and tempted Him to sleep with her, Joseph resisted, and she lied and accused him of rape. He was immediately thrown in jail. After years in jail, Joseph met an old cup bearer for Pharaoh and a baker. He successfully interpreted their dreams and the cup bearer was restored to his place next to Pharaoh. Joseph noticing that this could be his chance to get out of prison asked the cup bearer to remember that Joseph helped him and maybe he could "Help a Brother Out!". But, the cup bearer forgot. Go figure. The crazy thing that I find in this story is that after every explanation of what crap Joseph had to go through, the Bible intentionally states that "God was with Him." Now if I were Joseph I would have probably deserted God a long time ago, yet Joseph remained FAITHFUL. God's plans were bigger that Joseph's plans, and most of you know the rest of the story (God used Joseph to bring the Israelites to Egypt,during a famine, and they eventually became slaves, which led to Moses and the Exodus. CRAZY!!!) So what was all of that for... REMAIN FAITHFUL! Don't mistake God's silence for his absence, God is always there and He will never leave us nor forsake us (Joshua 1:5). God is silent most of the time so we can grow through those periods. Be encouraged if you feel "stuck spiritual". Being stuck is only a prerequisite for being "UNSTUCK". So remain faithful. Seek God with ALL of your heart. Then you will find Him. Current Mood: thankful Current Music: You Never let Go- Matt Redman (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
4:05 pm	Check it out. Jeremiah 29, part 1 April 03, 2006. Mustard Seed Thoughts "The truth is that you will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:10-11 NLT You have heard the verse all your Christian life. Maybe it was on a plaque, in a sermon, or placed on a graduation card. I love the verse myself and find great comfort in it. The verse is Jeremiah 29:11. God has great plans for you; plans to prosper you; to give you a hope and a future. As great as these words of encouragement are, they should be read in context of the entire chapter. God was promising to bless the Israelites, but He had already told them that before they were blessed, they would suffer seventy years in Babylon. They had to suffer with life, before God’s good plans for them would come true. You and I need to learn from this also. Sometimes, really many times, God’s plans for us, which are ultimately good, will take years to come to fruition. In the meantime, God is working on our character, making us more like Christ, and preparing us for the blessings. There are some lessons we can learn from this passage when we look at it in its entirety. The first, of course, is simply the fact that, even though God has blessings and prosperity planned for us, the journey towards those blessings will not always be pleasant. We live in cultures that want instant everything. We want God’s blessings today! We don’t want Him to make us wait. We really don’t like developing patience. God’s will for our life, however, often will include hard times. God uses these times to stretch our faith, build our character, and prepare us for what is to come, which is the “plans to prosper us, not to harm us, to give us a hope and a future”. Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: none (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
3:07 pm	sometimes i feel like I'm a sinking ship. Then I remember Ron Grizzard singing "The Anchore Holds". Then it makes my day all better. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: "The Anchore Holds" (5 Comments |Comment on this)