My xanga has been shut down....GO PHUSEBOX!

Literally....

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Happy Birthday to Ami Driver! One of my best friends in the world!

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Well I know when people see entries this long they freak out and tell themselves "yeah right I wouldn't read that if I had all the time in the world." But this is what's been on my mind and i'd like to share it with you, if the 2 people that read this actually care.
    As I sat in bible study with the guys tonight, I began to reflect on the week. I thought about a typical day in the life of Garrett Daniel Haynes, and what that's like. Then I thought about how dry i've been lately. Dry in school, dry in a few of my relationships, but most importantly, dry in the relationship the matters the most. My relationship with my Savior. Then I got to thinking....how is it that I got like this? How are christians that are so hydrated get so dry in the mouth? Then a word popped into my head. Motives. What are motives? For me, a motive is what makes me tick. I evolve myself around it. It keeps me going, fighting the good fight of faith, and gives me something to look forward to. Motive is the extra step that helps to push me over the line.
    I then realized that it wasn't that my motives were wrong, it's that I had no motives at all. Thanks to awesome spriritual leadership by those whos eyes have been cleared by God the father, Clint was able to help me see that God was actually testing me. He seems to be saying "what will you do, when there seems to be nothing but your salvation to keep you going." Let me ask you this question.

What will you do when you're in the trenches, when it all seems so hopeless....and there is nothing within the sight of a thousand miles to bring you hope? Will you keep fighting, or will you give in to the battle that seems so hopeless. Whether you would admit it or not, its a battle that we often do not want to fight. As a good friend of mine said...it is very, very difficult to fight a battle that we do not want care about and do not want to win. If we are apathetic (meaning that we just don't care), then we have already been defeated.

Well that's what God's been laying on my heart. I wish you all a wonderful rest of the week. God bless.

In Christ,
       Garrett

Belle Aire has our first basketball game tonight at St. Rose at 8:30! Roll Tide!

This is a picture from bad fad night that I stole from Meredith! From left to right its john, me (with the afro), meredith, alex, ben (lol), and ami and olivia on the bottom. That was soooo much fun. There are a few more pics on my photo box. So check 'em out.

photo from G-MUNY

edit: went and saw jarhead the other night. It had more cussing than an eminem cd and it had some "stuff" in it that the movie could have done without. The story, however, was pretty interesting. It showed the reality of being in a foreign country in the US Marines. Overall, i'd give it a 6 out of 10.

the fall retreat was a blast. i'll leave it at that. i played paintball and amy roeger shot me in the buttocks, so now i can barely sit down. but it's all good. now i'm off to go read about 100 pages of a time to kill. good book + short attention span = me procrastinating. but at least its a great book. I hope u guys will pray for jennifer dillion and all of the dillon family b/c they are goin through some stuff right now. i'll be praying hardcore for them and i hope u guys will too.

the legend of zorro movie was a HUGE disappointment ...

but i still have the best friends anyone could ask for...

although i'm a little suspicious about one or two of them...but it'll be ok

i'm going to the fall retreat at new frontiers this weekend...

gonna play me some paintball and go down a zipline...should be fun...

Even though its new frontiers and i've been there the past 4 years...but what can i say...

leave some comments.

love in Christ,

                    G$Muny

I wanna take lauren nicdao's advice and break up with my high school. It's just not working out. I wanna go out with college.

Tonight I went to the Judgment  House at the family worship center and it was me, ben, shelby, meredith, olivia, cole, michelle, and rachel randolf. It was WOW lol it was amazingly fun, yet amazingly scary. Thanks to my excessive weakness to blood and people slitting their wrists, I passed out on about the 5th scene. It was so crazy I was only out for a few seconds but I woke up on the floor with people all around me and it was just...crazy. But anyway I felt better almost immediately and so I was able to finish the tour. It was really good. I would recommend it unless you're really sensitive to blood like me. It was fake, but they did a pretty darn good job of making it look real. Well that's my story for the day....unfortuneately this hasn't been the first time that this has happened...I really HATE it when it happens. Out of all the things, God had to give me a certain sensitiveness towards blood and slitting wrists. But I guess I shouldn't complain because I have so much to be thankful for. When things like that happen it makes me turn my eyes toward heaven and get a reality check of how blessed I truly am. It reminds me that our time on this earth is short, and we have so much to live for. I hope that is an encouragement to yall.  I hope yall have a great week. God bless.

~Garrett

Well guys if you haven't heard already...Rosa Parks died. That is quite sad. But to be honest with you, I didn't know she was still alive. I was surfing the internet in 4th period today and saw an add on comcast.net that she had died. So the next time you say "Rosa Parks!" when you are saving a seat, you can do it not only to claim your seat but also in remembrance of the role model Rosa Parks.

Wow, what a crazy night. There are so many different things going through my head right now...I can't even explain.

I finally got my ipod! It is so krunk, so small, and so sexy.

Currently Listening   

More Than You Think You Are
By Matchbox Twenty

Well today was a great day. Today in school we basically chilled all day, and we had a festival thing in the courtyard so we got out of 4th period. After school I was on my way home from the bank when I was driving down battleground drive and much to my dismay, not paying attention to how fast I was going. Sure enough I see a cop and realize that i'm going too fast so I slow my car down quickly. So he doesn't turn his sirens on but he starts to follow me. So I pull up and wait at a red light and after it turns green I start to go. I'm now "following" the speed limit and he decides to pull me over. Much to my regret, my tags were expired as well. But for some reason it was my lucky day praise God and he decides to let me off with a warning since my record was clean and my tags had just recently been expired due to my retarded car not being able to pass admissions. Tonight was the homecomeing game and me and my friends tailgated and then went to the game which was alot of fun. We got whooped, and I left after the 3rd quarter because I got a really bad migrane. So I missed the dance, but I wasn't planning on going anyway so its all good. Well tomorrow is my boy Josh Carroll's wedding! I'm excited, b/c me and John are driving up to Hendersonville for the wedding. It should be fun. Hope you guys had a great week and have a good weekend. This entry is way too long! Later -

~Garrett

P.S. This new version of phusebox is awesome! I am only a little disappointed that my background is gone...but I think I can definately live with all of the new features. Props to Nathan.

Anberlin - A Day Late

I love this band with a passion...and its good to see that they are moving up in the music industry. They are coming to Rocketown soon so we'll be getting a group going!!!!