Hey you guys. Don't just pass this up as just another song of the week. This is a great old time song. If you get the chance listen to it. You can take everything as something else. Please enjoy. Oh I am not quite sure who this one is by, sorry.

Hey this was like my favorite song a few years ago. It is by Johnny Horton. A real old song but really fun. I hope you enjoy!

No it is not today and no it will not be tomorrow.
No it is not that night and no it is not those days.
No it is not that one dance and no it is not the lack of dances.
No it is not her and I know it is not him.
No it is not that airport and no it is not that one van ride.
No it is not that morning and no it is not that night.
Maybe simply it is just you and it is just me.
No it is not the fact that I can't live with out you.
It is that I can, but I hate myself for it.
No it is not the distance.
It is the ground traveled.
No it is not the future.
It is our simple past.
No it is not that I really like you.
It is that I absolutely hate that I love you.

Just so all of you can read this I put it in "Thought" form instead of just remark.No, I think that God doesn't have someone picked out for us. Or the perfect one in mind. When Amber and Aaron were doing their premarital marriage counseling their Christian counselor told them that every 5 years they would find someone more compatible with themselves then their spouse and another 5 years someone even more compatible. So if God had someone in mind wouldn't it be the one that was absolutely compatible? I also know many Christian families fall apart because of divorce even when they prayed for the right person time and time again. I believe that God does have a will for us, but I do not believe that he says "You, Austin, will marry so and so in the month of July." no that is silly to say you have free will but God says that you will do this and  you have to do that or that you have to marry her. He even gives you a choice to obey his will or not. It is indeed his will that you go to church, whether you do that or not is your choice. It is also his will that you read your Bible once again your choice.Now bare with me this all relates back. So ok, when it comes to bigger things such as large scale ministry work, I think that you still have a choice but it will get done whether you let God use you or not. Say that you know God put going to Brazil to do ministry work on your hear, and you don't go. He will get someone else to because it will get done. Not much longer I promise I will get relate this back. So if God lets you make those kind of choices I also believe that God can use you no matter what, where, how, and when. That means that if you are praying "God should I move to NC and start a church or should I start one here?" I would say that he would answer it, but I believe that he would probably answer it "You make the choice that is best for your family" Because no matter where you are God Can Use You! Now it is not to say that he doesn't care because he does. He cares so much that he knows every hair on your head. So if he can use you no matter what concerning something as big as ministry then I am sure he can use you no matter what concerning marriage. Now, if he can use you no matter what or when doesn't that mean that he can teach you something where ever you are? So, in that theory I believe that where ever you are that probably means that you are supposed to be there in that moment. Now if you are at a dead point in your relationship with Christ you can be taught something but you should work to remove your self from that stalled period  in your life. 

Yes I know that Kid Rock is not the best person in the word but this song strays far from what he normaly does. He makes me half wonder if he is christian. Maybe he his not but heck he is standing up for what is right, which just so happens to be more than I can say for some. He is also kinda, bare with me here, standing up for chistianity. It seems like he cares like honestly cares. Maybe though I am just analyzing it way too much. Mabe like he says we just need to stop being so uptight, just admit our mistakes and apologize. Not a direct quote but "I'm not a saint but I believe in what is right." Powerful line from him. Please enjoy Kid Rock's "Amen"

Well I was just kinda listening to my ipod and this came on. Shy of some parts if you listen to the lyrics it is a good song. Well please enjoy Ways & Means by Snow Patrol.

1. What do you think love is?

2. Is it an emotion? or a choice?

3. Does it end?

4. If you are really in love does that mean that you should get married?

5. Does God have one "right" person for everyone? and if so is that the person you are to marry?

 

1&2. Love is indeed a choice. Because God choose to love us, and gave us the choice to love him Tyler I agree with you on that. I don't think that God would give us something as big as love up to our heart to make that decision. If I am not wrong it says in the Bible the the man who follows his heart is foolish.  And in that same way you can shoose to stop loving someone. Love in a relationship should be highlighting of eachother's best qualities. 

3. I think that true love CAN end. I believe that if you truely love someone than you have given them a lot. And no one is perfect, therefore someone could screw that up and throw it away. An extreme amount of trust and communication is lost there, and if you can't truely give them everything again then you don't truely love them again.

4. No, I think that even though you might truely love someone with everything you have that does not mean that you could work well in marriage together.

5. No I don't believe that God as a right person for everyone...or anyone of that matter. I believe if that was so then there would  be no divorces. But I have seen too many good christian families fall apart because of a divorce. And there was no way that that person was right for them. And before they married they prayed and consulted mentors and it still just didn't work. I am also convinced that God's free will really kicks in there and he lets you marry who you wish. Because the simple fact is, that God can use you where ever you are, and in any circumstances.

 

So I will end it with this quote from  Plato, "You often fall in love with what you want a person to be instead of what they are."

 

PLEASE ANSWER.

I honestly wanna know what you guys...and girls have to say. So please answer these questions if you have time.

1. What do you think love is?

2. Is it an emotion? or a choice?

3. Does it end?

4. If you are really in love does that mean that you should get married?

5. Does God have one "right" person for everyone? and if so is that the person you are to marry?

Please give reasons for all of your answers, oh a remark is a great way to share your opinion but a message will do great as well and if you do message me I will not say your name or that you messaged me if desired.  

Well I had to have a little help to choose the song of the week so I hope that you guys enjoy it because a good friend of mine helped pick it. She told me about this band and I can't stop finger tapping when I am listening to them! Well this is The Maine with "I Must Be Dreaming" and I got it in just in time! Enjoy. oh and a special thanks to Lindsay Taylor.

I am dedicating this for you, just you, but also the rest of you.

I want to tell you that my last days there were amazing.

Even though you will never read this, I know you know.

You are an absolute dirty Asian.

You are an absolute wonderful person.

You are the coolest person I have met.

You wonderful long night.  

Hey you, you stupid Hard Rock Cafe worker...Yeah you better not show your face.

You made me embarresed in the washing room.

Nothing is ever as it seems, especially at night.

Curse you, you unanswered questions.

You unfulfilled dreams.

You liar.

You curses.

But bless you, you wonderful smile. 

You ridiculous tan line.

You great memory.

You fulfilled dreams. 

You one person party. 

You liar.

and bless you who are not blessed for you deserve to be, in one day or the next.

I pray to God for that which will never happent, but maybe we will meet again, oh cursed, oh blessed, the absolutes, the coolest, the dirtiests and the most wonderful ones.   

 

 

Well you guys I am about to head out. I am going to Harvard University I was accepted amung others from across the globe to study there to become a better leader and take a class. I will be completing over 50 class hours while I am there. Please be praying for me while I am in Boston. I will not know anyone besides who I meet. Well I hope you guys have an awesome time I will be back in 10 days.

make it this one. Today in church I had tears just role down my eyes like sweat from my brow. I listened to one of the most amazing story I had ever heard come from a soldier, man named Jonathan. He told us this story right before playing "Our God is an Awesome God." I was in infantry school in GA. I want you to picture a little church not able to seat more than 300 people. Now this church had no A/C and a tiny stage. Now picture it with 500 soldiers. Full uniform in the middle of summer. Many were standing and some were holding chairs so that there was enough room. I became the worship leader of this church. I got so tired of playing the same song every week. (we had new people coming and leaving so we kept it simple he explained). Every week the Army here had a tradition of yelling, right after "Our God is an awesome God he reigns" they would yell, not always with the timing or perfect at all "HE REIGNS" Every time. The 500 soldiers who later that week had drill sargents yellilng at them, then the soldiers yelling orders to each other during firing practice. They would yell that day to their ultimate athority. That alone would make you realize the power of God. But in another platoon I met a guy named Chris Fifer. He was a professing wicken. We practiced witch craft daily. He started coming to the chapel, however, to get out of mess duty. As did a lot of other soldiers. Eventually God worked in him and had him yelling with the rest of the men "HE REIGNS" with his hands held to the sky. This had a lot of guys including three unsaved drill sargents come and ask what we gave to him to make him change. Well a while ago Chris was with his squad doing patrol on the streets of Baghdad. He was in full body armor and helmet. But snipers know just where to put the bullet. That day Chris was shot right in the soft spot of his armor. He spent 2 months in a hospital in Germany before being moved to a hospital in Texas to be closer to his family. Surviving on all sorts of medical equipment one day before his daughter was born Chris died. His daughter never got to meet her father. And becuase of this song that we sang every sunday for 6 months I know that she will in heaven one day.

So Tom Petty never really had great videos but I thought a lot of his songs were pretty awesome, like "Free Falling" another great song. Well I hope you enjoy Tom Petty "I Won't Back Down"

Always be ready for what you say to be the last thing you say to someone because it might be. Something I learned...and I swear to my god that it will eat you alive if you aren't careful.

I wanna love you like Forrest loved Jenny,

I will run for 3 years 2 months 14 days and 16 hours to get to you.

 

I wanna love you like Wyatt Earp loved Josephine Marcus,

I will have no pride, no dignity, and no money, I am not sure how we will make a living but I promise to love you.  

 

I wanna love you like Johnny loved June, 

I will walk the line for you until the end of time.

 

I wanna love you like Homer loved Marge Simpson,

I will be confused but I will always know I loved you.

 

I wanna love you like Westley loved Buttercup,

I will get caputured but I swear to make it back to you.

 

I wanna love you like Ross loved Rachel,

I will do my best not to let you get on that plane out of my life.

 

I wanna love you like Han loved Leia,

I will run through the galaxy with you from the empire.

 

I wanna love you like Forrest loved Jenny,

I will if you will let me.  

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Ok so here is a huge question that I really need people to answer for me (prefrebly in the form of a remark). ok

 

So if you have like a really good friend, like a best friend that you have known for like 10 years, but you really like him/her, do you tell them and risk ruining your friendship or do you just keep your friendship and tell him/her later in life. 

 

 

ok so in this case you don't see the person very much because of distance, yet you are still great friends. A relationship at this point in life is impossible.

 

Also this is just a greatly argued question and I thought I would see what you people had to say. Thanks for your time.

 

           --Austin Mathis
 

So yeah I went to the Roxy 8 Movie Theater in Dickson, TN last night to see "The Strangers." It was an enjoyable movie. My friend was trying to hook up with this one girl who he dated before but she didn't like him at all. I didn't really like her or the girl she was with. So any ways we went into the Zohan with them and tried to talk them into seeing The Strangers with us...the one that my friend liked didn't like scary movies but the other did. We failed at trying to get them in the movie...at first...lol. So my friend and I went into The Strangers alone. We were sitting there and the girls came in and we went to sit with them but the girl my friend liked made me sit next to her and my friend...we will call him mason...and the girl he likes lets call her maggie...and the other...uhmm lets call hollie. So Mason sat next Hollie and I sat next to Maggie. Well Maggie just broke up with her boyfriend so Mason was working hard to get her back. So I threw a lot of pick up attempts at her to make mason angry...needless to say none of them worked. But Maggie does get insanely frightened...she was constantly grabbing my arm and spilling her "ICEE" on me...good movie though...lol

So I know that I have posted a lot of blogs today but I just kinda got a chance to get on my computer today and got the stuff out that needed out. Yeah for those who don't know I have been in Wilkesboro, North Carolina (my home town). I love it and miss it...a lot. No one and no where would ever replace it. I've got a lot going for me here though. Not many know the whole story of how I got here and by god that is fine with me. So Just sit back and just enjoy this great song by Rascal Flatts called "God Bless the Broken Road."

Never ever let a drunk person make you dinner...or any other meal for that matter...

I was doing 90 in a 65.

 

I don't know why I didn't turn around.

 

I was heading for a completely different life.

 

And I was only 20 minutes away from your home town.

 

What would you have done if I were there at 3:56 in the morning?

 

Can I tell you how I feel?

 

Show up with out any warning?

 

Just be straight up and real?

 

Completely miss my plane.

 

To tell you I love you.

 

Not make it any big thing.

 

All these words I say will stand true.

 

I finally realize that love is sitting there and being completely content just holding hands.

 

I guess I really don’t matter to you now.

 

I was just this thing that happened.

 

It doesn’t matter what happens or how.

 

Just something, we did for those 28 minutes in the car that we were “trapped in.”

 

So now, I will let you go.

 

Release me I will from you as a burden.

 

I have absolutely nothing left to show.

 

I am gone now as I was then.

 

I have said all I have to say

 

Now I will let you say what you need to in your own way.