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Name: Jon FacieTroupeytheMunks
Birthday: 11/22/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: The Facie Munksters (Carmi Rose Tunay) / Rolling up Rims to Win / Smelling Books when no one is Looking / Awakening Souls / The Eternal Life, Meaning and Message of Jesus the Christ. xspiri[t]ence. Church in the One. ChurchintheOne.com
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Member Since:
4/15/2004
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| Here you go sports fans:
watchy watchy
My mouth hurt from having a permanent smile at retreat. I might put up another one later. Peace in. | | |
| You asked for it....so here you go:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvhz2vts0Zg
Ok, you didn't really ask for it.
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| Happy Birthday to me (3 days ago). I have realized that I have so much to write that I can't write anything at all. So all I will say is: Thank you to all who made 23 a great year. Thank you in advance for year 24. This is gonna be interesting...
So this is on the button, as they say:
The Shallow and Profound
November 22
Utmost, Oswald Chambers
The Tent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgaNIeJ6BG4
Time After Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2pNQBXtfi4
Jaden Five Productions | | |
| The Nuptials of Jonathan Edralin and Carmi Tunay.
Has it hit you yet? Understanding that your whole life will dramatically change. That you will be severed from your old life. Your sheltered comfortable life. That you cannot only look out for yourself. That you must now share everything. That you must now look to meet the needs of someone else, constantly. That you cannot run to dad and mom. That you must share your bed, blanket, pillow, space, time, energy, resources, will, desires, mornings, evenings, tears and sorrows. Has it hit you?
Snap...
I feel like a chapter of life is coming to a close. Like I am getting closer to that door that divides me and the next me in a world that is like a hazy fantasy slowly solidifying. That every step I take towards the door parts of my old life are falling away. I feel like a certain death is happening to me. And each step is difficult to take. Like I am going on a long trip and my old life is watching and waving to me while I am boarding the plane.
A seed must first die in order for it to grow into something new. I am scared to die. But I need to live. I never pictured marriage as a death and resurrection, but I think it fits. They call it settling down, but I see nothing settling about it. To live without her is to settle. Now that we have the date, it has hit me. And I cant describe how good it feels to be hit. How exciting it is. How new it is. To start our life together is our great mountain to climb, and I can't wait for the views.
June 8th 2007. The Day.
"This is my fiance and I love her. With the love of Jesus I love all of you. And I love being full of love."
- Jon Edralin | | |
| Birds and the Bees...Moon up above and this thing called love
So, this is my second entry in over 365 days. So what spawn the idea of me writing again? I bet some of you have an idea, being engaged maybe? Well, it was sort of a combo deal. I was recently thinking of people I've known in the past, and how surprised they would be to find out I am engaged. Something funny that always happens when I see people from my ancient past usually goes as the following:
Old Friend: So, what are you doing these days?
Me: Actually, I pastor a Church in Square One.
Old Friend: Sure. No seriously. (with a twisted facial expression)
Me: Yup, I'm serious, come see.
Old Friend: (Akwardly backing off) I will, nice seeing you.
So I was thinkng what it would be like if I told them I was a pastor and engaged to be married. Maybe a double stunner. Fun for sure. So, I was wondering, if someone wanted to find me, would they be able to through this magical world called the Internet? So I narcissistically googled my name, and surprisingly, this blog came up. And since this blog came up, and I just got engaged, I figured I should write about it so if anyone ever googled my name (yeah I know no one will), they will know I am officially engaged. There's the combo.
I don't really feel like sharing the details of the proposal. As magical as the Internet is, it fails to do justice...well to much of real life. But after six and a half years, we are on the final stretch, the last leg of the journey, before we start our own life (singular) together. My life rules.
Did you notice that almost all my sentences start with "so"? So, I was reading my previous blog entries, and thought "This guy is a religious zealot." If I was an old friend, I would be totally weirded out by what this guy is saying. So in order to keep that up, I will add another spirit-sophical meandering.
Life is built upon relation. Relationships create meaning. A chair in isolation is meaningless. If someone is there to sit on it, the chair has meaning and purpose. A person in relation to no one else has a pretty sad life. A person in relation to others has meaning and purpose. A person with numerous relationships has a more meaningful life. A person with many relationship built on love has a wonderful life.
These last 12 months have been pretty eventful for me, almost tiring. I visited the Philippines twice and Indonesia too. Logged in many travel hours. Made some very big career steps. Got engaged. I also totalled my car. Had lots of victories and quite a few apparent failures. But there is one thing very big on my mind from the last 12 months. Relationships matter. When I crashed my car, I was totally furious. It was my baby, and I piled the kms at a ridiculous rate. We went through some good times. I also crashed it on the way to a camping trip with Church. At the camp I was thinking about my car the whole time and I told God "I know you want to tell me something, and you better, cause I don't understand how you would let that happen."
You see, I am totally convinced that God is screaming something at you when something drastic happens in life. When life is going so normal and everything is honky dorry (?? just came to my head), we dont feel the need to listen to God's whispers. But when He really wants to tell you something and we don't listen, He will allow something big to occur.
So I was sitting by the camp fire and just thinking and asking God to tell me what He wanted to. I had a piece of paper in my hand and on it said "Mazda 3". I said "I want to throw this in the fire and get rid of it and move on, but I wont until you tell what it is you want to." As I sat there were about a dozen people around the fire as well. They were having an amazing time roasting marshmellows, jumping over the fire, laughing and just being themselves. I looked around and felt so blessed to be a part of their lives and they in mine. A stong sense of love came over me and I was just so incredibly happy to me there, and in that moment my car didnt matter any more. The money I'd lose to pay for it didnt matter any more. All that mattered was that I had these people in my life, that I had my family, that I had a to be fiance-to-be in my life.
I threw the paper in the fire. Smiling. People matter. Relationships matter. These people bring love in my life. God knows I need it. I hope they know I need them.
I think a total of 3 people will read this. Now go read the next one.
Me: Will you marry me?
Face: Yes, now give me the ring. | | |
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