Annoucement!

Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you! You should go check out my second blog!

Yes, I know what you're thinking: "Thomas, why in the world would you need a second blog? You hardly use this one!" Well, that's fair, but I have a good explination. Sorta. Honest!

Basically I want this blog to be a bit more private, mostly between my friends. My second blog is for youth group people as well, and I'm going to try to give it too a lot of people.

But what is this second blog? Well, that's a good question!

I have a hard time reading and studying the bible, so I've decided (with God's help....) that I need a goal to work towards. That goal is for me to read one chapter from the new testament per day, and then study it and post it on my blog! My hope is that I will get a lot out of getting into a schedule (I certainly will), and others will get something from my writing as well.

Without further ado, the address: http://onechaptereveryday.blogspot.com/ (spiffy, right?)

Now! My final request! I'm going to try to post it every morning, but I need your help! If you ever happen to check the blog and I haven't posted that day yet, tell me! Text me! call me! Drive over and slap me (please don't)! It can be as short as saying "update blog", and it will remind me to do it.

Thanks to everyone for reading! And for all who skimmed down to here, shame on you! Get back up there and read it proper!

I'm out.

Stars

Writing writing. Trying to find something to write about. With school starting back up, I feel like I should take more time to update this, so here I am.

I wonder what it's like among the stars

Racing through the lights and swinging around mars

With all that beauty and mystery

Lights shining back through history

Did you know that some of the stars you see don't exist anymore? I find that just astounding. Because of how far away the stars are, the light they give off takes a lot of time to reach the earth, perhaps thousands upon thousands of years. This means that many of those stars may no longer exist, and we might not notice it for another hundred years! That also means that we may see more and more stars as time passes, because some stars may be so far away that the light still hasn't reached us.

It's a simple thing, but something that makes me wonder at God's creation. He made the universe greater than even the brightest minds of our race put together can understand. 

P.S. Random tidbit I found while checking my facts: The light from the sun is approx 8.3 minutes old when it reaches us. So we are actually seeing the sun as it was 8.3 minutes in the past. Craziness!