Video didn't Just Kill the Radio Star...

**Disclaimer: "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song from the 80s...**

Randomness- Yesterday I finished an entire box of Girl Scout Cookies- BY MYSELF!!!!! I felt so weird when I got home. I was drained or something. I guess my body was coming down off of that sugar high. I was afraid to go take a shower because I thought that I would pass out...

Ashanti's new video, "The Way That I Love You." I don't think its cute at all. Sure, its just TV. But, in my opinion, media is getting entirely out of hand! There was a little girl in Maryland who stabbed her boyfriend to death last week! I wonder where children get ideas like that from? Yeah, I'm sure some see it because of their surroundings. But what do you think happens when a child turns on the television to see the body of a man that cheated on his girl in a bath tub??? Their minds aren't really mature enough to deal with that.

I am a witness! And I'm gonna share my testimony. My friend's mother took us to see "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate." We were in the 6th grade. I walked out of that movie theatre thinking that that was the way to act when you love someone who didn't love you back. And that's how I was. I went through high school trying to fight females and spent college being called, "crazy" because I was quick to key a car or go publicly off on my man if he did wrong.

These images are wrong. We shouldn't be setting examples like this for children, or adults! I was disgusted. Honestly.

And that's my randomness for today.

Who am I?

Religion
practiced by a people
governing truths
you can and can not do

Relationship
I have with Jesus Christ
I am not religious
I am a Christian
I love Christ and have
New Life
in
Him

I am not transformed by this world
but renewed in my mind
by my
Spirit
through His Word.

A spectator in this world
not participating

Sinful lusts that made me
salivate at the thought
now I do not desire

The Word
read it daily
the living Word
Sharper than any two edged sword
It's words will not
return
Void.

My life was void before I knew Him.
I was alive, yet dead.
Now dead, but alive.

Living to please myself
no more
to please Him
my ultimate desire

Back In The Day... Puff????

Ever since I purchased Ms. Badu's new album, New Amerykah, I have been on this Erykah kick. I tend to do that. If I am into a particular artist's album, I'll want to go back and listen to every other piece of work that they ever put out.

Well, I was listening to "Back in the Day (Puff)" off of her World Wide Underground CD. Man, listening to music is like playing with fire for me. It took me right back to undergrad, circa summer 2003. Now, keep in mind that I was an entirely different person back then... I was walking on campus, probably coming from work- on my way to class, when a green crown vic with dark tinted windows pulls up. I recognize the vehicle immediately. But to avoid embarrassment (if it wasn't who I thought it was) I just kept looking straight. So, the green vic pulls up next to me. The window rolls down to reveal a car full of well known boys from a popular fraternity. I was cool with all of them. So, they said whats up, asked me where I was going and some way I ended up in the car with them.

We drove around Tuscaloosa on that beautiful, bright, sunny day. I sat in the back with two other guys. They were smoking black and milds and drinking. And so naturally, I drank too. I don't really remember much more than that. I just recall not going to class and riding around the entire afternoon. I do remember telling them to take me home When the sun started to shift in position a little. I was stupid for jumping in the car with them, but the little sense I did have screamed, "DON'T STAY OUT PAST SUN LIGHT WITH THEM!!"

So, after another hour of pleading to drop me off, they finally take me to my apartment. It's a Tuesday evening, not even 9 o'clock, I didn't go to class, and I'm good and tipsy. And that was fun for me. Wow. Talk about how things change.... Thank God for a new life!