I'm back from Baylor............and still just as confused. Oh well, the time has come to flip a coin. Heads is Tech, Tails is Baylor....here it goes.............OH NOOOOOO, the coin rolled into the air vent below the computer deks. This is terrible. I'll never know. I'll just go to high school for another year.

I am off to good ol' Waco, Texas this weekend. I am visiting Baylor, and to tell you the truth, I hope that I don't like it. If I DO like it, then I will still be confused as to where to go to college. But if I don't like it, then I will finally know for sure that I will be going to Texas Tech next fall. So everyone be praying that I have a horrible time......just kidding. Just pray that I keep God first in my decision. If I do that, then I can't make a wrong decision.

Peace out, Napoleon...

So the fact that I won't be attending any more mandatory school in 9 weeks is starting to sink in. I am really excited about what is going on this summer and the next school year. I can't wait to see how God teaches me and uses me in the next year or so. It's gonna be so awesome.

So I had to drop wrestling and pick up another "real" class...Economics. The kind of thing that makes you want to drop out of high school 9 weeks before it is over. MOST BORING CLASS EVER. But I am in there with cool people...so let's try and make the best of this shall we?

Ok, so here's the deal. I am more of less computer illiterate. I know how to check my e-mail, blog, and play online pool if I feel so inclined. However, I don't know how to add links to my blog. If someone could help me out a little here that would be great.....I'm a failure.....

Exams are over!!!! Spring Break is here......... wait scratch that....... Exams are over!!! More school next week.....
What else is there left to say?

I thought that I would change my background....mainly because I got tired of the old one.....and....well everyone else has changed theirs recently too. What do ya'll think? Is the green too much? Should I try something different? I need input.

THIS SATURDAY-
I am having my Eagle Scout project at Lewisville Lake Park. I will be building a retaining wall and finishing something that has taken about twelve years. The project itself is just the last thing in a process of many years and requirements. It is finally over. You have no idea how happy that I am to be finished, for the most part, after this Saturday. The main reason that I am bringing this up is because I NEED HELP. If you can help me any time this Saturday from
9 am-4 pm, let me know. I can get you a map and all of the information you need. It will be fun and there will be free food. Please, if you don't mind a little physical labor come by for any amount of time that you can help.

I pray that I, "being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

Paul's prayers are so awesome. If we could really know this love (agape- love in which no sacrifice is too great) that Paul is talking about here and now, our lives would be drastically different. Just something that I was thinking about last night...
-quote from Ephesians 3:17-19

It is exam week again. The time of the year when I frantically try to learn 9 weeks worth of material in less than two days. However, it is much easier this time because of my extremely light class load.

Almost Spring break......Already Spring fever......

Well, wrestling is over. If you haven't heard I went 2-2 at regionals and pulled out about 7th place. I say about because they only count the top 6 as "placing" and the top four get to go to state. It was a fairly successful season and I am kinda glad that it is over.

I just got back from a college visit at Texas Tech. I am really not sure that it is the right college for me. It is still 50% Texas Tech and 50% Baylor when it comes down to my choices. Sorry Nathan and Jude, I know that isn't the news you want to hear. Anyway, if you want to pay for my college education, let me know. My parents would be thrilled.

Hey, I just thought that I would go ahead and let everyone know that I got 2nd at District and I will be going on to regionals. The top two get to go and I was seeded 3rd going in to today, but I sucked it up and went all the way to the championship match which I lost. But I can't complain since I am still going to regionals. That just gives me another chance to beat that guy.


That's enough for tonight................

For those of you who go to my church, Nathan taught sunday school a few weeks ago and he focused on a certain Christian musician. (it might have been when some of you were at Pine Cove) This artist is controversial, however has great points. Well, one of his points had to do with Christians today being identified by the bumper stickers on thier cars, or by the T-shirts that we wear.
I tell you that story to tell you this story. I was at CCA getting my last minute service hours for NHS and an older guy walks up to me. He asked me if I am involved with a church and I told him that I was. And then he asked if I would ever wear a hat with a cross on it. I said yeah, so he hands me this hat with a cross on it. Which is great and I really like the hat. He said that he was trying to get people out of the "spiritual closet", and went on to tell me that he has no room for any more bumper stickers on his car, that all he wears is Christian apparel, and he walks around all the time handing out Christian clothing. Now, in no way am I bashing the way that this guy has decided to serve Christ. I believe that his intentions are great and he is doing good things for the Kingdom. But I remembered the point of the song that goes, "They'll know us by the T-shirts that we wear...." It is that we shouldn't have to be identified by "name tags". It says in the Bible that they should know who we are because of the way that we love. John 13:35 "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
I really don't mean to offend anyone, in fact I have Christian T-shirts and hats and the like. But the question is should we HAVE to wear them?

I'm in BCIS right now(2nd period) so I thought that I would update. Once again Brent...this is your tax dollars hard at work.

I jammed/ possibly broke my thumb last weekend and I keep hurting it in wrestling. I have this week to rest it and nurse it back to health before I have to wrestle the most important tournament so far of the season. If I don't place in the top two on Saturday, my season is over. However, if I do, than I get to go on to regionals the following weekend...and it is a similar situation at regionals to go on to state.

Senioritis is getting worse....any treatment suggestions are appreciated.

I have been a camper for 9 years at a camp called Kanakuk Kamps. It is a Christian high adventure and sports camp. www.kanakuk.com for more info. But anyways, it is one of the most amazing things that ever happened to my spiritual life and relationship with Christ. Because of this, I want to work there as a cousnler in training this summer and I had my interview last sunday. If I do get the job I will be so pumped to get to serve there this summer. It will be amazing and life changing. But if that isn't where God wants me this summer, I know that there will be something just as glorifying to Him that he wants me to do this summer. But either way I am excited that I even got the chance to get interviewed by such an elite staff.

Wrestling season is still trucking on and getting a little more fun. I will be kinda sad to see it go but at the same time relieved for the amount of time that I will have to be able to devote to other things.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the mission trip to Juarez, Mexico that I go on every year to build houses for some families who literally have nothing. I cannot wait to go back. This may sound wierd, but that week of intense physical labor, blinding sand storms, bucket showers with water that will make you sick, and little sleep gives me more rest than most other weeks in the year. Most of it is that I spend the time with great friends and enjoying fellowship with them and God for a week. Not to mention doing God's work and seeing His influence on other people's lives....crazy!!!
I think that we should build eight houses and spend at least two weeks there. Brent....get on top of that...actually I hear that Nathan might be in charge of it this year. I would like to see a schedule and expected cost on my desk by wednesday.

I only have to miss one more Tuesday Night Discipleship. The one thing that I hate about wrestling season is that I have to miss spending time with my 7th grade guys on tuesdays for a couple of months. But that is almost over.

So many things to do...so many things to do....so many things to do....gotta go

I am headed off to Oklahoma for New Years so unfortunatly I won't be able to go to the bon fire my church is having that night. However, I will be hanging out with some family that I don't get to see very often, so that will make up for it.

I am quite possibly the worst golfer in the world. I shot a 71 on a par 23 nine-hole course. That included fifteen strokes a par 4 hole. But i did beat one of my friends who shot a 72, so i guess that makes me the second worst golfer in the world.

Have a Happy New Year

What a great Christmas......


I got a gym membership and it is awesome. The only bad thing is that working out is addicting and I will probably be spending a ton of time doing just that.

I love waking up and not knowing what I will be doing during the day. It is a feeling that only happens during summer and over Christmas break for me. There are endless opportunities. As a matter of fact, sometime this week I think a couple of my friends and I are going to be driving to Dublin, Texas for the sole purpose of getting Dr. Pepper. Pointless???I think not.

Hey guys....I just wanted to let everyone know that I made a new email address. I am now at CraigL2005@hotmail.com. Not that anyone would ever want to email me.....but just in case. However, I would like everyone to email me so that I can get my contact list all back in order since it got lost with my other address. Merry Christmas Eve

Well Christmas break has officially started and I am loving it. I had wrestling most of this morning (sorry Brent that I didn't email you back, I just got your email this afternoon), took a nap, ate at Golden Corral and hung out with some friends. I am very thankful for the rest that I will be getting over the next two weeks. I will be re-reading Classic Christianity by Bob George which I highly recommend and just chillin with the family.

Email is still broken unfortunatly however there is much good news. I have been accepted to Baylor University and given a $26,000 scholarship from the college. Now that is a good start, but if I want to go to Baylor I need a lot more money than that. But it is great to see how God is revealing His plan to me in His time.

Merry Christmas

why are we still in school when it is less than a week until Christmas? Oh well............


My email will not let me in. It says that I have used the wrong password, which is bogus because I have had the same password for a long time and I am sure that is what it is. I type it in, it turns me down, then I try and change my password....says that I don't have the right answer to my secret question, which is a really easy question. What is going on???? If anyone knows please tell me what I can do to fix it. IN the mean time don't email me, or at least don't expect a response. Do you think that someone changed my password on me???just to be mean??? NOT GOOD.

I think that I am getting sick.