just watched the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, between OU and Boise State, and was stunned. since i might go to OU next year and just plain like OU (for some reason, a lot more than OSU), it was nice to see that "we" won, in fact, in the last minute and a half, pretty much, after spending basically the entire game down by a great deal of points. "We" were down by as much as 18 or so and, strangely, it never felt as if OU wouldn't come back and win it. if it's possible, OU always seemed to have the momentum, even when down 28 to 10.
but i saw the shock and pain in the faces of Boise State players and fans. it stinks. something they thought would hold through didn't. this was a little like the championship football game at my high school, between us and Oklahoma City Casady. well, they kind of killed us, and all of us loyal high school fans got pretty frustrated that we weren't playing well. the last thing you want is disrespect from the winners, so when they ended the game singing that "Na Na Na Hey Hey Good Bye" song, i was kind of mad. and i don't think i would have injured someone just to win, no matter how much glory would result. i maybe wrongly thought it suspicious that two Boise State players were injured on the same play in the last OU drive which ultimately won the game.
anyways, how about that new year? i hope all of you have a good year, a good '07. things were pretty bad that day, actually. but after about an hour of restless sleep and a phone call...things are looking up. God is...still God. and i am...well, i'm not sure i know. i am beginning to find out again who it is i am. i am God's, yes. i am being changed into that person. who that looks like? probably beyond my wildest imaginations.
went running. just about 4 miles, though i have determined a run to Riverside on 71st would be 9 and a half and want to try that sometime. school starts on wednesday and i need to do the summer reading for my new English elective, Creative Writing. it's a Stephen King memoir called On Writing and a book from a list which is, interestingly enough, the Gospels. get to skip friday to go to OKC for a Botball workshop and then it will be sunday again with mike preaching.
what i learned from running was not entirely relevant to what's going on now, but will be or would have been. a lot of the times, we think that the more we do, the better we are. so if you did pretty much everything all the time, without any kind of rest or restraint, then we would be more accomplished - we would be better people. somehow better. but that's not the case. yes, hard work has to occur, but it's not that the most hard work you do, the better you are. it's sorta how you ration that work. for running, you shouldn't be running 10 miles everyday if you're like me. you should only run 6 days a week at most and if i tried to run 10 miles a single day, i might be out for the rest of the week. things don't always have to be tough and hard just to get somewhere, and if they're only tough and hard, you'll get discouraged and blow out your legs.
i thought about truth. thought about how God loves us all the same, and He cares about our hearts more than our abilities and performances, and if He did, we'd all be in trouble because the water doesn't listen to us like it does to Him. i thought about how i should eliminate the words "better" and "more [adjective here]" from my vocabulary (excluding a couple of things) because there is no room for competition in the kingdom. and i thought about how significant it is to not think of yourself as the victim in everything and to forgive and forget. and to stop asking God for things that you want, but rather to ask God for what God would want you to have. pretty much.
ruth and friends got back from Urbana. i went to my friends house and we ate some really good queso that they made and watched the big USC-Michigan Rose Bowl football game. went to sleep at 5 this morning after a night of poker and Mario Tennis, so i think i will get to sleep after getting through as much of my summer reading as i can. God bless.
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