[jimbogimbo]

man...all this hostility makes me nervous... what happened to the charity?! the happiness?! the love?! right now, you guys kinda remind me of the politicians, who smile politely and shake eachothers hands for the cameras, but mutter through their forced smiles "rot in hell...". if youre gonna take stabs at eachother, go straight at it... no more of this indirect criticism stuff. im not saying i encourage the arguing, in fact, i hate it. youre kinda killing the whole...spirit...of the blog. so please, please...reconcile?

[Symbiotic]

not all politicians are sneaky....we have had more than one politician in the last year that called the American people *insert proper negative adjesctive here*....man that makes me mad!...one called Bush a moron and another called all Americans idiots(and for the stupidity of our politicians, i apologize)....all of said politicians have resigned....good thing!.....i hate our politicians....i hope the rest of canda doesn't stoop to their level...

[lizwrenne]

well...i haven't really been here in a while. maybe 'a while' isn't even the right word? anywho...all i know is that i am definately not addicted to posting here anymore...even going on the site. which means that i was successful during lent. two points for me...maybe even more, because i could use some points now.

life is simply amazing. retreat really did a lot of good for me...and the week's only been awesome since. school's been great (or as great as it can be), and thus, i am happy. now all i have to do is harness this joy and put it to good work...then i'm set.

[Symbiotic]

well...i'll reply to try to re-liven your blog...that's good that life is "simply amazing"....life on my end is pretty good too...

[lizwrenne]

!!!!

a new pope has been elected! how exciting it is! luckily, i wasn't in class when the pope came out and addressed the crowd...so i got to see it. that was awesome. then afterwards, i ran around the school just talking to everybody....this is so awesome. who's gonna be making the cookies for tomorrow? i'm thinking a certain girl named lauren...

God bless you benedict xvi!!!

[Symbiotic]

congrats to all you ctholics....or is congrats the right word?....well...you have a pope again....and it didn't take long....so lauren, are you glad about the choice?....i know a lot of people are already complaining that he is too conservative....even though i'm not catholic, i'm glad he's conservative..

[Small]

My family's catholic friends, funnily, have two little boys in consecutive age with the names of John Paul and Benedict.

[Symbiotic]

i could never name a kid Benedict...it just doesn't sound like a kid's name....but that is quite amusing!....

[lizwrenne]

Originally Posted by Small

My family's catholic friends, funnily, have two little boys in consecutive age with the names of John Paul and Benedict.

now that's cool. i must admit, though....i don't think i'd name one of my kids benedict. although benjamin...or ben-something...just not the full-blown benedict. or at least for a first name...middle name could work, though. or maybe i'll marry some guy whose last name is benedict...lauren benedict. i think that might take some time getting used to.

but i am really excited about the pope. although, there is one thing that i think we have to remember. he is the pope, not the president. he's not there to appease the public, he's there to be the vicar of Christ, be His messenger, helping His church. not a political figure, but a relgious leader. so i'm a bit discouraged when everyone's talking about how conservative or whatever he is...this is about God's will, not what we want. don't get me wrong, i definately fall on the right side of the fence, but i don't like labeling popes all willy-nilly like that. the holy spirit can work through anyone, so that what He wants might be done...just look at how He's transformed our lives for the better! how awesome!

but i baked 'pope cookies' and brought them to school...which was awesome. the kids must've thought i was insane...but i couldn't contain my joy! i also ran out to the grocery store about 10 minutes before the carpool came and bought about $10 in m&m's...and i handed those out to people after all 68 cookies were gone. it was, in my opinion, a great way to spread the love, the joy, the happiness that i had...a lot of great convos were started and i can't wait to see what benedict will be doing in the future!

[Small]

It's interesting for this particular mennonite to be watching the catholic side of the world. I also don't see the pope as there to aide the public perception of Christianity in general. I mean, aren't we supposed to be persecuted?

[smashing guitar]

Originally Posted by rock_guitar1990

That's how I feel all the time nowadays. It's like you bow out for a month and no one likes you anymore. Well Matt, I'm off to write a little bit.

Originally Posted by smashing guitar

Dude I've bailed out for month(s) but I still like ya. I rember when I was a newb, and you Matt and Liz were the only ones to post in my blog.

[Symbiotic]

so you don't care what the pope is like?....you are just glad that you have a pope and trust that God's will will be done, eh?

[backupguitar]

I had youth group the night that we got a new pope and the place was buzzing with excitment everyone running around all excited and saying 'WE HAVE A POPE, WE HAVE A POPE, WE HAVE A POPE' and then we had a special mass and the prist got all choked up and it was soo touching and he told us about his first incounter with Pope Benedict the 16th was when he was on a tour when and they almost ran over him

[lizwrenne]

does this make me feel good, or does it make me feel good?




so that was kinda cool. man...school is getting better. with ap exams next week, there will be a ton of burden off my back. but until then, it's keeping the nose to the grindstone...i've made it this far.

yet another book to read.

yet another paper to write.

yet another presentation to give.

how i look forward to moving up.

[Symbiotic]

Not too bad...how did you get 6 lauren?