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Erika · 12-09-2003, 10:49 PM

Galen...you have the coolest guy name i have EVER come across...you rock!

So how is your day going?

Do you like cats?

WHat do you love/hate about christmas?

What color is the sky in your part of the world?

Erika · 12-09-2003, 10:50 PM

p.s. I am registering blue. (In my rep thing).

Have you ever seen a cooler sentence???

guitarfan01 · 12-10-2003, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by A Bonnie Lass

When I went overseas, one of our team slogans was "giving up something good for something better". When I moved to Adelaide, away from my family, I made the choice to NOT download MSN and watever else there is because I spent so much time on the net when I was home. So, I just didn't do it. When God asks us to give up something, it's usually for something better (WOOT! My mum just let me have a whole handful of chocolate chips! High five for Jesus!)

Yeah, I learned that last year, when He asked me to give up playing in church, and then made me soundman at Intermission. I didn't want to stop playing, but I'm so glad I did, now. Now I'm not soundman anymore, but I'm playing in the band every other week... so my life is in a state of flux now, what with Granddad's death, Intermission moving, me trying to get a job, trying to get into school for next semester, and Mom and Dad threatening to toss me on the street in January. Prayers for me and all these situations would be very appreciated.

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Originally Posted by An Aussie Gal

I'm not saying that CGR is bad, but there needs to be limits and balance. There is a time for emailing and posting, but there's also time for doing jobs around the house, going for a run, hanging out with friends, building into relationships, reading the bible. (There shouldn't be a time for doing college/school work, but there is!)

Yeah. I guess up until last night, I was okay with the way I was: with the way I was making my own "progress". In other words, I'm an "armchair Christian", I am very good at formulating plans and sounding intelligent, but not as good at putting it into practice.

But God is changing me, and for that I praise Him. \o/

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Originally Posted by Bonnie the Bean Girl

It's always pretty daunting, putting your whole life into the hands of a massive fat God who can do whatever he likes. Just rest in the fact that he loves you. You're his own kid. He wants to bless his kids and his plans and promises for your life are always gonna be GOOD... Jeremiah 29:11-13, Romans 8:28, Phil 1:6.

Yeah, He does. Its wonderful, but scary sometimes... at least until we remember His character... but, like C.S. Lewis said, "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has accepted, in spite of your changing moods." I don't think I've mastered this art quite yet. I had a "mood moment" last night about myself; I just got really frustrated about the state I'm in, the type of person I am, and the apparent lack of progress I've been having. I know I need to stop spending so much time on the computer, I just know that the change needs to be from the inside, from me, with help from God. Nothing forced on me will take; it might seem to make a difference for a while, but once I'm on my own again...

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Originally Posted by A dear sister

Love and prayers... and a massive fat as HIGH FIVE FOR JESUS!!!!! Bon.

Thank you and YEAH!!!

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Originally Posted by See above

PS. Who ever looked out the window one time, around Christmas, and thought "Gee, I might cut down that tree and stick it up in my lounge room and then decorate it with tinsel and an angel on the top." I mean, who thinks of these things!

Haha! I really don't know.

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Originally Posted by Erika

Galen...you have the coolest guy name i have EVER come across...you rock!

So how is your day going?

Do you like cats?

WHat do you love/hate about christmas?

What color is the sky in your part of the world?

1. Thank you. OR thank my dad, he chose it (a greek physician, also derived from a Gaelic word that means "small, wise one."
2. Today, pretty well. Only one week to go until ROTK. In a way, I am sad. It'll all be over soon... except for ROTK:EE! Woot!
3. Yes, cats are cool.
4. I love Christmas music... I love buying stuff for people, I hate that I never have money to buy stuff for people until after Christmas. I like the decorations that other people put up.

Now Playing: Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child (vinyl!), Side one, song 6 (rep for anyone who knows what song this is!)

Galen

living for God · 12-10-2003, 04:50 PM

hi, just stopping by to say hello.

-keara

**Rainer.** · 12-10-2003, 05:28 PM

Hey Galen!

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Yeah, I learned that last year, when He asked me to give up playing in church, and then made me soundman at Intermission. I didn't want to stop playing, but I'm so glad I did, now. Now I'm not soundman anymore, but I'm playing in the band every other week... so my life is in a state of flux now, what with Granddad's death, Intermission moving, me trying to get a job, trying to get into school for next semester, and Mom and Dad threatening to toss me on the street in January. Prayers for me and all these situations would be very appreciated.

Praying for ya' man!

guitarfan01 · 12-10-2003, 05:44 PM

I've now posted eleven songs in my thread in songwriting and no one has noticed.

Here's one I posted today.

Love Song for You
I tried so hard to find the words
but the right words never came.
I've written things of a thousand dreams,
but I could never write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

Baby, I'm amazed, your mind blows me away,
That's one of those things I always tried to say,
The pureness of your heart struck me from the start
But I just can't write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
So I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

When I first saw you, I knew that I would love you
I didn't know the form it would take.
And now I see that, we'll never be that
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.

© 2003 Galen Rappe

ChristinaE · 12-10-2003, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guitarfan01

I've now posted eleven songs in my thread in songwriting and no one has noticed.

Here's one I posted today.

Love Song for You
I tried so hard to find the words
but the right words never came.
I've written things of a thousand dreams,
but I could never write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

Baby, I'm amazed, your mind blows me away,
That's one of those things I always tried to say,
The pureness of your heart struck me from the start
But I just can't write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
So I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

When I first saw you, I knew that I would love you
I didn't know the form it would take.
And now I see that, we'll never be that
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.

© 2003 Galen Rappe

ooohhh i like that song!

guitarfan01 · 12-10-2003, 08:06 PM

And there are about 10 others available if you click on the "Song Lyrics I Write" link in my journal. Just fyi.

And thanks, Lavine. I started writing that for a special gal over a year ago, and finished it today. We haven't talked since February of this year though.

Ah, well. *sighs*

Galen

nix · 12-10-2003, 09:02 PM

Hi Galen!!

By time I stopped by aye!

sanzi · 12-10-2003, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guitarfan01

And there are about 10 others available if you click on the "Song Lyrics I Write" link in my journal. Just fyi.

And thanks, Lavine. I started writing that for a special gal over a year ago, and finished it today. We haven't talked since February of this year though.

Ah, well. *sighs*

Galen

why dont you say hi to her again then??

guitarfan01 · 12-10-2003, 10:03 PM

I sent her an email today. I didn't tell her I had written a song for her, though. I figure that would have freaked her out; having not talked to her in ten months, and suddenly, send an email that says, "Hi, I wrote a love song for you!" She probably would never have come back. I also emailed some other people today, and invited them here, so that might result in some more reconnections.

Galen

Jonular · 12-10-2003, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beanie

I'm not saying that CGR is bad, but there needs to be limits and balance. There is a time for emailing and posting, but there's also time for doing jobs around the house, going for a run, hanging out with friends, building into relationships, reading the bible. (There shouldn't be a time for doing college/school work, but there is!)

I think I've exceeded every form of a reasonable balance. I wish I had friends to hang out with.

But this isn't my journal.

That song rocks. Maybe my favorite one of yours.

Now all we need is to connect a guitar with distortion and...um...lessee....John Cooper's vocals to it.

Hey Galen......one more week.

~Jon

guitarfan01 · 12-10-2003, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SystemOfAJon

I think I've exceeded every form of a reasonable balance. I wish I had friends to hang out with.

Quote:

That song rocks. Maybe my favorite one of yours.

Now all we need is to connect a guitar with distortion and...um...lessee....John Cooper's vocals to it.

Ooh, yeah!

Quote:

Hey Galen......one more week.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Galen

Praisey · 12-11-2003, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guitarfan01

I've now posted eleven songs in my thread in songwriting and no one has noticed.

Here's one I posted today.

Love Song for You
I tried so hard to find the words
but the right words never came.
I've written things of a thousand dreams,
but I could never write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

Baby, I'm amazed, your mind blows me away,
That's one of those things I always tried to say,
The pureness of your heart struck me from the start
But I just can't write a love song for you.

You're too beautiful for song, to reduce you would be wrong
So I just can't write a love song for you.
And nothing could express your inner lovliness
No, I couldn't write a love song for you.

When I first saw you, I knew that I would love you
I didn't know the form it would take.
And now I see that, we'll never be that
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.
And I hope that my fragile heart won't break.

© 2003 Galen Rappe

i absolutely love this...

so much i gave you a measly rep

hehe

God bless, lil bro!

Erika · 12-11-2003, 01:18 AM

So, Galen, your name means small wise one, or is that your dad's name? Either way, I wish I could steal it.

Do you like being in my sig?

What's the best phil keaggy/glass harp piece?

Who is second best to them?

Your song rocks. Keep writing.