Off to College/Life!!

Spring Break!!!

2006-03-11T23:41:00.000-05:00

Destin Beach--Oh so Beautiful!!

Well, my Spring Break has been pretty awesome. The best part, was being able to go camping in Destin FL at the a state park. I went along with my roomate Henry and a small group from the Pure Life Ministry. It was really relaxed and laid back...I enjoyed it. Well, let me tell you about the whole week in order.

Well, first off...my spring break started like on a Thursday evening. I dont have any classes on Fridays, so it was really nice to have that time off. That Friday night we had D-Now with the youth group. We stayed at host homes and watched the videos/worksheets at the church. It went pretty well: the picture to the right is Jake doing something crazy... Im not sure of what. Then the next day, was the Josh McDowell and Superchick conference thingy. It went really well.
I was there all day...from 10:40am till about 11pm. It was all still fun. I had the oppurtunity to spray paint my name on the side of one Superchick's speaker cabinets. Mr. Nowlen and I were asked to pull the fuzz felt that was left over on this certain cabinet. This was a complete pain in the rear end, along with a waste of time.

You really couldnt tell a difference if the fuzzy felt pieces were left on there or not. So, once they were off we started to spray paint it black to match the other black cabinet. Well, as I was working on it, I thought it would be cool to spray my name on there (Dan Lloyd). Well I did, and really cant see it that well, but its there...I showed it to Todd, you can ask him.

Well, then we had the Celebration of True Love, which went really well. It was totally awesome how Pure Life presented such a good message to the kids. Denise did a great job of job showing her passion for a Godly relationships, mostly having a relationship with God being the number one goal. It was fun to play "Pink Tux" and dress like we were from the 80's. There seemed to be a lot of kids recieving and retaining a lot good and solid information/concepts this past weekend. Well here are some pictures:

Well, then I went home for a little while.
I got to see my sister's new horse
(my parents are leasing a horse for her right now).She really new how to ride and controle that horse. I thought it was kind of funny how she really new how to take care of that horse. If he would start moving away while she was cleaning him, she would just simply push him right back. So then, I got to look at drum sets with my little brother. Ive been trying to encourage him to just buy one...he already has like 700 dollars saved up from like the past 3 years. It just to hard for him to understand how much he would enjoy that "Pearl Exports" Drum set. Well then after a stayed home for a day, I very quickly drove back to Tallahassee for highschool bible study.

The next morning, I got real early to go camping at 10am. Well after I was up and all ready go at like 9:15 Henry called me and said that we were not going to leave until noon. I was kind of iritated. But

whatever. We left and had a lot of fun. The first night, we set camp and went to the beach to hang out. The water was so beautiful, but it was still kind of cold for swimming.

We got to have chili the first night, it was quite good. Then we ate some Somore's...somore of what? The group was a lot of fun to hang out with. I really enjoyed getting to know these really interestingly diverse people. Its just so neat to hang out with other Christians... it is so encouraging.

The camp fire fire is so interesting. I found it so relaxing to just hang out by the camp fire and socialize with people. I started leading everyone in a couple songs of worship, it was really cool. I thought it would be neat to take some pictures of the camp fire and post on my blog.

Here are some cool pictures that I took:

Its way too early in the morning

2006-03-02T03:33:00.000-05:00

Well I am a total BUM-face and pretty got nothing done yesterday, so I have to pretty much stay up all night to finish up my homework. I feel so stupid how much time is wasted in each day. I am horrible at maximizing my time when I am at my dorm. I get like nothing done and then I have to hurry and stay up all night just to barely scrape by with my time...just enough to get done with the task at hand. I was working on this one project, and once I had finished I realized that it 3am and I found now reason to simply sleep for 4 hours when there is no need to. I guess Ill just take a really long nap after all of my classes are over with like 5pm tommorrow. I just make bad decisions about scheduling and utilizing my time. What makes me so frustrated, is the fact that most of my time that was wasted, was not really wasted on bad stuff the whole time. I actually get other good things done, but I still didnt accomplish all of my original goals. I may had the oppurtunity to fellowship with a friend but it wasn't 11:30 till I got home from the movie. Thats just one of the many ways that I have I missused or better yet ineffeciantly used my time. Well its kind of interesting...I working this scripture(memory, Philipians 3: 10-14) . Paul says, "Brothers, I do not consider myslef yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead..." I just found that really interesting, leaving the past behind and straining towards the future. Talk about a goal for persaverance. I have been trying to fully grasp what Paul was talking about, and how can I apply to my life. I really think its awesome to attempt to memorize a passage of scripture and in doing so you learn the context, the meaning and you get to really soak it all in. Well anyways, I'm going to head out, "like a fetus" (Kevin S.) ! I guess I have some homework or whatever to work on the rest of this morning that I have left over, peace out, have a good week everyone, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

25 dollars in Pocket change and Boycott Abortion Group

2006-02-28T00:57:00.000-05:00

Yeah, its been a really long time since I have done this...but here it goes. I went to a 70's party with Navigators this past Friday. I decided to dress like the infamous Napoleon Dynamite. I think a did a pretty good job dont you think. I really enjoy hanging out with the Navs. They are a cool group who really seem to have some seriouslly deep relationships that truly a passion for their relationship with God. Yeah, Im pretty excited about getting involved in this group of Christians so that I can encouraged to keep serving in the ministries that Im already involved in now. But yeah its good stuff.

Next, my roomate (Henry) and I have just started a Facebook group that is completely anti-abortion. We are trying to help people become aware of the facts. Companies like Starbucks, Target, Pepsi, Johnson and Johnson, Edge Shaving Products support Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is one of the largest corporations that talk about Safe sex but are have a large contribution in the Pro-Choice movement. My roomate and I just have kind of tired of this cyclical system where we (the consumers) are supporting things that we truly dont want to support. What we need to do is cut off their funds, that means stop buying their products. Henry and I decided to target Starbucks because it is all over campus and throughout the Tallahassee area. We dont hate Starbucks itself, but what they support. So we have decided to start a petition that we are going to try to get a certain number of people to sign saying that we want buy Starbucks products until they stop supporting Planned Parenthood/Legalized Abortion. We figured that we should target one single company instead of all the hundreds possibly thousands of companies that support abortion in some way or form. We believe that this is the best way to go about it, and just trust God with the rest of it.

Well the next story consist of a lot pocket change...$25.18 in fact. Henry and I cleaned out our room for the first time, ever. As we were cleaning we found a ton of change lying around, so we decided to collect it all after a while realized that we had a butt-load of change. We just went out spent it on groceries and facewash/shaving cream products. But it was pretty cool to see how much money was saved by holding on to all that change. I recommend having a collection cup that you keep all your daily loose change.

Not that I have already obtained all of this, or have been already made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards that goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philipians 3: 12-14)

That has been my memory scripture for the past week or so. It has been really amazing what scripture memory has done for me. I found that memorizing the Word has taught me to analyze it and soak up its context and meaning while having it hidden in my heart for safe keeping. It just a really neat thing to do and I have seen how God has used it to encourage me to "strain on" while "forgetting what is behind".

Well I guess this is the end of my sporadic posting job. Talk to you guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Hey Everyone it has been like forever

2006-01-05T03:04:00.000-05:00

Sorry about the forever-ness of my procrastination. I have been so busy and the last thing I wanted to do was update my blog, so here I am now with a new thing to talk about and speak.I just got a ton of stuff for Christmas.

Its so crazy how blessed I really am, in so many ways. Well lets just look at my physical positions. When I think about things that I may want to invest in the upcoming year, I realized how I already have pretty much everything I could ever want. Just this past Christmas I got an Ibanez electric, then I spent a lot of money on pedals. I also recieved like 5 new CD's, a new Digital Camera, and I even got a realy tie (yes, being a college I did not own a tie, nor do I still know how to tie it). But God has blessed me in so many other ways not only in possesions but also in my years of fun and experiance. I have had so much fun with music over the past 5 years. I played in the marching and concert band for 6 years and later became drum major. I have been able to partake in play both trombone, guitar, bass and even singing at church. God has more importantly blessed me with such an awesome group of family and friends to live and cherish my life with. I have two great parents, two loving siblings, great grandparents like 6 guy cousins that I like to hang out with (like friends) and so many awesome friends to live my life with. God has truly blessed me, and I really just need to put that into perspective each day.

Well yeah, I just bought the Jeremy Camp CD/DVD Unplugged Live Album, which is very cool. I love it, because it such a light acoustic sound to it. The DVD is very cool. I was just reading Jeremy Camp's blog and said that his wife is about to have an album go out soon, which is really cool. He such an amazing testimony, were he found himself and the pit of despair and God totally lifted him up again. He was very encouraging about how he said that he striving to fall face first before every day and put things into a perspective where God is all powerful. I love Jeremy Camp's music because it really just hits my heart and speaks to me. I know that God is really just going to keep using him in so many ways. In the DVD he talk about how everyone is always wanting to do something big for God, and just pass up on all the small things (which really arent all that small) up and try to fight to the top of success. He said that we should just be so excited to simply have the oppurtunity to be used by God , period. I definitely feel that concept working in my life. I know that God wants to use me in a big way, but I just need to consider... what is "BIG", any ways? I need to understand that being used by God is a BIG thing already, and whatever God touches is a BIG thing.Well Yeah, there is my post for the year...hahaha, just kidding. I will try to post more often, anyways, it is late and Im goin to bed, Im heading back to Tallahassee in like 3 hours. Good Night and God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Hey Everyone, its been a while

2005-12-06T13:55:00.001-05:00

Hey everybody, all those who have been faithful to my blogging expidition...that it will continue even though I have been seriously slacking. I guess Ill try to update everyone with what has happen recently, here it goes:

Well, where do I start? I have had a pretty rocky first semester when it all comes down to it. Dont get me wrong, it was fun and all, but I have had to deal with my lack of study habits, discipline and scheduling out my entire life. The it all comes down to my focus, the more and more I got pressured by school, the more and more I would stress out about it and focus on it, and basically either freakout or (just the oppisite) procrastinate/slack-off. Basically, Im a pretty good planner and organizer, and I can start off a project or expedition well, but the problem comes when I have to endure things for the long hall. I could start of with good sleep and study habits, but eventually I would compremise and go off "socialize" at some kind of event or such. So yeh, Im basically facing the consequences of my personal actions and planning. I also struggled with over commiting myself with too many activities or whatever. Yeh so I just took a step today, decided not to do Church orchestra so that I can have more than 1 night off for studying during the week.

Well, also I have applied for a job at the Department of Education in the Bureau of Grants Management. Its a really neat oppurtunity with working in a real "job" in a sense. The building is like some hundred feet tall, it kind of indemidated me at first, a little! But I basically run around making copies, answering phones...just about anything they need me to do at the office. They are really nice people, and have a very good way of working with college students' schedules, so that is really a good thing. If I get the job I will be working with a good Christian friend of mine from highschool, so that would be pretty cool. I just have to wait until they call me back, its already been two weeks since my interview, but whatever, Im going to call in tommorow.

Well thats about it, I hope to be updating some more later on. Whatever, talk to you guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Late Nights (4:30am), Los Capadres and "All the Jazz"

2005-10-15T23:00:00.000-04:00

Well I have had a pretty simple and easy weekend but still quite fun and interesting. Friday night I was able to attend a Jazz Combo concert that a guy I know from highschool played in around 8pm. It was really awesome, he is a really good guitar player (Jazz), I stand in awe of how good he is. The bass player for the other combo that played was unbelievable, he was wailing. He played like an electric jazz bassists but on a nice upright bass, he sounded so cool. I really enjoyed that jazz experiance , I really havent heard some good jazz in a long time so it was really refreshing.

After the concert ended around 9:45 me and my friends went to go see ElixabethTown. It was a pretty good movie, its worth seeing as long as your patient and you are aware of certain small amount of profanity and some sexual statements and love scene (nothing is visual except a kiss). This movie kind of reminded me of the movie Garden State. So it was a pretty good movie it is a chick flick by the way but not too strong to go see.

After the movie (12am) we wnet back to my friends dorm room to play pictionary, it was fun but... the guys lost, agrr. We had RA's come into the room that we were playing in to tell us b/c we were being too loud. It turns out one of the RA's that came in was my RA for this past summer. Andrew is a pretty cool guy, fun to have a simple conversation with...nice guy. Well yeh, once the guys get their butts handed to them(2am)...we wnet to Park Avenue Diner to get something to eat, it was good. I got Chili cheese fries, oh yes.... good stuff! Well then I got to bed at 4:30 and woke up at 1pm and spent the next 6 hours studying (more or less).

I got up, showered, ate lunch, did my laundry (and studied). Then I decided to go over to the mall b/c I wanted to go hang out at Gutar Center for a while and study for a while too. Well in reality... I spent a little then I meant too at Guitar Center (1hr and 1/2) and then studied at the Barnes and Nobles. After all this studying I went to Los Capadres for Kim Starling's 22nd birthday, it was a surprise. They had a marachie band, with a guy playing acoustic guitar and one playing trumpet (mexican music of course). But yeh, that was fun! Well it is late again, so Ill have to let you guys go, and I hope to see ya'll later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Wut is Up Everyone

2005-10-10T13:24:00.000-04:00

It has been like forvever since I have last posted on this blog. It seems like I have been to busy so I kind of just avoid wasting my time. When I have nothing to do I sit on the computer and check Facebook and Emails and Blogs. But that doesnt mean Im always wasting my time on this crazy thing known as the internet. Sometimes I actually plan to hop on and check my email/other blogs/Facebook for a reason, but I have to usually find a reason otherwise Ill just spend at least an hour just wasting my time a the computer. So there is my "shpeal" about wasting time on the computer verses actually planning to be affective and and efficiant with my time. Well this is going to be a short post, but I will post some time soon, maybe even today, alright Ill talk to you guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Passion/Freak Show and MasterLife!!

2005-10-06T23:04:00.000-04:00

Im so happy for I now own the Passion DVD/CD combo and the Freak Show DVD from Dc Talk (old school). I love watching these videos, Loui is an awesome speaker I love how passionate and real he is to people.

The highschool guys bible study has now started a series Masterlife, and it looks pretty awesome... I am so excited to see what God will do in the lives of those in this group of study. I realized now that I need to purchase the Leader version of this book so we can actually do this study the right way, so I just odered it off Lifeway, so dont worry about it David. Whatever, I just needed to post again so I thougt I would show some good pictures of these DVD's. Alright well peace out, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

The Canvas and A Mini Tsunami

2005-09-27T11:01:00.000-04:00

Yeah, I had so much fun this weekend and really felt God showing me alot about His Glory and splendor. Im just going to type out some stuff that I learned this weekend so that you guys can hopefully understand also.

The first night we watched a video of the series Canvas, me and David Kuder had previously seen this at Youth the week before. Loui Giglio was speaking how "Everyone of us is a tapestry, and God is working on the canvas of our lives so we can bring Glory to Him" . Its all about God's glory, He is the majestic one and Almighty! Loui talked about how the universe and how everything was designed for His glory, and Scientists have come to conclusion that they dont understand it all, and never will. God is absolutely sure that He is God, He has it "all together". We as humans dont have it all together, we are in a indentity/emotional crisis by ourselves. God in a lot of ways is Full of Himself, b/c everything that He does is for His glory, who else would you want God to full of anyways? "We as His creation are sum of all God's magnificant attributes". Loui goes on to say that God owes us nothing but Judgement and Death. Even though we have tainted and disfigured His glory He says, "Im still going to be glorified through this", God leveraged our sin.

Andy Stanely talked in session two, and he stated that "We as humans the maximum pontential glory for God". God doesnt adjust His glorious agenda for our understanding, He keeps on movin on. God sent His son down to this earth to die a traitors death even on a cross. No man will die the death of an enemy. When Jesus came down to this earth he didnt try to pull out the "Jesus card/ID" to show his glory, he left everything that he could use as benefit up in heaven. God is telling us that, "You may have missed all my Glory and Splendor throughout the world, but your not going to miss the glory that I get for my son dying on the enemy's cross!"

Session three: {We are small, but glory in fact that we know God, and areknown by Him. We have a glorious God and a glorious future, and we're pretty comfortable with that. But God is looking for people who will use that lens to view all of life, and surrender, not out of duty, but delight. This helps us realize that our little lives are a part of His glorious canvas.}
We truly find happiness when change our perspective from me to Thee. Loui reads about the Isrelites and how He used Moses (a man w/o Confidence and clear speaking) to lead them out of Egypt. Moses asked God what should I tell them when I get there and how can I do this? God replied" I will be with you" and tell them "I am". It was really neat when Loui stated "I am Not but I know I am". He is talkin about how we as humans no that we are not "I am" (God) but we know "I am" (God). It was kind of confusing but quite interesting and concise.

Well God really showed me a lot on this trip, but the whole Tsunami thing came from when Dave B. was on the knee board he completely soaked me and Steven Kyle. Dave was riding on the board with Dean from Northwood drivin, and just sittin on the edge of the dock actually spending some time reading the Bible on my own and journal about what I had been learning. So then Steven comes up we started talkin and we see Dave off in the distance, he is probably goin bout 20 miles mph. Well see him coming closer to us on the dock ridin by us well he decided to pull it sharp to gain speed and came way too close to dock and had to let go of the rope and do a real quick stop, which meant completely soaking me and Steven. It was pretty funny except for the for the fact that my bible and journal were completely wet (blowdryer).

Well Im goin to head out, and I will talk to you guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Sleep is Good!!

2005-09-13T11:13:00.000-04:00

I got a great 3 hour nap yesterday, it made me very happy. I also slept in this morning and did not go to class b/c I was still really tired (I stayed up really late again just talkin to my roomate). Well I definitely need to get on a consistant sleep schedule b/c it so wears me down to have it be so random and spontanious. So Im probably goin to have spend a couple of extra hours catching up on what I didnt learn this morning while I was sleeping.

"If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he shoulddo it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen." (1 Peter 4:11)

I was up late reading this passage of scripture, it is quite amazing to see what Peter has to say about the way that christians should live their lives. I love the idea that he presents, that if you do anything, do it with the power and abilities that God has given you. So that throughout your entire life. Well it definitely means a lot to know that the only we can give full glory to God is just simply living out our whole lives for Him. And its not anything in our physical power, but the strength and authority that God has given us. I hope you realize that as a Christian you have been given the authority to cast out demons, heal the sick, bring peace among people and tons of other stuff all in the name of Jesus Christ. It just blows me away to understand how much God can do through you and me. We just have to trust God and take the leap of faith right into the arena. Well I hope that I just said wasnt by my own power but by God's and for His glory. This is by nowfound ambition, glorify God in everything I do. May God open your eyes to this reality, and I hope that you step into this field. See ya guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Geology Is Boring, Aaarrgg

2005-09-12T17:59:00.000-04:00

I dont know exactly what to talk about so I thought I called talk about how geology is defently boring in "my book". Well a have a Norwegian Professor and you are not able to understand him very well, and the whole idea of studying rocks kind of bores me to death. Im not exactly sure why I took this class but I enjoy all of my other classes. I have to read a book for my American Idian class, "Ishi's Brain", its pretty interesting b/c has a lot of history written in a story line instead of "textbook" format. I need to read that book soon and then type up a rather large paper.

So off the topic of school, since I can tell your probably already bored from my babbleling. FSU defently kicked some butt this past Saturday, 62-10 against Citadel. Its a good sign when your team is doin so well at the beginning of the year. The game wasnt on TV but I heard from my friends who were at the game, and they told me that it actually looked like FSU was going to lose a game to Citadel from their observations of the first quarter and a half. But once they started to score the really wasnt anything holding them back. It feals good to finally attend a school that actually has a good football team for once.

Well I just thought of something good and intersesting to talk about. I just recently had a nice dinner in the cafeteria with a guy by the name of Robert whom I met this past Saturday, he was having car trouble (he wasnt a very guy upon our first encounter). Well he came down sat beside at the table and I asked him how his classes were going, courses, and his major. I found that he gon into Meteorology and he is taking a Intro to Old Testament class. I asked him how he liked that certain class and he told me he defently enjoyed it. Eventually we got into a good meaningful conversation about religion, and I found out that he is Catheolic and has found a new direction in life. He used to be mixed up in some stuff in his past years, and after a friend stepped and helped him redirect his life he said, "Im actually trying to do what is right now". So he didnt really mention about a belief in a certain belief a saving Jesus Christ, but it is nice to know that he wants to make a conscious decision follow after what is right in his mind/religion. I really do hope that I can have some more oppurtunities to talk with him some more about these certain topics, mainly his spriritual beliefs. Well I gues if you guys could pray for more oppurtunities were I can reach out to him here at the dorm and that I can do everything in my ability to be best the reflection of Jesus Christ in his life. He is defenly searching for his own beliefs, he told me himself but I hope that he find that what he is looking for is a personal relationship with God, through His son Jesus. So yeah, God is moving in people's hearts just keep your eyes open, and simply trust God with your life. Alright well I got to hit the books, I talk to you guys later, see ya , God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

F-L-O-R-I-D-A...S-T-A-T-E!!!!

2005-09-06T12:00:00.000-04:00

Florida State, Florida State WWOOO!!!

Finally FSU has had a victory over UM (10-7), after about 6 games of losses and wide field goals. It was so crazy on campus last night when the game was over with. People were honking their horns like crazy and everything, it was awesome. Well just wanted to update again, so I did. Ill talk to ya guys later. See ya, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Have you ever been called a Viking?

2005-09-03T17:16:00.000-04:00

Today was a good day, it was a light load compared to what I thought it was going to be.

I had a class at 9:05 (but I thought it started at 9:30) so I got to have a nice breakfast and good sleep. So after being late to my Geology Lab which only ended up lasting an hour and half (was supposed to be 3 hours), I had a surplus of time to study for my Calculus Quiz that I had to take today.

So I went home and studied fo about 1 hour and got something to eat and went to go take the quiz. I got a 100% on my first Calculus in my career, that was also my first grade for the semester. It feels so good to know that Im understanding the stuff and I can actually perform well on the test/quiz. So that almost made my day, nothing compares to a comment that I later heard in my day.

I went to my last for the day which was my ENC1101 class, extremely easy. Well after the we got out of class, I was walkin out a kid in my class (he is kind of weird, he's Budist) came up to me and state,"Hello my Tall fellow friend". So then he continued," Just how tall are you"? I replied, "6 foot six inches," and he was kind of surprised. He then later stated, "Well, you would make one hell of a Viking," and the kid was serious too. I thought that statement was so off the wall and funny, that it pretty much made my day.

Well I guess that is enough crazy and funny stories, I hope that people are actually reading my blog for once, it takes a week for me to get like 3 comments now. I guess that Im just not as cool or popular now, well I guess I just go back to the coal mine, and shovel some hay; Maybe Ill find a dime, and actually have some pay, someday. Well peace out guys, Ill talk yall later, leave lots of comments, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Hey God, I want More of You!!

2005-09-02T01:42:00.000-04:00

Hey guys this just going to be a pray that I feel like typing out to God, so whatever, here it goes.

Hey God, today was an interesting day, this whole week has been fun and interesting. God I really have this sin in my life that I need to let to go of and stop hitting myself in the face. Its not as much the fact that Im sinning that is bothering me, it goes much deeper than that. I know that I was living my life in your Holy Spirit and doin everything spirit led, I know I would be so much closer to you and would probably not have all of these same distractions/temptations that I am struggling with at the moment. God I know that my relationship that I have with you is not what I want it ot be. I want you to be a friend of mine, not just a spiritual "Jeani" or Answer to all My Problems. I want to have a growing and maturing relationship with You.

I have a desire to have a desire to love Your Holy Word, and find everything I can out of it. I want a love for people, so that I can truthfully care and love other people more than I would myself. I thank you so much for the oppurtunities that you have placed into my life. God I pray that everything I labor will be prompted by love, and that eveything will reflect your glory God. Well I want to thank you for this time b/c this is quite amazing to know that truly care my well being. Thank you again, please give some good sleep, I really appreciate what you have done for me just so that I can love you and have a relationship with you. Thanks so much, Love ya God, Amen

Daniel Lloyd

Under Oath and Jimmy Eat World !!!

2005-08-28T03:11:00.000-04:00

Hey guys, the concert was so Awesome!! I got to hang out with friends of mine, and friends I havent seen in years (Megan Barton). My favorite band was Underoath, they kicked so much butt. They are a Christian, Loud/Screaming, Rock band. It was really cool to hear the Lead Singer say," we are not trying to push anything but, we want you guys know (audience) that we are here all playing for the Jesus Christ. I just thought that was so awesome. Their drummer was so awesome, he had the double bass drum thing goin, it sounded so cool. Well the pictures are of: (the largest) Megan Barton on my shoulders, (top left) a random girl who wanted to pictures, and (top right) the stage at the concert. Great concert defently like it a lot. Well Ill tell you guys more about it later. But yeh, Under Oath is so awesome. Well its really late, so Ill talk to ya guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Hey, Books are expensive, What a great DVD

2005-08-26T14:00:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone, how is it goin? College is really expensive. I just went out and got my books today, and one of my books that was "used" cost $113 alone (Calc). Thats just so insane, I cant believe that books could cost so much. My total ended up being $394 for all of my books. A friend of mine was saying that Law books are extremely expensive. She spent of $700 dollars fo just one semester of books.
I was completely blown away
by that number.

Thats a crazy way to have
spend your money. Well Im goin to get off my whole tantrum about books, and talk about a DVD I watched last night. It is a video with Jars of Clay, Third Day and Micheal W. Smith, its all live concerts. Its pretty cool, because I found out that I can take pictures of it on this software that I now have on my computer. Also, my roomate has the new Jars of Clay CD so I got to listen to that some. I love Jars of Clay, they have such a mellow but upbeat sound. Well yeh, I finished the book that took me like a month to read, "Boy Meets Girl", I defently recomend it. Well, as long as you read the first book "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", great book by Joshua Harris. That book is amazing, JH focuses mostly on having a relationship with God be the center of heart and not futile dating relationships that we seem to find ourselves in at certain points in time. Well, "Boy Meets Girl" is the sequel that goes on into the realm of courtship. He doesnt stress the idea of dating over courtship, but more of how you focus the relationship and what your goals/purposes for. Great book, I defently recomend it to any one. Now, I have starting reading, "Wild at Heart" (this is the book Paul, that I meant to tell you about). This is a great book that focuses on the origin of men and how God has created them to be which is different from women but to better coexist with women, in a sense (I tried to explain the best I could, whatever). Well anyways, its a great book so far, and I hope to be open to whatever God has to reaveal to me through this book. Well its been great "babblin" on like I do, so I guess I talk to ya guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd.

Hey, Crazy Stuff Goin On. It takes so much out of ya to Move In!!

2005-08-23T17:05:00.000-04:00

Hey all yous guyz out there,

Ive moved into my dorm at Osceola Village, and finally got the internet working, Yesss!! It feels really good to know that Im pretty much settled in now. Life has been goin pretty good now, with me movin back in. My roomate Henry has had Chiefs practice like every day, all day, so he is pretty occupied. But its been fun so far, it defently feels good to have a TV, VCR, Microwave, and Stereo now. I can have something to do while Im at my dorm now.

But yeh Im glad to be back in town and settled. I went to go see Mr and Mrs Smith yesterday, it was a pretty good movie, especially for a whole dollar $$. But yeh, Im just kind of hangin out trying to figure out where I need to go and when and all that good stuff. But yeh, this is going to be one of my shorter updates, b/c now I have other stuff to do, like college payments and stuff like that. So Ill probably update sooner or later from now. Well I'll see ya guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

"Rescue" by Newsong

2005-08-18T23:21:00.000-04:00

I just love this song, written by Newsong and in my opinion best sung by the band Desperation. Well hear goes the Lyrics, defently download this song, it is a keeper:

You are the source of life///
I can't be left behind///
No one else will do///
I will take hold of You-///-

I need You, Jesus-I need You, Jesus///
My heart is Yours for life///
Cuz I need Your hand in mine///
No one else will do///
Lord I put my trust in you///
I need You, Jesus, ///
Come to my rescue///
Where else can I go?///
There's no other name by which I am saved///
Capture me with graceI will follow You///
I will follow You-///-

My heart is Yours for life///
Cuz I can't be left behind///
No one else is gonna do///
Lord I put my trust in You-///-

I need You, Jesus, ///
Come to my rescue///
Where else can I go?///
There's no other name by which I am saved///
Capture me with grace///
I will follow You///
I will follow You-///-

This world has nothin for meI will follow you///
This world has nothin for me///
I will follow you///
This world has nothing for me!-///-

I need You, Jesus, ///
Come to my rescue///
Where else can I go?///
There's no other name by which I am saved///
Capture me with graceI will follow You///
I will follow You///
This world has nothin for me///
This world has nothin for

Its been a while, I now have Wireless!!

2005-08-17T08:53:00.000-04:00

Hey you guys sorry about how long its been since my last update. I havent really had access to the internet, so I kind of felt out of the loop. Well last night my dad and I spent over 5 hours setting up our new wireless system. After not being able to completely figure it all out, my dad had a friend from college come over. He new exactly what he was doing, he is really at this sort of stuff. So yeh, it feels good to have access, especially wireless. Im actually sitting on the couch in my living room, instead of having of being plugged into a wall. Its pretty sweet!
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Well another note, lots of my friends are leaving or have already left for college. It feels kind of weird to know that I dont have to go anywhere, but a lot of my friends have to go out to a new area where they have no idea what they are doing. It feels good to know that I can figure my way around a town that I have lived for 8 years. Im goin to miss my friends like Tamara, Steve, Nicole, Spencer, Bethany, Greg, Eric and all the rest. I hope that they all enjoy there times of college life, and they may prosper in the will of Lord.

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Well I have to get going, Im about to go do some work for my dad on a house around the corner. Ill update a little later today, Ill see ya guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

"I'm in a glass case of Emotion"

2005-08-04T22:15:00.000-04:00

Im the happiest ever, I just got done with school today. My first semsester as a college student at FSU university has already passed by. Its been fun (sniff-sniff,ha ha). Well Ive enjoyed have enjoyed all the relationships that God has brought to me, ones that I hope to develope as time goes on. The Unvieled ministry has been a lot fun, and has grown me closer to God in such a short time, really. Ive really learned (trial/error) that I just need to follow God in everythin that I do. There is just so much do and so much pressure to study, be healthy, sleep (adecautely) and still have fun in the process. I thought that my life was so busy and hard to juggle/balance, but this really short time has broden my spectrum of how God really has control of everything and there really is no use in trying to do it all yourself, its just not possible, the Christian Life is Impossible, "Mission Impossible" (Louie Giglio, The new Passion series DVD). It if wasnt impossible we would have no reason to trust in God with our entire life. //////////////////////
I came into this semester with a positve attitude that Im going to make straight A's in all of my classes. Well that idea stuck for about two weeks out of the entire 6 1/2 weeks that I spent here at FSU. It was basically the first week when I felt pretty positve that I was goin to get the perfect grades, perfect fall schedule, easy classes, and grow closer to God all in one big wammy. Well it wasnt really as easy as I thought it was going to be, after the first week I started feelin really tired where I wouldnt go to 8am class ever morning, I didnt sit in the front row, I hadnt had my quiet time every morning like I had planned and I still didnt study and sleep enough. Finally I just got fed up after 2 weeks of crap back and fourth in my mind telling that I wasnt going to be able to do this. This was Satan just whispering in my ear about all the times I had failed before with grades and stuff, so started believing it. I started wondering why I was even at college, and if God had something else planned for me. Well I just broke down and told God how awesome He really is for creating this world in which Im having so much trouble trying figure out. I just told Him how awesome He is to me , and how He is so faithful for always being there for me. I just suddely felt this load of burdens lift off me, just knowing that I didnt have to deal with all this crap. I have Jesus in me, and he is here to guide me and help and give me strength for all of these situations that was dealing with. It all started when at Unvieled we watched the new Passion DVD/CD with Louie Giglio speaking about how the Lies of the Christian life. He said that we dont have to this, God is already got control of everything. It was just amazing to really realize and unerstand that concept to its fullest meaning.
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I love God so much, He is so amazing for loving when I have been so stupid in so many ways. He is always waiting for me right there in the same place. This new song that I just heard at Unvieled by Charlie Hall, is just so amazing. I just had to put on hear, on this post , at this post at this time all for God's glory.

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Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!
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Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,You are the life,
you are the way
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I love you God so much, Amen.

Just "Sittin, Waittin, Wishin" to watch the "Island"??

2005-07-29T23:34:00.000-04:00

Ha ha, its just a joke to explain two of my most recent events. Today, I got out of class early, so I was like done at 11:30, I was so happy!! I called up Jake and we had plans to go meet Aaron, Amy and her new freind from Spain Esabella ( I hope I spelled that right). /////////////////////////

Well when me and Jake have time to spare, we tend to spend it at the "Guitar Center", the only place that can make me scream like a little boy (ha ha). We love to go and hang/jam/dream/speculate on what we may want to eventually buy one day, later on in life when we have tons of money to "splurge" and have fun with (like when were 80 years old or something). Whatever, we had fun hangin and at the guitar that he wants to get next. Well after a while I got tired of hearing electric guitars blasting in my ear so headed on over to the Acoustic Realm, the place where Martin, Takamine, and Taylor acoustic guitar simply hang on the wall just waiting for you to come pick them up and play them. Well as I walked in to Middle aged guys asked how to tall I am, and replied "6,6". So yeh, I grabbed a Taylor guitar ($2899.99), and sat down and started playing. Well these same two guys asked me if I new any Jack Johnson tunes. So I started playing the main riff for "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing", and they started getting really excited, it was kind of funny how excited they really became. So they asked me how to play this song, so I showed them how simple of a song it really is, and they caught on pretty quickly for being only 13 yrs old. But yeh, these kids where so,well, I goes you could say "Preppy" and "Cool" decked out with all there Tommy Hilfiger, Dock Martins, Abercrombie and Boston Red Soxs (turned backwards). They where pretty funny because they where just trying to be cool and show to the girls that they where hanging out with, but yeh it was funny. So after we left me Jake met up with Aaron after getting something to eat. On our way back over to AMC we saw they same two kids hangin out with other cool/preppy friends and they started telling their other ( with full excitement) about how I had "just shown them the coolest song ever", and one kid said that he was "going to play that song every day for like an hour". So yeh, Jake and I thought that that was pretty funny and eventful.
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Well we got our tickets, and went into go see the movie "The Island". The was pretty good, I wouldn't go see it a second time unless it was in the Dollar Theatre or FREE here at FSU Theatre (with a student ID). The onw problem I had with the movie was it seem too much like "The Matrix", like when the have clones made for the rich and famous to use the body parts of the clones to save the lives of the real human beings. The clones were massed produced inside big tanks or fluid sacks/containers (w/ artificle ambilicle cords to replicate the design of the birth of a human being). So yeh, all the clones lived in a lifestyle of which the did not know why the were living all that they knew was that they wanted to win the Lottery ( ha ha , you have to see the movie to find what Im talkin about). Well it was a good movie, especially near the end when all the fight scenes came in and stuff, but there is one implied sex scene, and the is a good amount of graphic images of people having sugery and stuff. I would not recomend anyone under the age of 13 to go see this movie just because of the content. The really wasnt a problem with foul language or sexual understatements, so it that wasnt the issue this time. But over all, it was a good movie and worth the money to go see it (on a scale of 1-10, it was an 8).
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So yeh, I had an evenful and fun day. This next week will be the end of my first semester off at college. My last class is on Thursday and ends at 3:oo, because my professor for Music History has our final on Thurs along with my Math class (which I defently need some prayer for). So yeh, I just to get this all over with and come out of it with good grades that will help follow on into the fall semester which starts in like two weeks or so.
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Well it is now late, and tommorow is my day to catch up on my sleep, so I'll talk to you guys later, and I hope that the people at student life camp having Fun and God-filled time. See ya later, God Bless,
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Daniel Lloyd

2 week Summer Vacation and Back in school Again!!

2005-07-22T12:31:00.000-04:00

Yeh I have basically only 2 weeks of a break in between my college terms (Summer/Fall). I now only have 2 weeks left in this semester term, and then it will be smooth sailing on to the fall. I really want to end this semester, b/c Im starting to feel bogged down by the weight of not having a full summer of rest (like I usually do), and having to straight of highschool classes and right college. So yeh, I can kind of feel the pressure that comes from being in college, but its so fast during the summer term. I dont recomend taking Math or English during the summer term just b/c there is not really enough time to really learn it all, and soak it all in before the test. I can see how my highschool habits of studying are showing up in my college studying time. So Im slowly trying to work on that and trying to have a consistant amount of sleep so that when I want to go do something, Ill know that Im for it, physically. //////////////////////////

I just realized yesterday, that right when a lot of my friends get back from student life camp, I'll finishing my college term and goin back home for two weeks and so I wont be able to see them for at least another month. I wont be able to see Janelle when she gets back from China, b/c Ill be leaving right before she gets back, that really stinks. But its only two weeks and Im definitely going to be sleeping a lot during that time period. Im going to stay at a beach house in St. George Island, "AHHH" I just love going there it is so relaxing to go there. ////////////////////////////

Well I come back on August 20 to move into Osceala Village, and that will be a week before classes actually start, so that will nice. Im really excited about the fall coming up. Football Games, freinds, Unvieled and all kinds of other cool stuff are coming up. /////////////////////////

But yeh, exciting stuff!! Im gettin ready to head out so Ill talk to you people later. See Ya, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

"The Room" by Joshua Harris

2005-07-18T13:13:00.000-04:00

In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features save for the one wall covered with small index-card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endlessly in either direction, had very different headings. As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read “Girls I Have Liked.” I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one.

And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn’t match.
A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring their content. Some brought joy and sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching. A file named “Friends” was next to one marked “Friends I Have Betrayed.”

The titles ranged from the mundane to the outright weird. “Books I Have Read,” “Lies I Have Told,” “Comfort I Have Given,” “Jokes I Have Laughed At.” Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: “Things I’ve Yelled at My Brothers.” Others I couldn’t laugh at: “Things I Have Done in My Anger,” “Things I Have Muttered Under My Breath at My Parents.” I never ceased to be surprised by the contents. Often there were many more cards than I expected. Sometimes fewer than I hoped. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the life I had lived. Could it be possible that I had the time in my 20 years to write each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting. Each signed with my signature. When I pulled out the file marked “Songs I Have Listened To,” I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly, and yet after two or three yards, I hadn’t found the end of the file. I shut it, shamed, not so much by the quality of music, but more by the vast amount of time I knew that file represented.

When I came to a file marked “Lustful Thoughts,” I felt a chill run through my body. I pulled the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size, and drew out a card. I shuddered at its detailed content. I felt sick to think that such a moment had been recorded.

An almost animal rage broke on me. One thought dominated my mind: “No one must ever see these cards! No one must ever see this room! I have to destroy them!” In an insane frenzy I yanked the file out. Its size didn’t matter now. I had to empty it and burn the cards. But as I took it at one end and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when I tried to tear it.

Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long, self-pitying sigh. And then I saw it. The title bore “People I Have Shared the Gospel With.” The handle was brighter than those around it, newer, almost unused. I pulled on its handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I could count the cards it contained on one hand.
And then the tears came. I began to weep. Sobs so deep that they hurt started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of shame, from the overwhelming shame of it all. The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this room. I must lock it up and hide the key. But then as I pushed away the tears, I saw Him. No, please not Him. Not here. Oh, anyone but Jesus.

I watched helplessly as He began to open the files and read the cards. I couldn’t bear to watch His response. And in the moments I could bring myself to look at His face, I saw a sorrow deeper than my own. He seemed to intuitively go to the worst boxes. Why did He have to read every one?

Finally He turned and looked at me from across the room. He looked at me with pity in His eyes. But this was a pity that didn’t anger me. I dropped my head, covered my face with my hands and began to cry again. He walked over and put His arm around me. He could have said so many things. But He didn’t say a word. He just cried with me.
Then He got up and walked back to the wall of files. Starting at one end of the room, He took out a file and, one by one, began to sign His name over mine on each card.

“No!” I shouted rushing to Him. All I could find to say was “No, no,” as I pulled the card from Him. His name shouldn’t be on these cards. But there it was, written in red so rich, so dark, so alive. The name of Jesus covered mine. It was written with His blood.

He gently took the card back. He smiled a sad smile and began to sign the cards. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how He did it so quickly, but the next instant it seemed I heard Him close the last file and walk back to my side. He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, “It is finished.”
I stood up, and He led me out of the room. There was no lock on its door. There were still cards to be written.

By Joshua Harris. Orginally published in New Attitude Magazine © Copyright New Attitude 1995 You have permission to reprint this in any form. We only ask that you include the appropriate copyright byline

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See ya later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Callaway Gardens and Mom's Birthday (Vacation!!)

2005-07-17T23:29:00.000-04:00

Callaway Gardens is a really pretty place to go and visit. There is simply the atmosphere of peace relaxtion, except for the humidity and heat. All in all I really enjoyed spending time with my family which I havent been able to do in long time (3 weeks). So yeh I enjoyed the relaxtion time that I had seeing butterflies and Birds of Prey (Bald Eagle). There were some neat little shows that I was able to attend, they had FSU Flying High Circus over at the beach there. I found out that I can take a class at school about being in a circus. I think I might take that class some day, maybe, just possibly. /////////////////////

This past week has been the mile marker for stating that I am now half way through wit my first term of college, 3 weeks down and 3 weeks to go. I am so ready to finish it all off, and start up in the fall. Ive signed up for my classes now. Im taking American Indian History (Cross Culture/Writing), English 1 (Freshman Writing), Business Calculus, Dynamic Earth and Lab, and a Basketball Theory Class all totaling up to number of 15 credit hours. Im happy with only 15 hours, Im already goin to have 7 hours coming from my summer session so Ill have tons of credit and be ahead of the game. /////////////////////////

Well this is basically one of my shortest blogs in history, but Ill update again soon!! See ya guys later, God Bless , /////////////////

Daniel Lloyd

Hey God Is Awesome!!

2005-07-11T00:30:00.000-04:00

This past week has been quite a fun and interesting one. //////////

I had my first test in Math on Thurs and received on 80%, I was so relieved. I thought after my first test with 2/11, I thought that I was going to fail this class for sure. I was so nervous cause I knew that I needed a good grade. So yea, I'm really happy now, God is Awesome!!//////////

This week went by so quickly, I'm not sure why (4th July) but I really enjoyed b/c it came by real quick. I crashed a lot on the trail, clipped in and not clipped in. Clipped in is when you are attached to your pedals on the bike and it is kind of difficult to pull out of them real quick, so I tend to crash pretty frequently on the rough trails. But you live and learn from our experiences so I figure Ill just keep pushing myself, God is Awesome!! ///////////

Today, I really enjoyed Pastor John's sermon b/c I just Ephesians pretty recently, and I love that exact chapter that he referred to the whole time. The part that really stuck to me the most was that fact that we as Christians need to be stimulated by the success/accomplishes of other brothers and sisters in Christ. Paul (in the Bible) talked about how he begin to pray for the Ephesians when he heard about them in the new that he had received. He got motivated, and out of love/compassion he began to pray for them, and I'm sure continual. God is Awesome!! ////////////////

Today, the whole idea with crunch lanes didnt really work out so me and Jake went out to Guitar Center to buy his new "Mega Distortion" pedal and had lunch. Then, we headed back over to the church and cleaned up that back closet in the Multi-Purpose Room, Paul came over and helped. It is so awesome getting so much or that stuff cleaned and organized. The church owns like three other extra soundproofs, 2 other Keyboards, and about 5 other different speakers/amps. It took us about 3 hours all together but it feels so good. Then me and Paul went to go eat with the Stringer family and go see Fantastic Four at the mall, man was that a good movie!! Well I gave Paul a ride home and him and I talked for about an hour in his driveway about some really cool stuff and it was cool to get to know him better. After talking to him, I realized that God is really putting a yearning in my heart to help the youth group even after I graduate. The guys could really use some encouragement. So yea, it was really neat to see how God had put that burn inside my heart to want to help out the youth later on as a youth leader. God is Awesome!! //////////////////

Well it is starting to get late and I'm extremely tired and have a my first Music History test so pray for me on that one. Well, goodbye to Jenna, Tamara, Nicole , Diane and Todd whom I want be able to see for like a good two weeks. Ill reall miss you guys while ya'll are gone and Ill be praying for all of ya'll. I hope that God will work in the hearts in those who are around along with your hearts and spiritual growth, I'm really excited for you guys. God is Awesome!! /////////////////////

Ill talk you guys later, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

4 Day Weekend, WOOOO

2005-07-01T10:15:00.000-04:00

Im so happy I dont have school next Monday (July 4th), and one of my teachers decided to cancel class for today. Im very happy b/c that gives me time to catch up on my sleep, which Im in great need of.

I really enjoyed going to Journey Groups last night. The people there, some of them I already know, some of them Im getting to know, they are all really cool people. Dave B. started talking about Humility and Pride Tues and we discussed a lot of interesting issues base on that title. I mentioned that when Dave talked about how we try to "write our own story", I really realized how much I do that. At first Ill have my eyes set straight on God, and Ill be running straight for Him, and nothing is in my way and feels really good. Then there are the distractions of life that Satan throughs at us to try to get us off balance. The obstacles most often succeed in distracting me from God and what He has for me. It can school, work, lack sleep, anything, Satan can use anything to distract us. Seth metioned the idea of consistant quiet times (instead of annual quiet times). I know that is something that Satan loves to toy with, and mess with me. If I have a quiet time in the morning, Im usually very level headed and have a purposed-filled day and a lot gets accoplished. On other days when I dont have my time with God I find myself running into all kinds of situations that I feel I can handle b/c I started my day out prideful, well then Im going to finish it prideful. When I dont have my time with God, well Im basically Him that I have something better to do with my life at the moment, a complete slap in the face. But God still forgives me and lets have a new day in every step that it comes.

In the past couple of years, I have been avoiding situations that aid my pride and give me something else to soak up. For example, I have always loved music, and I knew that I was pretty good at a lot stuff like guitar, singing , trobone. Well there where always these situations that I would find myself in where I could try for a solo (sing), or try to get into the Praise Band (Youth), or play a really cool lick on trombone or what ever. Well all this stuff is good, but I knew that in my heart I wasnt able to really handle it, that is the praise from other people that comes with it. I knew that the very second that somebody tells me," Good Job, that sound great, I didnt know you could Sing, That was an amazing song, Your really good on guitar," or whatever, I know that I wasnt mature enough to give God the glory and praise. And since I knew that I wasnt mature enough, I told God that I was going to wait to ry out for a solo in choir, wait to try to join the Youth Praise Band, and wait to really play with confidence on trombone in Brass Ensembels or wait ever. I told God that I was going to wait for his green light so that I know that it is his will that Ill be showing the talents and skills that He has given me. One day after church, Mr Donnie J. comes up to me and asks me if I like to play bass at youth, and this is with out ever telling him that I know how to play and I have my own, and I have been wanting to play in the band since like the 8th grade. So I know that that was defently a God ordained happening. It is just really cool to just wait on what God has for you and He will fill in the spaces for His glory if your just ready.

Well it has been fun, and Ill probably see most of you guys on Sunday, and if not hopefully on Monday at the Celebration ( Ill be bringing my roomate, and his name is Camp). See yall later, GOD BLESS,

(Look at the Cool Pictures I found on this Webiste (Worth1000.com)it is a bunch of photos altered by photoshop)!!Batman is so better than Spidey, and that Biker is crazy, that would hurt a lot.

Daniel Lloyd

Hey school has been FUN/Interesting!

2005-06-28T23:40:00.000-04:00

Hey everybody,

Wut is up, well my life has been going pretty awesome. I moved into my dorm last Wed, met my roomate finally, and have had a lot of fun just being a regular old college student. I have 3 classes that Im signed up for this term, (Algebra-Music History-FYE) and they are all going pretty well. I have had some time to get to know my roomate a little bit better. On Saturday morning he asked me if I could take him to a bike shop to look for a bike, well I said "sure", b/c I had to pick up something an ways at Joes bike shop. He wanted to find a hobby/activity to keep him in shape while having fun, so it worked out real well that I enjoy biking and could lead him into the right direction. He went out and bought a brand New Gary Fisher bike($500 Graduation/Birthday money) and we went out rode some trails at Tom Brown Park and had a fun time toghethor and getting to know each better. Just yesterday we went out to St. Marks Trail to ride the mt bike trails there and had a blast! We now plan on riding our bikes togethor on the trails every Mon/Wed/Fri at 2:30 once we are done with classes. So yeh, it has been a lot of fun getting to know him and stuff.

I went to "Unveiled" for the first time tonight (along with showing Nicole where she had parked). It was really cool, and simple. Good ole Rusty Bailes strummin on his guitar for worship brought back good times in my earlier youth experiances. David Beardan is really cool, he is so personal and down to earth. Im really glad he is the college pastor b/c he is so much fun and encouraging to hang around. On Thurs I will start going to Journey Groups which are basically Bible Studies. On Sundays I can hang at David's house again. Then Monday I dont have classes, b/c of July 4th. On that next Tues I register for fall classes, and that next Saturday the college group will be taking a day trip out to Lake Eufala in Alabama for skiing and fun stuff like that, so that will be exciting.

College life has been fun, and it is so interesting to see how all of my prerequisite character traits, personality and moral backgrounds are really starting to show through now that Im on my own (Theoretically). I really want to make sure that Im founding everything that I do on God's principles of love, grace, kindness and wisdom. I know that I can really get a big head about things b/c I get so comfortable in a certain situation and naturally I soak in all of the glory that should be given to God. But yeh, I need to work on that and pray that God will humble me even more than he has already this past couple of weeks. Yeh, just keep me in your prayers and thoughts b/c now I need God more than ever and I like it that way. Its getting late so Ill talk to you guys later, God Bless

Daniel Lloyd

Update, Update, Update

2005-06-23T21:40:00.001-04:00

Just met my roomate he just stopped by. He seems to be pretty cool Ill let you guys know about him later. God Bless
Daniel

By the way... do you like my new profile Picture??Ha, ha

Im Moved In! Yeh, Woo-woo-woo-woo

2005-06-23T21:23:00.000-04:00

It has finally happened, I moved out of my family's home and now Im living in my dorm. I got moved in about nine o clock yesterday morning and had all my stuff laid out perfectly.

Ive been trying to get a hold of my roomate for the past two weeks now. Well, I called him once when I recieved the letter in the mail that had his name and info. So yeh, I called him and I got the answering machine so I left a message and a week later he had tried to call me and had to leave a message. Well I some how miss place that little sheet of info about a week ago so I couldnt really call him back. I figured I would just meet him on move in day. Well I moved at nine, left to look at apartments for the fall (Im staying at Oscleola Village), went to home/lunch, picked up Jake and came back to my dorm to drop some more stuff before going to church, and went to church and then came back home (Deviney). Well when I came back with Jake, my roomate Camp had apparently stopped by to drop off some of his stuff, which wasnt very much. Then when I got back from church I noticed that he had been back again. But yeh, he never came back to sleep last night. So I figured since he is from Vero Beach (about 5 hour drive), he probably wanted to spend more time with his parents before classes start on Monday. So when I got up in the morning he wasnt here, and all day today he hasnt been here. So whatever, I could care less it has been nice and quietly so Im not complaining at all except I would like to meet him before classes kick in.

Today was a good day, I slept till about 9am only b/c my mom had called me. But I got up, went out to my car to get my cell-phone charger, and came and took a good shower (I love taking showers, I feel so clean). So then my friend Henry called and he was having his orientation going on at that time, so I went to go see him. We trying to see if we can be roomates for Osceola Village apartments. We originally applied for on-campus housing but it didnt work out, so we are trying to work this one out. I went ahead and signed the lease/application to secure me there, it is really nice, they have their own cafeteria, workout, computer, recreation rooms and pool. The rooms are really nice, and its about 2000 dollars cheaper than on-campus housing. They reserved parking spaces which I recieved (Parking at FSU is horrendous). I will ride bike to classes and keep my car in its parking space since I want to save gas and I love to ride my bike. The only thing wrong with this apartment complex is it is about two blocks away from the campus but that is not so bad so I could really care less, as I said before... I like riding my bike. Oh Yeh, they also have a special bike rack which is locked inside a cage in which only residents have keys for. So Im really excited!! A little word of advice to all college students and future college students, Ride your bike on campus to classes, it is so much faster and less work/energy is exerted. I love riding my bike.

Well it is getting late so I will see you guys (oh yeh and Women) later,

Thank you God,

-for this beautiful that I got so much done in its beautiful sunlight
-for your loving kindness
-for your mercy when I go astray
-for your Compassion
-for your Passion
-for your Guidance
-for your Patience
-for your Perserverance
-for Loving Me

Amen

I Cant Wait Until Next Wed!!

2005-06-16T01:29:00.000-04:00

It has finally come to the point where I will finally move out of my families' home and out on my own!!

I move into more dorm at FSU *Deveney* next Wed at 9 am. I can finally have controll of life and schedule to do whatever and however I want to do it. With this freedom I have also been given a large responsability to plan out my life on a day to day basis.

There is so much that I want to change and incorporate into my life once I have moved out. One thing would be my health on a general basis. I would like to workout a lot more often. There is a FSU gym where I can go workout, and also I want lay down a good running routine. I will be riding my bike from class to class and walking other places.

I want to work on controlling the amount and quality of the food and substances that Ill be consuming. For the summer Ill have a meal plan with Fresh Food co which is a brand new cafeteria which is extremely nice. There is a nice variety of every type of food. I can go in any time and get a steak or if I want something light, I can just a nice salad.

I also want to seriously get spiritually alligned in my relationship with God. I was reading 1 Thess and it was talkin about having convictions of steel. I would love to be so convicted on issues on homosexuality, marriage, divorce, lust, and many others. I want that deep settled believe to be deep in my heart and mind. I want nothing to sway my believes on how Jesus is my Savior and God is the Creator of all things.

I need to let God take control of my life and guide me not based on how I feel or what I think. He is the Almighty and all powerful. It is now getting kind of late and Im really tired so Ill talk to a lot of yall later, See ya , God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

Oh God, You are My God (Prayer)

2005-06-12T00:10:00.000-04:00

Hey God,

I just feel the need to type out my thoughts and prayers to you now. I need to get housing for the fall, if it be South Gate or someones house I dont care. The only thing I can really rely on right now is your guidance from your loving hands. I just want to thank you again for getting all the way through 13 years of public schooling. At some points in time I thought it would never end, and then there were the occasional times where I didnt want to leave school b/c I was actually have a good time. Whatever the case may be I know that you were the one who pulled me through it all with dating, girlfriends, work, studying, band, church, and even wrestling you had your hand over me covering my head from all the falling and fading objects of life. I love you so much for loving me caring for me so much to put with me so long and having your mercy flowing like a river into my circumstances of life.

Knowing and Believing that all this has happened, I know with full confidence that you can get me through this next stage in my life. You discipline those whom you love and Im prepared to recieve your discipline of life struggles and pain, knowing that you love me and care for me. I just love that song ( I dont even know the name but it has so much meaning), "I need you Jesus, to come to my rescue, where else can I go. There's no other name by which I am saved, Lord capture me with grace, I will follow you"!!

I know the third day on the bike trip I got so frustrated with my earthliness and flesh's inability to be perfect and have no pain on a bike. It was so amazing what your created nature can do to my spirit. I could just feel you rejuvinating my spirit just by watching the flowing river. God please open my heart and mind to what you have in store for b/c right now I see so many options for my life but you know exactly what your will for me is, and that is just what I want to do.

Use me for your will on the campus, at church, in class, in the dorm, anywhere I go. Make my heart an open vessel for your glory defined. I need you, I love you, you are my light in the dark, my lamp on the path, my bike-light down the long dark tunnel. Give your Holy Spirit to discern what is good and holy, and what to do on a day to day basis.

God please take this sin in my life tear it up b/c it just keeps on reoccuring in my life and gets between our relationship. Please clear my heart and soul make me an innocent dove in your eyes so that I blameless in your eyes.

You are the one that I Love so much
and need here right now

You are the one that I need forever
in your loving arms

I Love You, I Need , Right here and forever
Everyday, You never change, You stay the same

You are my light, the working compass
the daily map, but the daily routine

My help in times of trouble,
my father times of discipline

I love b/c you loved me first
And now I have full trust in your will

Lead on your narrow path
which doesnt seam so simple from my view

Thank you for loving me

If we Love each other, God lives in us, and His love has been brought to its full expression though us 1 John 4:12

Thank for loving me, and and now it needs to be fully expressed and carried on to others. God please give me oppurtunities to love people all day today. Thank for your love and now let me rest for the few hours that Im going to get before church this morning, I love you Abba Father, Amen (Later)

It is so early and Im excited!!

2005-05-29T01:26:00.000-04:00

Im such a crazy nut,
I just graduated today and it went awesome so I was very pleased to get it all over finally. It feels so good to know that every thing (or at least these past 13 yrs)have come to a closure . This past I had orientation on Tues and Wed for FSU. Wed (8am-9:30pm) and Tues(7am-1pm) was my schedule for orientation those long two days. It feels so good to get those certain things cleared up. I have been regisered for classes also. Which is great b/c I start school on June 27.

It is so late but Im going to go on the Bike trip in about two hours. Its so crazy that I dont wnat to go to sleep. But now im just starting to feel tired all of the sudden.

So Im going to wrap this one short and say good by to some of you notgoing onthe bike trip, and to the others Ill see you in about three hours. See ya guys later and God Bles Daniel Lloyd

Its been a While, but School is almost Finished

2005-05-23T11:03:00.000-04:00

I graduate this next Saturday, I am the happiest and most excited I think that I have ever been all year.It is great knowing that all 12 of my long years of being in school are finally about to wrap up and take a bow. It is kind of sad knowing that all I have with friends at school will probably dwindle away over the years. There will be an elite few that Ill still be able to keep in touch with. I freinds that are going out of state to Welsley, NC State, and other places like that I might never be able to see again. So Im going to make a special effort to keep in touch with those certain individuals.

Most of my friends are heading of to in state institutions like FSU, UF, UWF,USF, and UCF. It will be a little bit easier to keep up with them more consistantly. Im excited about starting FSU early in the summer b/c I can get a feel of what the campus is like, housing, eating, study/learning environments, and people and clubs. This is summer will be a time of recolection and restoration of my physical body and the aspects of my spiritual life.

I really have been in a great deal of slack in my investment of time and effort in my relationship with God. I still feel as though that Im in God's favor and He is using me in so many ways, but I just dont have the overall burning desire to be with Him and spend time with Him. I just about always seem to find a way to avoid talking and spending time with God, especially when things are going good (like right now).

I want to get back into that growing relationship that I seemed to have with Him around last year. Which it is kind of weird, but I was seriously struggling at physical and emotional standpoint last year. Not getting enough sleep, always on the go, at work or at play, never enough time to really sit down and think/pray/read/grow.But I really did have a good and growing relationship with God at the time. I would always value the short amount of time that I had to spend with Him, it always meant so much more to me. I also had 4 guys that I can truly call my friends. We met every Thursday night and talked about the week, and laid down the truth on what was really going in our lives. I love hanging out with those guys. For 4 years I was praying that I could find some good Christian guys my age that I could find accountability with. God blessed me spiritually such much in that greatest time of need. He led me to a point of stress release and restoration. I was looking forward to the time when God just lighten my burden of extreme responsability and no energy.

This release of stress came in the form of a speeding ticket, in which was my second on that year. At first it seemed like I had just fallen into a pit of guilt and pain, b/c this was just more pressure that just placed on my back. But really once I talked to my Dad (being such an awesome and Godly man that he is), he told that he wanted me to quit my job, stop driving and just concentrate on school. At first the idea of not driving drove me insane. I drove my car to get everywhere. But then I got really excited knowing that I didnt have to work anymore, and that my parents were going to pay the car insurance and the gas money in the future. My dad just wanted me to relax and let go of the burden that I so tightly held on to. And so I did and God Blessed me even more with a piece of mind that He has control of my life.
That peace really helped me get through the beginning of this year.

But now, I have gotten so comfortable with how God has blessed me so much, that I have started living my life without Him always in the picture. I have started making most of my decisions mostly based on logical reasoning, with God just sitting and waiting in the background. I have turned His blessings into curses upon my relationship with Him. If you would just keep me in your prayers, b/c it may not look like I doing so bad spiritual on the outside, but on the inside there is room for a lot of work. I want to be the man I was meant to be, in God's Holy will and promises of grace and peace.

Ill see you guys soon, God Bless, Daniel Lloyd

hey

2005-05-09T17:01:00.000-04:00

Wut is up,

I have 6 more days of school left and Im so excited!! I cant believe the year has gone by so fast. Everything is all wrapping up.

This past Saturday was my 18th birthday, Im not a minor anymore. I got kicked out of the mall ON my birthday, b/c I was laying down on a bench. It was pretty dumb how the security guard acted, but it was also pretty funny too. Sunday was Mother's Day so I went to church, went to lunc with my mom, came back to church (drama), and back home to watch a movie with my mom (Mr. Holland's Opess). Today I had my music theory AP exam. It wasnt as bad as I had though it would be, it just took a long time finish it.

Tommorrow I have take my last AP exam (Environmental Science), and then I am done with school. I just need to make sure about my Pre-Calc class. I might to need to take the exam b/c I didnt do so hot. But I need to find that all out.

Band Banquet is this Friday, Prom is on Saturday, and Church is on Sunday. That is the basic lay out for the rest of my week. But yeh, if you guys would just pray for me that I can finish off the rest of this school year strong. By the way I am going to go visit my friend Lawrence in the hospital tonight. Please keep him in your prayers, and Ill give you guys an update later about his condition.

Thanks for listening to me ramble again about my crazy life.

See yah later, God Bless
Daniel Lloyd

Sad Day, my friend got in a accident!!!

2005-05-03T01:38:00.000-04:00

Hey guys,

Sorry again for taking so long to update my blog which I wanted to update like every two days. Anyways I to school this morning and was informed that a good friend of mine that plays trombone with me at school, got in a car accident on Saturday. He was coming home from a movie and was getting a ride home from a friend who I know and she has only had her license for a short time now. He was asleep in the back seat behind the driver. The driver hydroplaned in to two different trees on two different sides of the road. She is okay, but my friend is now in the hospital in Intensive Care b/c of his two broken jaws, bruised liver, puctured lung, broken pelvis, broken caucus (tailbone), and broken left hand. Today my school principle wnet to go visit him along with his guidance counselor, and they told him not to worry about school b/c he has straight A's and exempt from all of his exams. He has an AP European History Exam to make up, and he is missing out on Drum Major auditions which he has been wanting to do for a while now. They it will take a while to recover and everything must be taken in steps, but he will be okay, the only thing is I know he wants to do a lot of stuff over the summer. But this works out real good for him to not have to worry about missing school while he recovering so that is defently a blessing. They are not allowing people to come visit yet but I am hoping they'll let go soon. He is a real cool Christian guy, and I hope/pray that he will recover fully and wont have to miss out on too much. But yea, I would really appreciate it if you guys could keep him in your prayers. His name is Lawrence Barriner, he is a sophomore this year at Chiles High.

Hey it has been forever, Sorry

2005-04-23T14:30:00.002-04:00

Sorry about this like whole week off thing that I did,

I had so much going on last week, but it was all so awesome of a week.
I had state Concert Festival on Tuesday and recieved straight superiors which is a new school record. The concert on Thursday was the best I have ever been to in my entire life. I absolutely love Chris Tomlin, I have been listening to Steven Curtis Chapman since I was like 6 years old , and Casting Crowns was awesome. I downloaded some tabs for Chris Tomlin and I am probably going to figure those out in a couple of minutes, and then play them for hours on end.

Last night was cool b/c I got to hang with my mom wich I havent done in a while. We went shopping and I got a Pink Shirt. Now I feel so cool b/c all the other "cool guys" have them now. No but seriously I love getting something new or bright that I have never before. This is pretty cool pink too. So yeh me and my mom came home watched a movie and went to bed. I got to sleep in this morning which felt so good.
And now I am finally updating my blog.

GOOD NEWS, I got the bright futures stuff in the mail and got the 75% deal. I was getting kind of worried there for a while. All my other friends had recieved there stuff and I was still waiting so I was getting kind of anxious.

Well I am gonna have to wrap it up b/c I need to go get a shower, go to a musical rehearsal, and then come home and relax. I love it when life is that simple.
Hey guys Chiles is having there Pirates of Panzan musical at I think 7pm thurs-saturday. Look at the link and it will tell you, Click on my title or the link below. Anyways I will see you guys later, probably on Sunday. Peace out, God Bless
Daniel Lloyd

Hey this I thought is pretty cool!!

2005-04-19T02:19:00.000-04:00

I just read 1 Thess , and I read the verse,

"We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess 1:3)

This one of Paul's letters written out of compassion to his newly planted church in Thessilonica. He had to leave them earlier than he had planned to, so he wrote to this church to encourage them in their times of trial and persecution.

Paul has described such a great description of what I hope my daily attitude and personality can be described as. I hope and pray that all my work can be done through faith. I know that in so many cases I have decided to handle tough situations with logical reasoning which in my human mind would not be including God in the whole situation. Recently I have been really bad with including GOd in all of my decisions and problems. It just seems to easy to simply go on auto-pilot, and have control of my circumstances. The point at which I usually realize that God is not included is when things really dont work out. The sfest and smartest palce I can be in is GOd will, but this idea seems to continually slip righ tout of my mind when the right time comes.

The second part of this verse that I thought was so cool, the idea of having labor prompted by love. If could only live and work my life completely out of love for people and their lives and what is important to them. I know people really like to hang out with people who truly love and care for them, b/c the ones dont care for them turn them away with their actions. Jesus did everything in his life out love for other people and their concerns for life.

Lastly Paul states that Thessilonica based their endurance on the hope of the Lord Jesus christ and what he did for us on cross showing how much he loved us first. That is so cool to be in that mindset b/c human enduranve doesnt last very long, so you need to base it on hope of CHrist coming back for us. This is when GOd can encourage yo the most.

AH man, I just that was cool and I wanted to tell you guys about that. It is getting kinda of late and I have to get up at 5:00 am to be at school so I can drive down to Tampa for our Band State Festival Evaluation. If you could just pray for me that would be great, it will be a lot of fun but I am going to be exhausted. So yeh thanks for listening to be babble on about my life and situations and the good stuff ( THE BIBLE). Goodnight all you people out their and God BLess,

Daniel Lloyd

Life is So Busy!

2005-04-17T00:17:00.000-04:00

Hey all you people,

You now how when you are planing out your week and realize that your life is just so extremely busy. This happens to me almost every week, without me usually being able to relize. At the beginning of the week I started thinking out my plans for the week, Mon(musical 3-6, then homework) Tues(Concert 4-9, then homework) Wed(Dentist 11-12, Orchestra 3-6, Orchesta 8-9:30) Thurs(Rehearsal 3-5,Rehearsal 7-10) Fri(Musical 7-9:30) Sat(Bike 8:30,Orchestra 1-3, Homework/Blog Update) Sun(Church 10-12, Musical 6-9). So yeh, that was my scheduled after I decided not to go do a couple of other trips that I could have taken (Trombone Choir, Movie). I know this is nothing like what I had to deal with last year but Oh well.
This is a year that I feel that God is showing me ways to plan out my sprare time,work time, fun time, quiet time, and time-time. This will be some thing that I know I will need to have in college, I good sense of balancing out my schedule.

This is some cool ideas that I just stole from a christian website:

Pray About Your Schedule

Psalm 143:8 “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” (NIV)

Pray Throughout the Day

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.”

Don’t Worry About What People Think

Hebrews 13:6 “So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

More scripture to meditate on:

Psalm 37:8
Psalm 55:16-18
Psalm 88:13
Psalms 119:105
Psalm 143:10
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 14:12
Proverbs 15:19
Matthew 7:7-8
Mark 3:34-35 2
Corinthians 8:5 1
Thessalonians 5:16-18
Ephesians 5:15-16
Philippians 4:6-7

This seems like some good info/scriptures pray and meditate over. My time is running so I guess I will see all you guys later. Love you guys, God Bless

Daniel Lloyd

Hey This is My First post!

2005-04-13T03:10:00.000-04:00

For some Reason I had trouble with my last blog at "talljesusfreak" I dont understand why i could not access it. So i figured I could just start a new one, it wasnt that difficult.

This is a blog about me and struggles,triumphs, test, fun, and the many things that are happening and going to happen with me going off to College in the nest 2 months and really my own life by myself away from my family. It is exciting but at the same time nerve racking. The only thing I have to lean on is God, He is really the only thing that I have that is consistant and supporitive of well being.

I have been accepted to FSU, and going to start on June 27. that is not that far away. Pretty soon my AP exams will come up and then all my schooling shuts down b/c since I am a Senior I dont have to take any of my final exams. The only problem is I got a F in my Pre-Calc class last 9 wks. I believe that means that I have to take the final which is going to really stink. I relly cant stand math anymore, once i got passed Algebra II everything wnet down from there. I need to make like an C in this class so that no matter what I get on the exam I can get a D for the semester. I know that sounds real shallow to settle for a D, but quite frankly I could really care less about what I get in that class, b/c when I pay attention and study I get a D just barely. I dont unnderstand why it is so diffifcult for me to understand this stupid math crap. If you guys could just pray for me and this certain class, and also my 3 AP exams that are coming up in like 2 weeks.

It is getting kinda late so I am going to go to bed now, see all you guys later,

God Bless,
Daniel Lloyd