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Signing out,

-Colton.

Well, Hello.

Hello to the people who read this blog!

I have some exciting news, well, to be honest, all news is exciting.

I am planning on building a website, therefore i will post blogs on the site, I have so much to share, God is bringing me into a new season, and I am so excited to fill all of you in on His incredible plans.

Just to cover things in one sentence, recently I have been completely overthrown and taken back by God's sovereignty. His perfection.

I cannot wait to elaborate and share about what He has done just in the past summer.

However, at the moment I must see my sister to bed, it's her first big day of middle school tomorrow. :) Pray for her.

One thing that God has really put on my heart is to not rely on people but to rely on Him, so where it may seem as if I completely abandoned this Blog, I want to insure that I have not abandoned my God. My prayer has been for complete and total intimacy with my Dad, and that prayer has continually been answered. New revelations and insights have been flooding my mind and I am totally pumped to fulfill everything that God wants me to do. I have been debating whether or not to write again, but I feel, now that I'm doing it, that is a big Part of God's plan for my outreach. So, I shall keep you updated on the progress of this website, and I can't wait to officially open it for you guys. :) Keep reading!

I have such an incredible peace surrounding me, it's God and nothing but God. Are you ready for this new season? I am.

Changed.

-Colton

Vacation.

Would you ever believe that you would need a vacation from vacation?

Well Hello Bloggers,

I am back, this will be the third time I have been home in almost a month, making that the third time I've gotten a chance to blog. In a way, it's been relaxing, in a way, it feels like I am missing my child, this blog was my baby for so long.

I have to be honest and say that this summer has not exactly felt like a vacation so far. I really want a week to shut everything down and, well... "let it be..."

I've tried to explain to people how they need to take time for themselves, I really think so many of us don't realize how important it is that we give God our FULL attention daily.

I'm reminded of that story about Martin Luther. He spent each morning in prayer before He would get to work, and when He was extremely busy, instead of rushing and getting everything done, He would take even more time out of his day to pray. I think that is so wise, and most of us would do the opposite.

I don't know about you, but I am about ready to throw my cell phone into an ocean somewhere. I feel like God sometimes cries for that to happen. Lately, I feel like I haven't been giving my FULL honest attention towards God, and when life gets busy I don't give Him even more time then regular, which really is how it should be. I am about to change that.

I was in church this evening, and I just felt... peaceful. My mind was growing, and I was thinking, just as an overall thought... God has to be so real, so big, so powerful, He puts upon everyone a different "feeling", he hugs the ones that needs to be held, covers those who need to be protected. As I glanced across the sanctuary I thought about how everyone has a different story, and God wants to hear about every single story. He wants to hear your story, and mine.

So why don't we tell Him?

I have to go back to think of a couple of summers ago when I made the connection that God could be whomever you needed Him to be, a father, hero, saviour? For me, a best friend.

I have to laugh, as I semi-re-read this, I am thinking back to when I started blogging, my thoughts in no particular order, absolutely absurd and almost impossible to decipher... God finds joy in putting the pieces together and knowing what I'm saying. Which I am thankful for.

I'm not an overly patient person, which makes me in the need for time to cool down and chill out. Does that make sense? I think I need to go back to some silence, except this time, some real personal silence, and restore passion, restore purpose, restore.

Isn't that what vacation is really for?

Oh come on, You know I love you. :)

-Colton

Can I have more of you?

Howdy Folks!

Well, it has been close to two weeks! Insane.

My family and I returned from the Island of Prince Edward and went straight to another campground closer to home, this has been the first time I've been home in almost two weeks. Trust me, it feels so weird not to blog every night before I go to bed, you'd think I was on vacation or something.

And now I am running away to work. Let me leave you with this...

I give up trying to earn Your love,

I just look above, up to You.

My desire is to see Your fire,

Growing even higher than before.

Because You are good, beyond measure,

My heart longs to give You pleasure.

You fulfill all my longing,

And all my life I will sing:

God I love You and all You do,

Your joy lives inside and does me good,

Can I have more of You?

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,

Oh, my God, You never let me down,

Can I have more of You?

God I need You right next to me,

For my heart to be satisfied.

I decide how I live my life,

I've made up my mind, I'm livin' for You

- Kim Walker

You know I love you,

-Colton

A Free Life?

'Allo Blog Readers.

Well, tonight will be the last blog for almost a week, I am headed out of the province for a family vacation. I feel "poopy", this month is starting out poor for my blogging participation.

However, tonight I can blog, and that I will, but about what?

What consumes your life?

Examine your life, as I examine mine, what do you spend the majority of your time thinking about, or doing or wanting? Is that healthy? Is it a good given thought or passion?

Do you feel free?

Check it out...

Romans 6:15-21 ----

What Is True Freedom?

^15-18So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

¹⁹I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?

^20-21As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.

Think about a part in your life where you don't walk in freedom but continue to struggle with sin. When do you easily give into temptation? Why? What pain or discomfort does it bring? What do you fear you would lose if you gave up the sin?

Read the passage from Romans again with a specific sin in mind. Think Paul is accurate with his description of living, "any old way we want" to be accurate? What about living in "obedience"?

Pray to God about the things that He is showing you in your life that might be sin, or may not be real freedom. Get my drift? Maybe I am making no sense... If you're frustrated, express it to Him. I honestly think sometimes I forget that God likes to hear EVERYTHING from us. Not just us when we are happy or want something, He wants us to admit, when we hurt, or are sad, or confused, that is the beauty of it... You can say anything, and this Dad will listen. Challenge God to show you a freedom.

Live, off yourself to the ways of God and the freedom that never quits. Rest in His Freedom. Rest.

Teach with your Life

HEY HEY HEY!

Well Hello my friends, this has been a horrid week for blogging, I have been staying at my camp all week and I am finally home for a few days, to be honest, it feels like a part of me is missing when I don't blog. Anyway, how are you?

The run of "Grease" is now over, it was an incredible journey that I will not forget, and the people I have become close with over this journey are really gifts from God. I couldn't be happier.

Well, it is coming on bed time for me, but I don't think I would be able to sleep without blogging, however, before I jet off, I want to leave you with something that I read yesterday morning, and I really like it, check it out.

1 Timothy 4:11-14 (The Message)

^11-14Get the word out. Teach all these things. And don't let anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity. Stay at your post reading Scripture, giving counsel, teaching. And that special gift of ministry you were given when the leaders of the church laid hands on you and prayed—keep that dusted off and in use.

In fact, I recommend checking out 1 Timothy 4, the entire chapter, all about teaching with your life, anyway, I can't wait to get back to writing more, have a blessed day, sleep, whatever it is you find yourself about to do when you read this, and you shall hear from me soon!

-Colton

Passion

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Well, first off I have to apologize for missing the past couple of nights blogging, I've been staying at my camp, and I will be again tonight, however I have stolen a laptop just for you! Feeling loved yet?
Well, I want to say "Hi!" and re-introduce myself to this blog, the segment of thirty days of silence is over, and it is time for me to spew my thoughts through my finger tips onto a keyboard into your heads again, excited yet?

So, what has been new?
For me... I am in the show, "Grease", playing Danny Zuko, we have three more shows left and I am having the time of my life. It is such a fun show to do, and I don't know... I don't think I can explain the joy that I get from it. It's funny, today I was driving from the beach to go eat breakfast (Pretty Peaceful) and I was listening to Jesus Cultures' new EP "My Passion." It got me thinking, what is my passion? What is your passion? What is passion? According to Urban Dictionary, Passion is...

"Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialized into action to put as much heart, mind, body and soul, into something as is possible."

What do you think about that?

My strength in life, is I am yours.

My soul delights, because I am yours.

Your will on earth is all I'm living for.

Light that breaks the darkness, showing what true love is.

Always full of goodness, You are my passion.

Well, I am being called to go do a show.

Think about that, ask God to throw passion into your life.

You are my passion.

-Colton