Kevin Eberhart

alright alright, ill do it ok?

2008-08-28T15:26:00.001-07:00

so here i go, filling you in on the last month of my life...

so schools has been a sprained ancle in itself. i missed 3 days in a row and now im pretty sure im failing photo because he hasnt checked a single thing. i not have a math tutor and he only stays for about 10 minutes befor we run out of things to do. ive already finished all but one project for the entire quarter in graphic design, im now just sitting on my mac messin with widgits (how sweet :)) and somehow in 3 days of being gone, i didnt miss a single thing in physics. i thought that class was supposed to be hard?

still out on the hunt for an occupation. im not doin so hot.

im still hangin with that one girl, i think her name is breanna, either way shes cool :) (haha just kidding shes really cool and i like her a lot :)

i talked to travis for the first time since may, what a jokster that guy is huh? had some amazing stories about all his dates with mexican women that dont speak any english...how awkward would that be? he doesnt really do that :/ but he does come home for the weekend in a week!!! pretty stoked to hear some more stories!!!

keira is about to pack up her socks and head back, so so so excited for her to pour her thoughts into me!! ive already been inspired by her just through her blog and emails. when she comes back its gonna be amazing!!!

well thats a quick glimps into the life of nick jonas!!

until next time, play safe!!

speed up

2008-07-31T16:02:00.000-07:00

its only thursday :/ this has seriously been the longest week ever. i still have 3 days until i can even talk to breanna :( i miss her so much already its killin me.

im back in school now. not completely sure about how i feel about this year. math isnt exactly my favorite, i have friends in history physics and english so that should definately help. photo seems like it should be another fun year of havin mr mckinnon. graphic design should be pretty easy. overall it should be an ok year.

the highs and lows of the lows and highs

2008-07-26T22:34:00.000-07:00

when i got back from philly i began to notice my life was a whole lotta nothin :/ the only people i want to hang out with cant hang out or i just dont have their numbers, therefor, i just slept, theres so much i could have done with my time but i didnt, i just put everything off and did nothing. it really started to make me feel bad about myself. i started to think that maybe all ill ever do is just sit around and do nothing, which is definately not a good thing to think. well these last 2 days have definately made me not at all mind my weeks of nothing.

yesterday morning i got picked up at 7:30 in the mornin in the scion, breanna jared naters and i all headed over to james pattersons house (new singles pastor) he just moved from florida and needed help unpacking the moving truck. man what a work out. we then headed down to casa grande to hang with nates family. we stopped to hang out with papa and jeremy at there work, then headed over to angels work to hang for a bit. we finished up there and went to naters parents house to hang out! we watched what about bob!!! great movie :) we had some delicious spaghetti and garlic bread and brownies befor we climbed back in the car and motioned onward to the normal life. I then woke up fairly early and took another shower cuz i still felt a hint of filth from movin james. I then headed north for the back to school bash!! i was the first there so i ended up sittin outside for a while until jon got there followed by nater and jared. after doin a bit of setting up, the band ( this seasons love) showed up which got us a bit off track. we pulled together and finished setting up and jumped straight into the coolest pool in arizona!! this seasons love played a great show and jon did a great job fillin in for alex!!

though i didnt hang with breanna as much as i would have liked today at the bash i had an amazing time with her yesterday!! shes such an amazing girl and she makes me so happy!! i felt so at home hangin out at her grandparents house, it was amazing!!! she does away for a week tomorrow night and shes not gonna have any form of communication :( an entire week of not seeing or talkin to her is definately gonna be hard :(

its time

2008-07-22T13:06:00.000-07:00

so...last night...was...fun...very fun...very very fun...it was amazing...very amazing...very very amazing :)

i took a road trip to the maples residence to hang with the fam and their friend tara. tara is visiting from hillsong in australia :) shes definately a cool girl :) but besides that, i had sooo much fun hangin with breanna :) we hung out at what i like to call the redneck mall (Bass Pro Shop) so much fun :) i always have so much fun with her :)

HEY!

2008-07-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

Well, after what seems to have been ages, I'm finally home! I spent a week at the grandparents house out in Philly and oh boy what a thrill :(

I've been learning more than an 8 year old school boy this summer. I've been noticing things about my life I didn't know was there. I've been learning a lot about being a servant of God. A wise old man once told me, "Don't sit around and get spiritually fat while the world goes to hell, but don't forget who the savior is!" Basically what it's saying is grow as you need to grow but work on applying your spiritual knowledge to the unknowing that surround you. However don't forget that you are merely a translator for God. Only He can save the world, but you must introduce Him. It's incredible what you can learn from your past youth pastors :) Thanks a ton Ryan, that was an extremely helpful comment!

Thanks Tori, I love you

2008-07-08T21:31:00.000-07:00

wow what a slap in the face. today i went to the beginning of the new semester of the mine with tori. i havent really gotten a chance to talk to her much lately which is a bummer. we stayed after to talk. This is where that slap comes in. we started to get on the subject of keira leaving which then led to travis being gone and then just kept moving in that direction...totally bad. from past times of talkin about this with tori its ended up with her wanting to not think about it so she doesnt cry. well i guess its been longer than i thought cuz she ended up being the one saying its ok. as i was driving home i started to think about everyone who helped me so much in life that have moved on to another stage in their life and have moved away. But by the time i got home i was barely sad at all. Tori really helped me to see that God calls us to leave our comfort zones so that God will help us to become stronger. Christianity isnt about how much you learn about God, its about how well you live out what God tells us and helping others to live out his word. i guess everyone leaving is God's way of saying that i'm ready to stop spending all my time learning, and start spending some time teaching.

snarglebarger

2008-07-08T10:22:00.000-07:00

so im finally getting a peek at what its like to be home, but just a peek. I got home last night around 5 and now i leave again tomorrow night :/ i guess i cant complain though. 2 of my closest friends and probably the people who have helped me get through life the most the past few months are both out spreadin the Word in Kenya (Keira) and mexico ( Travis). They both have given up months from there fortunate lives to go live in some much less fortunate places of the world to show the glory of God. Its making me think so hard about how ive been living. I have trouble telling some of my close friends about God and yet they can go live in poverty and spread God's word to hundreds of complete strangers that speak in different languages. if only i could take their incredible examples and put them to use in my life.

here it is

2008-07-02T23:18:00.001-07:00

i suppose its time for a new ramble session! ive been thinking a lot lately about my new found ability to drive. its weird not having people in the car with you. not sayin i dont like having my license but im just sayin...

so i head off on a seemingly endless adventure to sunny san diego in the morning. still not sure as to how im feeling about the situation. there are people i like going and there are people im not to fond of going. I suppose ill be fine im just worried about it when im thinkin. then again i felt the same way befor i was born and im doin fine now.

my mom sent me grocery shopping the other day and i cant say i had fun. i mean it costed 8 bucks for 3 grains of rice...bummer, but that has nothing to do with the price of potatoes (which by the way is insaine)

well hannah montana just came on and im sure you all know i cant stand to miss an episode of that!

This is probably boring to read for most people

2008-06-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

Ok so im just gonna lay it all out on the table. I like the most amazing girl in the world. i had an incredibly boring day today until i called someone. I got to talk to Breanna and i completely loved today!! shes so fun to talk to and shes an incredible musician and shes so beautiful! i just cant get over how lucky i am!!

My Summer Escapades

2008-06-21T14:20:00.000-07:00

I love my life!! so after 2 weeks of camps, im finally home.

WEEK 1: Hume Lake with Merge!! one of the best weeks in my life. Really learned a lot about my faith and about myself. it made me realize how great God is and how blessed i am. I got a chance to talk and get to know Nater Tater. Hes is an incredible person and im so stoked to see how he works with Merge! i also got to hang with Breanna a lot!!! shes so great! :) Shes so much fun and shes so sweet and sarcastic and funny and beautiful and incredible and shes just amazing!

WEEK 2: Leader at Hume San Diego! I really got a chance to connect with the students. I met one kid who came to camp as a non christian. by the end of camp he started to ask some amazing questions and really started to question the bible!! as bad as that sounds, in christianity its always a good way to start. Im really looking foreward to working with him to grow his faith.

During week 2 of camps, i came across a fairly important day in my life...my 16th birthday!!! its finally come!! i get my license next saturday and im stoked!! However...this means its time for a job. Ive been applying at a couple places already and its only going to continue. But either way, im stoked to be home and get back to life. that life in which includes Breanna :) im so stoked to hang out with her!! im actually going to her best friends birthday party tonight so i get to see her for the first time in a week!!!

An intersting decision on an ordinary day

2008-06-06T00:05:00.000-07:00

So today started just like any other summer day, sleeping late, waking up to eat food that should not be eaten for breakfast, spilling soda on my freshly cleaned white t shirt, you know the usual. However, i looked at my phone to recieve a call from Eddie Miles (the jr high pastor at cornerstone). For those of you that dont know, i have been a leader for the jr highers for the past few months. Well during this phone call he asked me if i was willing to give up a week to head over to Hume San Diego to be a leader. My inicial thought was yes!! So i asked him when we would be leaving. He hesitated and then informed me that it was the morning after i get back from Hume Lake with my high school group :/ I would have about 7 hours to go home, unpack, do a ton of laundry, pack everything back up and head back over to church to get back on a bus and drive some more. OUCH!! so all day i was back and forth and prayed numerous times about what i should do. I then went to Camber (the college service) and Eddie was there to ask if anyone wanted to help jr high on sundays and wednesdays and such. God definately answered my prayers and as he was up there speaking i felt a calling to give up my time for the jr highers. Camp is such an amazing experience and i am so excited to be able to be a part of that for these kids. I cant wait to see what kids get put in my cabin and what God does for the kids i get to share my week with.

Before i even get to spend my week with them, i get to head to Hume Lake with my high school group! I get to spend an incredible week with some of my best friends and someone im really looking forward to spending a week with :) I cant wait to see what God has in store for me and what amazing speakers can shake up my heart!

Thoughts from the tip of my tongue

2008-06-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

So im definately liking this gift that God gaves us (i believe its called life). Tonight was an extremely good night, i showed up at 5 to just hang and talk and "fix" andrews mac haha :) but it ended up being extremely interesting to hear what sterbz and sterbz had to say about dating and hopefully i will be able to apply the advice they gave us in the next relationship im in :) but i got to hang out with someone today and i really enjoyed it :) as each day comes i begin to look forward to Hume more and more!! the bus ride should be fun!! across the isle will be an extremely fun person :) i cant wait!! 3 days :)

Life is funny when your trying to be serious

2008-06-04T00:13:00.000-07:00

why is it that when i try to take life seriously and work hard, i seem to end up joking around? whats ironic about that is that i seem to find myself working hard when i want to just chill out and have some fun. I was hanging out with some friends tonight and nothing crazy was happening but i kept finding myself wanting to act like their parent when something would happen. I finally realized i just need to chill and let them live their lives and all my parenting work seemed to work out. Its weird how backwards life truly is. Like when i really like a girl and i decide to go full force into getting into a relationship, i seem to screw it up before it really starts. but when i meet a girl thats totally fun to be around and to talk to and shes really cute and just a really gnarly girl, and i just talk to her and get to know her and try to be her friend, it all seems to work out! i guess what im trying to say is i need to stop trying. I just need to take life as it comes and make sure i do what i need to do to get by and my life will play out just as God intended it to! I just wish that i could permanently apply this rule to my life. I wish that my initial reaction would be to just go with it instead of fighting it.

I met a girl very recently and though i havent hung out with her besides when i met her, i feel like im really beginning to know her. Its kind of a funny feeling but i cant say i dont like it. what this has to do with the beginning of this blog is that i took it slow. i didnt go into this whole thing by saying hey i think your really cute and cool we should date, im just talking to her and hangin out with her and getting to know who she really is befor i decide if i like her or if she would just be a really rad friend to have. I cant complain about anything though so thats all i have to say

i hate staying up late

2008-06-02T00:28:00.000-07:00

so today was incredible. i had to dress up as a gorilla and stand in the blazing sun to hand out bananas to the new 7th graders :/ thats what i get for volunteering for the jr high ministry. I was light headed for a good hour haha. But then i got to go to merge and listen to our new, amazing pastor. After losing Ryan i was pretty convinced that no one would ever be able to win me over...well i was wrong. He immediatly took hold of my heart and i can understand exactly why God has put him in my life. im so stoked to see what he has to offer and how he will change my life and the lives of all of my fellow students at merge. We then had some time to hang out with Nathan and get to know him and his family. i really connected with his daughter Breanna! she seems really cool and she has an amazing heart. she played a song she wrote and im in awe, she completely dominates my music abilities haha. i really hope to get to know her and her entire family better. i cant wait for Hume Lake to come so i can get away and spend some quality time with my best friend, Jesus Christ. im also going to get to hang with chris metzger who i really miss hanging out with :( but i got to hang with him today :) the Maples fam with be there also which an exciting thing to think about! only 6 more days!!!!!!!

"now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see." Heb. 11:1

2008-05-21T15:21:00.000-07:00

My whole life I have wondered where I belong and who I am. I constantly question my social status and my personality because I want to know who I am. I am often asked what is wrong because I look sad. I finally figured out that nothing is wrong, quite the opposite actually. God has given me so much that I'm only beginning to scratch the surface of how blessed I really am.

On December 3, 2007, I turned my life over to God. I've never been a depressed kid or even thought that I was unlucky but at that moment, that single time in my life, it all hit me. Everything around me began to spin and it seemed like I had been thrown into some sort of animated movie. The colors of everything around me began to get brighter and everything began to make sense. From that moment on I decided that for the rest of my life, I will spread God's word. I went to dinner with Ryan Guard not too long after and shared my dream of being a pastor. For the rest of the night he swayed between being totally stoked for me and trying to scare me out of the thought. He told me it needed to be the only job I could ever imagine doing.

Since then I've been back and forth more than a ping pong ball during an intense match and yet nothing excites me more than sharing my savior. Lately I've been doing a lot of extra work in my graphic design class and my teacher is really pushing for me to pursue that as a career. I've been really into it and it has crossed my mind numerous times but no matter what, ministry is always in the back of my mind waving to me.

God definately has a plan for me, whether it be ministry or graphic design or water polo, the big man upstairs knows exactly whats going on! I've experienced just about every pastor Cornerstone has to offer and they all have some great things going through their minds and some crazy outlooks and I can't help but wish that it was me up on stage. I can picture myself up there walking around and jumping up and down and getting all into it and probably scaring the people that are listening to me a little bit but isn't that what it's all about? Isn't ministry about having an emotional connection to what you are sharing with the audience or even the 5 people watching and listening?

Another thing to add to my lack of anything to do

2008-05-20T23:49:00.000-07:00

I've been spending an increasingly large amount of time doing absolutely nothing lately. I feel like its mostly my fault. I've spread myself too thin that I can't balance it all. Between finals, church 4 days a week, hanging out with 3 or 4 different groups of friends and finding ways to get out of doing homework, I'm overwhelmed. I've talked to a couple people that i really respect and they have all given me some extremely helpful advice, but i just feel like im having a hard time with it. Now that midweek church is dying down and I'm down to only 2 days a week, i have even more to do. I'm really hoping that summer will be helpful in cleaning my slate and giving me a fresh start to balance my time better. Unfortunately 3 of the people i respect and look up to most in my life are all leaving. Travis is gone until the end of August, and Ryan and Keira will be leaving between late June and early July. I understand that Andrew will still be here but its hard to go from having 4 people who I can look up to and ask questions and hang out with to only having one and only being able to call or email Ryan. Maybe I'm over reacting and I'll handle it fine when the time comes but im really struggling with the thought of it right now. Anyway, its late so I will continue my neverending train of thought soon!