The Youth Unite: Jazz

Jasmine is the princess of Aladdin’s world and this Jasmine is the princess of Joe’s world. She is truly a princess as well. She comes from a fun loving family that consists of a lot of strange people. Jasmine herself though, not so strange. Very cool actually. First of all she wears Converse. What else could you actually want from a girl. Then she is very pretty. Long golden lochs of hair fill her head making her very beautiful. She is a quiet person though. She doesn’t speak up too much though, and she doesn’t participate in games too much, but she enjoys scatter ball which is all we ask of her. Don’t think she is a push over though, you anger her and she will come back at you like a chimpanzee. WACHAWOO!!! Otherwise she is a calm person keeping to herself most times. Wow, I’m really not sure what else to say about Jazz, if you have suggestions, give me a comment or two. Gracias y ciao.

The Youth Unite: Joe

And now we can finally return to our previously scheduled program: the Youth Unite. Today's special guess, and he is quite the special one, the last of the Abbate siblings, it's Joe. Joe is a small unmeaningful child full of creepy gooey things. I don't know the name of them. It has been known that Joe has an obsession with Elmo the sesame street character. What isn't probably known is that his obsession has gone far enough to actually kidnap the character and is hiding him in a small puppet ring around his waist. Joe is compulsive and scary at most times and he has known to lash out with a pop in the face. The only known weakness of Joe's is a pie. Joe loves pie. His favorite flavor: pie flavored pie. A simple pie in the face will take Joe off of his feet and render him absolutely helpless. Because of Joe's smallness he can creep up on the most unspuspecting victims and squeeze the bajongers out of them. Believe me, I am a victim. He seems to appreciate the fuzzy sweater vest as a nice resting area. BEWARE: DO NOT WEAR FUZZY SWEATER VESTS AROUD JOE. Joe definately has some resemblences to his brother. In that they are both very, very loud. Impossibly loud actually. And very random. Joe also can eat anything he wants too and lots of it. He has a black hole for a stomach and just consumes things by the table. And when it does come to food he becomes extremely territorial. Beware stealing food from Joe as well. The thing that Joe probably hates the most which is the one thing that seperates him from the rest of youth group is that he hate POTO.

Alright can you say LOL. Because I was actually just having a lot of fun with that. Actually Joe is not really like that. That would be Joe in the extreme sense. It's true he likes Elmo, but he's not filled with creepy gooey things or anything like that. Actually, Joe is a very fun person to be around. He makes games much more lively. How me might be competitive, he comptetes well and is a great athlete. He is also very considerate of prayer as well. You can tell he will be a person who will grow up with a strong relationship with God. He's also considerate of other people a lot. He would never let anybody be left out of the loop. A great friend. And a good hugger. I can now safely say I have given you the REAL Joe.

FEAR THE MANGO!!!

Okay I have a phobia and guess what, its not of mangos. In fact my phobia doesn't actually have a name. So being the totally dorky person I am I decided I would mix up some latin and the word phobia and make up a name. Amiciticoreophbia. Amiciti=friends. Coreo=to lose. If you couldn't guess my fear in life is losing my friends. You know there are many ways to lose a friend, I think I have experienced many of them. Death is one of them that I haven't experienced, however I nearly did lose a friend to death just recently. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. How would you feel if one of your most comforting friends called you and said they had only six months to live? What would you say? Then there is the seperation factor. It happens when one of your closer friends takes off to another adventure and you are left behind to finish this one. It's saddening. This happens a lot more often and it hurts immensely. When I found out my pastor's family was moving I was crushed inside and words couldn't describe my grief my sadness over the loss of one of my best friends. I let tears flowthat night and it still wasn't enought to satiate my terror. Sometimes though you can let friendships fade. You can let the strength and closeness in friends drift off. Distance can help make this happen but so can laziness. I vow to never allow it happen again, but sometimes I think I already lost that battle. People will tell me that no matter the distance that I will always have a special connection and link to my friends. This is true, but there is still overwhelming sadness for the lost of time with that person. And what if that speical link is also broken? What if one of you deserts the other? What kind of sorrow will the left behind be left to feel? I read some stuff on the witness protection agency, and learned that the witnesses in these places have to get up leave all family and friends and never see them all again and start anew with nobody. I can't...I won't imagine a life having to leave everything that I have gained this year. God has given me the greatest friends that I could even hope for.

Summer is approaching ever so fast. I'm terrified of what will happen. As I have made closer friends this year than I have ever had I am determined to spend this summer with all of them. I don't want it to waste away without seeing all of these precious people in my life. And then comes the even scarrier obstacle in my life. Next year I will be a senior. I will have only one year left, and then what? What will happen? Will be forced to leave everyone? I think I would die.
Just recently I heard a great message from an inspiring friend. He preached about love. He made me realize that we need to have great love for our friends. He recited one my favorite verses. John 15:13 Greater love has no man that this, that he lay down his life for his friends. He said that the greatest love ever shown was not a romantic one but the one that friends share. I know of a story about this. Some of you may have heard of Kingdom Hearts. In the second one you may realize that as Sora finally found Kairi he was much more worried about finding Riku. It would seem as if his love for Riku may have been greater. It was an emotinal moment when he finally found him. They were very close friends, and Sora was a character with quite the heart for his friends. God has definately softenend my heart this year and given me a great love for all of my friends. I find myself so often thinking about them, especially the newer ones. I love you all with great passion and I don't want to imagine ever losing a single one of you. So for all my friends reading this, thank you so much for just being there.

Prayer to God: God you are the most Awesome. Thank you so much for the amazing gifts you have sent to me through my young years. Please Lord never let these sweet precious people ever leave my life. I love them all way too much. Thank you God for being an awesome friend as well. You are comforting and YOU are love. Thank you...for the BEST friends ever.