New Revelation from Valentines Day

Please excuse the poor use of past and present tenses, I get really confused sometimes about how some things should be said.
Yes Valentines Day is past now but I was thinking a little more about it. Before I talk about my revelation from Valentines Day I want to tell you about a story one of my friends who is also in youth ministry told me, this is a story/parable that he shared with me from his life. It wasn't related to Valentines Day but it is related to what I will get into later.
Anyway my friend told me story about how he had done a number of speaking engagements one month and just needed some time out to go on a bike ride with God to refuel. So he had set everything aside so that he could have some God time, and he was really pumped to just get on his bike and go. Well on his bike ride one of the youth that he mentors is on a bike ride too and buddies up with my friend. My friend began to get flustered because he couldn't shake the kid off. My friend really wanted to have some 'God time' and felt like this kid was infringing on it. They end up spending the day together and during their time together they visit an old gothic style church and tour around town.
The day ends and my friend returns home bumbed that he wasn't able to get in his 'God time'. It is then that he has this revelation, God reminds him of the verse in the Bible where it says; 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.' Matthew 25:35, 37, 40. My friend shared with me that it was then that he came to the realization that spending time with that boy was spending time with God.
So I was thinking about Valentines Day and how I had had those two teenage girls over from the Annex. At the time I was really dry spiritually and needed to have some 'God time', yet I hadn't really had a lot of time to get out and walk or I just didn't feel like reading my Bible or praying. Yet, it was during my time with these girls that I really felt like God was in our midst, that he was with us. I couldn't really explain why because I didn't do anything super spirit filled!?! I have come to realize now that God was indeed their! I remembered my friend's story and came to the realization that I was serving Him just by spending time with these girls. Making them feel special and loved. Oh man God is incredible!

How to post pictures and redesign my background to something original?

So, yes I tried following the directions of how to d/l the software to post pictures. I did everything correctly but I still can't figure out how to access the software to post them. Frankly I probably didn't even need the software and have now cluttered my dad's comp even more. Also I want to redesign the background on here, can anyone help me? I feel so computer illiterate! I want to be able to do this but can't for lack of knowledge or ability....but I am open and willing to learn! Pleas help me!
PS If you are someone who happens to read my blog but don't really know me feel free to post at any time. Oh man I feel really odd saying that cuz probably no one really looks on here other than, Ron, Esther, Mike, Johanna and sometimes Tiana. Not that they aren't important cuz they are very important, can someone give me a shovel to dig this hole even deeper.....

Valentines Day is great!

So I'm really awake right now and feeling the itch to blog again. Tonight I had two girls from the Annex (drop-in) over for a little Valentine celebration. I picked up the first girl and we talked a little bit about what was 'new' with me, I told her about how I had applied to Covenant House in Toronto to be an outreach worker. She got this worried look on her face and said 'you can't leave', and I mumbled something about how I needed to find work so that I could make a living. She then told me "I was the reason she came to the Annex. If I wasn't their she didn't even stay". Wow! Who knew!?! Oh man that makes me feel good! Sometimes I don't understand why people love me?
At the end of the night I dropped her off at her house and her mother invited me in. It was late but I knew that her mother wanted to meet me. I have spoken to her mother on the phone before and she is great to talk to! Her and her mother come from Croatia, so her mom has this thick accent. I love it! I know she must find it lonely living in Sarnia with no connections, except for the people she goes to college with and any contact she keeps with those from her native country. I could kind of tell also by the fact that she talked my ear off on the phone the one time I talked to her. She is such a sweet women, very witty and well informed about what goes on in the world. As I sat and talked with her she began talking about different countries she had been to and what her homeland is like. I got all these pictures in my head of what things must look like, the rolling hills, the Adriatic sea and I began to get the itch to travel again! I so want to just find someone to back pack with and go traveling (ahhh I'm listening to some techno off of msn radio and it reminds me of my trip to England). Anyway just before I left their house the girl's mother sent me out with a loaf of fresh baked bread as a thank you for taking care of her little girl. Such a sweet gesture! They don't have much but she gave me what they could. I love fresh baked bread!
I know that some day I will travel, I don't know when or how but it will happen. God has confirmed it with me and something happened at Christmas that was a confirmation. Every year my mom's side of the family draws names fora gift exchange, this year my uncle Carsten and I had each others name. The following was the accompanying card to my gift from him:

A Joyous Christmas Adrienne,
From Germany, a designer gift that is all the rage with the 20's something's in Winnipeg! [my uncle lives in Manitoba]
But that's not why or how it came to be that I am sending this gift to you. I have your name and so I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to take what I know about you and lead me because I don't know everything about you. I was hoping to find a gift you could enjoy for a life time. In one of those spur of the moment type curiosity decisions, I believe the HS led me into a store I had never been into before and within a few minutes I had this gift in my hand talking to an attractive 21 year old blond female clerk ( I thought she could help since my niece is a similiar type - and she did indeed!). What I was holding in my hand was arty, beautiful, practicul, smooth, clever, unique (because it is under patent and copyrighted a highly protected limited quantity production); pretty to display, fun, can be an heirloom; and has the added benefit of being a healthy travel item (when used you can avoid diseases by contamination).
Your gift is a set of personal ice cubes. Put them in the freezer and voila[he spelt this wrong 'viola']!
All the best : Uncle Carsten

Well because my uncle lives in Manitoba he wasn't at the family get together to see me open it. As I was opening the gift I was kind of cringeing at the prospect of opening a set of 'ice cubes'! How was I going to give the proper reaction to the rest of the family without looking ungrateful? Mom has plastic liquid filled ice-cubes that I could easily take with me when I travel and I find them rather ugly. So I unwrapped the sharply wrapped rectangle. As I peeled the paper back I was confronted by six brightly coloured glass cubes suspended in a piece of gray foam. These cubes are gorgeous, they are transparent glass with brightly coloured liquid inside! Very classy, arty and schiek! I let out a sigh of relief of not recieving a crappy gift. I then stated the worries I had to my relatives and they confirmed with me that they had the same worries as well. Although I stated that I didn't know when I would ever be able to travel. My younger cousin Brittany then piped up that as soon as she is done university her and I could travel together. This is something I am going to hold her to, I think that she would be a great traveling partner! Oooh I love her so dearly! As jelous as i can be of her sometimes because of her beauty and school smarts, she is the closests thing I have to a sister. She is my mom's twin's daughter. Anyway enough for now.

Curious George and Evolution

Way back in 2000 I bought myself a Curious George journal. I thought I was being orignal at the time because Curious George had kind of gone out of style and instead of fixating on Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse or Hello Kitty I chose the less common. I really liked his cute little face and the happy yellow background that was used on every page. I still do but have grown up a little more since then.
As I began writting in my journal I started thinking about CG's chararcter traits, how he lived with the man in the yellow hat and all of the little adventures that CG went on. He took on the mannerisms and characteristics of a child. I began to think that maybe CG was meant to be a children's primer for the theory of evolution. A sly decoy to infiltrate children's brains towards one way of thought. I had forgotten this random thought until recently when I learned of the new resurgance of the CG movie that is coming out soon.
I did a little bit of research on CG and it turns out that he was created in 1940 Germany. I have been to Germany and have relatives from Germany. My experiences have shown that it is a non-religious country. I have also read books on how the Nazi's controlled religion and that makes me think about how anti-God that country is, it would stand to reason that CG would have been created in Deutchland.
I read a quote from the author and creator of CG and she said;
"He became very much a figure of his own. He knew what he could do and couldn't do. He became a person," Margret Rey said.
What rings out to me from this quote is 'he became a person'. I think that is true! He took on more than a monkey's antics but more of a child's curiosity. So I rest my case that Curious George is a model for evolution.
Yes I know, I have too much time on my hands and I am probably going a little over board.