nerd up

thanks to a neat reply from tamara to wally, i now know my nerd quotient:

i am nerdier than 6% of all people. are you nerdier? click here to find out

thanks tamara!

wuv...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

John 13:34-35 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

Romans 13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.

1John 3:11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

this message of loving one another is really heavy on my heart this morning. Christ says that the greatest commandment is to love God with everything you've got and then to also love everyone else around you. by sticking to this very simple principal, so much heartache and stress and problems and negativity can be avoided. it is a recipe for peace and happiness... and the only ingredient is love.

mmm... asiah!

i don' think that it would be right of me to have this site of random writings without including something about asiah. asiah is my lovely fiancée and she is the wonderfulest, purdifulest, bestest, adorablest person in the whole wide world! i love her so very much and am terribly excited to marry her! i feel absolutely complete when i am with her. so much so that when i'm not around her, i ache inside because a part of me is missing. i never ever ever could have possibly imagined that i could care so deeply about someone and that they could feel the same way about me. it is completely by the hand of God that we are together and i will thank him and praise him for her for the rest of my life. so many times, God has used asiah to bring me joy. it seems like every day. i am amazed by her constantly. the way she smiles at me and looks at me. the way she loves me and holds me real close. her complete trustworthiness and her ability to cheer me up with one phrase: "i love you, troy." i am so deeply honored that God would entrust her into my care. i know i sound all mushy, but so much of the world has a negative view on love and being in love. i want to be someone that stands up and says that love is the most amazing feeling and that true love can only come from God. i don't deserve her at all, but i will cherish her until the day that i die. just a little peek into troy's heart.

ja son up ton

jason singing "where is tamara? where is taaamara, o father?" : P

i know... it's been a week since this happened, but i wanted to at least mention jason upton. last friday, asiah and i went to see jason upton in elkhart. it was really good. i was a little surprised though, he mainly played new songs (which i don't care for as much as the older ones). the temperature of pretty much the whole concert was deep, mellow worship, which i enjoy, however i was expecting higher energy. God had a different plan i guess ;) anyhoo, when the first song started he was just kinda lightly tickling the keys and then started singing "enter in" over and over and within 10 seconds, the hair on my arms and neck stood straight up (its doing it right now as i retell this). the spirit just fell, right then and there, within the first 10 seconds! the rest of the concert was pretty good, but i was having a hard time staying focused. its easy for me to get distracted when things aren't high energy around me. i get bored pretty easily. darned sanguine personality! but overall it was good. he did sing the tail end of the song "teach me how to pray" which i was hoping he would sing that one, its one of my favorites. i sang along to that one. it was overall very nice. jason is a very personal, caring worship leader and you can see the love of God just radiate from him. he is certainly blessed and anointed for what he does. i highly recommend him to anyone that loves spirit and truth worshiping like i do. no gimmicks. just worship.