Words and music by Bob Hartman (of Petra)
Based on Psalm 95:7-8, Hebrews 3:13

(Chorus)
Don't let your heart be hardened - don't let your love grow cold
May it always stay so childlike - may it never grow too old
Don't let your heart be hardened - may you always know the cure
Keep it broken before Jesus, keep it thankful, meek, and pure

May it always feel compassion - may it beat as one with God's
May it never be contrary - may it never be at odds
May it always be forgiving - may it never know conceit
May it always be encouraged - may it never know defeat

May your heart be always open - never satisfied with right
May your heat be filled with courage and strengthened with all might

Let His love rain down upon you
Breaking up your fallow ground
Let it lossen all the binding
Till only tenderness is found

A. Full time student, don’t work, so bear with me in this somewhat goofy example. I use Pepsi points to buy MP3’s off Amazon.com (sorry, there’s a Pepsi cap on my desk, inspiration comes from all around). 1 song costs 5 points, and 1 bottle of Pepsi gives only 1 point. So let’s say I want to make a folder with my top 25 songs in it. How many points will I need and how much will that cost me in bought Pepsi if each bottle is $1.59 + ten cent deposit. This would be expressed this way:

P (1.59 + 0.10) = C

First we figure how many points needed to get 25 songs.

P = 25 * 5

P = 125 points needed to get 25 songs.

Then

125 (1.59 + 0.10) = C

125 * 1.69 = $211.25 spent on Pepsi and music.

I had gravy for breakfast and went back to bed 'cause it was early. Apparently, this will do something to a mind. Something twisted, to boot.

I had a dream while slumbering half the 4th of July away. ;Twas strange and in some ways more hideous than I care to imagine. It started with me being IN a game like Kotor. I remember choosing a save game that was on Dantooine. In my party were two droids, that evil droid you find along the way in the real game and an R2 unit. I had the most AWESOME dark blue bladed double sided lightsaber with a blue see through handle. Oh yeah baby. It was awesome.

So I'm wandering around this big building that looks like some sort of mall. I know there's this Luke Skywalker enounter set to happen. Now, understand I am IN the game, not dreaming I'm playing. So I see everything as I see it in real life. So I see Luke down the hall talking to Obi-Wan's ghost...in his orange flightsuit. :-D I decided then to change it to Qui-Gon's ghost and take Obi-Wan's ghost for my own...so now I've got Obi-Wan's ghost telling me that Luke is looking for force sensitives.

I walk by Luke pretending I don't know who the heck he is...straight into a conference room where these people are watching a Star Trek movie...or something...I'm not clear, there was just something Trekkie in the Force at that point. I'm thinking Captain Janeway was there, I was trying to repair a terminal for her? Something weird like that.

So Luke was following me apparently, as he looks in the doorway. I smile and say, "What do you want, Skywalker?" I don't even get his reply...cause I take off running away. My evil droid says something about asking for a hard fight by running, but I don't care...I keep running and force jumping up flights of stairs...curve around to jump down another set of stairs...and stop because I have to go to the bathroom.

Yes. Reality intrudes most mercilessly. I go into this bathroom in the dream and there's three sections. One for men, women and people that aren't sure. LOL. Whatever. And there's a deli. I told you things got really twisted. I go into a stall but have trouble fitting this small stall because I'm wearing my long leather coat (my real life coat..it goes down to the floor all Vadery). I hear these two guys come in to talk to the deli dude about a "search for a missing girl..." which is me. So I know my time is short, Luke will no doubt sense me in here. I decide not to even go cause it's taking too long to figure out where to hang my coat.

Sure enough, Luke looks inside the bathroom. (NOT my stall, I was washing my hands) so I say, "Could you wait a minute?" LOL. He agrees and goes into the hallway to wait. I remember thinking something along the lines that this was never addressed in movies...and then I woke up because I really had to, ya know. Pop for breakfast and all, I should know better than to drink before sleeping. Hehehe...my body got sick of hinting via dreamstate, I guess.

So there you have it, a perfectly good star wars dream ruined. I could not escape the Jedi because...I had to go. *slaps forehead* What a dignified dream to have, huh? Yeesh. Meditate on this I will, and ponder the hidden meaning.