Sunday 10/25

Since college, things have been crazy. Working full time, keeping up with my few bills that I have, unfortunately awaiting the arrival of tuition bills, spoiling the most amazing nephew ever, and loving everyone that’s ever been there for me. With that being said, here it goes.. I have lost a lot of friendships in the past, and a lot of people I never thought I could live without. Unfortunately…. times have changed, and it’s like a whole new world. I have seen myself grow from a young child, to a young man, and I only hope that I grow more in to the man God would have me be. A lot of times in life we get impatient, and want our God to be a “right now” God. I have come to the realization, that this won’t ever happen. Ever. Things don’t happen on a spur-of-the-moment basis. They take time. Just like the old saying, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” or whatever it is…… That’s how our lives are. God didn’t just randomly say one day “Ok, Kyle, here’s the rest of your life”. Number one, I just don’t think I could handle that… Number 2, I don’t WANT to know what the rest of my life looks like. Sure, He knows my life already, but I think that in this whole process, day by day, our ever faithful creator, is slowly shaping, and molding what is to be our “life” here on Earth. More times than none, I think to myself.. why can’t I just know when this or that is going to happen, but I have to sit down and say, hey, let Him do what He wants to do, and I promise, it’s gonna be worth it. The biggest blessing for me, is knowing that someday, I may have the life that I, Kyle Mancuso, wants, but if I don’t, I couldn’t complain, simply for the fact that, my life was thought of, and planned, before I was ever even thought of.

With all of that out, I hope you guys have had a great weekend, and have a great week ahead.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.”

Holler.

Just some randomness..

I walked into the office this morning, knowing there wouldn’t be much to do… so i sit at my desk, and start “stumbling”. (stumble upon is a toolbar for firefox that allows you to just “stumble” upon random pages at the click of a button.) After a few pointless stumbles, I came a cross a site with some tech support issues. Here is one:

• Customer: “My machine won’t do anything.”
• Tech Support: “What’s on the screen right now?”
• Customer: “It’s frozen, it’s showing my Windows desktop.”
• Tech Support: “Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete, tell me what happens.”
• Customer: (taptaptap) “Nothing.”
• Tech Support: “Did you hit all of them at once?”
• Customer: “Umm…just a second.” (taptaptap) “I did that time. Nothing happened.”
• Tech Support: “Try it again.”
• Customer: (taptaptap) “No, it’s just sitting there.”
• Tech Support: “Move the mouse around. What happens?”
• Customer: “Nothing, the arrow doesn’t move.”
• Tech Support: “Ok, last try, hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete again.”
• Customer: “Still nothing.”
• Tech Support: “Hit your numlock key. Does the light flash?”
• Customer: “No.”
• Tech Support: “Ok, you’re going to have to shut your computer off. Just press the power button, wait for a couple of seconds, and turn it on again.”
• Customer: “I’ve heard that’s bad for Windows.”
• Tech Support: “Um, well, you can’t do anything else, right?”
• Customer: “No.”
• Tech Support: “Well, you can’t hurt it any worse then.”
• Customer: “But I’ve heard it’s bad for Windows to just shut it off without shutting down first.”
• Tech Support: “Yes, but it’s locked up. There’s nothing else you can do.”
• Customer: “Will it hurt my Windows?”
• Tech Support: “Probably no worse than it already was by locking up.”
• Customer: “Well…ok…but if it doesn’t work, will you come over and fix it for me?”

You can view the rest of these here -> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_os.shtml

Have a wonderful day and God Bless!

Long week so far

Hello everyone! Hope everything is going good for you all. I know it sure is for me. I have recently just been blessed with the opportunity to work with the HPC Dev Team on the building of the now HPC Online Web Campus. It is such an honor to be able to help out with this, as this is one of the coolest things ever. The web campus will be used to reach out to those who may not be able to make it to your traditional “Sunday morning service”..or in our case “Saturday OR Sunday services”. I have been paired up with the Lead Pastor of the online campus, Dan Ohlerking (you can find his link in my blogroll), to help create this next best thing since sliced bread. I believe, we as a church, should rise up, and answer to the call of the hurting, and reach out beyond our comfort zones, to help those in need. I would say this is called, umm…SERVOLUTION!? And servolution, is not only about handing out waters on an interstate exit ramp, or downtown. Servolution is about reaching those in need, which is what the Internet Campus is intended for. I hope to see all of you there, joining us for services tonight and every Saturday, and every Sunday morning at 10am CT. Thank you for all of your help and support!

You can check out the HPC Online site at www.healingplacechurch.org/webcampus

And you can find just about all of us on twitter!

Work

Wow, what an amazing week it has beeen. Spring break was pretty calm for me except for the fact that I had mid-terms. Other than that, work was pretty good, I just gotta find another way to make some steady income. Hopefully I can start doing some more installs and repairs and what not on the side. That should at least help me cover gas. I hope to soon be saving up money to buy a motorcycle too. No, not one of those really fast street bikes. I want to get a cruiser. I have been riding and practicing on my step-dads bike these last few weeks, and hopefully I can get one of my own soon. Well, It’s about time for me to head home and play some music. Hoep to see you guys back here reading, and hope I can motivate myself enough to start updating this more.

holler

I think you were taken for a reason.

Have you ever realized how God takes things from your life at random times? OR maybe people, from your life? This is not to punish you. But only to open for something greater. I believe there is a reason you are no longer in my life, and that would be so I can devote my whole life and my passion to the kids at PFS. Everyone of those kids is truly amazing. I know their not PFS but Zack Graeser and Dylan Fresina are two of the coolest kids i’ve ever met. Had the opportunity to play drums for HPC-St. Franny tonight, and also had the privelege of hanging with those two crazies. It is so great to see those children of God serving by doing what they love doing. Both of those kids are very talented and it’s an honor to play music with them. Tonight God really moved at Refuge in Franny. It’s so amazing cause it’s MAYBE like 20 kids, but WOW. He dfeinitely showed up and showed off. The whole point in saying all that is, I personally think it was better for me, because now I feel like I can focus my whole heart on the next generation.

And a side note…. I have the tv on in the background, and to see just some of the stuff they put on there now. South Park just happens to be on and wow, this is rediculous.

Anywho, I just had to share that blessing. Off to bed. Long week ahead.

holler

not the best wake up call…

Hi folks. I’ll try and keep this short and simple. All this week I had planned to take off this weekend because my brother was supposed to get married today. well…… that didnt happen. So I decided to take a little time for myself and cruise on up to lafayette. Don’t get me wrong, I had lots of fun last night, but this mornings wake up call is not what I really expected. You’ve all read about my step-dad’s brother in-law battling with cancer from my previous posts. Well, he spent all last week in the hospital and the doctors were going to try and send him home today so he could just rest and stuff. Unfortunatelly, he didn’t make it. Roy Katz passed away early this morning in Our Lady of The Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. I appreciate all of your thoughts and prayers as of now, but please, continue to pray for the rest of the family as this is a hard time for all of us. Thank you guys so much. I love you all.

It is through Christ, and Christ only that we get our strenght.

Phil 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength”

In no time at all, you were gone.

It seems strange how some of the most important things to us, in life, just seem to disappear for no reason. without question, or second thought…seems like. why do we let them? I think that God places many things in our life not only to see how we react to them, but to see how much we miss them when their gone. There have been many people, and opportunities that I’ve come encounter with in the last year, and it almost seems as if none of them, are here today as I wish they were. I guess that’s just one of those things we have to learn to live with. If I could go back in time, knowing the outcome of it, and change what it would have been…I totally would. It seems like so much hurt comes from these things. The only thing I can do now, is pray, and hope the Lord shows me why it happened, and for what reasons.

On the other hand, life is pretty grand I guess. Still in school, working a part time (almost full time) job at Radioshack. Experiencing many more NEW opportunities, and hoping that I can fulfill them to the best of His interest. If any of you read my last post, there have been thoughts of moving away, to further my education to more of what I want to do. These thoughts are still brewing, no decisions have been made yet, and may not be made for a while. But for the time being, all prayers and encouragement would be GREATLY appreciated.

“Your love, is lifting me higher.”

holler

My God is an awesome God.

What’s up, folks? Long time no post. Sorry about that. I will keep this short and sweet, but I just wanted to say how amazing it is to be a part of what the Lord is doing.  He has blessed me in so many ways lately, that it’s just unbelievable. I love just being able to serve. Thanks to all of you for the prayers and support in these not so easy times. Update on the family. Step-dad’s brother in-law is still battling sickness. He can barely do chemo(sp) cause it’s making him sick now, and we’re just hoping and praying that God will do His work in him. I’ve had the opportunity to start doing some jobs for myself making money on the side, and I just pray that God would bless me with this because I could definately use the extra money right now. As far as work goes, it’s pretty cool. Being able to work for one of the most well-known electronic stores nation wide is awesome. I get to do what I love doing, and making money doing it. Still keep me and the family in your prayers, and thanks for all the support. My friends are amazing and I would not trade them for the world. “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13.

holler

Decisions

So I have been really thinking about a lot lately and REALLY having to make some tough decisions. I only have about 8 months of school left and I will be done possibly for good. But that’s the tricky part….do I want that to be the end? or do I want to obtain more school in another field of study. I’m getting my Associate’s Degree in Information Technology but I feel like that’s not really want I want to do for the rest of my life. Already having agreed to spending $24,000 on school…I have to finish. My heart lately has been really geared more towards music and writing/creating. One option that I know I have, is moving and spending a little more than what I’m spending now, to do another two year program. I would be getting my degree in music production or something of that nature, but I see now that that’s a little more relevant to what I want to do.

It’s a lot of decision making on my end but I’m just gonna keep picking up this guitar and having praise time with Jesus and hopefully He shows me where I am called to go. I hope all you guys are doing good and I know it’s a little late but I hope everyone is alrtight from Gustav. Now, to prepare for the worst of Ike. Has anyone heard the latest on it?

Anyway, keep reading and I’ll keep writing folks. Have fun!

Haha, oh yeah and I took a minute to watch some Ronald Jenkees on youtube, wow….hillarious and very inspirational. He really know how to jam on that keyboard and he always has words of encouragement. Check it out sometime!

Holler

“Words”

By Raphael Barges. My friend that works at Disney wrote this on his myspace blog and I knew I just had to steal it. It’s also been a while, and I appologize, but things should start picking back up now that “Gustav” has passed. Now we just have to pray that “ike” has mercy on South La. Anywho….

“From the Pit of the Heart

Today, while at work, a customer approached me. He was sort of ruggard, but his smile set his personality. He inquired about how I felt and like any other good Disney employee, I responded in the most Highly energetic voice and said “Wonderful.” He asked about who I was was and where I was from. He was so genuine and down to earth about life. As he left me, he said something that stuck in my head and remained there. He said, “When you examine your words, You discover your heart.”

As he walked off, my mind just sat there, digesting those words of wisdom. You see alot of times we get into the habit of “Tellin’ it like it is” or “Speaking our minds” and the funny part is we speak ourselves into a whole bunch of trouble. We learned in kindergarden that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” We soon grew up and learned that that statement was false. ”Names” can ignite a fight, long rivalries, and even be the motive for murder.

Our words are as sharp as sticks and as hard as stones. Instead of using it for violent acts of verbal hate, lets use it to build up a foundation. Compliment someone and set a cornerstone in there life. Encourage someone and use that was a pillar for one to lean on.

Friendship is a strong key for survival. Most people would agree that, we all need people, to function properly. A simply smile from a friend could make their day or who knows, it could save them from doing something stupid. Call up someone and tell them you wanna hang out.

These are all random acts from the heart, we should all be more concious of this. Forgiveness can create a bridge back to people we have lost connection with and it can mend a deep wound.

My prayer is that, we all learn how important our choice words are and how to express our hearts without misusing them.

raph”

Holler