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Monday, February 06, 2006

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:28:44 GMT

Hey there, it still works.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:51:36 GMT

WOW, God is gracious and merciful and he works wonderful things in people's hearts. I want to come before you guys and admit that lately my attitude and my actions have been a bit on the loose side, but I am here humbly asking for all offended's forgiveness, I tend to be a very expressive person when I write, and sometimes that can be bad and other times that can be good, but the main thing is that I keep my focus on Christ and my worship grows with Him stronger and stronger each and every day. I have been struggling with several different areas lately and God is really showing me how I need to calm down and really and fully believe with my heart that He is in absolute control and no matter what the future holds, He has a place in Heaven prepared for me and I cannot fret over the mineute things of this world in hope of gaining earthly happiness, for that in itself is vain. And I do not want my life to account for vanity or a life wasted for the Lord. Who specifically is the epitome of perfection. At church God is so real to me and in ways I never thought were possible, Dr. Payne is truly a God fearing messenger of Christ and He is human, but with the ruling elders around him he is forced to be totally reconciled to the Word, and I honestly love and cherish that accountability that is more often than most found in Presbyterian Churches. (I am in the PCA branch) And as I study the entire spectrum of God's Holy Word, I understand the necessity for a truly verse by verse study pattern and the need of tying every word together in one message. Church is not about repetition, nor about shallow babblings from a white haired man, but rather, about the grace and mercy and justice of an Almighty God who saved me, Jonathan Norton, and forgave me for everything I ever will do, as I end this log, I want to put this on here... "for you were bought with a price, so glorify God with your body." I Corinthians 6:20

Sola Scriptura,
Jon Norton

Monday, October 10, 2005

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:56:03 GMT

God is merciful and gracious, I want to extend my sincere apologies for the strong and hateful post that I left on my xanga site this past wednesday night. I was caught up in frustration and was weary, I should not have wrote the things I wrote and I am sincerely sorry, and I humbly ask for your forgiveness, each of you, I am sorry to cause you if any to stumble. I pray that you can find it in your hearts to forgive this humble sinner.

In Christ,
Jon

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:02:40 GMT

Wow, amidst the fight, amidst the rumors, amidst the hatred that follows me from what seems every direction I find myself clinging on to the happiness of the pleasure of the Lord. As I took the day off and Evan ran the shop I went and played a round of golf this morning then I went to Roopville, GA and got some parts for the tractor and brought them back to Douglasville, and put them on and decided to cut the fields at the farm, and as I was inside that tractor for over 4 hours straight I had lots of time to consider the things and the people around me and realize that God takes us through challenges and trials, and many if not all the times we go through these times its not on what happens so much as how we react and how it changes us individually. I thank God for parents who have done nothing in my life but point me to Christ, and show me how He is the support and the confidant in which I can trust everything I am to.

I am now a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. This past sunday, I along with my family and my precious girl friend Nakitta joined Grace Church in Douglasville. I am still in quest for the perfect BMW which is turning pretty interesting since Nakitta has decided that she wants one as well as I do.

Oh, I think someone hates me, hmm, why? hmm... let it go...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:36:39 GMT

OK, out of all of my friends there is one, and that one, has done the following for me:
He has been stupid with me, he has laughed at me ruining his truck, he has joked with me, he has cut up with me, he has raced me down many many gravel roads at speeds most get scared on pavement! He has worked on cars with me, and I with him, we have spent many hours under the hoods of each others cars, we have had spiritually upbuilding relationship as well, a true friend is not a friend who goes on with whatever you do, a true friend tells you when you are wrong and puts out his arm and helps bring you back up, risking his own success. But when I was at the bottom of everything, he handed me his arm and said to come with him and hang out, so I did, and as things progressed, our friendship grew and grew, and that was two years ago. And last Saturday at 2:00pm my best friend, Matt Hadden exchanged vows with his lovely girlfriend, Amanda Taylor. Now Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hadden are on their honeymoon, and I am so grateful to God for using Matt in my life, he has been there through and through, always pushed me to be better than I was, always cared to give time to me. And one day, he will be my best man, because he is.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:22:25 GMT

OK, so last night, I got off work, fueled up on gas for a measly $2.39 a gallon for gas and that was the cheapest in town! I am so unbelieving of the prices of gasoline in our time! When I got my driver's license 5 or 6 years ago it was not uncommon to see gas for .58, .59 a gallon, and now we are at 4 times that! is that not insane! Over time things change and yet really, I dont drive as much as I used to, I dont know if its situation or what but I just dont. I bought my old green truck in January of 2003 and it had 48,000 miles on it, and it now registers in with 158,000 miles. Wow, you know, thats crazy stuff! In two and a half years! After I left the QT miserably burning a hole in my account I went to the nextel store to see if they would be able to swap my phone out yet, since its been messing up and they have not had a replacement for it for some time now. Well, they did not have it, so Nakitta and I perused around the mall, visiting various shoe stores and then we left and ate a nice salad from Chik-fil-A and went to the LifeWay Christian book store and I explained the various textual differences in the recieved text (textus receptus) and the alexandrian text (NU Text) and explained the necessity of verses that are missing in the NIV and other modern versions. Then we left and went to blockbuster to get a few, well, a few turned into 5, and we watched the Bernie Mac flik "Guess Who" and it was a pretty funny movie and the basis was on this couple and white guy engaged to a black girl and they go and meet the girl's parents and they do not know that she is dating (or that she is engaged ) to a white guy and seeing the way that dad's get protective over their daughters. It was a pretty funny movie. Then I went home and meeandered into the most comfortable bed in the world and as I layed there I thought about that verse that says in everything give thanks, and there is a lot of challenging things going on right now in my life and things that I wish were not there, but nonetheless I layed there and thanked God for everything he has given me, including trials and tribulations, and did this until I fell asleep and its so wonderful sleeping to the thought and praise of Almighty God and knowing how much He has truly done for each of us as His children. May our focus never see us as the doer of great things, but may His name be Jesus Christ, for we are His renown.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:04:48 GMT

Last night Nakitta and I went down the the Norfolk Southern Inman Ramp to see her uncle. He is the op manager down there and is responsible for a ton of trailers getting in position and loaded onto the train via cranes and other apparatus, so its a neat experience seeing all this go on and especially at night. Most of their trailers are UPS freight and really makes you appreciate getting your package at all, even if its a day or so late. I cant count the times I have gotten mad at ups for an order that was late, when man, there is a lot that goes into all that stuff!!

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:50:13 GMT

These two girls rock!

Monday, June 20, 2005

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:05:37 GMT

Sometimes this world can be so hard and rough on us, and it shatters us externally and internally, we reak havoc due to our worrysome nature. Right now I am going through some of the deepest, hardest issues of my life and seeking to find out where I am supposed to be is an ongoing frustration, yet, I find hope in knowing that no matter where I am, and as long as I seek to be in the will of God, and taking His Word and inducing it into my life I am doing what He has for me to be doing. There has been many things in my life over the past two years of which I have had to give up and have changed from who I was. In 2003, I was neck deep in my own sin and wallowing around in utter sin. God still had his eye on me, and in late July of 2003, God began to break me, and did ever ever! I lost something in me earlier that summer. I had always been the guy that most women wanted their daughters to marry, at least in my church. But I had begun to cocoon myself and had basically shrivelled up, I was happier than most, making $16.50 an hour and loving what I did more than I can ever explain. Due to company loss of overhead, and the fact that I was the youngest Superintendant on the job, I was released and set out to find another way, I scrambled around, in frustration of losing one thing that mattered more to me than I can explain not with words, but with heart. I was seeking footing once again and in late July as I earlier stated, God began to work away at my heart. In rapid succession I broke up with my girl friend and quit my new job which was potential trouble in itself. Began attending the University of West Georgia and trying to find a foothole there, but was overwhelmed at the way that school found homosexuality to be a sincere form of a relationship and was propositioned by my anthropology teacher, which I found pretty discusting and wrong, which in turn made me re-evaluate my situation and stop attending the school. I then found a sure footed job working at a Ford Dealership right by Hartsfield-Jackson Airport working as a test driver for new Ford vehicles, and worked my way into a technician slot and worked and started Ford PTS school and worked and got my ASE certification and this entire time, really being distraught about some things in my life, in September of 2003 due to some things that had occured back in February of that year my Dad asked me to leave his house, so I moved to Newnan, GA and lived with some friends of mine and worked at the dealership all the while, in mid december God had broken me so bad that I hated being around anything that represented the world, anything that was not focused on Christ, and as a new desire for Christ was borne in me I yearned to be at home with my parents and siblings, so I called my Dad and gave my heart back to him, and moved home, and I have never experienced such joy in my life as that day I loaded everything I owned into my truck and moved back home with my family, and as I walked into that door at my parents I was greeted by four of the five greatest people in the world, they were all sobbing with tears of joy to see me back at home, and my mom hugged me so tight, and did not let go for about 10 minutes and God put a sign in my heart and I felt His presence there like I had not in years! God made me happier than I had ever been before, just in the realization that He was in my heart and he was going to take care of me! I continued working for Gene Evans Ford in complete harmony with my parents. I left the dealership in August to a job offer from my Dad to work for Messer Properties and work with houses under warranty as a punch out man. I enjoyed this, and even got a kick of the the frustrating customers, and in December of 2004 an opportunity was opened for me to start my own business, an Express Oil Change. The company which opened its doors on February 15, 2005 has been my life up to present. In that same month I began to date Nakitta. She is the twinkle in my eyes, she is nuts about my eyes, and I tell her that its the light of Christ in her shining back at her. But anyways, God has so far to take me and has worked so much in my life and made me see Him who He is, and how wonderful He is. God is the greatest thing in my life and daily I find myself basking in the glow of His perfect love. I am forever grateful to the Prince of Peace and the King of Kings. May I live my life to represent His daily!!!

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:01:28 GMT

Hey Guys, I am going to try, once again to get faithful in writing on this dad blame thing! And Giving updates as often as possible. But lately I have been extremely busy with work and all. Last night I went to 7:22 and it was stinking awesome! God spoke to my heart and really brought some conviction as to how I look at God, and I think in my heart that Louie believes this as well, but that Homeboy shirt, I really believe it is almost blasphemous, and God is Holy and Perfect and Pure and we need to see Him like that, and not just as our "Homeboy".