My Results From The Food Drive

Hello,

As many of you know I spent most of December doing a food drive. I had originally planned to send all of the donations to the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C. When I tried contacting they did not respond to any of my calls or emails (I attempted to contact them at least 4 times and they did not answer).  Since they did not answer my calls I decided to find somewhere else to donate my food. I called the church (Grace Brethren Church of Clinton) and asked if they had any idea what to do with all of the food that I had collected.  As it turned out they had begun the process of starting a food bank.  They had achieved nonprofit status with the government but had barely any food. God in his providence used me to bless the church and an unnamed number of people through your donations.  With you guys help I collected over 400 pounds of food. I would like to formally thank you for all of your donations, prayer and emotional support throughout this endeavor. Without you guys help none of this would have been possible. You have helped an unknown number of people by blessing them with food and through these donations, a person might come to know Christ.  Even though I did not win the scholarship money, it is okay because I have blessed people. It says in the bible in Mathew 25 : 34-36 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ That is my ultimate goal, not to win money for college. So if you think about it, I did win in God’s eyes.

In Christ,

Adam Yisrael Edwards
2012 Adam Edwards ©

My Acceptance To Operation Barnabus

Hello World,

Sorry I haven't been on here in like 2 months, I have had a lot going on and just have not taken the time to do much on my blog..... So now that I am back on here I will be making some major changes to this blog. The first change I will make is I will be totally changing the blog's look over the next few days because my old one just looks weird to me. The second change that I will be making to this blog is I will be posting less stories and more details of my actual life. In lieu of what I just said I have some really great news!!!!!!! Are you ready for it?

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I GOT ACCEPTED TO GO ON OPERATION BARNABAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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For those of you that don't know what that is, Operation Barnabas is a yearly 6 week missions training internship that is done by CE (Church Effectiveness) National. The purpose of it is to train young men and women to be missionaries not only to their community but to be the best that they can be with God's help. When I leave on June 18 I will head to Powell, Ohio, after I spend a week there, I will leave and spend the next 5 weeks traveling throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, ministering and serving the Lord in however they see fit. Now as you guys can guess, of course I'm going to need money. In order to go, I need to raise $3,289 plus about $300-400 extra for transportation to and from Ohio. That's where you guys come in..... I need you guy’s prayer for me to be able to raise the money, for everything to come together, and for me to finish my 10th grade year in time to go. (Since I’m home-schooled, the year doesn't end at a specific time, instead it ends when I am finished with all of my coursework for that year.) I also need you guys financial support, to help me raise the money.If you would like more info on Operation Barnabas you can visit their website at http://www.operationbarnabas.net. If you would like to donate anything (I mean anything!!!) please email me at classicalkidz1@gmail.com.  I will give you more info on the trip and how to donate funds  from there because I don't want to put out all of my contact info on the World Wide Web.

Ta-ta for Now,

Adam Y. Edwards
2012 Adam Edwards ©

Hello, I know that I have probably never met many of you people who are reading this blog. I hope that this blog has influenced you for good, even though I have only posted stories. But now I have a personal request for all you readers...... Currently I have been going through some very hard times in my life. I would simply like to ask for you all to pray for me, that I make the right decisions in these coming weeks before I do something that could permanently mess up my life....
Yours Truly
Adam Y. Edwards
2011 Adam Y Edwards ©

How The Lion Instilled Fear Into The Animals

How The Lion Instilled Fear into the Animals

Once upon a time, before men had begun to build our magnificent buildings, before we had begun to build any buildings, when the world still belonged to the animals, there was a beautiful creature. He had a long curly tail, soft golden yellow hair, a large furry mane and intelligent, thought provoking, brown eyes. He was muscular from head to toe; every inch of him bristled with muscle. God had named this creature a lion. Now in order for you to understand the story I must delve off the main story and explain some things to you. In his time animals were much different than today in many ways. For starters most of them were vegetarians, and the ones that did eat meat only ate dead animals. They had small kingdoms which were ruled by one race of animals (In this story we will only talk about one of these kingdoms). This particular kingdom was in what is now called South Sudan; it was located on the savannah, and was ruled by lions. This kingdom was medium sized with about 15,000 animals of all kinds and about 50 lions. These lions were not like today’s lions, they, like most animals, were vegetarians; however the most extraordinary difference between the lions of then and the lions of now is that back then they ruled the kingdom peacefully, justly, and fairly. They treated all of their citizens with respect and treated them like close friends. One day the animals of the savannah decided that they did not want to be ruled by a few people any more. They decided that they wanted to make their own decisions and to be governed by people that they chose, with the majority deciding the major decisions. They started to practice and train for a revolt, (which was no small task for creatures who had never killed a living thing before) they spent months learning to bite, kill and to be ruthless in their behavior. On the 3^rd day of the 7^th month that they had been training they struck. They attacked and ruthlessly murdered the lions, who despite their bodies being built for killing had no training or experience in killing because they never had before. They killed dozens of lions. Soon there were only 10 lions left (This is where the young lion comes in). The young lion became furious; he assembled all of the remaining lions, which were scattered all over the savannah. They went in to hiding from the animals. While they were in hiding they trained and learned the most painful ways to kill the animals. After a number of days they planned their attack. They planned to attack them when the animals were gathered together to elect a leader. They planned to burn all of the grass and vegetation on the savannah. After that they would let the lack of food weaken the animals, and then they would kill them at leisure. Their plan worked perfectly. They killed thousands of animals in mere months. Soon there were only a few hundred animals left. The lions soon realized that they were in quite a predicament.With no animals or vegetation left the lions began to starve. They were still furious however and not ready to forgive the animals.After much discussion and argument, they compromised and decided to have just enough animals to keep everything going and the rest they would kill and eat. That is why today the animals on the savannah fear the lion and the lion kills the animals. The moral of this story is to think about the consequences of your actions and then act accordingly.
2011 Adam Y Edwards ©

PRay for me yall i'm feeling like i got the flu!!! I'm waiting for my mom to come pick me up and take me home. This cheap school really needs to get a nurse!

My First Play

My First Play:

lol i guess its becoming obvious that i love to write stories.. Here is a play that I wrote last night for my performing arts teacher. Me and my friends performed it today in class and got a standing ovation.... I apologize for all of the cussing, I just wrote what I felt would help the audience best relate to the characters.

 Man (Adam Y. Edwards) : I am a man, I am on my deathbed, I’m the sole survivor of my family, the rest were killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11,2001,   the only reason that I am still living is because I was recovering from a heck of a hangover that day and was to sick and tired that day to get to my father’s 67 birthday on time. They were on the top floor, in the restaurant in building number 1. Hah, where was there God then huh. All they wanted me to do was to meet them sober and on time at 7:30 to surprise dad. But no, I’m too much of a fuckup to even do that correctly, instead, as soon as I was recovered enough from my hangover I ran to the nearest bar and got stone cold drunk again, when they announced on the TV that the tower had been hit I was so drunk I thought I was watching an action movie. A little bit after that I went outside and passed out in a sloppy heap. I was soon awakened by the sound of sirens wailing, people screaming and firefighters rushing away from something, as I reached to rub my groggy eyes I noticed that they were covered in a thick dust. I began to throw up and cough from the fog, only to realize that it wasn’t fog I was inhaling, but in reality a fine cloud of floating dust and debris, I ran, filled with nothing but the urge to survive, when I finally got out of the dust, I curled up in a ball and slept. When I awoke the horrifying reality hit, me the world trade center had fallen somehow with my parents and family in it. The “movie” I had been watching had really been live footage of the plane hitting the buildings. Now for most people this depressing reality would have driven them into the arms of a close family member or to the doors of a church, but no not me, I had no family left and I wasn’t gonna go to no church. So instead I drowned it in the very thing that caused all of this mess for me in the first place, the bottle. My best friend and my worst enemy. I should be dead with my family, why the hell was I the one that survived and them the ones that died. They were the best people I had ever met, they never did anything wrong, they broke their backs to send me to a good private school even though I spat in their faces. They still loved me through all of the hell that I brought them through. It was at that moment in my life that I decided that I would kill myself and join my family wherever the hell I was. I figured if there was a God he either didn’t give a damn about me or he had turned his back on the world. I went to my parent’s house and in their master bathtub, slit my wrists with a piece of glass. When I woke up doctor, I was here with by wrists bandaged and a throbbing headache.

Doctor (Mariah Huggins): Well you are in New York Mental Hospital in the Psychiatric Ward. You were discovered soon after you slit your wrists by your parent’s next door neighbor. They said that they heard someone in the house breaking things and making a racket and thought it was a robber and went to investigate and found you in the bathtub.  We bandaged you, brought you hear and place you on 24 hour suicide watch. I am your psychologist while you are here and in order to help you I need to ask you a few questions. Now why did you choose your parents house to commit suicide? Why not someon……

Man interrupts her...
Man (Adam Y. Edwards): It’s none of your business doctor, I have already told you much more than you need to know about me and I really don’t feel like talking anymore. I’m pissed off, depressed; my family just died somewhere I should have been. I really don’t feel like hearing your Goddamn psychoanalysis right now. Get the hell out of here and let go back to being depressed.

Doctor( Mariah Huggins): Have you ever thought about this, that maybe other people died in this terrible crisis than your family. I don’t know if you have watched the new in the past few days but thousands of people have died, they are saying that this was worse than Pearl Harbor. I lost my husband in this crisis, do you think I’m hurting, hell yea I am, but you don’t find me somewhere crying about it. No instead I am here at this Goddamn hospital listening to you rambling on about how horrible your life is… I know that most doctors don’t talk like this to their patients but I’m sick of it, for the last half hour you have boo hoo’d about yourself…. The world doesn’t revolve around you, nor are you the only one hurting.

Man (Adam Y Edwards): GET OUT OF HERE!!!!! NOW!!

Doctor (Mariah Huggins): Sobs and leaves. Goes to her office and watches him on a security camera.

Demons enter from opposite ends of stage
Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson):Yes, kill yourself.

Demon 2: (Eric Perry): Your worthless, you killed your family, you stupid diphthong.

Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson): God doesn’t exist

Demon 2: (Eric Perry): God abandoned you

Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson): That doctor hates you.

Demon 2: (Eric Perry): You’re a homeless man with no future, a crappy past, no money whatsoever, and no life.

Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson): You’re a selfish, evil, drunken menace to society.

Demon 2: (Eric Perry): You have the equivalent of a 5^th grade education.

Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson): You’re a 37 year old man who has never held a job for more than 2 months in his life, the New York times named you New York’s drunkard, your high school voted you least likely to succeed, you even failed the 9^th grade 4 times.

Demon 2: (Eric Perry): You’ve been sent to jail twice.

Demon 1 (Isaiah Thompson) and Demon 2 (Eric Perry): So kill yourself you worthless piece of shit. You will just be doing the world a favor.

Man (Adam Y Edwards): Grabs head, sinks to knees, knife trembling in hand, screams in rage, raises the knife, stands up, swings the knife downward towards his wrist…

Doctor (Mariah Huggins): Sees him with knife in hand on camera ,runs into room and places her own wrists in front of the knife, thus sacrificing her life so he would live.

Man (Adam Y Edwards): Gasp’s in horror

Doctor (Mariah Huggins): Remember, you always have something to live for. Even though it may seem like there is no hope, God has a plan. Now go live your life. Doctor dies

Man (Adam Y Edwards): Man screams out in pure, undefiled anguish, WHY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME. Man slits his wrists and slowly bleeds out, thinking of his life and the things that could have been done different.


2011 Adam Y Edwards ©

How the Giraffe Got its Neck

How the Giraffe Got its Neck by Adam Y. Edwards

Long ago far before man, when the world was just beginning God was thinking. He was in the process of creating the creatures to inhabit the earth. He decided to make special animals to lead the others. He thought of a sleek, black, catlike creature that would use fear to control the other animals in the jungle (the panther). He thought of another animal, this one a large, undersea creature with sharp teeth, large jaws, and special “radar” to detect underwater prey from a long way off (the shark). This one, like the panther largely ruled his kingdom using fear and intimidation. God placed him in charge of the ocean. But God wasn’t finished; he made yet another animal, this one much smaller, to rule the colder areas of the world. This creature was the smallest but most terrifying of all. This creature had a grey, sleek coat of fur to keep it warm, long sharp teeth with jagged edges to rip the flesh off of any creature who dared to opposed it, but that’s not it, he made this creature a pack of smaller but still terrifying animals just like it to help it accomplish its goals.

He had made a ruler for every different place in the new world except for one…. The African prairie. He spent day’s thinking of the perfect animal, but still his mind was devoid of it.  On the fifth day he grew frustrated, dark clouds rolled over the earth, thunder pealed, and lightning flashed, earthquakes rattled the earth. Hearing the commotion his young son, Jesus ran to his father “STOP!!!” he shouted. “Don’t take your frustration out on the world.” he begged, “why don’t you make the animal peaceful, gentle and humble instead of violent, domineering, and intimidating.” He said.  “That’s preposterous, get out of my sight!”

That evening however, he thought about what his dear son had said and decided to try his idea.( After all, they were both the same person!)Unfortunately however all of his powerful (strength, size, confidence, bravery) materials and characteristics) had been used on the previous animals.  The only traits that were left were beauty and intelligence . God worked for hours on this animal. The result was stunning. The animal was about 5 feet long with beautiful, yellow fur. It was brilliant too; its intelligence surpassed all other animals except for 2: the serpent and the human. He was so intelligent even, that he and God conversed with each other sometimes, and God considered him his best creation.

  In time however he became prideful and started to take advantage of the other animals. He stopped treating them as equals and started treating them as slaves. He even had forced them to begin making a shrine to him. When God heard about his cruel, dishonest, prideful ways he cursed him saying”you have lost my blessing, I will take from you your beauty: your yellow fur will be ruined with brown splotches, your head will be dented and ugly, your neck will become long so that your height will alienate you from the other animals, and worst of all you will lose your ability to talk and your intelligence and you will become dumb like the others.

Terrified, the giraffe ran away from God. He ran past his shrine, he ran for hours, while he was running he tripped and hit his head on a rock leaving a long narrow dent in his forehead. Still terrified he got up and continued to run, disoriented, he tripped again and fell in the mud, when he rose, as God had told him, he had dirty brown splotches all over his body. Too tired to run, he walked for a little while and saw something shiny in a thicket; sticking his head in the thicket he searched around, hoping it was some sort of food. He searched and searched but he couldn't find anything but leaves. When he tried to pull his head out of the thicket he noticed that he was stuck.  He pulled and pulled and pulled, but he couldn't pull his head free.  The more he pulled the longer his neck got, finally after about 8 hours of being stuck God came and freed him from the thicket.

Sobbing, the giraffe begged him to change him back to a beautiful creature. “Your physical change is complete” God said.”From now on you will be a stupid, mute creature just like the rest of the animals.” The giraffe tried to scream but the only thing that came out was a muted garble. The giraffe's transformation was complete; he had been transformed from a beautiful, cunning creature into a long-necked, dented fore headed, ugly creature.
2011 Adam Edwards ©