Pictures and randomness as usual

Well, this week has been really busy, and really slow for me, but it's finally the weekend! :) Here are a few pictures, mostly old ones that I edited over this week while I was bored, but a few new ones too :) Well, I've been learning some more fun stuff in class, but every week I feel more and more alone in this place.. I've started to get invited to go do stuff with people every now and then, but I always have to come up with some excuse why I can't make it, because I'm not exactly looking to go to drunken wild parties... I get enough of them in the bay to satisfy me! lol ;P but I'm the kind of person that needs lots of human interaction, and here I always feel left out.. either I'm not interested in what they're doing, or they form cliques and don't invite me, or I'm honestly too busy with other responsibilities.. I'm glad I have my bible and cell phone, because without them I would go crazy!! Anyway, hope you enjoy the pictures! I'm looking forward to march 3.. 44 days :) well anyway, I'll stop talking now, and get the pix up :)

Sweet cast huh?? Army Style and everything!! Won't get in any fights like this!

Earlier this week there was a really beautiful sunrise :) I love my camera because it actually captured it how it looked!! :) I thank God for this kind of beauty even though all around me it's so bleak and crowded :) I love to pray for my friends while I watch sunrises and sunsets.. wondering if they're watching the sunrise too :) Same with the moon and stars.. although I don't get to see stars much because of San Antonio's lights..

The sunrise a little bit earlier before it was so pretty :)

Well, the next few pictures are already on here, but I was bored and did a little bit of editing with three different programs I have on my laptop :)

hehe creepy huh?

David playing guitar

She looks grumpy, but she wasn't ;p

One year!

Well, a year ago today a nervous 17 year-old boy signed his name on the dotted line and became a soldier.. Well, not a soldier yet, but well on the way. Then, after 6 months of rigorous army training, he's here writing his story out as we speak :) LOL yea so I've been in for years,,,so :p
So obviously I have had some fun times.. You guess what happened and I'll tell if your true or false.
Later,
A very tired matthew..

Pictures and stuff.. since I haven't updated lately

I decided to take some pictures of myself while I'm sitting here at the PX (the Post Exchange, it's like walmart on streoids) posting on my blog :)
hehe mohawkishness... :P it's like the only thing I can actually get my stupid hair to do..

Oh, hi!!

another mac guy!! lol ;P Macs are the best

I'm sitting in this comfy chair over in the little book area where they have free wi-fi

The Post Chapel, you can see the lovely Texas "winter" making itself obvious.. haha.. I just took this picture on my way over here to the PX :)

Me so gangsta.. not.. lol I'm WAY better at staying serious for goofy pictures now than I used to be!! :p

Oh say can you see, by the coffeeshop light, what so gladly we hail, every morning and evening? The starbucks coffee, it is so good for me, and the class's dead air, the textbooks everywhere, give proof through the day, that I cannot stay awake, so I grab some caffeine, now I am a machine, I stay awake until classes are over.. lol (like my anthem to starbucks?? actually this was back from new year's on my way home from Hamacher's house, but I still like starbucks ;P lol)

Isn't the view from my bed depressing?? I much prefer the pond and woods I'm used to looking at :)

By the way, that's a bandage from my aid bag, also known as a cravat.. I had some fun with it ;)

Ok, so this one wouldn't make sense, but I'll explain ;) So there was some soap stain stuff in the shower that the Sergeant said had to be gone.. even though it's probably been there for like 10 years.. well, after trying like 5 different chemicals it wouldn't come off.. so somebody decided to use this toilet bowl cleaner stuff we have, which is basically battery acid. Well, apparently it reacted with the other chimicals and made a really nasty smelling gas in the showers.. plus if you get it on your hands it burns like battery acid.. so we got medical gloves from our aid bags, dampened some cravats to make emergency masks, and glasses to keep it out of the eyes, and went to work trying to scub the stuff off... well, it ended up still not working completely, but it did help some.. anyway I thought I'd show you a picture of how funny I looked :)

Well anyway, I'm out of new pictures.. they said we could bring cameras to class, but then the next day they changed their minds :'( so now I cant show you pictures of what I do :( oh well.. anyway I haven't really eaten anything yet today, and it's 15:00 (3:00 for you analog clock people) so I'm pretty hungry, so i'm going to head over to Robin Hood and grab a sub, and maybe over to cinnabon to get one of their amazing cinnabons and an iced mocha latte espresso :) so God Bless you, have a great day, and ttyl!!

"Without suffering, there can be no compassion"

Well, I'll shoot straight, there have been times in my life where I've been upset with God, asking why life has to be so full of hadships and trials. Sometimes I've wondered why God has to let life be so hard. Then I realize that some of life's hardships are brought upon myself by my own actions. To be upset with God isn't fair in those situations, but what about the times when I'm just the innocent bystander and my life seems to just fall apart all around me? What about those times? Many people say there can't be a God in heaven with all the suffering in the world. Well I disagree. I have found that when life's road gets the toughest, that's when I find myself closest to God. Like the title says, how could we ever give or recieve compassion if we didn't have suffering? After all, it was through the worst possible torment that Jesus showed the whole world how much he cares for us? He offered those sufferings up to God in atonement for the salvation of someone like me? I mean, why would He do that if He didn't have a purpose for me that's higher than the normal falling down and giving up when life gets hard? I think I've found that by showing compassion to others my pain is put at ease and life isn't so hard anymore. One of the lines that hit me the most out of a movie many of you have probably seen called "a walk to remember" when Jamie says "without suffering there'd be no compassion" Landon replies, "yea, well tell that to the people who suffer." well, I realized that when I've suffered in one way or another, I can have compassion for overs going over similar hardships. God really does have a reason for giving us the gift of suffering. Maybe it's time we realize it's there to make us better, stronger people in the end. True, others take suffering much better than I, but I use them as inspiration to also accept the hard parts in life the way I should. I'd love to keep weaving this analogy further, but considering that I have less than 4 hours until it's time to get up again, I should probably try to utilize as much of that time actually sleeping as possible :) God bless you, and hopefully next time you experience a hardship you will remember that until passed through flames most metal is comepletely worthless. Hopefully we can be like lead that only takes a little bit of heat to go the right way instead of taking years of running from the hardships and not letting God use them in our lives.hopefully this makes sense even though I haven't slept in over 20 hours... :) later! Matt

My snail mail ;)

Alrighty google bloggers and other readers.. I think I set it so this forwards to my facebbok too... You obviously have Internet, so there's not much need, but if anybody wants my address here it is:

PFC Beaty, Matthew S.
B Co. 232nd Med. Bn.
2950 Koehler Rd.
Platoon 1
STE 1350
Fort Sam Houston,TX 78234




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Me