I Wish I Had Bloo as an Imaginary Friend…

In the world of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, an  imaginary friend becomes real the instant a kid imagines them. What I really like about this show is it’s quirky humor and odd plots. And Bloo is such a cute, witty, and sarcastic little blob! Oh, and did you know that the guy who voices Eduardo (Tom kenny) is the same one who voices SpongeBob Squarepants? hahaha wala lang. I advise you to watch this show. It’s on every weekends at 9:30 am on Cartoon Network.

I got the following info about the show from www.tvacres.com:

Bloo is an imaginary friend of an eight-year old boy named Mac. Blooregard "Bloo" Q.
Kazoo (Keith Ferguson) is a blue blob
        with two eyes, a mouth and a mischievous streak. He
lives in a house occupied by Mac (Sean
Marquette),  Mac’s single mother, and Mac’s brother, Terrence, a
13-year-old punk who terrorizes Mac and Bloo. Unfortunately,
one day,
Mac’s mother decides that Mac has outgrown his imaginary friend and must say goodbye to Bloo  Luckily, Mac learns of a
unique place (from a TV commercial) called Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends ("where
good ideas are not forgotten."). It was owned by a sweet, but eccentric old lady
named Madame Foster (Candi Milo) who originally opened her establishment (a Victorian mansion filled with many parlors) because she didn’t want to leave her very own
imaginary friend called Mr. Herriman. Now, with the help of her sensible teenage
granddaughter, Miss Francis ‘"Frankie" (Grey Delisle), Madame Foster offers a safe refuge for displaced imaginary beings ("who need a place to crash, hang out and do stuff") and also provides adoption placement services to children who don’t have their own imaginary friends (or lack the ability to conjure one up on their own). Meanwhile, as long as Mac visits Bloo everyday, Madame foster agreed not to place Bloo up for adoption. Other residents in this home for abandoned imaginary
friends
included Wilt (Phil LaMarr), a tall, orange, anorexic being who looks like a
basketball player with one arm missing - he continually says "I’m Sorry";
Eduardo (Tom Kenny), a wild looking horned-beast with purple hair and fangs who
is afraid of everything - he speaks Spanish;
Coco (Candi Milo), an addled bird creature with green, feather duster hair who lays plastic eggs filled with surprises - it can only say one word ("Coco"); Duchess Diamond Persnickedy (Grey Delisle), a snooty European
lady with a short elephant snout for a nose; and of course, Mr. Harriman (Tom
Kane), a tall, gray rabbit dressed in a tuxedo, tails, top hat and monocle who speaks with a
refined manner and helps Mrs. Foster run her unique business.

Everything’ll be okay soon.

Argh!!!Life sucks. I don’t know what to do. I feel hopeless, once again.

*takes deep breath* Calm down, lorraine. Everything’ll be okay soon. God would never give you what you cannot bear. If He put you to it, He will take you through it. So stop being a worry-wart. Just remember that interview article you’ve read before. (An interview with Rick Warren, the author of the Purpose Driven Life.) Wasn’t that just insightful?

Rick Warren said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond, in a
nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last
forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart
is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the
end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to
spend trillion of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act, the
dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do
forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you
figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense. Life is a series of
problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just come out of one or
you’re getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is
that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God
is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your
life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on
earth, but that’s not
the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in
Christ-likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the
toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life
was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you got to
the mountaintop, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather
than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like
two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something
good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in
your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always
something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If
you focus on your problems, you’re going into self-centeredness,
"which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the
easiest ways
to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and
others. We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds
of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy
for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has
strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other
people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to
people…

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For
instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15
million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a
lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don’t
think God gives you money or notoriety for you to own ego or for you
to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do
with this money,notoriety and influence.
  He gave me two different
passages that helped me decide what to do, Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in,we would not change our
lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway
through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third,
we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan -
to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick,
and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the
church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I
gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions?
Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness?
Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God’s purposes (for my
life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say,
God, if I
don’t get anything else done today, I want to know You more
and love You better…

God didn’t put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He’s more
interested in what I am than what I do. That’s why we’re called human
beings, not human doings.

*sighs* I love You, God. Thank You for everything. Yes, everything. You made me realize what I really should be asking for for my birthday. "What is essential is invisible to the eye" indeed. However, I pray that this will all be over soon.
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EDIT:  Lia, thanks dun sa tinext mo. Sobrang naka-relate ako.

"God will either give you what you ask, or something far better than what you wished. Keep on praying and be thankful ‘cos God’s answers are wiser than our prayers."

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for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has
strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other
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You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For
instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15
million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a
lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don\'t
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lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway
through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third,
we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan -
to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick,
and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the
church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I
gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

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interested in what I am than what I do. That\'s why we\'re called human
beings, not human doings.