Nothing like the blues.

I imagine that those who would read that as a status update would comment on the musical genre. The music that I truly love, and strangely don't seem like 'blues' at all. I have the blues though. It seems like a breeze as it comes in and I feel like the wind is out of my sails and I gaze into the mirror of my life.
I'm always concerned with my motivations. Why am I doing this? Why does it matter?
Life is a journey, fantastic for some. We all end at the same place, so how we get there is important.
Is it ok to look? If you do what do you measure yourself against? (see deeper and deeper)
So whatever american measurements are I probably don't measure up.
But it's ok i think.

It is amazing what I can learn from comic strips.

Question

What will happen to an extrovert if they aren't surrounded by people?

Regulate or Die

Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell

Watch it, and then watch it again.

Not getting a twitter

I may think in twitter length quotes sometimes but I'm not getting an account. But here are a few recent ones.

"Everybody bemoans the loss of the youth and teens.
But when you ask them who is engaging, mentoring,
and discipling youth no one will raise their hands." -Me

"Make new Christians, Not borrow Christians." -Me

"There are wild mushroom eaters, and there are those
who are watchin' wild mushroom eaters." -Erwin Mcmanus

I got a pair of good ones of a couple tea bag tags.

"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
and
"Minds, like parachutes, work only when they are open." -Salada tea bag tags

doodlin'

So way back in May I was at District Assembly. Since I'm still young, creative, and a little flippant I doodled a bit. Anyway After 3 days of staring at our denominational banner I doodled and made what I would call a masterpiece. It is at least from the dove's perspective.

Life Learnin'

Tonight I went to a party with a cotton candy machine.

Tonight I ate cotton candy with a hot dog as a stick.

It was so much fun!

Cotton Candy machine, Bouncy Castle (did a backflip), and an improv game of what we called 'awesome ball'. Using chairs as a net, a beachball that is to big for me to even hug, and roughly volleyball style rules we played for a good 30 min. in the rain. Plus before I left and said my goodbyes I got drawn on by my friend. She did a pretty good job.

It might sound like a kids birthday party but it wasn't, it was a grad party. But with just a little child-like wonder Adults can have all kinds of fun that doesn't include sitting and gorging on food, or napping the day away.

If I try and model Jesus in my life, it means I get to go party with the people who don't go to church. Which means I get to go to the parties where people know what it means to rejoice!

I Love my friends, so does Jesus, which makes it so much better.

They're past the side hug. We are verbal about telling each other how much we appreciate each other and we do it often. There is so much 'church folk' can learn.

Broad Strokes

If Acts ch 2 shows us how the early church functioned,

the Epistles show us how it dysfunctioned. -Me