will someone please buy me the doormat that says GO AWAY?
i am annoyed. for serious. for what people care about, for what they make life about, for how we worry so much over what is trivial and never bother to ask about the things that mean something. we can talk for hours about cartoons and not for ten minutes about substance.
i do admit that today my team was stellar. i have been way worried about the capstone project... ours is due a week from today and we are so not finished... and they came up to the plate today and were ready, whatever it takes. i was so proud of them and blessed by their commitment. mike is going to run with the oral presentation... i am going to organize all the rest. let's say, division of labor.
got fascinated today watching the hot dogs cook on the little heat lamp rotator thing at the gas station. it was weird. what an odd contraption that presents all the different sides of the dog toward the lamp... because the more they are under the lamp the more they plump, and the more they sweat.
this is a strange, strange world that you have made, god, and i do not understand it. and i know full well that i do not belong to us... and i need to remember what that says about me. but i acknowledge you, and your goodness. that you made it, are sovereign over it, and well acquainted with all its ways. and that the destiny it has simply because you are returning is its hope.
come quickly, lord jesus.
3 Comments:
Ali,
I saw the "Go Away" doormat at World Market on Saturday night. I can probably get you one.
Seriously,
I think in life we need a balance of serious and frivolous conversation. Too much of either one and life feels lopsided.
I just had a really deep conversation with Bob M. and it was amazing, however next time we talk I can't wait to kibbiutz about the new "Velvet Revovler" record.
That's what I appreciated about our time at Seattles Best on Sunday. It was a good mix. Although, sometimes when you and me and Hollies get together it's all deep all the time just because our time is so limited.
You rock the house. Thanks for sharing this blog with me!
DDK
July 14, 2004 at 2:33 PM
i don't disagree with you, rabbi.
but i think there is a difference between being shallow in what you care about... and being able to be light and have fun and not always be so heavy. i think youth ministry was good for me for learning how to moderate intensity a little bit.
in this case, i think i am more thinking about the people who are way caught up and intense about the things that seem so small. we can care about the little, seemilngly insignificant things because we have taken care of the bigger ones. makes space, gives it room. if i don't have the big picture straight, the small things get a little out of control after a while. it's why i feel like we usually do okay.
but you are correct. :)
July 14, 2004 at 9:20 PM
I totally agree with the the ways that yoou just agreed with me.
Everythingelse I disagree with.
Ha!
I feel you. Maybe that's the key to some of this...living in harmony with God gives us freedom to handle the big things and lets the small things become things we can enjoy rather than escape with or obsess over.
I so badly need a spell check on these blog things!
DDK
July 15, 2004 at 12:24 PM
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