Here nor There

Man, I have been slacking off on my blog. Its not that I don’t have anything to write about … I’m just too lazy to sit down and get it on “paper”. Problem is that at the moment I have the motivation but most of the cool things I wanted to write about have slipped my mind. So, here is a couple that I remember.

God has been teaching me a lot about contentment lately. Contentment not only as in accepting where God has placed me right now, but also as in seeing the potential of where he has placed me. I think way to often I want God to introduce me to something new and exciting, and fail to realize all the opportunities he has given me where I am at. Why do I think that I can handle something new and exciting if I can’t even be faithful with what I have been given? No matter where I am at in life there will always be people around me with needs, and I need to practice being faithful with that. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much…” – Luke 16:10

If you want to be reminded of the depravity of the human race, you should check out the movie Hotel Rwanda. Not only will it leave you amazed at the evil that we are capable of perpetrating against each other, but also the apathy that allows us to sit back and not care. I watch movies like that and my heart is broken for people, and then I stop and wonder why its takes something like that to compel a sense of urgency to share Jesus. Sin may change faces across cultures and across time but the heart problem that condemns us remains constant. I guess what I am saying is that I hate having to be shocked into caring. That’s what apathy does to us. It basically puts us to sleep to what is going on around us.

My older brother Matt has been in town the last couple of days. It’s been pretty cool to be able to spend some time with him. He is an exceptional artist and his latest thing has been doing custom paint jobs on automotive stuff back in Cali. I thought I’d toss up a couple pictures of his wares.

Last but not least, the comeback word of the month is ‘Rad’. Words such as “cool”, “awesome”, “money”, and “sweet” all have their place, but I believe rad has gone through its obligatory hiatus from the slang vocabulary and is due for reintroduction. So as you go through your normal week, look for situations where this great word can be properly applied, such as “Ben, that pink shirt your wearing is rad”, or “Jeff, that Frontside Corkscrew Fakie with a Stale Fish on the Reverse was radical”.