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Halloween
November 5, 20105:03 pm1 CommentI know that I am way late on this train, but I wanted to share a few thoughts on the whole Halloween topic. Well really only one thought. I read somewhere that their church urges their small groups to get together make their house the cool spot to go. Make it a small party not just a bowl of candy at the door. A way to love on unbelievers without making them come to the church. On one hand I totally agree with this. Why are we always trying to bring people into the church, why can’t we go to them? One the other hand how will (in this example) people know you are doing this because you’re a Christian sharing christ’s love? The obvious answer is you tell them.
This past Halloween my church threw a big party; there was candy, slides, bounce houses, food, drinks, pony rides, a petting zoo, I’m sure there’s something was forgetting. We brought a friend thinking of starting to go to church. When we got there she was shocked at how much stuff the church did for her and her kids, none of which she had to pay for. For a couple of hours the church was a playground for her and her children. There was no guilt, no invitations, no sales pitches, just love.
For the record, I think both are prions are good an awesome
Patterns
October 25, 201010:34 pm1 CommentA couple of weeks ago I was tearing down my percussion setup and realized that I had an order of tearing down that I find logical and thus do not stray from that order. I discovered this by straying from that order and found myself in a mess. I couldn’t decide what to put away next. I tried putting cymbal stands away before I took the cymbals off; cases were closed before everything was placed inside. It was a minor disaster that I luckily got through. A fellow musician noticed my discombobulation (ooh a big word) and we started conversing about routines and how they keep us from forgetting things. Through this conversation and thoughts from the next week so, I realized that I am a very habitual person. Getting ready in the morning is a routine, skip a step and I throw the whole thing off and will wind up forgetting to do something important like wear deodorant.
Realizing this was a good thing, the more we know about ourselves helps us to understand why we do what we do (sometimes). Now my goal is to make this whole blogging thing habitual again.
Community
October 17, 201010:11 am3 CommentsEvery once in a while God seems to hit me over the head with something. It doesn’t go away for a long time (makes me think I am thickheaded - no comments please) and I have a feeling this is going to be no exception. At the moment the idea is community. He is reminding me that we need each other. When we were created he looked at man and decided that we needed somebody else; we shouldn’t be left alone. In typical God fashion, he planted this idea in my head and soon after everything I heard or read was about community. People were talking and/or praying about community, confirming my own thoughts.
I am not sure why he is hitting me over the head with the idea of community, but I must need to hear it. Which got me thinking about communities I am neglecting. This here blog is one community I have been neglecting. So I’m back…
Why?
June 27, 20103:17 pm1 Comment
Why do we sin? There are lots of answers for this question and most of them are correct. This is one answer from church today that makes perfect sense to me. We sin because we don’t think that it is that big of a deal. Sin that has immediate and physical consequences we can stay away from. But sin that we can convince ourselves that nothing happened, nobody got hurt, nobody saw, it didn’t stop anything important, those we can justify. But, take that same sin and place it in the middle of a mission trip, would you still do it? Would it stop something important from happening? ”When we sin nothing stops because we aren’t doing anything to stop.” Lance Hahn (probably a loose quote).
Another quote probably unrelated. (This one doesn’t deserve quotation marks, I know I don’t remember exactly). Christians are good at being radically in issues that don’t really matter (politics, the words we use, what movies we watch), but we aren’t that different when it comes to issues important to God (pride, anger, love). Why?
So You Think You Can Dance
June 15, 201011:49 pm1 Comment 
I know I have talked about this show before, but I am a television junky. I know, I know, television is bad for me and I really should be sitting outside reading a book. But let’s be honest, television is awesome. Back to the point, So You Think You Can Dance started up a few weeks ago and I am really excited. Having not been given the gift of dance, I love watching people who have unbelievable control over their bodies movements do things that seem to defy physics and how are bodies are built to move. Couple that with sometimes amazing music and an amazing story line and you have something truly fantastic. I have learned that dance has the power to convey great emotion, whether it is sorrow and pain or whimsy and joy. So here’s to another season of So You Think You Can Dance. If you aren’t watching, you should be. If you aren’t into the drama, skip that and watch the dancing.
Project List
June 14, 20102:44 pm3 Comments
Since at this point I doubt anybody still reads this, this post is going to read a lot more like a to do list than anything else. I really like making things myself. For example, instead of buying a djembe stand, I made one. It was a lot cheaper and I was able to customize it to my liking. The only problem with “doing it yourself,” things take a lot longer than going out and buying one, even more for me because I can’t do anything that would be dangerous to a 19 month old when she is around (all the time). So here is my current list of things that I need to get done.
- Make pillow cases for couch pillows.
- Build toy box for Bella’s room.
- Make tambourine floor mount.
- Stain djembe stand.
- Make djembe strap for standing.
At the moment that is it. I am sure the list will grow as time goes on and I see more things that I want, but would rather not buy.
The Best Laid Plans
June 11, 201011:09 pmLeave a Comment
Tonight I had great plans. I was going to stop by a concert, say hello to some friends and watch their set. I was then going to go out and eat some pizza with another group of friends. This all makes me sound really awesome and that I have a lot of friends, quite the opposite is true. Having two things to do in one night is never a problem. These were my best laid plans.
Here’s what actually happened. I drove the 20 minutes to the location of the concert. I got out of my car and quickly realized the concert was not where I thought it was, so I checked Facebook and realized my fatal mistake. The concert was not here, I had misread the flyer. In fact, the concert was in a completely different town now about 30 minutes away. So with that out of the way, I went to pizza.
I’m going to say it was all for the better. Instead of being split between two groups, I was able to focus on where I was and have a great time.
