Deep Thoughts

Brandon has his small group from church over at the house for the night and it's been fun having guys around the house that are small enough for me to beat up. It's so cool! I hit them and throw them around and they just stand back up like nothing happened! I love middle schoolers!

At one point in the night though, one of the seventh graders exclaimed, "Man, you guys live awesome over here!" He, of course, was referring to the fact that we have a dart board and a PS3 in our living room on top of the fact that we can eat ice cream at 10:30 PM. But it's just a sad realization for me. I'm 23, single, and living the dream life of a 12 year old.

In one way, that's a sad fact, but if you consider the fact that I once was 12 as well, I've really arrived. Granted, that means that that also stands true of some 40 year olds that live in their parent's basement for "a lot cheaper than an apartment, so it really is more financially responsible than moving out" but that's really beside the point.

But that's all beside the point. What really matters is that someone looks up to me!

A couple of things

Tomorrow's going to be a great day. I'm working at Unleash at my church instead of working at my real job. I just wanted to take a second to share these gems. This is what I do during my down time during the day.

These make me smile. You might not like them, but I hope you do.

There's the VBS story and the preacher's wife one.

I need a little help

This is just a short prayer request if any of you could oblige me. It was made painfully clear today that I'm currently doing anything but what God's put me on this earth to do at my current job and I really want a new one. The problem is that I have no idea which way to go and what to pursue.

The main thing I could use prayer for is wisdom, patience and peace. I could really use wisdom to know what to and not to pursue. Patience to not just up and quit my job which would be immature and unwise since it would be unfair to ditch my current coworkers without a decent notice and I would still have bills due until I get a new job. And I need peace in the meantime to help me not to accidentally lose my temper with some poor customer since I seem to suck with the whole anger issue.

Oh, the warmth

I just had the most amazing experience this morning! I got to take a hot shower for the first time since January. It was, by far, the most amazing experience I've had in this house so far.

As happy as I am to know that I'll now get more than two minutes of luke warm water before getting large chunks of ice flung as me by the shower head, this experience has made me realized how lucky and spoiled we are to have hot water in the first place. I almost wrote about how other parts of the world don't have hot water, but that's an understatement. People down the street from me don't have this luxury. I really am blessed!

A few thoughts from the day...

• First of all, I don't have everyone's balance memorized, so if the first thing you ask me is "What's my balance?" without giving me the least hint of who you are, I might not make it physically, but I will be rolling my eyes and giving you a "you're stupid" look in my head.
• The day goes by faster when it's busier, but it's still annoying when someone comes in at 4:55 with a bag full of thousands of dollars.
• If you have $20 in quarters, it'd be really considerate if you'd wrap them before you poured them on my counter.

That's pretty much all of my annoying stuff. Here's some good stuff.

• I get to spend all day Thursday working at my church for Unleash. The best part is that I'm taking a paid, personal day. So I'll be making money while I'm there, which, while not necessary, at least gives me something to rub in the college kids' faces.
• Lately God's been challenging me to be bold and unafraid of being honest with others about who He is and what He's done in my life. Especially today reading Acts 3-4.
  
• I'm on a job hunt again. I have very little clue what I'm looking for, but I'm still looking and hoping that I find something that I can be passionate about and glorify Jesus through.

That's it for me. If you know anyone who's hiring, let me know. And if you work with me and accidentally stumble on this, I don't know when I'm leaving, so don't tell anyone please.

Passion

One of my all time favorite things about myself used to be that I was passionate. Sure, sometimes it made me come off as loud and even a little obnoxious at times, but overall, it was for good reasons. I've always been a passionate guy.

But lately it just doesn't seem that way and I think I've figured out why. Stagnancy makes me a much more glib person. Whenever I'm passionate, I'm a converting machine. Allow me to demonstrate.

Have you ever heard of the band Gomez? Probably not. But neither had any of my friends. They are my all time favorite band, therefore I was always listening to them and telling people about them. This was especially true around my junior year when I got most of their albums and was listening to them all the time. I was always talking about Gomez and a lot of my friends started to like them because of my passion for the band. And then I got all of their albums, listened to them over and over again and eventually knew all of the words. Then there was nothing new to listen to and the passion slowly died...

Then they came Atlanta for a concert and I was completely excited again!

Then I tired out a little more again.

Then they released a new album and came to the Orange Peel all in one week!

And now I'm probably going to be less excited about them until their new album comes out.

It's sad really. I'm capable of so much passion in my life yet I allow myself to get lazy and it just dies out. I'm not sure how to fix this problem, though. I'll try to touch on this a little more later. But either way, I now realize that Gomez is awesome and really needs to come back to town. I miss you Ian!!!

I'm back!!!

I'd like to take a second to apologize to all of my devoted blog followers for my extended absence. So, Mom and Theresa, I'm sorry.

But I'm back now and I'm going to try my best to make this blog a priority in my life. The fans demand it and who am I to rob them of my online voice.

So raise your hand in the air and let out a grand, "Huzzah!" for I have returned.