The second blog of the week, I never thought I'd let myself get to this point. But here I am. And it is all because of one man, Colin Hemphill.
I thought nothing and I mean nothing could but a damper on this week. A get-away weekend with Krista in San Antonio, Brian Regan and the beginning of football season. Like I said it is as if God was taking a picture of Heaven and right when He said "say cheese" I looked up at the sky and there Heaven was smiling down on me. But then Wednesday night happened. But then Colin Hemphill happened. And ever since my mind has been on the staggering smack down the sr. highers laid on the jr. highers in the weekly football game. And the main instigator of that smack down was none other than Mr. Sticky Fingers Colin Hemphill. Sure other high school guys had great games too, Sean's one in a million catch at the end of the game off of the tip by Stan and Taylor and Camren's numerous right in the right spot catches or touchdown grabs didn't help. But Colin's grab at the beginning of the game in the endzone on fourth and one was amazing. And then his interception and his second touchdown grab and then his third...it pains me to think thru it again. Oh the pain. It is as if Heaven was still pogo sticking but instead of landing on me like it had been doing it was landing all around me and I got to see it, but not be blessed by it. Instead Colin stole my pogo sticking heavenly bounces.
So, that is what I have been thinking about. I felt like I had to put it into words so that I could move on and get ready to enjoy this weekend. I'll be thinking of you guys while I am laughing so hard it hurts tonight at the Brian Regan show. Hope y'all have a great weekend and I'll see you on Sunday.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Football, Brian Regan & Trendsetting
So I didn't write my blog yesterday because it was Labor Day and I decided that blogging was laboring. So here it is on Tuesday. You know, Labor Day is a dumb name. You would think they (whoever they are that get to come up with these kind of names) would have called it No-Labor Day or Don't Work Day or Sleep-In Day or something like that. But Labor Day sounds like that is a day you are supposed to work, not one that you are supposed to get off. Anyway, just thought I'd point that out.
On to this week's topic...What I have been thinking. I wish I could say that I have been thinking a lot about very spiritual topics like Trinitarianism or something of that nature, but I haven't. Even though I did just start a new seminary class on Trinitarianism, we haven't done anything other than go over our syllabus and introductory stuff so I haven't had to think about it too much. I am sure it will show up on a future blog sometime. So, I digress...Instead of ultra spiritual things I have been thinking primarily about Thursday night, the kickoff of the NFL season and Friday night, when Krista and I will go see Brian Regan live in San Antonio. Even if I wanted to be thinking about something else, say something like Faith Franklin's awesome come from behind victory this past Sunday in the Trendsetting game, I couldn't. I can't seem to think about anything except those two awesome back to back nights. Football and Brian Regan. It is like a little dose of Heaven showed up in the middle of my Chic-fil-a sandwich. It is like a piece of Heaven fell off and landed on my head as took out the trash this morning. It is like Heaven got lost and found itself wandering around all franticly on Thursday and Friday night and I was there to see it and touch and whisper sweet nothings into its ear.
Again I digress. The only thing I can see competing with my thoughts this week are the Trendsetting series we are in the middle of and next weekend. Next weekend because it just might be the second greatest weekend ever and it follows this coming weekend which makes it even better. Next weekend I will find myself at Zilker Park with my lovely wife, my Dad, my brother and my sister and about a million other crazy people listening to the likes of Ray Lamontagne, Nickle Creek, John Mayer, The Shins and Van "the man" Morrison. Oh sweet ACL goodness. And then that Sunday night I will find myself at Texas Stadium with Phil, Chuck, Paul and Ruben Sosa at the Dallas Cowboy game, glorying in the defeat, nay the massacre, of the Washington Redskins. What a weekend. Again it will be like Heaven decided to go pogo-sticking and one of the places it landed was me, lucky little ol' me.
As for the Trendsetting series, I have been managing to think about that here and there when Heaven isn't trickling down on me like a blessed broken faucet. And when my mind does manage to wander there, in between heavenly pogo-sticking bounces, I have thought that this series could be a real defining point for our youth group. I say that because rarely do you find a truth that cuts to the heart of a person or a group. Sure their out there, the truth of salvation is the best example. Yet, there are not too many of them. At least not in my experience. But this one, the truth that we are called to make disciples and the truth that we are called to not conform to the pattern of this world is one of them. And it seems to have registered with everyone in our youth group. Because everyone knows which one of those commands they are following or not following. And almost everyone in our group finds themselves on one side or the other. And to think that God would be telling us together as a youth group, "I want to use y'all to do great things for my name here in Southwest Austin so I want you to get how to influence without being influenced," is awesome to me. And just like anything God tells us, it is challenging and calls us to put ourselves to the side and it is adventurous. And I love that. That makes life fun instead of boring, scary instead of monotonous and wild instead of ho-hum And that is what the Christian life should be like. Just ask the apostle Paul or Jesus Himself.
That's what I have been thinking lately. So, what do you think about what I have been thinking about?
On to this week's topic...What I have been thinking. I wish I could say that I have been thinking a lot about very spiritual topics like Trinitarianism or something of that nature, but I haven't. Even though I did just start a new seminary class on Trinitarianism, we haven't done anything other than go over our syllabus and introductory stuff so I haven't had to think about it too much. I am sure it will show up on a future blog sometime. So, I digress...Instead of ultra spiritual things I have been thinking primarily about Thursday night, the kickoff of the NFL season and Friday night, when Krista and I will go see Brian Regan live in San Antonio. Even if I wanted to be thinking about something else, say something like Faith Franklin's awesome come from behind victory this past Sunday in the Trendsetting game, I couldn't. I can't seem to think about anything except those two awesome back to back nights. Football and Brian Regan. It is like a little dose of Heaven showed up in the middle of my Chic-fil-a sandwich. It is like a piece of Heaven fell off and landed on my head as took out the trash this morning. It is like Heaven got lost and found itself wandering around all franticly on Thursday and Friday night and I was there to see it and touch and whisper sweet nothings into its ear.
Again I digress. The only thing I can see competing with my thoughts this week are the Trendsetting series we are in the middle of and next weekend. Next weekend because it just might be the second greatest weekend ever and it follows this coming weekend which makes it even better. Next weekend I will find myself at Zilker Park with my lovely wife, my Dad, my brother and my sister and about a million other crazy people listening to the likes of Ray Lamontagne, Nickle Creek, John Mayer, The Shins and Van "the man" Morrison. Oh sweet ACL goodness. And then that Sunday night I will find myself at Texas Stadium with Phil, Chuck, Paul and Ruben Sosa at the Dallas Cowboy game, glorying in the defeat, nay the massacre, of the Washington Redskins. What a weekend. Again it will be like Heaven decided to go pogo-sticking and one of the places it landed was me, lucky little ol' me.
As for the Trendsetting series, I have been managing to think about that here and there when Heaven isn't trickling down on me like a blessed broken faucet. And when my mind does manage to wander there, in between heavenly pogo-sticking bounces, I have thought that this series could be a real defining point for our youth group. I say that because rarely do you find a truth that cuts to the heart of a person or a group. Sure their out there, the truth of salvation is the best example. Yet, there are not too many of them. At least not in my experience. But this one, the truth that we are called to make disciples and the truth that we are called to not conform to the pattern of this world is one of them. And it seems to have registered with everyone in our youth group. Because everyone knows which one of those commands they are following or not following. And almost everyone in our group finds themselves on one side or the other. And to think that God would be telling us together as a youth group, "I want to use y'all to do great things for my name here in Southwest Austin so I want you to get how to influence without being influenced," is awesome to me. And just like anything God tells us, it is challenging and calls us to put ourselves to the side and it is adventurous. And I love that. That makes life fun instead of boring, scary instead of monotonous and wild instead of ho-hum And that is what the Christian life should be like. Just ask the apostle Paul or Jesus Himself.
That's what I have been thinking lately. So, what do you think about what I have been thinking about?
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