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Chasing Daylight

For in Him we live and move and have our being...

My Slogan

Monday, October 24, 2005
I tried the slogan generator and this is what I got:

The Best pastor.zac a Man Can Get.

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Why I Love Smallville.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

I cannot get enough of the show Smallville. I don’t know why I am so addicted to it. I have always had a fascination with Superman, but I think every boy in America did at some point. But why do I like this show and the story so much. I have been thinking about this for some time and I think it is because Clark aka Superman is destined to greatness or that he is apart of something so much bigger than just him and he is slowly starting to learn that. He knows that he has powers and he knows that he should use them, but it is more than that. In the show over the last 4 seasons Clark is searching to know more about where he came from and why he was sent to earth. Each bit of information that he gets points him to something big. Something that he is destined to be or do. I really like that. I would like to think that I am here for a reason and that I am destined to be someone certain, or do something specific. I am not talking about super powers although that would be great, but I am talking about something more than that. I have always felt that God has something in store for me, but I just don’t know what it is. I love watching Clark get to discover small bits on information that lead him in a direction, and I just want to know that God is doing the same for me? Am I picking up the bits of information or am I going my own way?

Sameness

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
It is really funny how similar we all really are. We each have things that we do, that we think is lame and unlike anything that anyone else does. I was watching the season premiere of Nip/Tuck and the two doctors where talking with this fat woman. This fat woman started to get too big for herself and so she decided to stay on the couch, and so she never got up…not even to use the restroom, so because of her non movement and a few other factors her skin fused with the couch fabric. So they were asking her how she allowed herself to get like this, and this is what she said. When she was skinny she was a clean freak, she would just clean for hours, and when she started to gain weight it became harder and harder. So one day she decided to plan everything out in her head so tomorrow all she would have to do was just get up and do it. But when tomorrow came she would think about what she had to do so much that she would tell herself tomorrow, and time just went by like that until she became what was before them now.

As I was listening to this I was reminded of myself. Not the fat stuff, or the cleaning stuff, but the fact that I live in the world of tomorrow. I think about what needs to be done and try to plan everything out but when tomorrow comes I am already tired. I am really just putting off doing it. I plan and plan and plan but I always have a hard time doing things. I wonder why? I think that I am just worried that I will not do it right, or good enough, and so I plan.

I will be watching tv or a movie and someone will make a statement or do something that I only thought that I did. I will be so shocked for those brief moments…acting as though this has never happened before, until I remember the last time that this happened. How can all of us act so much alike, go through a lot of the same things, and only think that is a coincidence. I don't think that it could be a coincidence. It is just more evidence that we all have been created in the image of the same creator. What do you think?

Five Years From Now

Wednesday, October 05, 2005
If you stop and look at the world that is around us right now you should see that everything has changed. I am not trying to pass blame or say that this is bad. I am just stating that everything on the planet has changed. Our planet population, morals, science, polution, gas prices, church. The list could go on and on, but I will stop there. With the understanding that all has changed...what will everything look like five years from now? Five years ago the church was a place for answers, and to find God. Now it seems that we can do these things all by ourself. I am not saying that we could not do these things before, I am just trying to make a point. The general idea was that I went to church to learn more about God, to grow closer to Him, and to connect on a spiritual level. Because of the internet and many other factors too long to type, we are finding ourselves really not needing church to fill in those gaps anymore. The curtain has split and God is now more accessible than ever. What happened? I have talked with numerous people who state that they are finding God, and connecting with Him more outside of the church than they ever did inside. Is this a good or a bad thing? Anytime a person can connect with God is great, but the biggest thing here is that the church(and I say church as universal, not a specific church or denomination)has started to become irrellevant. It really seems as though the world has changed but the church has remained the same. It has decided to stand firm to it's techniques and traditions even though the world cannot understand them at all. So I want to go back to my main question. What will the church look like in five years? You tell me. Please comment.

Family

Saturday, October 01, 2005

I live in Oklahoma City and my brother goes to the University of Nebraska. My other brother lives in Nebraska as well and I have made a trip down to Lincoln to visit both of them. It is a Wheeler sons weekend. I drove seven hours to be here and so far it has been worth every minute. What is it about family that we all just love, you don't have to prove anything and you can just be yourself and there is just a peace that comes from family. We don't talk much when we are in different states and cities, but when we come together we just have a great time. I just love to be around my family, but honestly I never understand it until I am around them. I am also going to my first Husker game. I am not a fan but who doesn't like to see a division 1 team play with 80,000 other people. I would have to say that I picked the best game to make my first. A double overtime win. What a great game.