so sometimes i have to travel to really really really small towns to do presentations at a high school (like today). here are some signs that you are out in the stix:
-You pass 6 taxidermy places within 20 minutes of each other
-All the streets are named after produce, animals, or farm equipment (Ex: "Blueberry Lane," "Watermelon Road," "Kicking Horse Circle" and "Tractor Drive"....not even kidding).
-The speed limit for the whole town never exceeds 30 miles an hour (and sometimes gets down to 15mph) and there is only 1 stoplight within a 30-40 mile radius.
-You lose all cell phone service from the moment you get off the I-26 exit.
Just a few tidbits from my day..... :)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
long time gone
okay okay.....so i haven't abandoned the blog i promise. my work computer has it blocked so I have to make an extra special effort to get on my old laptop to write anything. there have been some complaints from the lack of blogging (well, only by my dad and rachel....who says she needs something to read in accounting). so this one's for you kid.
i just finished reading a book a few weeks ago called "the irrestibable revolution." wimbo read it and said it was awesome. it is.
it is one of those books that just changes you. and you don't really know where to begin in the process of making all of these changes. there will be some quotes from it coming soon....i promise. the writer basically talks about how we really don't live how jesus challenges us to in the bible. how we have watered down the gospel so much to fit in with our often self-righteous habits....and how jesus disliked that most about the pharisees. how often are we spending time with the poor? with hurting people? dying people? how come we have extra bedrooms but we let homeless people sleep on the streets... and then feel good about ourselves for volunteering at the soup kitchen for a night? jesus didn't tell us to give money to a good charity.....he told us to love people. and loving them is not distantly throwing a few dollars or a free meal their way. it is spending time with them and investing in their search for the Lord. and i really think the church as a whole would really change if we stopped always hoarding the gobs of information we learn about Jesus that we use for making us feel better about ourselves and instead we sometimes take the knowledge of Jesus' love and shared it with other people.
i don't know. i have just been thinking about all this a lot. and its taking a while to process how i should be living it out in my own daily life.
i just finished reading a book a few weeks ago called "the irrestibable revolution." wimbo read it and said it was awesome. it is.
it is one of those books that just changes you. and you don't really know where to begin in the process of making all of these changes. there will be some quotes from it coming soon....i promise. the writer basically talks about how we really don't live how jesus challenges us to in the bible. how we have watered down the gospel so much to fit in with our often self-righteous habits....and how jesus disliked that most about the pharisees. how often are we spending time with the poor? with hurting people? dying people? how come we have extra bedrooms but we let homeless people sleep on the streets... and then feel good about ourselves for volunteering at the soup kitchen for a night? jesus didn't tell us to give money to a good charity.....he told us to love people. and loving them is not distantly throwing a few dollars or a free meal their way. it is spending time with them and investing in their search for the Lord. and i really think the church as a whole would really change if we stopped always hoarding the gobs of information we learn about Jesus that we use for making us feel better about ourselves and instead we sometimes take the knowledge of Jesus' love and shared it with other people.
i don't know. i have just been thinking about all this a lot. and its taking a while to process how i should be living it out in my own daily life.
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