Thursday, March 02, 2006
March 1st was my mom's birthday and my mom is the best. The present we got her didn't arrive on time but Jamie made this funny email with some classic pics to help her forget about the present being late. Mom, i hope that you were distracted by the funny pics?? DId it work? Well, i didn't have a chance to say this yesterday via blog, but today i do...HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I love you!
ps it was Brownings birthday also, i love you too man! :)BIG DAY TODAY
Africa Benefit Concert tonight at the Hippodrome. I am really excited about this show. There is always alot of nerves about putting on a concert. Will people come? is it worth the effort? But today i sit in a good seat, i know that our team has done everything we could possible do to get the word out about the show and so now it is in your hands. Are you going to come? I sure hope so. I have talked to people from UBC who are actually having friends drive in from College Station, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio just for the show tonight. That excites me! I just can't wait because Invisible Children will be there and that movie and a conversation I had with Laren last year are a large reason why I feel it neccessary to go to Africa. I am glad that their inspiration and their story are apart of my story and UBC's story. I am glad we can both share our stories tonight, together at the Hippodrome.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
So this week is crazy, we have the big Africa benefit concert this week which is a full time job, we have the hub and I am teaching on Faithfulness, and of course the building is under construction. I love being busy. It is weird but i really enjoy it when my plate is full, especially when I get to do things that I love doing. I love that we are going to Africa. I love that we are having a big event this week, i love planning and marketing things, getting posters made and hyping things up!!! I love that invisible children are in town (see Old Man Dudley's Blog if you want to hear me rant and rave about politics). I love Politics because I love the idea that people can make a difference, that things can change for the better.
I love that I get to go to a lunch deal that my buddy Jon Singletary is helping put on in conjunction with Bread for the World and the One campaign to talk about church/state issues. The focus of this lunch is to discuss letter writing campaigns for churchs. (ps, if anyone wants to attend with me let me know...) I love that this idea needs a luncheon. I love that this past summer I tried to bring some new ideas to UBC in regards to things like letter writing campaigns, prayer night for darfur, environmental issues and it was met with some resistence. I am finally at a place where I can appreciate that resistence isn't a bad thing, after all we do live in the Bible belt. It takes people from both sides of an issue to come together to sort things out. I love that I might have tried to hard and tried to force my opinion on people as Gospel because i was so passionate that something needed to change, something needed to be done. I would LOVE it if people would read this post and comment on their thoughts on the churches role in regards to politics. Should we be involved as Christians? Should we not participate? Can the story of the gospel be carried out in foreign policy? I love that I dont freakin know the answer to these questions. I love that this summer I actually thought a good book idea would be to explore "Taxes as a form of Tithe?" I love that i can try and fail. I love that I can try to explore and that people give me freedom to try and figure out the churches role with politics and that I can completely fail and that people are forgiving of that...See Elizabeth town if you haven't. FAIL BIG!!! I love that i am sitting here at my computer just typing whatever comes into my tiny little brain and you guys actually read it. sorry about that...
Monday, February 27, 2006
Ok guys, i really need your help here...last night I was watching Sports Center and they had one of those stories, you know the ones I am talking about...the one where they do the background story and get you all excited. Then the story reaches its climax when the person does the thing that shouldn't happen or overcomes some amazing obsticle and you start to CRY! Yep, sports center makes me cry. It happens, i keep telling my wife that this is a common occurance with Sports Center, they do it on purpose. It is like a 7 min version of Rudy or Hoosiers. Jamie told me that I was a girl for crying at sports center, i need to convince her that this isn't true...there are other guys who cry also...if you are man enough to admit this...please speak now. Help a brother out!!!!
