I know that I have said on here before that I haven’t slept well. But here are my symptoms: it takes me a long time to fall asleep at night. I toss and turn. I wake up frequently, but I get back to sleep rather easily. It is very hard for me to wake up in the mornings.
I don’t want to be a hypochondriac - but that looks like insomnia to me. What do you think?
During my quiet time today - God kind of spoke to me about something. I - like a lot of people - get jacked up at conferences or when I hear awesome messages. I get fired up and very excited. I just went to Passion ‘08. It was awesome and truly a “spiritual mountain top” experience. But naturally - that experience is wearing off.
I think that conferences and listening to good messages about God are great. But they are like Spiritual Energy Drinks. I go to those conferences and it is like chugging an Amp. I get jacked up. But inevitably - I am going to crash. What needs to be happening is me working out my salvation or working out with my quiet times daily. That is where my energy needs to come from.
Energy drinks are good to spark a short burst - but in order to stay energized and healthy - a person needs to work our and treat their body right. Do you see what I am getting at?
Anyway - I felt like it applied to where I am at right now in my life. I have to make a choice to work things out instead of relying on a camp or conference experience to simply get me to the next camp or conference.
This is how dumb I am sometimes: I was reading my Bible as usual today. Everything was normal. I have been reading in Jeremiah. I have enjoyed the book - I have never read it before. Today, I read three chapters… before realizing that I was in Isaiah. Good one. I almost feel like I need to go back and read Jeremiah, too. I guess this probably looks like I don’t pay attention to what I read. I beg to differ - I pay attention so closely to what I read that I don’t notice the name of the book in the corner of the page.
I think I had the best idea ever last night. One of these days - I think I am going to open a pizzeria. Instead of making regular pizzas - we would sell school pizzas. Who doesn’t love a good square pizza? We can serve it lunch style. I think that it would good to definitely have apple sauce and ranch dressing. But corn and mixed fruit would definitely be a plus as well.
What drinks would we serve? Milk, of course! White, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Snow Milk.
My associates and I have also kicked around the idea of a “Potato/Salad Bar.” But nothing is written in stone yet. Let me know what you think. Does a square, lunch style pizzeria sound appealing to anyone?
In the words of the entire Chandler Creek Elementary School first grade class:
Earth Day is Every Day!
I graduated college last May. I was jobless and pretty much had no prospects. I don’t even remember who told me this - I am sure that I didn’t come up with it on my own - but I was given a new perspective on some lyrics to a worship song that we sang every week at NewSpring.
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord.
We will wait upon the Lord.
We will wait upon the Lord.
Believe me - this became my theme song. I was waiting on God to show me anything. But I was just waiting. I don’t remember where I got this from - but I was told to take a different perspective on the word wait. Instead of sit around on my butt waiting - I need to wait on the Lord like a waiter. I need to serve the Lord. Strength will rise as I serve the Lord. Through serving the Lord and focusing on that - God worked everything out to his glory. This was timely advice because I was a waiter at the time.
Don’t know what to do? Serve the Lord. He is faithful. He will lead you.
Here is a quote from my good friend Tyler. I have heard him say it several times but today the truth of it is really sitting with me.
I can accomplish more in spending twenty minutes in prayer at the beginning of my day than if I worked as hard as I could for a solid week.
Napoleon Dynamite is on. This movie makes me laugh so incredibly hard. Here are two quotes that are pretty much perfect. “You see that girl over there? … Do you dare me to go talk to her?” and “How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains.”
In other news - The commercials that come on for ITT Tech have always bothered me. I have always wondered what ITT stood for. They never say. Well, I found out what ITT means. It stands for the “International Telephone and Telegraph” Technical Institute.
