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What did you learn today?  Did you realize that everyday you are alive you learn something?  You may have learned someting about people in your world or maybe something about yourself.  Maybe you learned something about life or about death or something about God or something about hell.  Maybe you watched someones poor decisions in life and you learned not to make the same mistakes or you saw a person that inspired you who has walked through a personal test and you want to make the same kinds of good choices.  The life you live is not just what happens to you its the good decisions you make from the things that happen to you. 

I have decided to post star wars kid on my blog for a few sundays in a row.  I do think that God wants us to have a good laugh now and then and I think that most people have seen these star wars kid clips but they are good for the soul to watch.  Star Wars kid is a kid from Canada who filmed himself practicing star wars moves with a golf ball retriever pole and his friends found the tape and put it on the internet.  He became an instant star and so there are people that take his basic footage and put it to music and video to “enhance the experience.  This first clip is the original clip that the friends posted on the web and the second clip is a classic clip from star wars and the star wars kid is in it.  All I have to say is…enjoy.

I just did a wedding today up in Conifer for a kid that was in my youth group here.  It was a nice little short ceremony with all the fixin’s.  I thought many things today as I was officiating the ceremony; I have a great wife and am still happy to be married after 14 years, I feel old because I am marrying kids from my youth group here in Denver and that I am praying for Scott and Toni because she is pregnant and they have only been married two years (I just accidentally typed in “tears” instead of “years”.  That’s funny and it must have been a sign)  I thought about the fact that Yolanda and I have both never wanted kids in our years of marriage.  We love kids, but just other people’s kids.  I do think that we would make great parents (can you imagine a little Brian running around?  There would probably be some kind of tear in the space time continum) The reason why I bring this up is that Yolanda and I have had to know for us that it was not right to have kids.  Believe me, we have gotten plenty of pressure through the years to have kids from “you guys are too selfish” to “we want some grand-babies”.  I say this because many times in the church we can mistake spiritual advise as spiritual direction for our lives.  You need to recognize the difference and trust that God can speak to you about anything and that you dont have to have a “word from the Lord” from someone in the church.  If you have kids, then God bless you (and I will be praying for you because I was a youth pastor and I know things) but if you dont, then dont feel like you are odd if you and your spouse haven’t made that mutual decision.  Whew!  A wedding can bring so many things up in a mind.

I have the sweetest ipod of them all; the ipod Touch. It is so sweet and I would consider it my favorite gadget. It has the internet on it, pictures from past trips and even youtube for watching all those people that think they are “famous” but in reality we are just laughing at them and thinking they are idiots. (mental note, NEVER publish any video of myself doing the “trombone dance”, singing “Chocolate rain” or have a camera around where i could possibly make a fool of myself). Anyway, i was thinking about how my ipod “talks” to me and the things that I listen to. Do you realize that you picked the songs that you listen to on your ipod? (I know. This is news to some of you) And did you realize that those songs “talk to you” when you listen to them? I think it is really interesting to take a snapshot look at your ipod and see what you are filling your mind with. Even more, think about the kind of music you listen to when you are in a certain mood. I am only saying this because, A. This is my blog and I can say whateva I want to and B. I only want to challenge you to consider the kind of things that you put in your body mentally. Dont forget that your mind is just as important to take care of as the rest of your body and you want your ipod telling you things that lift you up and not just allowing it to sing in your ear songs because you “like the beat”. Phillipians 4:8 (…if anything is excellent or praiseworthy (to God that is) think on such things)

I just watched “hoody” tonight. That is “Hoosiers” and “Rudy”, probably two of my favorite sports movies. I was watching Hoosiers on regular TV and I am now watching Rudy on a DVD. As I was watching these two fine shows I was thinking to myself, why do we like movies like that? I came to the conclusion that we like to watch those kinds of movies because they make us feel good and let us see underdogs fight hard and win in the end. Then I thought about my walk with God and what Jesus has done for me; he makes me feel good when Im down (like hoosiers), he tells me that if I work hard and seek after him i will find him (like rudy making the team) and there are always going to be people in our lives that tell us we cant do it (like all the people who told Rudy that he couldn’t make the team). So, I realized that I love Jesus more than those two movies but they sure are good examples of why I love him so much. Don’t get caught “worshipping” things that are only make believe.

I do want my life to matter to others, but I dont want it to always be about my eye problems that I have gone through the past four and a half years.  Although this has a been a life-defining event to me, if I am not finding a fresh relationship with Jesus (notice I didnt say God?  There are lots of Gods but only one Jesus) then I dont have anything to offer people around me.  I downloaded the newest picture from the last mars explorer and put it on my desktop to remind me to seek new frontiers with Jesus and not get content to stay in “my world”.

Hello all,

I have switched around so many times now on the internet that I am beginning to feel like I have multiple personalities and that I have cyber-commitment issues. 🙂  Anyway, I am now here and excited to share my deepest darkest feelings with you all in cyberland that everyone and their dog can see. JK  I will be posting some of my artwork that I have created via Mr. Macbook Pro (said and typed with ultra reverence) and be adding thoughts and things that I think can really help you in your walk with God or encourage you to get a personal relationship with Jesus.  Either way, I always want my life to matter to someone else and not just to myself.  (I have my wife for that).  I will be building out my blogsite as the days go by and encourage you to subscribe to it because it will be, as I would say, pimpolicious!!