Stand Still To Move

Landon found him a truck on Saturday        I am sitting in my office this morning preparing for the day that is about to start.  I started thinking about stuff in general.  Landon and one of his friends from church are wanting to start a business together,  people that we have prayed for, new job opportunities, our family garden.  I noticed and recognized the voices that started filling the once silent suite where my office is and where the morning huddle takes place.  What a blessing it is a) to have a nice, comfortable place to work and b) enjoy being around your teammates that you work with.  I guess the reason I am so thankful is that I recognize that there are folks in this world that because of circumstances beyond their control, don't have the worldly things that I have.  But! (There is always a But)  There are many folks that have started this life with less than I started with and have fought and scratched their way t...

I wonder how many other people besides me listen to a song and begin immediately to imagine and think about what the music video would be.  As the song plays I can see in my mind the different themes and camera shot angles.  Well, it happened to me again yesterday as I was driving home from work.  "The Unmaking" by Nicole Nordeman started playing on my truck radio.  There is a lot in those lyrics that we can tie to our own lives and a lot of scripture to back the lyrics up.  America,  I am confident that we will have to be "unmade" to get back to the point where we worship the creator instead of the created.  Demolition is messy and unpleasant, especially when you are not even aware of how big your creation has gotten because the building process has been so slow and gradual.  We have built walls of government welfare, church denominations, rituals, church growth, skin color, gender identities, and the like.  I am confident this has all been ...