taking random to the next level.

Morgan and I decided to run to walmart, get a nifty ty-dye kit, come home and ty-dye shirts… for fun! Melissa came along and helped us! … I made my dad one and he said he is going to wear it to church or to work… I hope both in due time… I am really excited for that day… maybe being the corny family that we are… we could wear it to church on the same day. Man, im real eager for that day.
 After some rubber bands, laughs and a couple blue ty-dye fingers, our shirts were ready to sit a full 8 hours; meanwhile Morgan leaves to hang with her sister and we were joined by the company of Jeremy :] We hit up FireHouse Subs for dinner and back to my casa to have some more laughs!

two cogitations on this photo:
-to answer your question:
yes, my home-made v-neck t shirt says, “YEE-HAW” ;]
-and the feet in the photo are specifically for a special friend of mine :]

a call to die

by David Nasser

So this is my most recent read. So far I am enjoying it!

And this afternoon during work, I had it sitting on the desk when a customer walked in and wanted to buy something. So as I am ringing up his item, he looks down at the book and says, “WOW, what a horrendous title to a book.” I politely reply, “Yes sir, I am sure it seems that way; it certainly catches you off guard and makes you think twice.” From seeing the look on his face, he looked interested and a bit confused, so I then said, “It is a book about being selfless.” He says, “There’s no such thing.” …As I listen to him say this, I am writing up paper work for the item and I am thinking, “Well God, I could sit here and say absolutly nothing about what I believe about this subject… or, I could kindly and in a loving, Christ-like way; let this man know how I feel about being selfless.” After this man said that there is no such thing as to be selfless, I replied, “Well sir, what do you mean?” He goes on to say, “Well if you give to charity or help the poor… you do it for yourself… you may be doing a good deed, but you are doing it to give yourself a good feeling inside.” I then said, “Well sir, I definatly repect and understand your statement, but I dont think I agree.” He accepted and told me to just think about what he had told me.

I have definatly thought about it, but not to alter my views on dying to my flesh and to be selfless. It has made me think twice about my intentions for the Lord are and I have to just believe the fact that we, as Christ followers are not just doing these good works for selfish motives; but that out of Christ in us, we want to purely serve others! Amen :]

Side-note: God works in cool ways… This conversation happened after, by about two hours, after I wrote the post: I’m starting over. Seemed kind of cool to me that I had just written about how I was done living this life for me and then God was in a way testing me :] I love you, God.

im starting over.

Im starting over, Im going back to the basics, Im done with this all being far too complicated.

I, myself, have made this all far too comlpicated. I have a deep and burning desire to know more intimatly the God who loves me; but it seems I have lost sight of that desire and made it all too complicated. All too complicated with the works God put before me and because of my self-righteous pride; I have found myself busy focusing on how God can use me that I have not spent the time I have needed to to intimatly know the loving God that I love so passionatly and long to serve whole-heartidly. 

I’m going back to the basics and starting over.

So, I am done making things complicated, I am surrendering my self-righteous pride to God and dying to my flesh and selfish desires, and I am no longer focusing on how God can use me but I am just going to love my God and love the people around me and let God do the rest.

I’m letting go and letting God.