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Feb13

DAY 44 (2014)

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Today I needed to laugh. Then I saw the picture below and about passed out from laughter. Life can be dirty, and ugly. Some days even laughter can be hard to come by when you look at the state of the world and the depravity of mankind. But just at the right time and just in the right way God brought this into my day:

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Ha. Some days laughter really is the best medicine.

“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bone” (Proverbs 17:22).

So what’s my plan of attack? Laughter and plenty of it.

Jan8

DAY 8 (2014)

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Make your plans, but leave the outcome to God. (this is the mental picture I had of my brother)...

Make your plans, but leave the outcome to God. (this is the mental picture I had of my brother)…

Have you ever made a plan, saw it play out clearly in your mind, waited with anticipation for the fruition of your plan, only to have the opposite happen? My brother for several months had been planning a special event for his girlfriend. An airplane ride to watch the sunset over the South Beach. The setting romantic: the sunset, the skyline, champagne just him and his girl together and smiling. Today I casually asked, “How was your sunset flight?” To which he answered, “Terrifying.” I started laughing I immediately got a mental picture of him clinging to the handle bars in the plane and screaming. I asked what happen, he proceeded to say when they arrived at their destination they realized it was a flight school, but he figured no big, surely his pilot will be an experienced airman. Imagine his surprise when a kid younger than him (my brother is only 24), introduces himself has the pilot. The pilot waylays their fears by telling them he has clocked many hours in the air so they need not worry. Feeling a little more confident, my bother’s girlfriend inquires, “How many of these flights have you done?” To which he replies, “This is my first flight without and instructor.” (Hahaha) They thought he was kidding…he wasn’t. I am dying, tears are in my eyes (because I can picture my brother’s facial expression).  He proceeds to tell them it may be a little bumpy, but not to worry it shouldn’t be too bad… Uh-huh. According to my brother at one point the plane actually stops and they start falling. Then he said this.”I had this romantic picture in my head, instead I almost peed my pants and broke my girl friend’s hand from squeezing it so hard.” As he was telling me his tale. I started to visualize all the things I had pictured in my head that turned out to be the opposite of what I saw. Then God reminded me, we make the plans, but He directs the path. We will constantly be disappointed if we believe the picture in our heads to be true. Make your plans, but leavee the outcome to God, He won’t disappoint.

“We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it” (Proverbs 16:9, The Message Bible).

So what’s my plan of attack? Make my plans, but leave the steps up to God.

Dec23

DAY 357

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Life lessons from a phone battery...(Yup, it can happen).

Life lessons from a phone battery…(Yup, it can happen).

So I had this bright idea it started on Saturday. Wait, for my idea to make sense let me back track a bit. I have a smart phone, it runs on a battery. Batteries are interesting things, if you don’t charge them, they don’t work. If you charge them too much they eventually lose their ability to hold a charge properly and thus, they don’t work. Most technologically advanced IT people (people way smarter than me) have told me it is good thing every once in a while to let the battery die ALL the way before charging it. Thus helping to extend the battery life (I am not an expert, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to try). So Saturday morning (once I took my phone off the charger) I made the decision to not charge my phone again until it died on its own. Today is Monday and as of 5 pm this evening my phone still had not died. I am tempted to just charge it anyway, but that would defeat the purpose of what I am trying to do. What I find really interesting and a little funny about this situation is not the “energizer bunny” like quality of my phone’s battery life, but my impatience and irritation at the fact that my phone has not died. I should be eternally happy to realize that my phone has such amazing battery power. Instead I am frustrated because it’s not doing what I want, which is for it to DIE. (Yes, I know it’s illogical, but I am experiencing it none the less). Here’s the correlation: How many times as we continue on this journey have we ignored a “good” thing because the outcome was not what we wanted? The fact that what happened trumps the outcome we wanted doesn’t matter. Why?  Because good or bad we want what we want. Yes, we are a little silly. Today my phone battery thought me a lesson. Don’t be so focused on getting our (my) outcome that we (I) miss a “good thing”.

“And He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.’ And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper…” (1 King 19: 11-12).

So what am I thankful for today? Life lessons from a phone battery.  (Side Note: My phone died at 6:53 pm. Funeral services will be… 😉 )