Just a funny thing I thought of today. When I was in high school my sister and I (remember, we were home schooled) would fight to sit on the big couch to do our work. In the end we’d always end up sharing the couch…and the same afghan blanket…
Is that kind of strange? I spent most of my high school study time sharing a couch and a blanket with my sister? And sometimes we’d drink and eat our lunch out of bowls like dogs…when we were sixteen…or six, I don’t really remember.
We’re such home school nerds.

I don’t see many movies at the theater. They’re expensive and they give you the impression that you’re spending quality time with the friend who attends the movie with you when in reality you’re simple sitting near eachother while staring at a screen. Nevertheless I could not resist seeing the new installment of Batman. And good golly I was impressed (along with millions of others around the world). Heath Ledger was amazing. Aaron Eckhart was amazing (though his face did look a little Terminator/Mummyish at the end). I loved the way they were able to capture evil in the character of Joker without showing him sawing guys heads off, raping and torturing women and children, or anything else horribly graphic. While other movies may have had more creepy villains, the way that Ledger played the Joker was so perfect that it did not even necessitate showing much graphic evilness (for lack of a better word).
But here’s the best part about Batman that I was reminded of when I saw Dark Knight…Batman is so tidy! Didn’t you notice? He keeps all of his homemade gadgets in nice little cases all cleaned up and shiny. Everything has its place and is always put away. His little bat shaped throwing star things are kept each in their own individually shaped spot on a nice velvet covered box. His suit is always hung up and clean. I’d like to give credit to Alfred except for the fact that we often see Bruce putting away his little throwing bat-stars in their little case. Good for you Bruce! Way to stay nice and tidy. I love organization and I love a clean work area…and that’s why I love Batman…and, yes, I do feel a little awkward after writing all this.

I was praying this morning and telling God some of my frustrations. I’m frustrated about money stuff. At the end of October Jess and I have no more funding with Renovatus. Last month my parents “salary” check was $2000 short. Last month Renovatus barely had enough money to pay the bills. We might need to cancel what was to be our second annual neighborhood block party partially due to lack of funds. God why do we have all these crappy money problems? And then I was frustrated that our church isn’t growing as we thought it would. This summer is going to be a painful one with regard to numbers. Anyway, I had a whole list of things I was moaning to God about. And it’s this strange balance, because I know and believe that God will be faithful. He’s always come through in the past. But where I get worried is that I’m not convinced that God won’t let us go through a whole pile of crap in order to get to his destination. I just want things to be simple. I don’t want more faith. I just want to sit right where I’m at with no further opportunities to grow my faith in any way. God just bring some positive answers to prayers easily and quickly and without any faith whatsoever…that’s all I need…
…if only God worked like that!
To get to the point of my story, as I’m reading some scripture this morning I come across these words:

Don’t worry about anything: instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
– Philippians 4:6-7

Hmm…do I want peace that transcends what my mind can conceive? Yes. So to get such peace one must pray, share my needs with him, thank him for what he’s done, and chill? Yes. Interesting.
I’ve read that passage before, but today it really stuck out. God so you’re saying that you want me to just keep praying, sharing my needs with you, remembering how you’ve worked in the past, and then let it go? I guess I’ll give it a shot, but I won’t be happy about it(-:

*That was my first parenthesis-dash-colon smiley face I’ve ever done! You can pat me on the back later.

• If Jack Johnson asked me if I liked his song “flake” I’d tell him maybe. (you’ve got to think about this one)
• I don’t do practical jokes. They’re usually only funny for the person doing the joke, which I think by definition would say you’re just mean. But I’ve always wanted to buy 25 smelly car trees, pull off the plastic wrappers, and then tape them to hidden places all over someones car.
• In my inmost being consistency is my underlying core value.
• There are two things that drive me crazy about people. 1.) inconsistency or being flaky. 2.) Ignorant people who are also arrogant. It’s a killer combo.
• I like pretty much everyone and like to consider myself pretty likable…though, that doesn’t mean much coming from me…I mean, if I like pretty much everybody why wouldn’t I look at myself and think “who wouldn’t like this guy?!”
• For years I’ve dreamed of peeing my pants in public on purpose. A few years back I saw Will Ferrell do it on SNL and it made me sad because that was my joke. There was one point when a friend of mine and I ran home from school so we could both pee our pants on our front porch. I don’t remember what happened, but I know it didn’t include urine.
• Everyday I’m learning more and more that blogs and email are terrible and potentially destructive ways to communicate.
• Often my family is very busy and quite lonely.
• We don’t have a tv, but lately we’ve gotten hooked on watching such shows online as Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report, and as always Southpark.
• If you’re familiar with N.T. Wright and Tony Campolo you’ve got to go to the Colbert Reports website and watch his interviews with them.
• If I could be any television character it would be Gob from Arrested Development
• My family eats vegetarian (and has for over a month now) I ride my bike more now than I have in 10 years and rarely drive…and yet I keep gaining weight! It’s not like I care that much, it’s just baffling that’s all. And trust me, it’s not added weight from added muscle. My mysterious muscle mass is still waiting to be found.
• I grew my mustache out a while back. I looked good.

The following link is not a joke and is not intended for children.
http://www.cb-2000.com
what do you think? I read an article about it from xxxChurch and the people selling this decided to do it because he was tired of seeing his married coworkers screw around on business trips.