Let me put you on the Game

Here are the rules for the game:

1. Link to the person who tagged you  janjanntravels.blogspot.com
2. Post the rules on the blog. check
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post. tag yourself
5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. shut up
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up. why is this even a rule

Six Random Things About Myself:

1. I am an absolute sucker for bands with male/female vocal duos (Belle and Sebastian, Stars, Los Campesinos, etc.), even if they suck really bad (e.g. Shiny Toy Guns)

2. Although my quant analysis leaves something to be desired, I live and die by numbers. Numbers never lie (but the people who use them certainly do). 

3. I love the Christmas season. (Mid November to the end of the year). The ambience, the weather, the lights, the old faces, and Love Actually.

4. I get a real kick out of telling people they are wrong or telling people I disagree with them (which makes me a vindictive prick) , but I have toned it down a lot in recent years

5. I am not picky, but man, there are a lot of things I don't like.

6. I live my life for He who has saved me, but I fall on my face a lot of times while trying.

"Here I Am"

Out of everything in Genesis 22, I found the reply "Here I Am" to be the most striking. We all know about how God repaid Abraham's faithfulness and trust when he offered up Isaac. It's not a small nor insignificant lesson by any means but the main sticking point for me is how Abraham responds to God's call.

"Here I Am"

I find "living for God" and "walking with Christ" to be just as cliché as Obama's call for "change". I find that too many times, rather than responding to God with "here I am", I respond with "hold on a minute, I'm busy" or "..., I'm tired" or "..., I'm hungry" or "...., I have to go to the bathroom", and you get the point. Maybe that's why it's so hard for me to hear what He is telling me.

It's all too easy to think of dying for Christ when there are the angels spilling their bowls filled with blood and what not upon the earth. If you saw all this happening, then of course you would respond the same way Abraham did. But what makes today any different? What makes it so hard to respond, right now, with a firm, resonant, "here I am?"

Money?
The new Macbooks?
The World Series?
The election?
The new episode of Heroes?

"Most men forget God all day and ask Him to remember them at night"

Let's all fix our eyes upon what really matters.

Posers Can't Stop It

True geek rap fashion with thick frames, big digital watches, and supras/nike SB high tops. 

That handshake is sick nasty, anyone want to partake in it with me?  

It's OK my will is good.

I was definitely the "second-row sleeper".  

I remember in one of my classes, I was talking to some random guy about classes we took the previous quarter and we found out that we were in the same class as each other before.  However, he couldn't remember my face until I told him that I always sat in the front row.  His response was "Dude you were that guy that fell asleep right in front of the professor every lecture!"

Guilty as charged.