Breath

This past Sunday I heard a sermon that was a breath of fresh air... Actually that was kind of the point of the sermon... Deron preached a wonderful sermon on the idea of breath, and more to the point the life that the breath of God brings...

However, as I sat and pondered I wonder if I fell asleep and missed a point, or if there is just another point that he either did not consider or did not discuss. You see I think he missed a very imprtant concept dealing with breath and Christians.

HOLDING YOUR BREATH.

I can think of three times that we hold our breath: Before that first kiss, when we hold our breath in anticipation, when we swim under water and we strain to reach the otherside where we can burst forth and breath again, and when we hold our breath because we are uncertain whether or not the air around us is breathable.

If you have not seen the movie I high ly reccomend it. RED PLANET w/ Val Kilmer, but when they first arrive on Mars the run around running out of oxygen. They reach the point that they are gasping for breath inside their suits until one of them panics and opens his face mask only to realize that the air is breathable.

I think that often times we as Chrisitans hold our breath. We suck up as much of the Lord as we can and run out into the world, kicking and screaming with our lungs raedy to burst. We long to breath but are terrified of the horrors that will come when there is no air available. We stangle ouselves out of fear of suffication. Often times pushing ourselves to the point of passing out, and only in our panic are we forced to draw in a breath. And instead of drawing in a mouth of water, or toxic gas or even a nothingless vacuum, we are filled with the breath of God.

I am tired of holding my breath. I am tired of reaching for the otherside like it is something that I must get there before I can breath again. I think there is a reason that olympic swimmers swim on top of the water. They can swim so much farther and so much faster if they are breathing a long the way.

Lord please fill me with your breath, refresh my spirit and give me energy and strength to run the race to my fullest.

Track and Spring Break and what not

So we just finished Spring Break... and like my tax refund I gave the whole thing to my wife to do with as she pleased... THis was not so much to placate her as it was to resolve an age old argument. It seems that I am a control freak (not new news). But apparently I have always decided where and what we are spending our money on, whether or not I have discussed it with her. So this year we are going to do it her way. Oddly enough it is kind of liberating.

So Spring Break was interesting... Even though I am a control freak in many ways I actually love to be spontanteous, as long as I am not it charge of it. I know that creates an interesting conundrum (spelling?).

SO let me pontificate about myself and my odd personality type. The other day we had a man stand up at church to make an announcement, as part of his announcement he made the comment that He loves change as long as he is in charge of it, he said this as a joke, but I ahve know this man for years and he was not joking... he makes the average control freak look normal. BUt as I listend to what he said I thought you know I am just the opposite.... I love change as long as I am not in charge of it.

If I am in charge, which I do not like to be "In Charge" we will do it the same way we have always done it. I will make my list and we will knock it out slowly but very well. If someone else is "In Charge" I sit in the back and take control. But the truth is I don't like to make descisions that impact other people. I want someone else to make the descisions and then let me do it. I want to be in control of the execution of the plan, I hate being in charge of the plan.

SO this is no where near what I was going to blog about when I started. I would go back and change the title, but that just wouldn't be like me.

Plus I have not fully explored this topic and will have to come back to it. But right now I am at work and am not doing what I am supposed to be doing. So I will end here and return later to discuss why the world is round, and why God should be at the center of it... I guess in Truth the workd is round and God is at the Center of it... Just becuase we don't believe does not menat the the truth is not true.

things that will never cease to amaze me

It will never cease to amaze me the things that students can break... how do you break a hot glue gun, a screw driver, a hammer... how do you hold a protractor for less than five minutes and break it?

It will never cease to amaze me at how little we support our schools... Everywhere I go people tell me how much the appreciate teachers and how committed I am to do so much for so little... they love to point out how under funded we are and how under paid we are, and yet if you ask them to approve a bond issue they freak out about paying more taxes...

It will never cease to amaze me at how much we place the rights of the masses over the rights of individuals... Don't I have the right to protect my kids from pornography, drugs and other such things... and yet the internet, television and radio go seemingly unchecked because of their right to say and publish whatever they want... I don't wnat the government to take over but I do want them to do their job...

On that same note it will never cease to amze me at the money our government can waste... did you know that the Missouri legilature spent days if not weeks debating (hours on the job) how to pronounce the name of the state... is it an "i" or an "e" or an "a" sound at the end. As if we didn't have more pressing matters for them to argue about. Maybe if we didn't pay the for the hours that they aren't actually working we couls use the money to balance the budget...

There are many things in life that