Food for Thought

The McDonalds CEO has just stepped down from his position due to finding out he has colon cancer. No doubt this is a man who has dreamnt about making it big in the coorporate world, and he was well on his way to success, and now has chosen to step down and give it all up. He wants to focus completely on his health and family. It's funny how our health can bring life into perspective like that. Isn't it true that when we have severe health threats, near death experiences, or anything similar, suddenly our priorities are brought into clear view. Why is it though that, for most of us, it takes extreme measures to bring into light the things dearest to us. I would hope that I could live each day putting the priorities that are dearest to my heart first and foremost, and that it wouldn't take one day finding out my life is ending only to realize I had neglected those things which matter most.

Making the most of Him 8-5

John Piper says, "God's will in this age is that his people be scattered like salt and light in all legitimate vocations. His aim is to be known, because knowing him is life and joy."
I have my fears in entering into the "secular" work force very soon here. I fear that I will get caught up in the rat race of this world, I will sacrifice the truth I believe for the acceptance I recieve, that I will lose sight of the things I truly love. Why am I so prone to wander from God? He says that if we love Him we will obey Him. If I am so prone to wander, does that mean each time I stray away, my heart is falling a little bit out of love with Him? My hope is that I would be so in love with Him that there is no need for other things in this life. That my heart could come to a place of finding all satisfaction and joy in Him. Those are the moments in my life when I'm able to truly LOVE people, and I don't mean loving people in a way of "doing it" as Christian duty, but in a way that is just a natural outpouring of the satifaction of the Love that God is filling my heart with. It is something supernatural, that is beyond my strength. I don't know what I'm getting at, but I guess just hoping that as I enter into the working world, that my heart will cling to God as my first love and savior. I'm just not sure what that looks like yet.

He's just not into you....

This is a line I just heard in one of my favorite shows, according to Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend, if a guy doesn't call or show an effort the bottom line is that "He's just not into you." Now, I know it's just T.V. but really, that's a liberating thought. In fact I found out there's a whole entire book devoted to this theory. Girls tend to imagine and hope in a guy's intentions when really he may not have intentions at all. Then usually the girl ends up putting her hope in it, making excuses for the guy's lame non-existent effort and just ends up getting hurt in the end of all of it. If that was truth, then in protection of the heart, wouldn't it make things so simple for the girl to simply forget about him and come to terms with the fact that "he's just not into me" and move on, no more hoping, romanticisizng, or thinking it's something it really isn't. Shouldn't the girl have in her mind that "she is worth it" to make the effort for? Rather than making some excuse for some jerk?
Another thought/question, if one person is interested and the other isn't, isn't it just eaiser not to develop a relationship to start with? Wouldn't it be easier on the other person than coming to a place where you have spent time with them and eventually have to have "the talk" and hurt them even more by telling them there's nothing in store. What hurts more? I think the latter. So, why not just save the trouble and not even go there. But then again there are so many relationships that develop becuase someone gave the other person a chance even though they weren't intially interested, and ended up falling in love. Oh, i don't know, but I would love to know what you think.......
Another question, does the "spark" really exist, is there "one person" out there or could there be a lot of different people you could work with?

Matt's B-day

matt's b-day
My brother turned 19 on the November 4th. Time is such a weird thing. It's so strange how when we were younger the 3 1/2 year age difference between the two of us felt like a world of difference. I think back on the days when he was a little menace chasing my sister and I around with knives, belts, and ninja stars (real ones!), and I can't believe how time has made that age gap feel so much smaller. I now feel like Matt is my same age, my peer, and at times more mature than I am. Especially when we're sitting in church and I'm passing him notes and text messaging him, and he's trying to pay attention :) He is now in college and living in SLO with me, and it has been a gift to get to spend my last quarter here with him! I am amazed at the man of integrity, depth, and wisdom he is becoming, and already is. So happy birthday Mattsiff.....enjoy your last teenage year!!!

Thrift Store Prom

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