-- Post From My iPhone

I Have Relocated

Sorry, you can now find me here!

Come check me out and leave a comment! Hope to see ya!

DOWN SIZING!

After being at desk for almost 2 years, I decided to get rid of it! I wanted something small, and something that wouldn't collect clutter. Well after asking around, I decided to join my friend Joe Johns, in purchasing an Air Desk. I am really enjoying and it really opened up my office space!

HELL IN THE HALLWAYS

A few years ago, I heard Joseph Garlington say, "when God closes one door He opens another, but it's hell in the hallways!". The hallway is the in the in between state, the halfway point in our journey! This describes my experience of Great Lent this year. I recognize that in Christ I am complete, but I still must allow Christ to be "complete" in me. St. Paul wrote to the community of the faithful in Galatia, “I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you”(Galatians 4:19 NKJV). This is in fact the original call of humanity, to be the Image and Likeness of God. All of us despite where we are in life, are made in the Image of God. However, through sin, pain, hurt and other things we have become unlike God. Lent is a "season" of community repentance, it is an awakening. As we move towards Pascha (Easter Sunday), Lent represents a hallway of sorts, an in between place. It helps us to recognize that I am not, in order that we may become. It is the Journey of the Prodigal Son from a far country back to his father's house. At the Prodigals lowest point of being inhumane, he contemplates on eating pig slop, but at that point he has an awakening, he comes to himself! In a moment of self-reflection he realizes it just makes plain sense to go home. This lent I have had many painful awakenings about where I am in life, and by God's grace I'm on my way home!

"See, I Am Making All Things New."

Happy New Year! We made it to 2009, and every New Year we are overwhelmed with the optimistic promises and vows made by us all. " I am going to exercise this year", " This year I promise to eat healthier!" "This year I will kiss my debt goodbye!". Of course all these promises are made with the best of intentions, and many do follow through on their commitments. However, what's really new about this year? With the boom in technology and the increase of information, human beings are pretty much the same. We still have wars, crime, divorce, the killing of babies, and we all battle with the deadly disease of selfishness. Of course goodness is seeping through the cracks of our broken world all the time. I have chosen to place my hope in Jesus the "Christ", the Savior of the Cosmos! In the midst of a broken world and fast cracking world, His words ring vibrantly in my soul " See, I am making all things new." (Rev. 21:5).

It is this hope of a real living God-Man who came into time as a part of His creation to transform time as well as to renew His creation! Just as it was revealed in the story of The Creation in Genesis, He is once again at work in the midst of chaos. Just as in the story of the Exodus he is once again at work to liberate all of creation from bondage. He experienced our brokenness and our fallenness so that he might mend us as well as lift us up! It is my hope that this New Year will be filled with renewal for the People of God that we might work with our God to Make All Things New. Happy New Year!