All Flesh is Like Grass…

I was sitting in my office yesterday afternoon when I heard one of my co-workers loudly announce that Michael Jackson had died. I didn’t really believe her, so I looked online to find that he had not actually died, but was in a coma at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. CNN had a helicopter hovering over the hospital (presumably in case Michael Jackson awoke from his coma and came moonwalking out the front door) and they had another helicopter over his house. A crowd had gathered outside the gates of his rented home and was collectively distraught at the thought of Michael Jackson’s potential demise. Wolf Blitzer broke into that scene with the announcement that several news organizations were now reporting that the pop icon was dead. It was a truly sad moment.

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Breathing Through Disappointments

Last week God put me in a place to hear a message I desperately needed. Thanks Helen for hearing from God FOR ME. I know some of you were at the same event as me and chances are you got something different just for you from Helen’s message. How like God to be so personal.

Helen talked about 3 things we need to guard against as we journey with God and those he places in our lives – disappointment, distraction, and delay. The first one is what I want to explore with you.

We will all be disappointed from time to time but we can’t live in that disappointment because as Helen told us, it will turn into selfishness. It becomes all about ME. OH MY, is that ever true. Think about a recent disappointment – I’m sure you won’t have go to far back in time. As you think about it, rehearse it even and ponder it from every angle, there comes a point when it turns into “poor me”. That is a dangerous place to stay.

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Meaning of Life

As I was waiting in a parking lot for an appointment, a young man strolled by with head hanging, arms stiff at his side, and clothes that hadn’t seen water in many days. His only stop in the 300 meters in which I saw him, was at the pay phone checking for change. He hardly turned right or left but instead vacantly watched his feet move forward one step at a time. Hopelessness and meaninglessness walked with him.

And my heart broke… What would it be like to see no meaning in life? I’m sure some of you could tell me. In fact I have my own story of 15 years of despair which I never want to relive.

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Something to Do This Summer

There is this scene in a movie I remember watching with my wife a few years ago where the romantically involved couple goes out to a park in San Francisco, sits under a beautiful tree as the sun is setting, and watches an old movie on a makeshift screen with hundreds of others. I remember telling my wife that watching old movies in a park at night would be a pretty great way to spend an evening.
So, you can imagine my thrill when I found out last year that this is precisely what they do in Fairhaven (the south side of Bellingham) on Saturday nights throughout the summer. And its free (all the Mennonites just sat up). You can find out about the schedule and the movies they play at this link (http://fairhaven.com/content/2009_summer_movies). And if you are going to look into doing it, let me be the first to suggest you take along your family and do a couple of things beforehand…

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Shades of Prayer

As I was traveling to work this morning, thinking about God, about him as creator, and looking around at the trees and bushes and grass, the different colors of green jumped out at me.
I found a list of possible names from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_green

Army green, Asparagus, Bright green, British racing green, Camouflage green, Celadon, Chartreuse, Yellow-green, Emerald, Fern green, Forest green, Gray-asparagus, Green, Green-yellow, Harlequin, Hunter green, Islamic green, Jade, Jungle green, Kelly green, Lime, Lime green, Midnight green, Moss green, Myrtle, Office green, Olive, Olive drab, Pear, Persian green, Pigment green, Pine green, Sea green, Shamrock green, Spring green, Spring bud, Tea green, Teal, Viridian, Variations of green.

Did you know there were so many?
While I was driving I immediately thought of prayer.
Prayer comes in many different forms. Here are a few:

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