We are still in Beta.

Sometimes, going for it, even when you know you might get hurt, is the best action ever to be taken.

Say you’re rock climbing, you see a possible option to scale the seemingly impossible. You look and see that to the left is an easy path, but to the right is an overhang, a challenge. Which do you go for? Well, it’s your choice.

What are your chances of making it up that overhang, of grabbing hold and pulling yourself over it? Slim to none, but you understand that if you do make it, it will be the best feeling ever. So you go for it.

At first the going is tough, and the farther you get the harder it seems. You start getting depressed thinking you won’t make it. But then, once again, you catch a glimpse of that end goal. You wait, and plan and think and then… you leap. You throw yourself out there knowing it’s hit or miss. It’s inevitable, you go for it, or give up.
As you reach out you miss the handhold, but it’s not as bad as you thought, your foot catches and then your hand. You struggle to find a second foothold, a second handhold, but you made it, mostly. Your heart is racing, your adrenaline pumping, that goal is so much closer now. You can taste the victory of reaching the end. Yes, you have to pull yourself up the rest of the way. It’s still hard going, if not harder than the start, but you made the leap, you made it past the hardest part and so you are going for it. You don’t look back. It looks good and unless you make a huge mistake, you’re pretty sure you’ll make it.

But, what if you’d missed? What if you had not caught on at the last second, not reached the second handhold? Well, yes, you’d get hurt. You’d probably be quite upset at first. But, does it matter? You might get lowered to the ground and rest for a minute, recuperating, but soon enough you’ll be either tackling that same wall again, or another. This time, you can taste the victory and it’s that much easier to make the leap.

So why wait? Why hold bak? Go for it!

God is a creative being, right? That’s what my youth pastor was telling us tonight.

Creativity comes from habit. Meaning, you can streamline creativity. This is what our current school theme is all about.

If God is creative, and creativity comes from habit… what does that mean about him?

Another thought…… If God is a creative God and he created the world creatively, was it hard for him to do it? As in, I find it hard to be creative sometimes, I have to work at a good idea, so, does God have this problem.

Last, if God created us out of creativity doesn’t that mean there should be mess ups, since creativity can be messy?

Ponder…..

My life is like a boat in the wind.

As I go through my days I will be swept sideways. A mllion different turns and spins will be happening. The wind will be totally unpredictable. Another day it will blow a steady fast pace all in one direction. I can either be helped in one way, or almost forced another. Then at other times the winds completely die and I feel all alone, with no power and no way to get anywhere. This just leaves me to stop and think about everything. Sometimes the forecast will say that there will be a steady 10 mph of wind the next day, but when that day comes… BAM!… There is gusts of 30 mph winds and then it drops to no wind. One minute it’s coming from the South, the next it’s from the Northwest, then the East and all I can do is drop the sails and try and keep the boat from capsizing.

My life is this boat. I’m trying to keep my life from flipping upside down. I get thrown left and right or forced one direction. When the wind really picks up and I can’t control my life I have to drop everything I’m doing and focus on what’s most important (keeping my life from capsizing). One thing though is always for certain, when I have wind I’m moving, even if it’s the wrong direction, but at least I’m moving.

Miracles, what are they?

I think that miracles aren’t as “amazing” as we sometimes think. I mean, they are amazing but it’s not like God is changing something into anything new, or making something into something it shouldn’t be. See I realized the other day that when God does a miracle all he is doing is returning that thing to it’s natural order. He is fixing it. What I mean is that the world was created perfect and only because of sin do we have disease, death, disfigurations etc. So when God performs a miracle it is really just him fixing the person or situation and restoring it to the way it was created.

This is the same thing that people do whenever they fix a computer and return it to it’s natural state, or fix a broken garment, or repair a car. These items were created working and when we fix them we are doing “miracles”.

Now all of what I said doesn’t mean God’s miracles are any less amazing. It’s still awesome to think that he raises people from the dead, heals the sick, finds the lost, and loves us, even though we are sinners. Plus there are the miracles like walking on water and turning water to wine and splitting the red sea in half, and I don’t think those miracles are exactly returning something to the natural order. In fact they would be what I said miracles aren’t earlier God changing something into something new.
So I, for one,  am still in awe and fear of God. His miracles are still amazing to me!