All About Me.

What’s left to say?

As I walked around Borders this weekend gazing upon the shelves and shelves of books about ‘Christianity’, I couldn’t help but wonder to myself, “What am I looking for?”.

Some would immediately respond “Christ”.

Well…no… that’s not really it.

I mean yes, He is All and He ‘fills the void’, etc…

But Christ is in me. You know?

CHRIST IS IN ME.

Could it be that I’m not so much looking for something more to know about Him (although I want to know Him more), or about the culture that He started (although the Church is still a marvelous being whom I enjoy…), or about what other people think about what He thought (or thinks) about this or that or the other….

but maybe, just maybe I was really looking for something to do.

Hm.

Well, I’m officially rambling now.

I’m going to tell you all some things about myself that I don’t think that I’ve ever disclosed here before.

These things may or may not affect the ‘validity’ of my little internet ministry here. 

Who knows?

I primarily write from my heart, and so I’m not all that concerned with how well accepted I am here on the net (or anywhere else for that matter). I’m accountable to One and One only.

I’m only 36 years old and already into my second (and God willing final)  marriage.

I used to do drugs.

I like good beer and wine.

I like movies.

I love sushi.

I love kung fu and related martial arts.

I get depressed quite a bit.

I am short tempered.

I like chocolate.

I play drums and tinker on the guitar.

I like to draw and doodle.

My favorite rock band of all time was (is?) Led Zeppelin.

When I was young, I watched a lot of horror movies (I really don’t like them anymore though).

I am both artistic and technical (or maybe romantic and classical).

I am left and right handed (seriously…I write and draw with my left hand but I use my right hand for almost everything else).

I think that my ‘IQ” is around 160. (I’ll get back to you on that one…maybe).

I quit high school asap in order to get a job.

I went back later and finished…followed up with a little college program.

I used to cuss alot (dad was a sailor…).

That’s good enough for now.

Now just in case you might be a new or ‘inexperienced’ Christian, and you feel that after reading all of that, that you somehow now have some kind of right to ‘do something’ that you know you ought not….think again.

You must be true to the Spirit in your own heart and not base your decisions on me and mine.

I’m not proud of my ’self’ (although I suppose that my ’self’ might be)…, and I’m not proud of my faults or my weakness’. It’s just that, well, I’m human.

I don’t always speak in scripture and christian cliche’s.

I’m touchable, relateable, real…

I’m an American as well as a ‘Christian’ (athough my true citizenship is in heaven….in God’s space).

I’m aware of many of my shortcomings….

So…

nothing’s changed….you just know a little bit more about me now.

And of course there’s more, but, well….you know….this is just a blog……

BE THINK DO

It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything here.

I don’t have much time, and honestly I don’t know exactly what to share at this point.

All that I really have to say at this time is that our heads can get way ahead of our hearts and experience, and just when we thought we were becoming Spiritual, the Lord can be quick to check us on that point.

In fact, He is quick to point to the Lord Jesus and say, “He is Spiritual. You are a vessel”.

As I’ve noticed with some of my other brothers and sisters, and I know that this could easily become some kind of sub-cultural religious fad, I am seriously begininng to renounce the title of ‘Christian’.

If someone else wants to use that word in a descriptive way of me, then I only have two things to say to them:

A) You’re dumber than I thought and,

B) Praise the Lord for your dumbness as He, in some obscure way, may still be seen.

Besides all of that, things have been….

Uh.

Things have been.

And they continue to be.

Speaking of which, here is something to muddle your head up:

If there is any virtue in grasping the reality of ‘oneness’ then what good is it to turn around and divide up the differences in being, thinking, and doing?

For that matter, what about spirit, soul, and body?

Sure. I can accept the fact that these three faculties exist and that in some way, they all have their own particular functions and places, but really….

The three are one.

Sure.

Being comes first, followed by thinking and then doing, but at some point it is also the thinking that causes the doing which results in the being. And then there is the doing which causes the being which later on causes the thinking.

And on and on we go.

But my point is this.

Since we ARE, already, let’s now think and then do rather than simply always thinking that we ARE resulting in being a people who don’t.

BE. THINK. DO.

Whadaya say?

Nothing spiritual. Nothing at all, really.

My little corner of the Blog-o-verse has been rather slow lately.

Not much to say at the moment except for…, you guessed it:

Time for a break.

Who knows how long this time?

Don’t ask me, cause I dunno.

Anyway, sorry that I don’t have anything ’spiritual’ for you today….

Go do something else instead of sitting here in front of this thing.

Peace.