Blog Suffering

So I’m suffering with my blogging. Nothing new I guess. Its sad. I know.

I was wrong

A friend (Aaron Ivey), well sort of a friend, post a blog about being wrong. At the time of reading I wanted to admit I was wrong about so many things. Things morally that I did, when I was in an argument with people, or just being a friend.

I knew I was wrong about all these things but I couldn’t confess them.

In the past couple of days I’ve contacted a few close friends and have confessed to them how I have been wrong with them. It is such a liberating feeling to admit when you’re wrong. I no longer feel bogged down and worn from the weight of these wrongs. They have been lifted from my shoulders. There is still much weight that needs to be relieved, but what has been taken off feels amazing.

Not only am I doing myself a favor, but them too. It gives them closure, perhaps, on certain things. It rebuilds those parts of our relationships that have been damaged from these things.

I am wrong & I am sorry.

Ready for Sunday, Today

So, this week I’ve been looking over the songs that will be done in Awaken. They are always carefully selected to support and go along with the text and with what Russell, or Wade or whoever is speaking speaks. This week is going to be good.

I’m not sure if it is just because its the beginning of the month and we’re starting a new series. Maybe its just because I feel good about the 2 tests I had this week. Maybe because I know my God is who he is and that its more than I’ll ever know. As I’ve been looking over the songs, my heart has gotten really tender. Its interesting how these things just happen and you know it’s God touching you.

Why can’t today be Sunday? I can make it that. Maybe I’m just coming out of a season of lacking in worship. It is more than just Sunday, and I haven’t been doing it. I’m going to try and make everyday my Sunday.

Google Reader

So I ‘m really happy. Why? Because yesterday a few number a people visited my site through Google Reader. I’m happy about that. Google Reader pwns all.

viva la Google Reader

What should I do? Judge!

I was thinking the other day about people who judge (me included) and why we do it. We know we’re really no better and aren’t in a place to judge, yet we still do it.

I have a neighbor who goes to my church. I’ve known the family for my entire life. The Dad always goes outside to mow the lawn, practice his golf swing, or walk the dogs. When he does, he always has cigar tucked in the side of his cheek with his teeth clamped down on it. I don’t see anything wrong with that.

As a kid I didn’t see anything wrong with it either. One day I asked my mom what that was and she told me it was a cigar (in a disgusted tone). I probably didn’t know what one was at that time. All I can really remember is that for a while I felt like I should think that its bad and I probably did because people told me cigars were a bad thing.

This isn’t going to be able whether or not having a cigar in your mouth is a sin. I can just remember as a kid, judging this adult for having a cigar in his mouth and I was completely ignorant about it all. I knew nothing, yet I was still judging. Now I know, I don’t judge him anymore. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll go join him.

For a while I really bothered at why kids/people judge so much, I still am but I’ve got clarity about it all I guess. As a kid, I didn’t know so I judged. I know now, so I don’t judge. I think a lot and maybe most times, people judge because they just don’t know what else to do. If the’re unsure about something, they’ll just judge. This is not always true, but I think it may be a trend.

Discount ______

I’m in Discount Tire getting a tired fix, why else would I be here. Since I’ve been sitting for a little while I’ve thought about the name, “Discount Tire.”

I think Discount Tire is probably the top tire shop (at least in Texas). I don’t think I have really any out-of-state readers to correct me or anything, so. For this blog, Discount Tire is the top tired place in America.

Lets think about other discount places and see what our first thought is…

Discount… Gas

Discount… Tobacco

Those are just a few… get my point? Now when I think of Discount Tire I think…

I just think it is weird that Discount Everything is typically so cheap and dirty, but that Discount Tire is prestige.

The Evolution of Conversation

Conversation is an interesting thing. Just now in my art class we had a discussion and this is how it went…

Taking roll -> Professor talking about his art show -> Him talking about him missing American Idol -> Everyone talking about the contestants -> A girl talking about a guy with tattoos on the show -> The prof. talking about old men with tattoos -> Him taking a poll of people who had tattoos ->Him finishing roll

He’s crazy.

RE: i like to read, think, write, and discuss.

My friend, Andrew Minchew, wrote a simple post about reading, thinking, writing, discussing, and liking all of the 4.

i like lots of other things too, but i think that mostly i like to do the things listed above. this sounds stupid but i just recently really had this revelation. so i’m going to try to do those things more often.

This got me thinking and decided to turn my comment into a post… here it is…

It all starts with reading and maybe discussing, but the more we read, then the more we can discuss.

So first we must read. When we read, we think. Whether it is fictional, biographical, or philosophical, we think. When we think, we either make up our mind about something or get more confused. I think writing is a big part of thinking. It makes things ‘permanent’. We have a record to look back on our thoughts and refine them. This leads to discussing. We want to share what we’ve learned with others and have them teach us along with getting clarity about what we’ve confused ourselves about.

When we discuss, we want to read more to learn more to share more. When we read more, we learn more, think more, and write more. When we write more, we think more and want to discuss more. When we think more, we get confused more, we get more sure, and we want to learn more. See where this is going?

 

Blogs in the morning

Although, this morning I had no new blogs to read, I sat down with my cup of coffee after I got out of the shower and realized how much I enjoy hearing people. I’m blessed to know great people and be able to read their thoughts via blogs.

As I have done in the past, I recommend Google Reader to everyone who has a number of blogs they like to keep up with.

Please, post more stuff in the wee hours of the morning so I can wake up, drink coffee, and read blogs to start off my day.

Poop

So, I had an extremely long entry on poop about an hour ago, but i just deleted it. Honestly, I didn’t read it, I just copied and pasted. Khang read it and told me how gross is was, so I decided to get rid of it was.

This is a poop free zone.