Uncle Bob

One time when I was in middle school my Uncle Bob came into town. Now, anytime U-Bob visited it was always a special occasion. This time was no different and my parents let me go to school late so I could visit longer with Uncle Bob who dropped me off at school on his way out of town. When I got to class all my friends asked where I had been and I told them I was with my Uncle Bob and they all thought I was making him up! "Yeah, sure, "Uncle Bob" Okay..."

But it was true.

To Uncle Bob, who taught me all my sass.

Survival

You know those times when you are out of your comfort zone or in an unfamiliar place and, in every way of the word, you need God. 

You need him to be right beside you, you need to read his words, you need to listen to his music, you. need. him.

This is what I like to call survival mode. 

Where you know that if you didn't immerse yourself with him you would just die.

Or that something uncomfortable would happen.

Honestly it feels good to be in survival mode. 

I feel fairly close to the Lord in survival mode

 even when the walls still feel like they are closing in.

But why can't survival mode be every day mode?

Going back to when we first fell in love mode.

Where we couldn't get enough of God, when I wanted to read his words.

When I wanted to sing his songs.

When I wanted Him to be close to me all the time, 

to lean on his shoulder and just talk.

What some like to call the "honeymoon phase."

But why does it have to be a phase? Why can't it be a life style?

I wish it was my life style, 

where I am so passionately in love with God I can't help but be in His word all the time.

Where I can't help but sing songs for Him.

Where I don't want to run away from Him.

Where I can't help but bask in His love for me and me for him.

Oh, what a world that would be.

Isiah 49

¹³ Shout for joy, O heavens; 

       rejoice, O earth; 
       burst into song, O mountains! 
       For the LORD comforts his people 
       and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

 ¹⁴ But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, 
       the Lord has forgotten me."

 ¹⁵ "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast 
       and have no compassion on the child she has borne? 
       Though she may forget, 
      I will not forget you!

 ¹⁶ See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; 
       your walls are ever before me.

Sweet

The Lord's Prayer

Give us today our daily bread

Give us TODAY what we need for TOMORROW

I must tell you...

about my recent discovery. Steel cut oats. 

We had some sitting in our pantry for the longest time only being played with every now and again in recipes and last night I decided they needed to be tried as a warm breakfast cereal.

So I made some this morning with cranberries and brown sugar.

Yum.

And now I'm making some for breakfast for my early mornings tomorrow and Wednesday.

"Dyin' is the day worth livin' for!"

I love reckless abandonment!

I love movies about it. (i.e. 300)

((But I just watched Pirates of the Caribbean marathon on TV.))

I love seeing people with crazy amounts of passion.

Reckless - (of a person or their actions) without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action. Rash, heedless, impetuous, audacious. (showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.)

Abandonment - to give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking) cease to support or look after; to leave, without intending to return; to leave especially as an act of survival.

Recklessly obeying God, without even caring what will happen to you, or what people will think, just being obedient. Abandoning your past, your sin, your way of thinking without any intent of returning as an act of survival. Audaciously and impetuously following God.

Thats how I want to live my life.

As a big adventure.

Never knowing what's coming next, taking leaps for the kingdom.

Living for the day that I die.

Living only for God, my master.

Living for something worth dying for.