I'm tired and it's bed time. I'm sore from training for a triathlon sprint. I just spent over three hours sitting at home listening to music and working on random projects. But I'm happy. I'm usually evaluating, or analyzing, or questioning, or remembering when I write here. But today I'm just here. It's nice being part of this existence. I've got complaints and things I'm waiting for, but here we all are. Did you see the sunset today? It's amazing how the red sky hits the wall making silhouettes of anything in its way. Don't worry. I had to look that word up. It took me three tries and I knew I wasn't going to get it. So good morning, good afternoon. Good evening. Hello. It's good to be alive.
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The last, the least, the greatest. same thing. In all of this, I was struck by one reality: It’s all about relationships. At one point, Pastor Jim did an interview on the radio. Pretty cool. Probably thousands and thousands of people got to hear him. He came away a little befuddled. It was a unique experience. Listeners called in and he had to come up with answers really fast. But I thought about my life. It’s never really been changed by some quick snippet I heard on the radio or even by some real powerful preacher saying something to a humongous crowd of people. My life has been most changed as a result of watching people’s everyday lives and becoming hungry, even jealous. Or, through people watching my life closely and loving me enough to contradict me and off-kilter ideas, as well as by meetings with God where he took some truth in a moment and put his power on it, and his grace and mercy, and it penetrated whatever dumbness and resistance I had, grabbed hold of whatever willingnes...