Today

On this brand new, beautiful Monday morning, I want to take a moment to remind myself that my day will not happen to me. I will happen to my day. Today, I will actively create my day by consciously making decisions. I will choose my reactions wisely. I will cultivate those things that bring me fulfillment. I will be aware of the situations that I create today.

In the skyscraper of life, I am the architect, the designer and the construction worker.

The decisions that I make today will yield results. Those results are neither bad nor good; success and failure are judgments. The outcomes that I create today are simply results. Whatever outcomes I create, I will develop, learn and grow as a human being.

Today, I remind myself that there is nothing that I must do. Even breathing, at some level, is a choice. I will create time for the people and things that I love.

Today will unfold exactly as it must. This I know.

Life is a song

This is truly a beautiful short video. Please take 3 minutes out of your day and enjoy!!!

HECK YES!!!!

This was totally a great end to an OK day...

Bizkit, the Sleepwalking Dog @ Yahoo! Video

Sex For Sale

GCC is starting a new series this weekend called Sex For Sale. I am very excited about this new series, as I have invited a few of my co-workers to come to a weekend or more with me. They are a little hesitant but are ready to come encounter it all as well. So I am excited to see how God will open doors in these relationships.

Check out the trailer here...

I love Jesus, but I drink a little...

This is raw honesty!!! Enjoy!!!

The Beauty of Uncertainty... Pt. 4

"It's one thing to be certain. But you can be certain and be wrong." John Kerry addressing George W. Bush in Presidential Debates, 2004.

The world has never been more chaotic despite assurances that the situation is under control. The only thing under control is the manipulation of perception. Global warming is a scare tactic. None of George’s friends are getting rich from Middle East oil. Freedom is America’s greatest export. Baghdad will get its Disneyworld. Let’s not quibble over details like weapons of mass destruction. Osama Bin Laden? Axis of Evil? Crusades? The American Presidential election was a victory of certainty over uncertainty. Tell us what we want to hear and we will follow you. The message was there is little beauty in uncertainty. That uncertainty is ugly, and dangerous, and destructive. We must have resolve. We must kill or be killed. You are either with us or against us. Confusion is a luxury we can’t afford. The religious right is never wrong. Give us your fear of the unknown and we will turn it into the security of the known. Go back to sleep where you will be safe under the intoxication of your agreeable illusions. If you shine a flashlight in a dark room there is light everywhere the flashlight is pointed. We live in a world wherein we are compelled to follow whoever is handling the flashlight. We ignore the reality of the darkness that exists wherever the light is absent. The darkness is the uncertainty and the light is the beauty that helps us overcome it. But we need to hold the flashlight ourselves and recognize that the darkness exists. The people who are selling us certainty can indeed be wrong. As Goethe said, "When ideas fail, words take over." The beauty of uncertainty is it allows ideas to cultivate and grow and hopefully transcend the tyranny of the untested word.

The Beauty of Uncertainty... Pt. 3

"I think the main reason I travel, if I were to sum it up in one word, is for ambiguity." Pico Iyer

Why are the least informed so certain and the thinkers so full of doubt? Our culture is a business and we are the shareholders. We strive to maximize our profits, to eliminate ambiguity in favour of certainty. What is the film we all want to see, what is the book we all want to read, who is the icon we all want to emulate? How can we be different yet all be the same? Amuse us. Distract us. Assure us. Guide us. Tell us what to do and how to do it. Let Martha Stewart design our kitchen, Dr. Phil will raise our kids, Dreamworks will provide our narratives, and ad execs will supply our thoughts. Where can we even find true ambiguity in a world of invented certainty? Who’s dreams are we dreaming? We travel to experience ambiguity. To remind ourselves of the diversity of landscape and the spontaneity of existence. To feel the sheer exhilaration of a new experience. To remind ourselves of the endless possibilities that our lives consist of. The journey we are on is fraught with difficulty. No one here gets out alive. We are constantly challenged to perform, to succeed, to overcome our difficulties and win the race. We come to realize that performance itself answers the challenge. That life is ultimately defined by our difficulties. The race is won in the opportunity to run it. The beauty of uncertainty is that it is ambiguous and ambiguity encourages us to create, search, explore, and travel. As one of us once said, "When you are tired of change, you are weary of life itself."