Hanging It Up... For a While

This week I took my quarterly white day. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a white day is when you retreat from all the noise in order to think, create, cast vision or - in my case - seek God's vision and God's voice. No e-mail. No cell phone. And most of all, no social media.

I do this periodically because my soul needs it. And so does my ministry. Other voices become more prominent than God's; so getting away affords me the opportunity to listen on a level I rarely do. You see, we rarely need to give God permission to speak. I find He often is... Instead, we need to give ourselves permission to listen to Him and no one else.

So this past Tuesday I shut it all down. I read. I studied. I prayed. I listened. I was still. And it was beautiful. I felt the return of a connection with Him that, honestly, had grown dim. And so I decided to stretch out that time a little longer and honestly, the experience has been so refreshing that I'm thinking of hanging up social media permanently. No Twitter. No Blog.

A multitude of counselors is great. Necessary, even. I get that. But I don't think social media qualifies in that regard. If I am truly desperate to hear from God, then I need to show Him I am willing to be still and listen...

Here's to listening... to Him.

Gun Show

Hitting the gym on a nice Saturday morning... even Easy-E gets in on
the action!

Tozer Talk Tonight

I look forward to it every time.

Along with a small group of guys from my LifeGroup we are, together, reading through Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer. If you've never read it, you should. Short chapters filled with profound thoughts on God. It's beautiful.

But this week Tozer left a nagging question on my mind. He said:

"...because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological."

All of our problems and all of their solutions are whaaaaaa...? Yes, theological. Which only begs the question, "How good is your theology?" If what Tozer believes is, in fact, true then it only stands to reason that the better your grasp on theology the better your ability to live rightly. So again I ask, "How good is your theology?"

I can't help but wonder how good a job I'm doing at leading people in this arena.

Not Too Sure About This Cake...

I don't know if this is a selling point or a warning label; either way it created a brief awkward birthday moment...

Eat? Don't eat? Eat? Don't eat?

New (to me) Favorite Website

If you are a photographer, you'll love this site. If you have ever been forced to take family photo's, you will love this site. If you have ever hoped that someone else's bad portraits would be posted online instead of yours, you will love this site.

Enjoy.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

[My personal favorite is the one on this page... http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/?p=1253 I don't know who I feel worse for, the husband or the child being brought into that family.]