Ponderings...

I have been recently pondering of how i would describe God, and i was just wondering of how you would describe God? or what is your present view of God?

I am still thinking on the first question but the second question has been on my mind alot, and simply i would answer a Loving God.

"empty handshakes"

Fot the last little while I have been getting frustrated. Frustrated in the area of empty greetings. Mainly at Churches, during the time where people are saposed to greet one another. I don't get it, how can the whole church greet everyone and all that genearly comes up is "hello, how are you" the person answers, "good, how are you". There are variants of this convo, but the end result is nothing. I am actually sick of the "empty handshakes" that go around. I almost want to give a ridicoulous answer to the next person who asks me "how it is goin" without acutally caring. So many people will shake your hand and blindly stare into the abyss, as they move on to the next "empty hanshake"

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Flowers for no appariant reason

So adding to the randomness of my blog, tonight i will give you some random and some en lighting thoughts about Flowers. Personally i am not a fan of flowers, they just smell way to much, they usely have a great look to them though, if kept in good condition, trimmed, watered daily, pretty much stuff i have never been able to accomplish when it comes to plant life. But i love a good flower painting, or a sketch. Just because of the detail in a flower, i could never really paint alot of detail, always got to bored and moved on. But as i learned in a few of my stagecraft class flowers have there place in symbolism, just as colors do. examples would be daisy's are innocences, mostly because of there white color, and the well know poppy a symbol of consolation. those are just of a few very well know symbols for flowers. Flowers, Flowers

Random post of time and super powers

I hate how time dissipates without any knowledge of it actually happeing. One second you are sitting in a Denny's downtown vic at three in the mourning, the next thing you know your sitting in a Ihop in abbotsford with no sleep. Too many many memories rarely thought about. For me i barely ever reminisce of the times that has gone by.

sometimes i think it would be sweet to be in a different century. To be in a time of where you learned to fight with a sword, a sword that has been past down through the family. A sword that would have protected your father and the father before him. To charge into a battle to fight. To see some hero's in the making....

or sometimes to be in a time where nothing has been invented yet. IT really sucks when you invent something but, it already has been invented by some guy afew years earlyer. I still have the best idea for a travel mug. which is probably one of the only inventions of mine t hat was not already invented.

IT would also be sweet to have super powers, i have always wanted to be a cross between wolverine and the beast with the finesse and all of batman's gadgets and such. I would be THE LITTLECHUBB. It would be amazing. I can't wait until i get to build myself a house, its going to have the sweetest underground living area/headquarters ever. I have an amazing plan in my head, Maybe i will up-grade the guns in my car too. or even set up a water canon or somethin from it. Oh yes caleb one day we will build the ultimate car....

yeup so there is the randomness of 1 in the mourninng

AHh. BLAHH... heres my thoughts at 2 am

Its offical I hate wrighting.. and processing my thoughts on to paper. Give me something to build, let my hands go to work at creating. I am actualy sick of school systems stuffing bad marks in my face for not being able to write my thoughts down. and dockin my marks down because i can't stuff all the stuff into my head for a two hour test. The marks keep fighting my heart and mind of what i am doing here. So heres why i am going to Bible college, Just so its out there and people can remind me and hold me accountable. As most people know i am a first year apprentice in carpenty. All fun and good, except when God calls you to build churches and it turns out he means pastor..lol yay.(fear and trembling right now). I am here to learn how to build churches. A church that would be in a coffee shop or somewhere not trapped in a box, of thats a "church". SOmething that shows that Church is more about the relationship and our walk with God. A place where any person feels welcome with in the walls to hang-out to sip a warm beaverage. or pizza. Theres a show called "the weekenders" and its about 4 friends that live out life together and they eat alot of pizza at the local pizza shop and disscus life. Wouldn't it be sweet to have church in such a context. A pizza parlor and discuss Christ and our life struggles with one another. Personaly i Like the coffee better so i think it will probably be more like a coffee shop. So theres most of my dream. my ideas.

Only a sound Guy

So .. the last few years i have been on and off again trying to learn a instrument. I just don't get it. Its like i have no rythem or the rythem in my head isn't connecting so nicely with my hands and my feet. I have lost all motivation in playing an instrument. I really enjoy music i wish i could jam and just play along some times. But for now i will just stay in the sound booth. And just maybe one day i will be able to figure out how to play.
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my poor car

WEll its almost till the end of this cars life but i have to suck the life out of it alittle longer. as a search is on for a newer car. But without any warning my altenator went..lol oh joy. the best part of it was that me and a friend were going to travel too van for the day on sat too visit the omegas house. so if you hear of any great deals for a car let me know.

TACO brain bender

ITs a taco brain bender of how much God loves YOu.!!!
and don't forget it

kinda of new or just differnt.. in other words keepin it real

so recently, i have changed my coffee preferneces to a shot in the dark. a hammer head. ITs pretty much a americano just instead of water it is coffee added to the beaverage. I have also made a roaster that sits out side the window . so i can roast from my window. SO just keepin it real. I believe have passed all of my mid-terms, i don't fully know that. But one can hope. My english Grammer is still haunting to this day. I still have no clue of what they are talking about and its been explain since i was alittle little guy. So will see how it goes.
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first exp in a emerging Church

Well there as i have been stretching my mind about churches and what it looks like right now.. i was asked if i would like too go too a post- modern Church. ANd so i went.. it was interesting. There was four of us so i think thats why no one really said hello to us.but still no one said hello too me once. but they had refreshments and we were all over teh coffee like a fat kid on a smarty. And then we sat down. and they had a short music set, i would say a differnt style of worship. And then pretty much two people on stage would be dialougeing about stuff. SOme times it would be hard too follow. But they talk about God. and bounced there personal expierences off each other. MY only beef with there concept is that they didn't really engage the congregation. It almost seem too simpl. They asked a few questions too the congregation like how has your view of God changed? i believe it was the question. there were a few really good anwsers. IT just never went deeper than that and they moved on. I walked away interested and confused by this style of Church.

what views of Church or the post-modern church do you have?

First roast of the colege season

Well i have had many coffee's now..alot of these coffee's with amazing people, that start amazing convo's. Then theres the coffee's on a personal level, a level that really is just God, me and a cup of coffee maybe two cups. then theres the One amazing cup that decided to commit cup suicide out of my bag and two black cups too fill its place. Multiple split cups on peoples laps. One of the storys of the spilt cups involes me and jermy jumping into my car running away from jason well i forgot my cup on the dash of my car, and as i peel out of the gas station it spills all over Jermy's lap, making it looked like he pee or pooped his pants. I do enjoy the coffee bean, especialy when i have roasted it and then brewed it and had a quality time with God or some friends. I really do enjoy EA the coffee shop... It has nice big tables to sit at and some comfy chair. I haven't found any nice little cafe's in abby yet nothing to boast about. I think we are spoiled on that island of places too drink coffee and walk.. well thats the end of my random coffee post..

IF your going to spew! spew! into this!
laterdays
little of the chubbs

STUPID 'pain and evil

The pain and evil of it all. So many times we shrugg it off just not too think of pain and evil. Especialy when I half to write 1200 words about a christian view on it. ITs even worst when I have read afew hundread words about pain and evil already and On thanksgiving weekend i find out my Uncle has cancer again a tumer near his spine for the third time he is going to battle cancer. But this time He probably won't beable to do cancer treatments this time around. So its alittle hard just to turn around and do another paper stuck in the thick of it all. when i wright this paper pain and this evil of cancer is near my heart, as my prayers dangle on faith in the lord almighty. As i know that .As i know in the that The name of Jesus has ultimate authority over the cancer.So unfortentlly a paper that i said i would be done this week is pending as my mind is fixed in prayer for my uncle and his family.

so heres a few thoughts on pain and evil, the stuff i have started. He gave us this choice to follow him through these tough times and to rely fully and utterly upon his shoulders. As we fight through our pains in our lives and the pains of others together. As it talks about in hebrews may we have persevernece through our trials. Hebrews 12 2 says as we do this "set our eyes upon Jesus........." In the toughest of times i hope i can see Jesus as lord in my pains. Thers more but my insomnia is running out.

So theres alittle rant....whats your thoughts about pain and evil?

"I will let it pass this time"

DO NOT PoSt as A ANNOYING anonymous or i will delete all of your post and then some i will hunt you down and throw rocks at you when you are not looking. It will make any day easyer than a monday mourning and especially teusdays.

This is what a anonymous person according to good oll dictionary.com

lacking individuality, unique character, or distinction: an endless row of drab, anonymous houses.

so please don't be this person tell me who you are or i will delete you anyways even if you have something good to say

idano something for mr Anonymous

To the person who left a comment and no name , i strongly don't like that. But i just read this book The jesus i never knew. I highly reccomend it. It showed me even more of how jesus wants to know the lost, alost world in spirtual matters. A good qoute from phillip yancey is "The feeding of the five thousand illustrates why Jesus, with all the supernatural powers at his command, showed such ambivalence toward miracles. They attracted crowds and applause,yes, But rarely encourged repentance and long-term faith. He was bringing a hard message of obiedience and sacrafice, not a sideshow for gawkers and sensation seekers." Jesus wasn't here in a sense to do miracles as yancey says but to bring it farther, is he was here to build relationship with his people and show us his love. And He walks a path of so much obiedience and sarafice and shows us in away of how we should try to follow his teachings . so theres a piece of pie of what is in my head right now. I keep staying up all night and talking to people about Christ and his church and meeting some pretty rad people of my first weeks here i can't wait for the next few

the beautiful summer sky is gone

It has been an amazing summer, did alittle of everything everywere from some camping to taveling to regina in a sardine can. A car that is now fixed. I even refinished alot of a sailboat theres alittle left to do on the old boat. But as got distracted with summer a try to forget that I made a deal with big guy upstairs to head to bible college. But as i was in the haze of moving and saying goodbyes. I arrived On the 4th it was along day. But the new place is all set up
with all of cronks and myselfs belongings and such its pretty rad and such stuff we don't have a name for the place yet i am sure we will. I have had two classes now they were both most tryumphant just alot of goodness, it was like biteing into a really good steak. I haven't had english yet i am pretty sure it is going to be like feedback or like a really mean lookin doin in medievel days running at u with a broad sword. But i am sure i can conquer him with throwing a few banana peals at his feet.

But that is it for me heres one more pic outside my window

There and back again alive and well

So the last week i took my car and two friends and traveled through the mountains to the land of regina to visit my sister and i guess places such as medicine hat, moosejaw, calgary and other places my car brought us too. The main part of this story is my car , it has lost some pieces and gained some new pieces after 40 hrs of driving there and back. We also met a man named tom a trucker who is from calgary who was in a tight spot just outside of medicine hat. As we were having our fare share of problems with a broken down car and a hour or more from anything except a gas station. Tom helped me out to figure out some minor problems in my car. So we helped him out and gave him a ride to calgary and he was nice enough and lend his couch and floor to us for the nightl. As we made our final part of our journey home. So thats a trip in very condensed format.
laterdays
mike

The last few days

hello i would like too run you through my week ignoring a few details and just focusing on my job that didn't really last long about 4 hours to be exact and chess that i keep on loosing which makes me mad because i am very competitive and a flat tire because i decided to squish a grocery cart into a curb causing puncture of my tire.

The job thing really doesn't bother me too much other than it wasn't my exact skill set to begin with and i knew i was not going to like at all. Just the whole thing of dealing with customers nicely with a smile on my face and trying to be nice to the guy training me who was a nob and didn't really have very nice jokes. By the end and by the end my mind was already asking myself are you happy with this choice of job and can you do this for the summer, and put them through finishing training me and quieting soon or something so i told them this mourning i quiet for the reasons above. So i don't think i will ever work at job like that in the future of ever.

My chess xp is not the best, I have played maybe tops 25 in my life time with my dad, grandpa, Reid and James. In the last two weeks i have got really into it playing 8 times and each game was relatively close with standstills in the middle, until i made a stupid mistake, a mistake i shouldn't have made just not paying attention too the whole board. Which funny enough has been my downfall in video games like halo ... the main reason of me dieing was because i was looking at something else in the room or just zone out for half of second, Just not paying attention. which is good because hopefully a little paying attention will fix this problem of losing and strategy will help.

To put a massive damper on my weekend my car decided it wanted a flat tired by allowing a grocery cart puncture the tire.. that's the way i see it whether it happen like that is a different story. But it was fun colliding my car with carts making the random carts in the parking-lot of Safeway pay for thinking they were safe.

Be most excellent to everyone and rock on...later-days
mike

Good Questions

At the last Merge a little about 6 to 8 months ago i went to a mentor hub, It really wasn't that interesting until the speaker fellow started talking about questions. He used some good examples of good questions can really effect you and make for some good conversation. So I thought i would throw a few questions out there.

The main question on my heart i think everyone has it, and it is what Does God want me to do for him as a career? about a year ago prolly a little over now i felt that God was telling me, he wanted me to build churches for him. The first question i had was does it mean building the building or does it mean building a community of Christians and in away pastoring them?.
So the next main question i ask my self is what does building churches look like? What do i believe Church is? It was great a few weeks ago at young adults we had great discussion about the church and its belonging in this generation. But it just added more questions to my head.

So too get a few questions answered and prolly receive more i am attending bible school in the fall for pastoral theology. It will be interesting too say the least, as i feel my literacy skills are lacking immensely on paper.

There are just afew of the questions flying through my head at the speed of electricity or as blindside said the color of electricity which i always assumed it was blue. But i am very interested in the questions that are in your head. Because it just makes for good conversation talking about questions in our heads and we learn so much more when we get feedback from other people.

so be most excellent to everyone and rock on

real?

My lthoughts week have wondered to a new topic, one i have never really thought about a whole lot just accepted the words, and that is being real as chrisitian or in geanral. I think its a hard one to preach about or even talk about in away, I think it turns into can i turn myself into a real christian or how can i make myself real. Does it really happen that way? And for me it has always been a simple answer of walking with God. But when a pastor says it, or as for myself i read an article on the internet and the journalist talked about this culture and being real. So i think the main question is what is really being real? and how do u become this real everyone talks about? what defines real?

Today I went for a walk ...and I started pondering about thinking. In a day what do we think about most. Where does are thoughts wonder when we day dreaming and what do we really do about rogue thought patterns.

In the end can we have God centered thoughts all day long? .. For me I know my mind wonders on to the wierdest things imaginable .. Thanks to Mr imagination over there coming up with thoughts, i must admit there pretty amazingly wierd ideas, but how do i control the everyday average thought that springs into my head.

laterdays
mike

new blogg i guess

This is my first Blogg other than that i am not the best wrighter in the world so its going to be short and too the point. Bloggs are great, for the last little while i have been reading bloggs It is great to have one more form of communicating thoughts and ideas espcially when i usally have a coffee by myself and no way of getting my thoughts out there. The only thing i really don't like about blogs and msn is the fact that you can hide behind your digital mask. You can say anything you want and never look someone the eye. Heres the deep thought .. .. .. In ten too twenty years are we going to have kids and youth that won't be able to communicate socially but be on msn or there cell phones but never look there friends in the eye?. will IT go that far