12.24.2005

Christmas fun

So for those of you who love to have a good time around Christmas you need to try to top these people. I would just like you to note the explanation, "Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the group, said Santarchy was a worldwide movement designed to protest the commercialization of Christmas." I can't think of any better way to bring back the spirit of Christmas.

12.23.2005

the fam

So here I am, back in the great state of Texas hanging out with the family and really enjoying having the elephant foot of FPL and corporate greed lifted for a little while. That perhaps is a little harsh because through this corporate greed I get to pay the bills, give to that which God calls me to give, save what I feel like he wants me to save, have medical insurance and other good benefits. So basically sometimes when I make comments like this I feel like an ungrateful brat.

However, here's the catch - I'm not allowed to choose the middle ground. I would take the job and the basic medical benefits and forsake the extra overtime money, the 401k, the performance based bonus, etc if I could just have that extra time to do those things that I feel are important. To work my 8 hours and go home where I can love my wife, pour my life into youth and hang out with the body of believers that God has made me part of... that would be the richest bonus I could get.

In absence of this option I feel the weight of my heart yearning for release from the weight of spending so much time working for someone else's greed and being rewarded extremely handsomely for it but in the form of something I at times find myself despising ... money. I suppose what God is working on me is to be content where I am and use whatever resources he has given me to do the work that he has. In this case time is not the resource I have as much of, but if I have extra money then there are things that can be used for as well for the glory of the Kingdom of God. And that is what matters - may my heart be tansformed to be passionate about the glory of God in all things and this to be my contentment - what a great thing that will be.

And for now, for this week, I am here with family that I love, and people that I don't see often, and that is possible by the grace of God. And the grace of God has brought all good and perfect gifts. Merry Christmas to all who have been created by the greatest Gift-Giver of eternity.