The Shape of Things

Today I got an email from my closest and best friend from my high school days. It really came out of nowhere. I had visited him and his family during Christmas but we haven’t exchanged to many emails since so it was nice to see the email in my inbox this morning. But as I opened it and began to read the email it almost brought me to tears. Since I was at work I didn’t want to bring any drama to the workplace so I put it in the back of my mind, but all day I was thinking about it. When I think back to our relationship I remember us being pretty close, but now I realize that we could have had such a stronger bond and that we were both really living for ourselves and not for the Lord Jesus Christ. I am thankful that we both have committed ourselves to fight the good fight and take up our crosses. I look forward to deep conversations with this old friend in the future.

I will be posting more often. For now just check out me and Steve’s new blog on “The Silence of Adam”

http://silenceofadam.blogspot.com/

So I have had a crazy last couple of weeks. Here goes…

- I went to see the Sonics play the Lakers at the key arena. Kobe scored 43!!

- CEO of the company I just started at gave me and another guy at work 4 tickets to the Mariners on the 2nd game of the season. We both took our girlfriends/fiances to the game. It was a bit cold, but really fun.

- Found a new apt. Kelly will move in on May 1, I will move in after the wedding. I can’t wait, its a really nice place and it will be me and Kelly’s ‘home’.

- Bought a pedometer. So far today I am at 12,000 steps!! You have to buy one, they are so addicting!!

Today as I was riding the bus home a lady sat next to me and just started chatting up a storm. She was an older black women who was going to back to school at UW. She rambled on about how she might transfer to UCLA or Boston College. I did my best to stay interested but I am reading ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and I am right were ol’ Tom Robinson is on trial. I really enjoy my bus rides home. I have a blackberry so I am able to Gtalk with my family and friends, read a book, or just enjoy the beautiful drive on the bridge over Lake Washington with Mt. Rainer in the background. Riding the bus is so much more peaceful that fighting traffic in my Civic.

This is my first post, but I will be updating this blog early and often. Check back soon!!

The other day I was waiting at the airport and I decided to pray for multiple things but one of them was to be aware of God’s presence. Since I had a job interview the next day I brought my suit with me on the plane. I only had the jacket and pants in a small garment bag, so it was quite light, but I also had my carry on bag and laptop bag. So I was a bit nervous that they were going to make me either check my garment bag or stuff it into one of my other bags (making it all wrinkled). As I was boarding the plane I asked one of the stewardesses if I could hang up my garment bag somewhere. He said “No sir, I am sorry we have a full plane and we don’t allow garment bags”. I politely informed him of my pending job interview and flashed him a smile. He looked at me for a few seconds and said, “ahh, what the heck… hang it here in 1st class”. And he said it with a smile. Later on in the flight I saw him walking around joking with some of the passengers and just really loving other people. I sat there and just smiled to myself thinking that God was at work in that very person. It made the 2 hour flight much more enjoyable seeing God’s work at 30,000 feet in the sky.

This will be my model for small group fellowship over the next 45 days.

James 1:19-20
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.

I am trying to study for a test at a local coffee shop and typically they play really cool laid back music. I have heard everything from Miles Davis to the Garden State soundtrack. But tonight they the audacity to play whiney country music. It brings me down!!

Just to keep you up to date this is the album I am listening to a lot these days:

Coldplay — A Rush of Blood to the Head