I believe everyone is 20 minutes away from greatness. Greatness being something that changes their world completely and aspires moments of becoming alive: the feeling of being fully alive and awake in your own reality. Everyone is that close to it - 20 minutes. To change their world for the better and sometimes for the worse, accepting blame and distributing it. 20 minutes away.
The problem is, however, that 20 minutes from now, you are still 20 minutes away. That most of us live a stifled life struggling to get along and continue into a new and higher realm. But our arms reach up for falling manna and find nothing coming down. We think God doesn't care about us, but we aren't willing to change our lives for Him. We think it is about reaching another level when maybe it's just living the next twenty minutes in Him.
Maybe the next 20 minutes will change everything in your life and your world. for the better or worse. Maybe, just maybe.... it's time to live for those 20 minutes the way God dreams for you to live, the way life is supposed to be lived, not out of self or obligation, but rather love and liberation.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Giant Turtle in Church Today
So I was sitting in church today and Charlie wrote me a note saying that the earth was flat and suspended on a giant turtle.
Maybe it is because we were in church but I thought that if that were true people would worship the giant turtle rather than the creator of the giant turtle. Isn’t that strange? But isn’t it also true?
We spend so much of our energies investing in things that have no control over us. What giant turtles are serving the purposes of God but distracting us also? Maybe church is a giant turtle?
What if we stopped and looked at our lives. Jay said once “what we spend our time, energy, money towards – we worship.” I look at what I spend my energies toward and think I need to simplify. Maybe I have too many giant turtles in my life?
Maybe it is because we were in church but I thought that if that were true people would worship the giant turtle rather than the creator of the giant turtle. Isn’t that strange? But isn’t it also true?
We spend so much of our energies investing in things that have no control over us. What giant turtles are serving the purposes of God but distracting us also? Maybe church is a giant turtle?
What if we stopped and looked at our lives. Jay said once “what we spend our time, energy, money towards – we worship.” I look at what I spend my energies toward and think I need to simplify. Maybe I have too many giant turtles in my life?
Thursday, July 30, 2009
It's Just A Dream
Have you ever had a dream that you swore was real? I once had a dream that i had put fifty cents into my pants pocket so i could get a soda the next day. The next day, I was surprised that I had no change in my pocket. Edgar Allen Poe questioned that life could be "a dream within a dream"? Maybe he was right.
I think about this a lot. What if we are going through life in comatose? Not realizing anything that is going on to the depth as it occurs, but instead, we are numb to everything. Something important happens and we don't even recognize it for what it is.
How do we wake from this dream state? How do we stop being numb to life? Do you ever get tired of routine? I like taking backroads and driving the longer way home, just so there is something different. Do you ever challenge yourself like that? Are you waiting for the moment in your life where you wake up and find you have found a different world to live in?
I think about this a lot. What if we are going through life in comatose? Not realizing anything that is going on to the depth as it occurs, but instead, we are numb to everything. Something important happens and we don't even recognize it for what it is.
How do we wake from this dream state? How do we stop being numb to life? Do you ever get tired of routine? I like taking backroads and driving the longer way home, just so there is something different. Do you ever challenge yourself like that? Are you waiting for the moment in your life where you wake up and find you have found a different world to live in?
Monday, July 27, 2009
Moment of change
What if our life was dictated by a single moment? Like the climax of a movie, where someone rushes for that exact time where there is 3 seconds left on the bomb. Have you ever noticed there’s never 18 hours left on the bomb?) But that’s not what I am talking about.
Did you ever see Fight Club? Brad Pitt grabs a convenience store clerk and puts a gun up to his head and asks him “What have you always wanted to do with your life?” the clerk stammers and Pitt screams again, “NO! WHAT HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE?!” “…uh… a veterinarian” This is that moment. Where the man thinks he is about to die and Pitt tells him to start that path - to get enrolled in class, to do whatever it takes to be come a veterinarian.
So what do you want to be? What do you want to do? Life isn’t just a random moment where a bomb is supposed to go off and you alone can save the day. It’s a very narcissistic view. But what if life was the moment you could do something to change the world. What if what you always wanted to do or become was just a moment away and it was up to you to do it?
What would you do?
Did you ever see Fight Club? Brad Pitt grabs a convenience store clerk and puts a gun up to his head and asks him “What have you always wanted to do with your life?” the clerk stammers and Pitt screams again, “NO! WHAT HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE?!” “…uh… a veterinarian” This is that moment. Where the man thinks he is about to die and Pitt tells him to start that path - to get enrolled in class, to do whatever it takes to be come a veterinarian.
So what do you want to be? What do you want to do? Life isn’t just a random moment where a bomb is supposed to go off and you alone can save the day. It’s a very narcissistic view. But what if life was the moment you could do something to change the world. What if what you always wanted to do or become was just a moment away and it was up to you to do it?
What would you do?
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