20 Minutes

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.

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?