GREAT COMMERCIAL

No matter who you are voting for...this is an outstanding commercial.

WORTH YOUR TWO MINUTES!!!

What a great clip. This is not a funny clip so if you are looking for that today I am sorry. This is something we all need to hear not just the campaigners.

And another...

Really funny...

Make sure and watch this whole video. It's get's better and better, and should you decide to give a $1,000 seed of faith please send it to me.

This is just in keeping with the funny faith videos that Adam and I keep posting. If you have not checked out the video on his link DON'T MISS out. Go to the link for Adam on my blog and watch the video he posted.

The Way

Incredible.

Follow Up

This video is a great follow up to the last post.

Love Is A Beautiful Thing...(Spaceghost)

Can there ever be another woman like Marta Dugan??? I submit there can not!
Marta is the only person that can make me laugh so hard I hurt.

She can make me smile anywhere, anytime, anyplace.

She allows me to be the biggest goober ever and never judges me for it.

She loves to be spontaneous and take all kinds of adventures.

She is not afraid to question everything and turn a new corner when that's what it takes to grow.

She can read a thousand page book that I can only understand nine words of, in one day.

She has a deep love for reading, writing, and fine arts.

She is the perfect mother and our children idolize her.

Most of all she is fun. The most fun person I know.

Marta Moe I love you with a passion that hurts. Here's to all the laughter, adventures, and best of all play times. This is not meant to be a long sappy blog. I will write one of those soon. I just wanted to take a little time today to post about my smokin hot wife.

It would actually be a better use of this blog if I only posted about how incredible she is. Perhaps I will.



These videos really capture the essence of Marta and I. We are VERY serious people you know.

I get to spend my life with Marta!
So I got that going for me...which is nice.

Grace

If grace has limits...is it truly grace?

"A theology of grace implies universal salvation. What could grace mean
if it were granted only to some sinners and not to others according to
an arbitrary decree that is totally contrary to the nature of God? If
grace is granted according to the greater or lesser number of sins, it
is no longer grace" -Jacques Ellul

Life

Read this treasure today and wanted to share it with you.

"How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness."

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

So my question is, if we are so fortunate and blessed to experience this miracle of life...why are we so often afraid to live it and so quick to let others live it for us?

One Of The Best Authors Alive

I know that when a person puts a post on their blog of a deep nature...or one that causes other's to think, usually "others" will not read it. I myself am guilty of this betrayal to my inner life. It is far easier to read and view pictures on a blog that require no thought and to avoid things that require mental effort. However, one of my closest friends sent me an article today by one of my favorite authors, Wendell Berry and I must share some highlights from this article as well as the link to the full reading. Wendell Berry is one of the greatest authors, poets, and thinkers of our time and all who read his works will be immensely challenged, blessed, and convicted by his wisdom. Here are the incredible excerpts from his article.

Speaking about the Bible he wrote;

"I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a hypaethral book, such as Thoreau talked about--a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. That is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air, and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances, will hardly balk at the fuming of water into wine--which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is fumed into grapes."

Better still speaking of modern day Christianity;

"Modern Christianity has become, then, in its organizations, as specialized as other modern organizations, wholly concentrated upon the industrial shibboleths of "growth," counting its success in numbers, and upon the very strange enterprise of "saving" the individual, isolated, and disembodied soul. Having witnessed and abetted the dismemberment of the households, both human and natural, by which we have our being as creatures of God, as living souls, and having made light of the great feast and festival of Creation to which we were bidden as living souls, the modern church presumes to be able to save the soul as an eternal piece of private property. It presumes moreover to save the souls of people in other countries and religious traditions, who are often saner and more religious than we are. And always the emphasis is on the individual soul. Some Christian spokesmen give the impression that the highest Christian bliss would be to get to Heaven and find that you are the only one there -- that you were right, and all the others wrong. Whatever its twentieth-century dress, modern Christianity as I know it is still at bottom the religion of Miss Watson, intent upon a dull and superstitious rigmarole by which supposedly we can avoid going to "the bad place" and instead go to "the good place." One can hardly help sympathizing with Huck Finn when he says, "I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it."(n13)"

Here is the link...more than worth your time.

For anyone hearing of Wendell Berry for the first time and wanting more PLEASE read his book, Jayber Crow.

Let me just say reading this article reminded me again of why I so desperately miss a friend of mine who has moved away. He and I still talk for hours pondering the mysteries of life, faith, and a wild array of other topics. I can't explain nor thank him enough for being such a genuine person who dances to the beat of his own drum. Precious few are they who live so free, deeply, and are willing to talk about it. I miss our time and talks more than I can ever explain.

Bless you Brother Plankeye you have and continue to inspire me.

Belief???

This reading impacted me deeply this morning.

“What is the role of the established religions in the arising of the new consciousness? Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system-a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth-does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is. In fact, the more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. Many “religious” people are stuck at that level. They equate truth with thought, and as they are completely identified with thought (their mind), they claim to be in sole possession of the truth in an unconscious attempt to protect their identity. They don’t realize the limitations of thought. Unless you believe (think) exactly as they do, you are wrong in their eyes, and in the not-too-distant past, they would have felt justified in killing you for that. And some still do, even now.”
-Eckhart Tolle

Another Great Quote

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason


I believe when you stand before God you will not be asked;

"why were you not more like (pick whatever name)

instead you will be asked "why YOU were not YOU."

Hope For My Cynicism

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

-George Bernard Shaw

Great Speech

Truth...

The reading below is from Neale Donald Walsch in his book Conversations With God. Think about it, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Has this been your experience? I know that many people do not like to post on blogs when the topic is deep or serious so feel free to drop me an email instead if needed.

"A true Master is not one with the most students,
but one who creates the most Masters.

A true leader is not one with the most followers,
but one who creates the most leaders.

A true king is not the one with the most subjects,
but one who leads the most to royalty.

A true teacher is not the one with the most knowledge,
but one who causes others to have knowledge.

And a true God is not One with the most servants,
but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others.

For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more,
and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable."

What do you think?