Well you know it was a typical week for me. Went to go see Rob Bell on Saturday, worshipped at church on Sunday, Lamazza class Monday, seminary class on Tuesday, youth group Wednesday, U2 on Thursday, and I took friday off because I practice sabbath. I don’t want to even mention my lunch with Thomas Turner, coffee with Tim Nye, carpooling with Evan Curry and making fun of the CCM kingdom with Mark Allen in fear that you may do some thing rash and hurtful to yourself or worse do something to me out of envy. My one year old laughs at all my jokes, my wife is perfectly pregnant and my parents have more pictures of me than my siblings. (It could be because I was the first born and that I broke the Yashika but the truth is rarely appealing).
I’m preaching next week and all this confidence has me considering to go with a sermon that includes tithing, the trinity and the Christian mandate for a jacuzzi in each pastor’s office. What better time than clergy appreciation month?
Truth is, as many cool things happened this week, it was a tough week in a variety of ways. They would be petty to actually list so I’d rather just keep you thinking about my aforementioned rock’n roll lifestyle.
Seriously speaking for a moment. This was a week that I truly needed to rely on the Lord for grace and strength. I found myself very frustrated by moments that got the best of me. While there were no fits of actual rage, I was fighting an angry spirit all week. Realizing that I had a lot to be grateful for, I kept asking the Lord not so much to change my circumstances but to allow myself to rely on His peace. I spent some time in the Psalms and in Jeremiah and found comfort with them. I was moved by the time it became to me. It was humbling, frustrating, and brilliant.
In that sense it was a great week.
It would have only been better had the Yankees swept the Red Sox and clinched the East. :-)
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